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principal ftations. This I conceive would 

 nearly be the painter's aim and method of 

 proceeding : in what points then do that 

 aim, and that method, differ from your's? 

 If in none, what clofer affinity can there 

 be between any two arts than between 

 painting and landfcape gardening ? fo clofe 

 indeed is their affinity in thofe moft ma- 

 terial points, difpofition and general effect, 

 that they ought to be, and I hope will be, 

 perfectly incorporated. 



In all this, convenience and propriety are 

 not the objects of confideration : not that 

 either of them is to be neglected, but that 

 they are objects of another kind; objects 

 of good fenfe, and good judgment, rather 

 than of that more refined and delicate 

 fenfe and judgment, called tafte. Any 

 glaring offence againft either of them is 

 difgufting, but the ftricteft observance of 

 them will give a man but little reputation 

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