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remain the same, and will continue unaltered, so long as the mental con-
stitution of man is unimpaired.    Hence it is that the forms and styles
of
past ages, which    have a fitness to the purposes for which       they 
were
employed, are still adopted, and please as much as when they had all the
freshness of recent invention, outliving the fashion which caused their first
adoption, but can in no instance perpetuate the existence of that which
has not an intrinsic excellence.
                               Plate XLVIII.
  This is a design in which      the Etruscan   ornament is adapted    to
 the
decoration of a modern dwelling.    The style here represented is exceedingly
classical, and well suited for the Greek and Italian villas which are con-
stantly being erected in this country.    The warm    peach tiuft of the
panel
will be found an excellent contrast to the cool green of the stiles, and
that
without disturbing the harmony of the whole.     The yellow   tint of the
gilt
ornament will promote harmony by forming a link between the two colours.
                             DETAILS.
                                Plate XLIX.
            Figure 1. Is the angle ornament of the panel to a large scale.
Figure 2. Is half the ornament at the top of the pilaster.