Abury

...magnificent effect produced will forever recommend the works of the Druids to one with Your Lordship's discerning eye and accurate judgment.

We see a convincing demonstration of this in the fine and expensive original: costly model of Stonehenge which Your Lordship has placed in the garden at Wilton; where, I may venture to say, it shines among the splendors of Inigo Jones’s Inigo Jones: (1573–1652) The first significant English architect of the early modern period, who designed parts of Wilton House. architecture. It sits amidst what Jones built there in person and what Your Lordship has since added, which so harmonizes with the original as to make the design of that great genius complete.

Your Lordship's knowledge of architecture is so rare and vast original: uncommon and unconfin'd that Great Britain now sees a bridge arising, primarily under your direction, that is superior to any produced by the Roman Empire at the peak of its power. And the River Thames—which so recently rescued the Danube from French original: gallic; a reference to the British victory over the French at the Battle of Blenheim near the Danube. tyranny—now boasts a nobler ornament than the bridge that the Emperor Trajan Trajan: Roman Emperor (reigned 98–117 AD) who built a famous bridge over the Danube, then the longest in the world. built across that famous river.

That praiseworthy passion original: commendable ardour of mind, which in your younger years led you to study people and customs original: men and manners, places and things in foreign countries, you now employ for the benefit of your own country through the practice of civil and military arts. Your Lordship balances original: tempers that love of...