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Landfcape-gardening is clearly the lady, and 

 I rauft fay that you have taken a very unfair 

 advantage of your intimacy with her. You 

 have tried to make her elope ; and you have 

 proceeded, as feducers generally do, not 

 only by flattering her on her own peculiar 

 charms and accompli fhments, but by en- 

 deavouring to degrade her hufband in her 

 eyes : one of the moft powerful, but not the 

 mod honourable means of feduclion. He 

 that acts fo, more than interferes between 

 hulband and wife ; not he who with equal 

 love and regard for both, fincerely tries to 

 promote a lafting union. Whofe aim it is 

 to raife, not lower them in each other s 

 efleem ; but at the fame time to convince 

 the wife that fhe can never appear fo ami- 

 able, or fo refpeclable, as when clofely united 

 to her hufband ; and I may add in this cafe, 

 to fuch a hufband. 



When I came to the illuflration which 

 you have taken from Mr. Burke, and which, 

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