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of painting : you alfo allow, that the ftudy of 

 what the higher artifts have done (in other 

 words, the ftudy of thofe principles in their 

 works) is eftential to your profeftion. After 

 fuch an exordium, I hoped and expected, 

 that you would briefly have given a general 

 idea (which, in your great work, you might 

 explain more at large) in what points this 

 ftudy would be ufeful, and in what it could 

 not be applied, with the reafons deduced from 

 practical experience. This (if you entered 

 upon the fubjecl at all) would have been a 

 liberal and candid manner of treating 

 it, which, without obliging you to go 

 into a long detail, might have enlightened 

 your readers : but, in the very next page, 

 you feem to dread the force of the con- 

 ceflions you had made, and begin your 

 attack on the affinity between gardening 

 and painting ; the ftudy of which laft, you 

 had juft confidered as fo eftential. In the 

 fucceeding page, the attack proceeds with 

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