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to exist ; and, though I conceive that their 

 general bearing has been already discussed, I 

 am anxious to examine the minutest point 

 advanced by an authority so highly and so 

 justly elevated in the annals of taste ; and I 

 cannot but regret, that some extravagant 

 imitations of nature's outline should have 

 driven an eye so alive to the rich varieties of 

 landscape scenery to adopt the dull monotony 

 of the circular system in the accompaniments 

 to that scenery. 



It appears, then, I conceive, that the amount 

 of the above critique is such as almost every 

 thing in art or science is subject to; viz. the 

 mischievous effects of conceit and ignorance. 

 But, surely, the value of medicine is not to be 

 appreciated by the errors of empyricism, nor 

 the art we are discussing to be estimated by 

 the failures of those who are altogether igno- 

 rant of the foundation on which it rests. 



The study of nature, both in the disease 

 and in the remedy, marks the skilful physi- 

 cian ; the study of nature, in all her varieties 

 of character and composition, can alone fit 

 the man of taste for the supplying of her 

 deficiencies, or the correction of her exuber- 

 ances. The wise physician will improve his 



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