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th 



eir 



would 



offended 



no notice w 



taken 



o 



them: while others, who have literally realized all I suggested 



would 



e 



qualiy offended if their pi 



I 



nil in 



these times, when the landed properly of the country is < |, a 



ing with every generation, I shall sometimes venture to all 



to subjects where great improvement lias been proposed, and 



inle 



many 



actually carried inlo effect, without incurring ill 



resentment of my friends from mentioning tl 



in 



nne 





altho 



Among the most painful circumstances attending the Profi 



and contrivance wasted lo produce phi 



life, and the time 



oni 



th 



i highly approved; yet from vanity, from indecision, or 

 i fickleness of human nature, not unfreqiiently thrown 



aside, and plans more expensive, but less useful or ornamental, 



adopted in their stead. 



About fifteen years 



fter 



la 



giv 



plans for making a 



at an 



exp 



esti 



house and grounds perfectly comfortable, 



mated at four thousand pounds, I had the mortification to find 



that fifteen thousand had bee 



n 



pen dec! 



an 



the Proprietor 



told me, that he would gladly add five thousand more, to mak 

 it as I had originally proposed. 



" Video meliora, proboque, 



Deteriora sequor." 



To give the name of the place, or the Proprietor, in such 



would 

 duals : 



e only proclaiming the folly or perverseness of indivi 



but if all 



pies were suppressed 



fro n 



1 



n 



feeling 



of delicacy, some of the most interesting specimens would be 



i 



