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which afford a greater variety of useful 

 hints to the generality of improvers, and 

 such as might more easily be carried 

 into practice, than those grander scenes 

 which are exhibited in the higher . schools 

 of painting. All the splendid effects of ar- 

 chitecture, and of assemblages of magnify 

 cent buildings, whether in cities, or amidst 

 rural scenery, can only be displayed by 

 princes, and men of princely revenues : 

 but it is in the power of men of moderate 

 fortunes, by means of slight additions and 

 alterations, to produce a very essential 

 change in the appearance of farm buildings, 

 cottages &e. and in the grouping of them 

 in villages ; and such effects, though less 

 splendid than those of regular architecture, 

 are not less interesting. There is, indeed, 

 no scene where such a variety of forms and 

 embellishments may be introduced at so 

 small an expence, and without any thing 

 fantastic, or unnatural, as that of a village; 

 none where the lover of painting, and the 

 lover of humanity, may find so many 

 sources of amusement and interest. 



