ABSTRACT
Architecture aims at eternity; and therefore the only thing incapable of modes and fashions in its principles, the Orders. The Orders are not only Roman and Greek, but Phoenician, Hebrew and Assyrian; therefore being founded upon the experience of all ages, promoted by the vast treasures of all the great monarchs, and skill of the greatest artists and geometricians, every one emulating each other; and experiments in this kind being greatly expenseful, and errors incorrigible, is the reason that the principles of architecture are now rather the study of antiquity than fancy.
