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FRAGMENT XIX. 



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CONCERNING COMBINATION. 



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CONFESS 



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myself at some loss for an appropriate title for the 

 nbject of this section. Perhaps it will best be explained by 

 omparing a Mansion of the last century with those venerable 



piles of more ancient date 



een sacri- 



ficed to the prim 



spru 



many of which 



3 of that modern fashion which 



dictates 



niformity of style through the whole building 



and 



quently renders it necessary to hide by planting all such 



offices or append 



as cannot be made to assimilate with its 



ciia 



o 



this 



may 



e 



add 



e 



th 



e prevailing custom o 



placing a House in the middle of a Park, detached from all ob 

 jects, whether of convenience ormagnificenc 



a country re 

 on Dartmoor 



dene 



solitary 



3; and thus making 

 d unconnected as the Prison 



Let us compare such a scene with the ancient Family Man- 



centuries ago, and which may perhaps 



dditions in different styles, during 



f t* 



have undergone repair 



a long .succession of generations. We shall often observe 



combined mass of buildings irregular in their outline, and per 

 haps even discordant in their style; but the confused mixture 



a 



in 



Mansion, with its offices attached and detached 



imposing assembl 



while the church 



gives an 



L ~s T ^ ywiV7i wime me church, and even the village 

 at least some houses of dependants, add to that quantity and 



