FRAGMENT XXXVI. 



H 



T 



OF QUANTITY AND APPROPRIATION. 



Althouh, during a long and active life, my efforts have contri- 

 buted to the happiness of some hundred individuals, and the em- 

 oyment of some thousands ; I trust, that not a single instance 



can 



e adduced in which useless expenditure was advised, for 

 unreasonable gratification of vanity ; but wealth is never so well 

 employed, as in improvements that display the genius of art, and 



To de 



call into active employment the labourer and artificer, 

 monstrate the little consequence of Quantity or Value, whe 

 speaking of the Beauty of scenery, many places have bee 



n 



mentioned, which may perhaps appear too inconsiderable in a 

 work that treats of Dukedoms and Royal Domains : but I wish 

 to evince, that in many cases great effect may be produced by 



very contracted quantity of land 



almost 



ery 



thins: d 



not unfrequently that 



epends on the foreground 



Th u s 



in 



th 



e 



Villas on the margin of the Lake of Geneva (like that of Gib 

 bon) nothing more is necessary than a terrace, or a few shrub; 



e picture : thus also it fre 



and flowers to form a fram 



to th 









