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probably be less read than the volume 

 Avhich now calls for my notice. 



In perusing these works, the candid {^PV^^.^^° 



•^ o ' MrKnight's 



reader will perhaps discover that there is Enquiry. 

 no real difference between us; but in con- 

 tending with an adversary of such nice 

 discernment, such deep investigation, 

 and such ingenious powers of expression, 

 it is difficult to say how far we are actu- 

 ally of the same opinion. I thought I 

 could discover a shade of difference be- 

 tween the opinions of Mr. Knight and 

 Mr. Price, although the world confounded 

 them as joint and equal adversaries to the 

 art of Modern Gardening. We are now 

 told that in both his volumes " his friend 

 " (Mr. Price) equally mistakes ideas for 

 *' things and the effect of internal sym- 

 " pathy for those of external circum- 

 " stances, and thence grounds the best 

 " practical lessons of taste upon false prin- 

 " ciples and false philosophy." Under 

 such severity of criticism both Mr. Price 

 and I may console ourselves in our mis- 

 takes from the following remark : '* When 

 '' Montesquieu and Burke thus differ upon 



