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away without effect or honor, if there want 

 sense in proportion to money, or if nature be 

 not followed, which I take to be the great rule 

 in this, and perhaps in every thing else, as far 

 as the conduct not only of our lives, but our 

 governments. And whether the greatest of 

 mortal men should attempt the forcing of na- 

 ture, may best be judged by observing how 

 seldom God Almighty does it himself, by so 

 few true and undisputed miracles as we see or 

 hear of in the world. For my own part, I know 

 not three wiser precepts for the conduct either 

 of princes or private man, than 



-Servare modum,finemque tueri, 



Naturamque sequi. 



Because I take the garden I have named to 

 have been in all kinds the most beautiful and 

 perfect, at least in the figure and disposition, 

 that I have ever seen, I will describe it for a 

 model to those that meet with such a situation, 

 and are above the regards of common expense. 

 It lies on the side of a hill (upon which the 

 house stands) but not very steep. The length 

 of the house, where the best rooms and of 

 most use or pleasure are, lies upon the breadth 

 of the garden ; the great parlor opens into the 

 middle of a terrace gravel-walk that lies even 



