PREFACE. 



THE three Essays which I here offer to 

 the public, though detached from each 

 other and from the Essay on the Pic- 

 turesque, are, in respect to the matter they 

 contain, and the suite of ideas they present, 

 perfectly connected. In all that I have 

 written, I have had two chief purposes in 

 view: the one, to point out the best me- 

 thod of forming our taste and judgment in 

 regard to the effect of all visible objects, 

 universally; the other, to shew in what 

 manner the principles so acquired, may be 

 applied to the improvement of those par- 



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