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of nature.* This you think (perhaps with 

 too much partiality towards profefied im- 

 provers) might tend to fupprefs — not the 

 profeffion — but the art itfelf. I cannot help 

 thinking, that fo far from fuppre fling or in- 

 juring either, it would, on the contrary, be 

 of great advantage to both. As to fup- 

 preffing the art, you muft recollecl; that 

 there was a time when there were profeflbrs 

 of eloquence; there are none now: is the 

 art fupprelfed ? Would the great orators of 

 this day — who rival thofe of Greece and 

 Rome — would they have had more variety, 

 energy, and efFe6l, had fome profeflbr taught 

 them the routine of eloquence, its tropes and 

 figures, and endeavoured to mould their 

 minds to his conceptions ? 



Of all the arts, none is more adapted to 

 men of liberal education, who pafs much of 

 their time at their own country-feats, than 



'* Efiay on the Pifturefcjue, page 375. 



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