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[diagram] [architectural change]
[?]
Capital [?] These changes are in some [respect?] necessary,
nave Valence [unavoidable?] [?] but they are
for the most part consequent
on the demands of vanity & luxury
Valence. Nave caps and ought? are as easily to
be avoided as deeply to
be regretted: For one
monument of ancient custom
which its age renders insecure
or of which sanity or
commercial necessities justify
the removal, twenty are
sacrificed in ignorance or
pride - to [?]
[on?] [?] novelty in the display
[?]
of an imaginary improvement
It has so happened that at Venice
the [rage?] of innovation has been
checked by [?] respect for the
dignity. or consideration of the
value of the buildings raised in
epochs more remote & [?] that
[?]
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