the &longs;ame Manner I would have the Architect <lb/>
diligently con&longs;ider all the Buildings that have <lb/>
any tolerable Reputation; and not only &longs;o, but <lb/>
take them down in Lines and Numbers, nay, <lb/>
make De&longs;igns and Models of them, and by <lb/>
means of tho&longs;e, con&longs;ider and examine the Or<lb/>
der, Situation, Sort and Number of every Part <lb/>
which others have employed, e&longs;pecially &longs;uch as <lb/>
have done any thing very great and excellent, <lb/>
whom we may rea&longs;onably &longs;uppo&longs;e to have <lb/>
been Men of very great Note, when they were <lb/>
intru&longs;ted with the Direction of &longs;o great an Ex<lb/>
pence. </s> <s>Not that I would have him admire a <lb/>
Structure merely for being huge, and imagine <lb/>
that to be a &longs;ufficient Beauty; but let him <lb/>
principally enquire in every Building what <lb/>
there is particularly artful and excellent for <lb/>
Contrivance or Invention, and gain a Habit of <lb/>
being plea&longs;ed with nothing but what is really <lb/>
elegant and prai&longs;e-worthy for the De&longs;ign: And <lb/>
where-ever he finds any thing noble, let him <lb/>
make u&longs;e of it, or imitate it in his own Per<lb/>
formances; and when he &longs;ees any thing well <lb/>
done, that is capable of being &longs;till further im<lb/>
proved and made delicate, let him &longs;tudy to <lb/>
bring it to Perfection in his own Works; and <lb/>
when he meets with any De&longs;ign that is only <lb/>
not ab&longs;olutely bad, let him try in his own <lb/>
Things to work it if po&longs;&longs;ible into &longs;omething <lb/>
excellent. </s> <s>Thus by a continued and nice Ex<lb/>
amination of the be&longs;t Productions, &longs;till con<lb/>
&longs;idering what Improvements might be made in <lb/>
every thing that he &longs;ees, he may &longs;o exerci&longs;e <lb/>
and &longs;harpen his own Invention, as to collect <lb/>
into his own Works not only all the Beauties <lb/>
which are di&longs;per&longs;ed up and down in tho&longs;e of <lb/>
other Men, but even tho&longs;e which lie in a Man<lb/>
ner concealed in the mo&longs;t hidden Rece&longs;&longs;es of <lb/>
Nature, to his own immortal Reputation. </s> <s>Not <lb/>
&longs;atisfied with this, he &longs;hould al&longs;o have an Am<lb/>
bition to produce &longs;omething admirable, which <lb/>
may be entirely of his own Invention; like him, <lb/>
for In&longs;tance, who built a Temple without u&longs;ing <lb/>
one iron Tool in it; or him that brought the <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Colo&longs;&longs;us<emph.end type="italics"/> to <emph type="italics"/>Rome,<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;u&longs;pended all the Way up<lb/>
right, in which Work we may ju&longs;t mention <lb/>
that he employed no le&longs;s than four-and-twenty <lb/>
Elephants; or like an Arti&longs;t that in only &longs;eem<lb/>
ingly working a common Quarry of Stone, <lb/>
&longs;hould cut it out into a Labyrinth, a Temple, <lb/>
or &longs;ome other u&longs;eful Structure, to the Surpri&longs;e <lb/>
of all Mankind. </s> <s>We are told that <emph type="italics"/>Nero<emph.end type="italics"/> u&longs;ed <lb/>
to employ miraculous Architects, who never <lb/>
thought of any Invention, but what it was al<lb/>
mo&longs;t impo&longs;&longs;ible for the Skill of Man to reduce <lb/>
to practice. </s> <s>Such Geniu&longs;&longs;es I can by no mean <lb/>
approve of; for, indeed, I would have the <lb/>
Architect always appear to have con&longs;ulted Ne<lb/>
ce&longs;&longs;ity and Convenience in the fir&longs;t Place, even <lb/>
tho' at the very &longs;ame Time his principal Care <lb/>
has been Ornament. </s> <s>If he can make a hand<lb/>
&longs;ome Mixture of the noble Orders of the An<lb/>
cients, with any of the new Inventions of the <lb/>
Moderns, he may de&longs;erve Commendation. </s> <s>In <lb/>
this Manner he &longs;hould be continually improv<lb/>
ing his Genius by U&longs;e and Exerci&longs;e in &longs;uch <lb/>
Things as may conduce to make him Excel<lb/>
lent in this Science; and indeed, he &longs;hould <lb/>
think it becomes him to have not only that <lb/>
Knowledge, without which he would not real<lb/>
ly be what he profe&longs;&longs;ed him&longs;elf; but he &longs;hould <lb/>
al&longs;o adorn his Mind with &longs;uch a Tincture of <lb/>
all the liberal Arts, as may be of Service to <lb/>
make him more ready and ingenious at his own, <lb/>
and that he may never be at a Lo&longs;s for any <lb/>
Helps in it which Learning can furni&longs;h him <lb/>
with. </s> <s>In &longs;hort, he ought &longs;till to be per&longs;ever<lb/>
ing in his Study and Application, till he finds <lb/>
him&longs;elf equal to tho&longs;e great Men, who&longs;e Prai&longs;es <lb/>
are capable of no further Addition: Nor let <lb/>
him ever be &longs;atisfied with him&longs;elf, if there <lb/>
is that Thing any where that can po&longs;&longs;ibly be <lb/>
of U&longs;e to him, and that can be obtained either <lb/>
by Diligence or Thought, which he is not <lb/>
thoroughly Ma&longs;ter of, till he is arrived at the <lb/>
Summit of Perfection in the Art which he <lb/>
profe&longs;&longs;es. </s> <s>The Arts which are u&longs;eful, and in<lb/>
deed ab&longs;olutely nece&longs;&longs;ary to the Architect, are <lb/>
Painting and Mathematicks. </s> <s>I do not require <lb/>
him to be deeply learned in the re&longs;t; for I <lb/>
think it ridiculous, like a certain Author, to <lb/>
expect that an Architect &longs;hould be a profound <lb/>
Lawyer, in order to know the Right of con<lb/>
veying Water or placing Limits between Neigh<lb/>
bours, and to avoid falling into Controver&longs;ies <lb/>
and Law&longs;uits as in Building is often the Ca&longs;e: <lb/>
Nor need he be a perfect A&longs;tronomer, to know <lb/>
that Libraries ought to be &longs;ituated to the <lb/>
North, and Stoves to the South; nor a very <lb/>
great Mu&longs;ician, to place the Va&longs;es of Copper <lb/>
or Bra&longs;s in a Theatre for a&longs;&longs;i&longs;ting the Voice: <lb/>
Neither do I require that he &longs;hould be an Ora<lb/>
tor, in order to be able to di&longs;play to any Per<lb/>
&longs;on that would employ him, the Services which <lb/>
he is capable of doing him; for Knowledge, <lb/>
Experience and perfect Ma&longs;tery in what he is <lb/>
to &longs;peak of, will never fail to help him to <lb/>
Words to explain his Sen&longs;e &longs;ufficiently, which <lb/>
indeed is the fir&longs;t and main End of Eloquence. <lb/>
</s> <s>Not that I would have him Tongue-tied, or &longs;o