Sloan's Constructive Architecture : a Guide to the Practical Builder And Mechanic
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Those in our first series have been taken chiefly from the temples and other public structures of antiquity, and may be employed in churches and other important edifices, where majesty or grandeur is required. Where the whole composition is large, the parts require an extraordinary degree of laoldness to make them distinctly percej)tible from the proper general points of view; but in less considerable edifices, and under various circumstances, more suitable and perhaps more elegant proportions ...may often be designed by the ingenuity of man. THE PRACTICE OF THE PILASTERS. Columns differ from the pilasters in their plans only; the latter being square or rectangular, whereas the former are round. Pilasters, when accompanied by columns in the Roman style, have their bases, capitals, and entablatures the same as the columns, and their component parts are all of similar heights and projections; and when complete, they are identified by the names of Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Composite, and Corinfhian pilasters.
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