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, Goklsniitli has most feelingly dcscribetj 

 (move,! trust, irom the warmth of a poetical 

 imagination aiui ([uick sensibility, than from 

 real fact) the ravages of wealthy pride. Aly 

 aim is to J^l^ew tlv^t tUey ^re uq iegsr hostile 

 to real ta^te, than to hunjiwity ; and should 

 I succeed, it is possible that those, whojtii ^U 

 the affecting images and pathetic touches 

 of Goldsmith would not have restrained 

 from tlestroying a village, nxight even be in- 

 duced to build one, in order to sliew their 

 taste in the decoration aufd disposition of 

 viUii^^e-houses and eott^ges. • 



4^8 human. Vc^nity i& yery fopd of nevf, 

 creatious, it may not be useless, to observe* 

 that to build an, entirely new village, is not 

 only a more expensive umieytaking than.t<Q 

 add to arx okl one, but that it is, hkewise, a 

 much more difficult task to execute i^ witlx 

 the ^me naturalness and yarietj; of disposi- 

 tiqp^;^ and that.it i§ hardly possible to iniir 



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