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the latter: and as he never (as far as I 

 have obferved,) connected one group with 

 another, but always detached them as much 

 as poflible, I may alfo infer that he ftudied 

 diftinctnefs, not connection. 



Now, unlefs I am totally wrong in all 

 my notions, Connection is the leading 

 principle of your art, and it is the princi- 

 ple that has been, of all others, the moft 

 flagrantly and fyftematically violated. It 

 is by means of this fyjiem of making every 

 thing diftinct and feparate, that Mr. 

 Brown has been enabled to do fuch rapid 

 and extenfive mifchief; and thence it is 

 that he is fo much more an object of the 

 painter's indignation than his (trait-lined 

 predeceflbrs. He was a mere gardener, 

 but he chofe to be a landfcape-gardener, 

 without knowing the firft principles of a 

 landfcape: the confequences have been 

 fuch as might be expected ; for as nothing 

 js fo eafily, fo quickly deltroyed as con- 

 nection^ 



