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but alfo fuch as have little to delight either 

 the common, or the picturefque eye: by 

 copying them, their beauties (if they have 

 any) and their defects are made more ap- 

 parent, as well as the additions and cor- 

 rections which may be made. In making 

 thofe additions and corrections, what is 

 your principal aim ? Certainly, I believe, 

 to make the befl compofitions, the beft 

 pictures you can : convenience and propriety 

 are to be the checks, the correctives ; they 

 are to prevent you from facrificing too 

 much to what might pleafe the painter 

 only; but fubject to that check, your aim 

 (as I faid before) is to make pictures, 

 and to make them in their general princi- 

 ple, as nearly approaching as poffible to 

 painter's landfcapes ; for I think you will 

 acknowledge, that thofe fcenes (of what- 

 ever kind) which have moft of a whole — 

 of union, connection, and harmony; that 



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