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mere gardener, the latter of the landfcape- 

 gardener only. 



As to the belt, I thought it had been 

 quite extinct, and never likely to revive ; 

 but under your protection it may perhaps 

 again crawl about the ground, 



«* And like a wounded fnake, drag its flow length along." 



As " I have fcotched the fnake, not killed 

 it/' I mull renew the attack. You very 

 truly oblerve, " that the love of feclufion 

 and fafety is no lefs natural than that of 

 liberty, and that the mind is equally dif- 

 pleafed with excefs of liberty, or of re- 

 flraint, when either are too apparent." 

 But why is this addreffed to me? to me, 

 who have in the ftrongeft manner cenfured 

 the pafllon for mere extent* — for the re- 

 moval of boundaries without any other 

 object: — for extent that is to be admired, 

 like virtue, for its own fake — to be appa- 



* Effay on the Pidurefquc, page 298. 



rent, 



