With a similar feeling they afterward
built the Temple of Diana. But in that, seeking a new proportion, they
used the female figure as a standard; and for the purpose of producing
a more lofty effect they first made it eight times its thickness in
height. Under it they placed a base, after the manner of a shoe to the
foot; they also added volutes to its capital, like graceful curling
hair hanging on each side, and the front they ornamented with
_cymatia_ and festoons in the place of hair. On the shafts they
sunk channels, which bear a resemblance to the folds of a matronal
garment. Thus two orders were invented, one of a masculine character,
without ornament, the other bearing a character which resembled the
delicacy, ornament, and proportion of a female. The successors of these
people, improving in taste, and preferring a more slender proportion,
assigned seven diameters to the height of the Doric column, and eight
and a half to the Ionic."
55 3 CORYMBI: clusters of fruit or flowers.
55 28 QUARREL: the bolt of a crossbow, an arrow having a square, or
four-edged head (from Middle Latin _quadrellus_, diminutive of
_quadrum_, a square).
58 20 WATERLOO AND RECOVERED CHRISTENDOM! Cf. note 19 3.
61 20 THEN A THIRD TIME THE TRUMPET SOUNDED: There are throughout this
passage, as Dr. Cooper remarks, many reminiscences of the language of
the Book of Revelation.
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