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to be expected that those who profess id 

 improve nature, should ever deign to be- 

 come her scholars. 



It may be said, however, that though he 

 did not take this method of giving con- 

 cealment, richness, and variety to the lower 

 part of his plantations* and of guarding 

 against monotony in the Outline above, yet 

 that he meant such monotony to be pre- 

 vented by constant and judicious thin- 

 ning ; that a professor's business is to 

 form, not to thin plantations, and that 

 Mr. Brown ought not to be made an- 

 swerable for the neglect of gardeners. 

 But a physician would deserve very ill 

 of his patient, who, after prescribing for 

 the moment, should abandon him to the 

 care of his nurse ; and who in his future 

 visits should concern himself no farther, 

 but let the disorder take its course, till 

 the patient was irrecoverably emaciated, 

 and exhausted. Mr. Brown, during a 

 long practice, frequently repeated his vi- 

 sits ; but, as far as I have observed, the 



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