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eluded them ? from ornamental gardens ; 

 from gardens, of which it is the peculiar 

 and characteristic distinction, that they 

 arc ornamental, and nothing else: and 

 therefore, in Italian, the name giardino is 

 appropriated solely to them, and never (as 

 garden in English, or jardin in French) 

 made to signify either kitchen, or pleasure 

 garden. I must say, therefore, with all the 

 respect due to Mr. Mason, that to make 

 simplicity the arbitress of ornament, is, in 

 my idea, like making mercy the arbitress of 

 justice, or frugality of generosity. It is a 

 very proper and natural sentiment, that 

 mercy should temper the stern qualities of 

 justice, in the same manner that simplicity 

 should correct and temper the profusion and 

 glitter of ornament; but the sages of the law 

 would, I believe, think it an extraordinary 

 position, were any author to assert that 

 mercy is the arbitress of what is just and 

 right On tike other hand, it is equally ob- 

 vious that tlte firmness of justice, should 

 correct the mildness, however amiable, of 

 mercy; and that in the same manner the 



