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misrepresentation : it may be right there- 

 fore to give the accusation at length in his 

 own words. " I am not aware," says Mr. 

 Knight, " that any thing, I have ever written 

 or said on the subject, can fairly be constru- 

 ed to imply that I ever considered the words 

 beautiful and picturesque to be synonymous 

 or convertible terms, as has been supposed. 

 In the Essays on the Picturesque, indeed it 

 is merely stated " that there areperso?is 9 who 

 in reality ', hold the two words to be synonymous, 

 though they do not say so in express terms ; 

 and others, who allow that the words have a 

 different meaning, but that there is no distinct 

 character of the picturesque" Of this latter 

 sect I have always meant to profess myself; 

 and even if I have expressed that meaning 

 so U), as to give just cause for being placed 

 in, the other, I cannot but think that the" 

 interlocutor in the dialogue, who makes me 

 in $$pres%ierms, say " that there is no distinc- 

 tion between them: dn other words, that they 

 ai^ in respect to visible objects synomfmwis? 

 adopts rather an inquisitorial mod& bf pro- 

 ceeding; which, howsoever sanctioned bf 



