Appendages attached to palaces

Appendages attached.-A palace must not be a solitary object; it requires to be supported and surrounded by subordinate buildings, which, like the attendants on royalty, form part of its state; but a building of greater length than the house, becomes a rival rather than an humble attendant: and there is some danger in making stables and meaner offices dispute with the house in richness of ornament. It will be sufficient if the gates, or some elevated turrets of such buildings, present the same character and date, without exactly copying the detail of those costly ornaments in which the palace abounds.