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...this period appertain the principal part of the magnificent Gothic monuments, castles, cathedral?, abbeys, priories, and churches, in various stages...improved taste, have been as utterly unsuccessful in ri1822.] Europe, by a citizen of the United States. 199 vailing the divine simplicity of the Greeks,...