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hatred of defpotifm — however carefully he 

 may diftinguifh freedom from licentioufnefs, 

 and defpotifm from limited monarchy — mult 

 never hope for candour: he will be treated 

 by zealots, as a friend to anarchy and confu- 

 fion, as an enemy to all order and regularity, 

 as one who would wifh to fee mankind in 

 what is called a Hate of nature. In the fame 

 manner, from fpeaking warmly of certain 

 wild unpolifhed fcenes, I have been repre- 

 fented as a perfon, who, had I the power, 

 would deftroy all the comforts of a place ; 

 all gravel walks and fhrubberies (in which 

 cafe it would at leaft be proper to begin 

 with my own) would allow no mowing, but 

 wet every body in high grafs, — tear their 

 clothes with brambles and briars, — and fend 

 them up to their knees through dirty lanes 

 between two cart-ruts. Though I expected 

 a good deal of this kind of mifconception, 

 yet it feemed to me quite unneceffary to 



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