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at Harestreet I follow my own. Others prefer still life 

 delight in movement; they prefer Lawns fed by their own 

 Cattle ; I love to see mankind ; they derive pleasure from seeing 



the 



s 



th 



eir 



heep 

 beef 



an 



an 



oxen fatten, and calculate on the produce of 

 mutton : perhaps they might not object to 



e 



u 



tch 



ers 



shop 



w 



hich 



have taken some pains to hide 



* 



giving 



pre 



erence to a basket 



of 



roses. 



Thi 



men 



may 



serve to shew 



how 



mu 



ch 



may 



5 speci- 

 e effected by the 

 foreground; how a very small object, aptly placed near the 

 eye, may hide an offensive object ten times as large; whilst 

 a hedge of roses and sweet-briars may hide the dirt of a road, 

 without concealing the 



La 



nctsca 



pe 



moving objects which animate the 

 Such is the lesson of quantity and appropriation. 



And as I have now approached near the en 



of my 1 



anours, 



and am still permitted, though with difficulty, to collect my 

 thoughts on a subject most interesting to my feelings, I will add 



lesson of far greater moment 



When I first appeared before 

 the public in 1794, in a work which has long been out of print, 



the introduction began with these words : 



" My opinions on the general principles of Landscape Gar 



" dening have been diffused in 





separate MS. Volumes 



as 





a 



pportunities occurred in the course of my practice 



and 



<t 



often 



dulg 



e 



the 



th 



pe of collecting and arranging 



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« 





sse scattered opinions, at some future period of my life 



when I should retire from the more active employment of my 

 profession ; hut that which is long delayed, is not therefore 





