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their simplicity, that few errors of this kind have been com- 

 mitted. But still, as in residences formed agreeably to these 

 laws, the effects to be produced do not depend upon minutiae — 

 the course of a walk, the slope of a lawn, or the situation of 

 any single object, — but in the general propriety and suitable- 

 ness of parts, the principal masses and grouping of wood, build- 

 ings, &c. : so the utility of the principles detailed in this work 

 does not depend upon the trifling exceptions which might be 

 made to their universal application; or the inadvertencies 

 which an author may unavoidably commit in detailing their 

 effects. All nature has irregularities, and even peculiarities; 

 arid as the painter, in rejecting the last, still adheres to her 

 essential laws and general appearances, so if the reader con- 

 ceives that I am right upon the whole, let him proceed in the 

 same manner in forming his judgment of the foregoing pages. 



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