Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Principles of Beauty in Grecian Architecture: With Historical View of the Rise and Progress of the Art in GreeceProportion will be determined by those whose taste is the most cultivated, and whose science is the most extensive but if there be some intrinsic charm, some peculiar grace, which is necessarily acknowledged and felt by all mankind; we then must look for some more general principle, which will accommodate itself to this more general feeling.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.