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these different states and degrees, may fur- 

 nish very instructive lessons in this particu- 

 lar part of improvement* 



I am aware of a very obvious misrepre- 

 sentation of what I have just been stating, 

 and by anticipating may perhaps guard 

 against it. It might very possibly be said, 

 that according to my ideas, and in order to 

 please the painter, a new garden ought to 

 be made, not only in imitation of an old 

 garden, but of an old one in ruin, and with 

 every mark of decay. I will here repeat, 

 what I have observed before on a similar 

 occasion, — -that it is not by copying parti- 

 culars, but by attending to principles, that 

 lessons become instructive. In studying the 

 effects of neglect and accident* either in 

 Wild scenes, or in those which have been 

 cultivated and embellished, the landscape- 

 painter thinks of his own art only, in which 

 rudeness and negligence are often sources 

 of delight; but the landscape-gardener, who 

 unites the two arts if not the two professions, 

 must attend to them both . and while in all 

 cases he keeps strongly in his mind the ge- 



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