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you can have no doubt that you would lofe 

 in beauty, what you would gain in pic- 

 turefquenefs. 



But mould Mr. Brov/n come, and level 

 the banks in both fcenes to one fmooth 

 edge, clump the trees, dam up all the water, 

 and make every thing diftincl:, hard, and 

 unconnected — the beautiful and the pic- 

 turefque would equally difappear, and the 

 infipid and the formal alone remain. 



I fhall here wifh to enlarge upon fome 

 few points, in which, I believe, the de- 

 fig n and purport of my ElTay have by 

 many people been totally mifconceived : at 

 the fame time I know how difficult it is 

 to guard againft, or to correct fuch falfe 

 ideas ; particularly when they are cherifhed 

 by thofe, who, perhaps, have been too ready 

 to adopt them. In matters of greater con- 

 fequence, wherever party runs high, he who 

 expreffes warmly his love of freedom, and 

 m 2 hatred 



