defined. 



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before approached its solitary entrance. 

 Thus do improvers seem to have mistaken 

 the most obvious meaning of an approach, 

 Approach which is slmply this, — A Road to the 

 House. If that road be greatly circuit- 

 ous, no one will use it when a much nearer 

 is discovered ; but if there be two roads 

 of nearly the same length, and one be 

 more beautiful than the other, the man 

 of taste will certainly prefer it, while per- 

 haps the clown, insensible to every ob- 

 ject around him, will indifferently use 

 either. The requisites to a good approach 

 may be thus enumerated: 



First J An approach ought to be a road 

 to the house, and to that principally. 



Secondly, If it is not naturally the 

 nearest road possible, it ought artificially 

 to be made impossible to go a nearer. 



Thirdly^ The artificial obstacles which 

 make this road the nearest ought to ap- 

 pear natural. 



Fourthly, Where an approach quits 

 the high road, it ought not to break from 

 it at right angles, or in such a manner 

 as robs the entrance of importance, but 



