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prevented; and nothing can fhew in fo 

 ftrong a light, the dangerous tendency of 

 recommending a narrow exclufive attention 

 to beauty as a feparate quality, even where 

 " the habitation and convenience of man 

 " are to be improved," infiead of a liberal 

 and enlarged attention to beauty in its more 

 general fenfe, to character, and to the genius 

 loci. It alfo mews the danger of throwing 

 contempt on the ftudy of the picturefque, 

 and of the principles of painting; for had 

 this profeflbr acquired the leaft knowledge 

 of either, he could not have made fuch a 

 propofal. You, who might well have guarded 

 both prefent and future profeflbrs from fuch 

 blind undiliinguifhing attachment to Jyftem, 

 have rather fanc~tioned it by your precepts, 

 though I truft you would not by your prac- 

 tice. 



I remember your being confulted about 

 the improvements at Ferney Hall, a fmall 



place 



