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gardeners, and the jealousy of architects 

 and builders; yet my Practice has been 

 supported by the first characters in the 

 kingdom ; but my Theory has been con- 

 founded with that of Brown and his follow- 

 ers, although by my writings I thought 

 the difference had been fully explained. 



The elegant and gentlemanlike man- 

 ner in which Mr. Price has examined my 

 opinions, and explained his o^\^^, left no 

 room for further controversy ; and it 

 might reasonably have been supposed the 

 subject had been dropped : but I find 

 myself again personally (though not by 

 name) called upon to defend the Art of 

 Landscape Gardening from the attacks 

 of a late work published under the title 

 of "An analytical Enquiry into the Prin- 

 '' ciples of Taste, by R, P. Knight, Esq." 

 Author of the "Landscape," a poem, and 

 other insrenious works: it is full of allu- 

 sions to Landscape Gardening, without 

 taking any notice of those opinions de- 

 livered to the world in my two works 

 on that subject; and which, from their 

 scarcity and costliness of the plates, will 



