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marks of their intercourse, as ornaments to 

 the landscape*. 



For the honour of humanity there are 

 minds, which require no other motive than 

 what passes within. And here I cannot 

 resist paying a tribute to the memory of a 

 beloved uncle, and recording a benevo- 

 lence towards all the inhabitants around 

 him, that struck me from my earliest re- 

 membrance ; and it is an impression I wish 

 alwa} r s to cherish. It seemed as if he had 

 made his extensive walks as much for 

 them as for himself; they used them as 

 freely, and their enjoyment was his. The 



* Sir Joshua Reynolds told me, that when he and 

 Wilson the landscape painter were looking at the view 

 from Richmond terrace, Wilson was pointing out some 

 particular part ; and in order to direct his eye to it, 

 "There," said he, "near those houses — there! where 

 the figures are." — Though a painter, said Sir Joshua, 1 

 was puzzled: I thought he meant statues, and was look- 

 ing upon the tops of the houses ; for I did not at first 

 conceive that the men and women we plainly saw walking 

 about, were by him only thought of as figures in the 

 landscape. 



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