in no danger. Should the profefTors of^ it 

 in general (as indeed muft be the cafe) im- 

 prove in proportion to the tafte and know- 

 ledge of their employers, that encreafed tafte, 

 and the knowledge of theory joined to prac- 

 tice, will fecure them employment, even 

 among thofe who are the moft capable of 

 directing their own works; for whenever 

 juft and new ideas are to be acquired from 

 a profeffor, every affluent man who has ex- 

 tenfive plans of improvement, will certainly 

 (unlefs prevented by conceit, or avarice) be 

 defirous of confulting him. But in any cafe 

 there will always remain a fufficient number 

 of rich and helplefs perfons, who muft en- 

 deavour to purchafe what they have not 

 themfelves. It is not to fuch men (who 

 muft always be directed,) that I have ad- 

 drefled my advice; yet ftill they are not 

 uninterefted in its fuccefs : for, as I before 

 obferved, the tafte and knowledge of the 

 general mafs of profefTors, will naturally 



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