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proceed to consider such questions as may 

 occur to me. 



It has been already stated, that judicious 

 improvement must be founded upon the size, 

 character, and circumstances of the place to 

 which it is applied. Were this rule more 

 generally observed, the result would be a 

 harmonious consistency in each place, and a 

 variety when compared with others of even 

 apparently similar features. There is one 

 circumstance, however, which, in my opinion, 

 is equally applicable to all, — from the palace 

 to the smallest residence of gentility, — viz. 

 the entrance. I have, in another place, 

 strongly expressed my feeling upon this sub- 

 ject ; but, as it is an error, not of accident, 

 but of design, I cannot but press the con- 

 sideration of it as a matter of the utmost 

 moment, both to internal comfort, and to ex- 

 ternal effect. 



Where a house is to be built, I would 

 request the owner to study well the scenery 

 around ; for want of which precaution we 

 frequently find the offices occupying the 

 ground on which the drawing-room should 

 have been placed, and the entrance destroy- 

 ing the repose of the library. Where a house 



