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allufion to a work, which it is impoffible 

 for you to admire more than I do. Mr. 

 Burke, in his Eflay on the Sublime and 

 Beautiful, obferves, that habit will make 

 a man prefer the tafte of tobacco to that 

 of fugar; yet the world will never be 

 brought to fay that fugar is not fweet. In 

 like manner both Mr. Knight and you are 

 in the habits of admiring fine pictures, 

 and both live amidfl bold and picturefque 

 fcenery : this may have rendered you in- 

 fenfible to the beauty of thofe milder 

 fcenes that have charms for common ob- 

 fervers. I will not arraign your tafte, or 

 call it vitiated, but your palate certainly 

 requires a degree of " irritation" rarely to 

 be expected in garden fcenery; and, I 

 truft, the good fenfe and good tafte of this 

 country will never be led to defpife the 

 comfort of a gravel walk, the delicious 

 fragrance of a fhrubbery, the foul expand- 

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