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felt quite naked and solitary without them. 

 I do not mean to argue with the builders 

 of such houses ; they are satisfied, and their 

 more difficult neighbours and visitors are 

 alone to be pitied : there are others, how- 

 ever, w r ho really think very much about 

 the beauty of their house, and not less 

 about that of their place, but who seem to 

 think of them separately, and to be satis- 

 fied if both meet with separate approbation. 

 But even in point of vanity, any man I 

 think must feel a wide difference between 

 the reputation of having built a very ele- 

 gant house, which makes a conspicuous 

 figure in the Vitruvius Britannicus, and the 

 additional praise, so much more rare and 

 appropriate, that the architecture, how- 

 ever beautiful, is but a small part of its 

 merit; that it is not one of those houses 

 which would do nearly as well on one 

 spot as on another, but that it seemed 

 as if some great artist had designed both 

 the building and the landscape, they 

 so peculiarly suit, and embellish each 

 other. 



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