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them, and his whole system and practice, 

 by the principles which I had before exr 

 plained. 



This censure of modern Gardening and 

 Mr. Brown, drew upon me an attack from 

 the most eminent professor of the present 

 time, together with a defence of his pre- 

 decessor. Nothing could be more fortu- 

 nate than such an opportunity, for dis- 

 cussing the practicability of what I had 

 proposed, with a practical improver of high 

 reputation ; as, likewise, of explaining and 

 applying to particular parts of improve- 

 ment, many positions in my first work. 

 Yet still, notwithstanding the degree of 



brated painters of their country : but, would it be right on 

 that account to say that Simplicity was the characteristic 

 of the French school ? They were in painting, what Mr. 

 Hamilton and Mr. Shenstone were in gardening — excep- 

 tions to the national taste, not examples of it. 



