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to forget that a dwelling-house is an ob- 

 ject of comfort and convenience, for the 

 purposes of habitation; and not merely 

 the frame to a landscape, or the fore- 

 ground of a rural picture. The want of 

 duly considering the affinity between 

 painting and gardening is the source of 

 those errors and false principles, which 1 

 find too frequently prevailing in the ad- 

 mirers of, or connoisseurs in, painting; 

 and I do not hesitate to acknowledge, 

 that I once supposed the two arts to be 

 more intimately connected than my prac- 

 tice and experience have since confirmed. 



I am not less an admirer of those 

 scenes which painting represents; but uti- 

 lity must often take the lead of beauty; 

 and convenience be preferred to picturesque 

 effect, in the neighbourhood of man's ha- 

 bitation. J 



There are picturesque objects to be 

 visited with admiration, and protected 

 amidst all their wild and native charms; 

 but they are situations ill adapted to the 

 residence of man. " The quarry long neg- 

 lected'' may supply an appropriate home 



j This is now allowed by Mr. K. see p, 120. 



