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ing, it would furely be far better to paint 

 it on canvas at the end of an avenue, as 

 they do in Holland, than to facrifice the 

 health, cheerfulnefs, and comfort of a 

 country refidence, to the-wild but pleafing 

 fcenery of a painter's imagination. 



There is no exercife fo pleafing to the 

 inquifitive mind, as that of deducing 

 theories and fyftems from favourite opi- 

 nions: I was therefore peculiarly inte- 

 refted and gratified by your ingenious 

 diftinclion betwixt the beautiful and the 

 pi6turefque; but I cannot admit the pro- 

 priety of its application to landfcape gar- 

 dening ; becaufe beauty, and not " pic- 

 " turefquenefs," is the chief object of 

 modern improvement : for although fome 

 nurferymen, or labourers in the kitchen 

 garden, may have badly copied Mr. Brown's 

 manner, yet the unprejudiced eye will dif- 

 cover innumerable beauties in the works 



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