The science of architecture, followed out in its full 1.______extent, is one of the noblest of that which have reference 2.______only to the creations of human mind. It is not merely ascience of the rule and compass, it does not consist onlyin the observation of just rule, or of fair proportion:it was, 3.______or ought to be, a science of feeling more than of rule, aministry to the mind, than to the eye. If we consider how 4.______much less the beauty and majesty of a building depend on 5.______its pleasing certain prejudices of the eye, than upon itsrousing certain trains of meditation in the mind, it willshow in a moment how much intricate questions of feeling 6.______are involved in the raising of an edifice;it will convinceus of the truth of a proposition, which might at last have 7.______appeared startling, that no man can be an architect, whois not a metaphysician. With the illustration of the department of this noble 8.______science which may be designated the Poetry of Architecture,this and some future articles will be dedicated. It is this peculiarity ofthe art that constitutes its nationality:and it will be found asinteresting as it is useful, to trace in the distinctive characters of thearchitecture of nations, not only its adaptation in the situation 9.______and climate in which it has arisen, but its strong similarity to,and connection to, the prevailing turn of mind by which the nation who 10.______first employed it is distinguished.
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