<s>CHAP. IX.</s>

 <s><emph type="italics"/>Of the Compartition, and of the Origin of Building.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

 <s>The whole Force of the Invention and <lb/>
all our Skill and Knowledge in the Art <lb/>
of Building, is required in the Compartition: <lb/>
Becau&longs;e the di&longs;tinct Parts of the entire Building, <lb/>
and, to u&longs;e &longs;uch a Word, the Entirene&longs;s of each <lb/>
of tho&longs;e Parts, and the Union and Agreement of <lb/>
all the Lines and Angles in the Work, duly <lb/>
ordered for Convenience, Plea&longs;ure and Beauty, <lb/>
are di&longs;po&longs;ed and mea&longs;ured out by the Com<lb/>
partition alone: for if a City, according to <lb/>
the Opinion of Philo&longs;ophers, be no more than <lb/>
a great Hou&longs;e, and, on the other Hand, a <lb/>
Hou&longs;e be a little City; why may it not be <lb/>
&longs;aid, that the Members of that Hou&longs;e are &longs;o <lb/>
many little Hou&longs;es; &longs;uch as the Court-yard, <lb/>
the Hall, the Parlour, the Portico, and the <lb/>
like? </s> <s>And what is there in any of the&longs;e, <lb/>
which, if omitted by Carele&longs;&longs;ne&longs;s or Negli<lb/>
gence, will not greatly take from the Prai&longs;e <lb/>
and Dignity of the Work. </s> <s>Great Care and <lb/>
Diligence therefore is to be u&longs;ed in well con<lb/>
&longs;idering the&longs;e Things, which &longs;o much con<lb/>
cern the whole Building; and in &longs;o ordering <lb/>
it, that even the mo&longs;t incon&longs;iderable Parts <lb/>
may not be uncomformable to the Rules of <lb/>
Art, and good Contrivance. </s> <s>What has been <lb/>
already &longs;aid above of the Region and Platform, <lb/>
may be of no &longs;mall u&longs;e in doing of this aptly <lb/>
and conveniently; and as the Members of the <lb/>
Body are corre&longs;pondent to each other, &longs;o it is <lb/>
fit that one Part &longs;hould an&longs;wer to another in <lb/>
a Building; whence we &longs;ay, that great Edi<lb/>
fices require great Members. </s> <s>Which indeed <lb/>
was &longs;o well ob&longs;erved by the Ancients, that <lb/>
they u&longs;ed much larger Bricks, as well as other <lb/>
Materials, about publick and large Buildings, <lb/>
than in private ones. </s> <s>To every Member there<lb/>
fore ought to be allotted its fit Place and pro<lb/>
per Situation; not le&longs;s than Dignity requires, <lb/>
not greater than Conveniency demands; not <lb/>
in an impertinent or indecent Place, but in a <lb/>
Situation &longs;o proper to it&longs;elf, that it could be <lb/>
&longs;et no where el&longs;e more fitly. </s> <s>Nor &longs;hould the <lb/>
Part of the Structure, that is to be of the <lb/>
greate&longs;t Honour, be thrown into a remote <lb/>
Corner; nor that which ought to be the mo&longs;t <lb/>
publick, into a private Hole; nor that which <lb/>
&longs;hould be mo&longs;t private, be &longs;et in too con&longs;pi<lb/>
cuous a Place. </s> <s>We &longs;hould be&longs;ides have re<lb/>
gard to the Sea&longs;ons of the Year, and make a <lb/>
great deal of Difference between hot Places <lb/>
and cold, both in Proportions and Situation. <lb/>
</s> <s>If Rooms for Summer are large and &longs;pacious, <lb/>
and tho&longs;e for Winter more compact, it will <lb/>
not be at all ami&longs;s; the Summer ones &longs;hady and <lb/>
open to the Air, and the Winter ones to the <lb/>
Sun. </s> <s>And here we &longs;hould provide, that the <lb/>
Inhabitants may not be obliged to pa&longs;s out of <lb/>
a cold Place into a hot one, without a Medium <lb/>
of temperate Air; or out of a warm one into <lb/>
one expo&longs;ed to Cold and Winds; becau&longs;e no<lb/>
thing is &longs;o prejudicial to human Bodies. </s> <s>And <lb/>
the&longs;e ought to agree one Member with ano<lb/>
ther to perfect and compo&longs;e the main De&longs;ign <lb/>
and Beauty of the whole; that we may not <lb/>
&longs;o lay out our whole Study in adorning one <lb/>
Part, as to leave the re&longs;t neglected and <lb/>
homely in Compari&longs;on of it; but let them <lb/>
bear that Proportion among them&longs;elves, that <lb/>
they may appear to be an entire and perfect <lb/>
Body, and not disjointed and unfini&longs;hed <lb/>
Members. </s> <s>Moreover in the forming of the&longs;e <lb/>
Members too, we ought to imitate the Mode&longs;ty <lb/>
of Nature; becau&longs;e in this, as well as in other <lb/>
Ca&longs;es, the World never commends a Modera<lb/>
tion, &longs;o much as it blames an extravagant In<lb/>
temperance in Building. </s> <s>Let the Members <lb/>
therefore be mode&longs;tly proportioned, and ne<lb/>
ce&longs;&longs;ary for your U&longs;es. </s> <s>For all Building in <lb/>
general, if you con&longs;ider it well, owes it's <lb/>
Birth to Nece&longs;&longs;ity, was nur&longs;ed by Convenience, <lb/>
and embelli&longs;hed by U&longs;e; Plea&longs;ure was the <lb/>
la&longs;t Thing con&longs;ulted in it, which is never <lb/>
truly obtained by Things that are immode<lb/>
rate. </s> <s>Let your Building therefore be &longs;uch, <lb/>
that it may not want any Members which it <lb/>
has not, and that tho&longs;e which it has, may <lb/>
not in any Re&longs;pect de&longs;erve to be condemned. <lb/>
</s> <s>Nor would I have the Edifice terminated all <lb/>
the Way with even continued Lines void of <lb/>
all manner of Variety; for &longs;ome plea&longs;e us by <lb/>
their Largene&longs;s, others with being little, and <lb/>
others moderate. </s> <s>One Part therefore &longs;hould <lb/>
be terminated with &longs;trait Lines, another with <lb/>
curve, and another again with &longs;trait and curve <lb/>
mixed together; provided you ob&longs;erve the <lb/>
Caution I have &longs;o often given you, to avoid <lb/>
falling into the Error of Exce&longs;s, &longs;o as to &longs;eem