An Attempt to Determine the Exact Character of Elizabethan Architecture: Illustrated by Parallels of Dorton House, Hatfield, Longleate, and Wollaton, ... and the Palazzo Della Cancellaria, at Rome - Tapa blanda

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1835. Excerpt: ... A WORD ON THE REBUILDING THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. I have ventured to circulate an opinion which more reflection confirms. In an intricate case of law, or doubtful symptoms in alarming illness, whence do we seek, advice but from the experience of enlarged practice? A plan of competition which would insure the attention of the leading men of the profession, would leave nothing to be desired, but I fear a general competition would not effect it, and that those professors would not enter into the struggle, or risque a fall in such a chance-medley--and thus, although the Committee may fairly select the best from the compositions presented, they are very far from knowing that they have the best that could have been procured; or, in other words, they have the best of the second class. It does appear to me that there is a medium between the extremes between which the Committee has been balancing. Regardless of the "pressure without," were they to select a small number of the profession, and, following the example of the often justly praised, but never followed, France, pay the professors liberally for their designs, they would assuredly be able to select, after a public exhibition had given an opportunity of public criticism, a design that would defy after objection, and resist the alterations to which other buildings have been subject: they would pay a just tribute to acknowledged merit, and would leave to the rising Architect, the hope, or rather the certainty of a similar reward to his perseverance, when an occasion should again present itself. J. H. 2, Porchester Place, Connaught Square. ON THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF ARCHITECTURE, CIVIL ENGINEERING, MECHANICS, &c. &c. BY JOHN WEALE, (SUCCESSOR TO THE LATE JOSIAH TAYLOR,) ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY, 59, HIGH HOLBORN; Where an Extensive Stock of...