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these different states and degrees, may fur- 

 nish very instructive lessons in this particu- 

 lar part of improvement. 



I am aware of a very obvious misrepre- 

 sentation of what I have just been stating, 

 and by anticipating may perhaps guard 

 against it. It might very possibly be said, 

 that according to my ideas, and in order to 

 please the painter, a new garden ought to 

 be made, not only in imitation of an old 

 garden, but of an old one in ruin, and with 

 every mark of decay. I will here repeat, 

 what I have observed before on a similar 

 occasion, — that it is not by copying parti-^ 

 culars, but by attending to principles, that 

 lessons become instructive. In studying the 

 effects of neglect and accident, either in 

 wild scenes, or in those which have been 

 cultivated and embellished, the landscape- 

 painter thinks of his own art only, in which 

 rudeness and negligence are often sources 

 of delight; but the landscape-gardener, who 

 unites the two arts if not the two professions, 

 must attend to them both : and while in all 

 ^ases he keeps strongly in his mind the cre- 



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