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ornate villa. Be assured that there is, if you will search for it, a 

 peculiar beauty that belongs to each of these classes of dwellings 

 that heightens and adorns it almost magically ; while, if it borrows 

 the ornaments of the other, it is only debased and falsified in char- 

 acter and expression. The most expensive and elaborate structure, 

 overlaid with costly ornaments, will fail to give a ray of pleasure to 

 the mind of real taste, if it is not appropriate to the purpose in 

 view, or the means or position of its occupant ; while the simple 

 farm-house, rustically and tastefully adorned, and ministering beauty 

 to hearts that answer to the spirit of the beautiful, will weave a 

 spell in the memory not easily forgotten. 



