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Excerpt from The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain, Vol. 5: Represented and Illustrated in a Series of Views, Elevations, Plans, Sections, and Details, of Various Ancient English Edifices
Eager and zealous in the pursuit of Architectural Antiquities, and, after many years devotion to the study, finding it continue to increase its attractions - being particularly occupied in illustrating the fea tures and developing the history of the english cathedrals, which may be said to combine all the essence, the varieties, and the beauties of Christian Architecture, - having found that the Architectural Antiquities, though amusing and gratifying to many students, was not sufficiently scientific and systematic for others - knowing that the subject had excited much popular attention, and that something like a grammatical or scientific treatise was wanted, I was impelled to announce the present volume, in the year 1818. From the experi ence of that time, and the collections then made, I neither anticipated difficulty nor unreasonable delay but experience and collections have both progressively increased; and instead of promoting and facili tating the task of execution, the one has rendered the mind more scru pulous, and the other has occasioned more labour and difficulty.
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