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at once to proiuote l;^!}}^ y^jet ai>d con«< 

 jaiection. •♦ o . :■ -' 



r. There io no scene where neatness and 

 picturesquene^s, where simplicity and in- 

 tricacy can be so happily united as in a vil- 

 lage ; or where they may be so well con- 

 trasted without any affectation qr jinpro- 

 priet}^ Should there be a house of an old 

 style, in which not only the forms were oi 

 a picturesque irregularity, but the xiM^ 

 were of that rich meilow, liarmonious kiiid,, 

 so^ much adniired by p^inters-^an injproT^er 

 who haid ever studied pictures, wouid nKyL 

 ausfe: them to be destroyed by plaster ©u; 

 white-wash. Another li£)use mu^hH hav& 

 something of the sann^e charactjer m re»pi«ct. 

 to form; but kistead of displaying the same' 

 va;Fieity ©f well-mixed tints, might only look 

 smeared ;and dirty ; in that case a sober 

 whitc-wa3h, would add nea>fenessi and evea-* 

 nm^ of colmirr to divei^ity of foi'm;. If thejre 

 wie^ many • ki'cgi'iiar oid.feotises, a,iiy xmsv. 

 ojftethait Avas wanting might be pei^ctlyr- 

 simple; bM^t.pc therti i^ am es^eutiai diffaiv 



