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impress themselves in the affections of their proprie- 

 tors, and induce them to retain them as heir-looms to 

 their posterity. Without a motive of this kind, our 

 progress must be slow and fitful, dictated by fashion or 

 caprice. Taste and refinement may seek such objects, 

 and such pursuits ; but without a proper education in 

 those who are heirs to such possessions, and a love and 

 veneration for them, they become the shuttlecock of 

 wealth, and a resort only of such as lead or follow in 

 the train of fashion. In this relation, parks and pleas- 

 ure-grounds entail enlarged expense and consequent 

 vexation in the occupation; and, after a short-lived 

 possession, are whistled away like any other bauble 

 whose annoyances largely overbalance their advan- 

 tages; and all this from the want of a proper under- 

 . standing of their true purposes.- — Ed. 



