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These choice pieces of cultivation are appropriated to
the owner and his select sriends; set aside for convivial
pleasures, and enjoyments that can only be tailed in
private: they may be considered as more spacious apart—
meats, as habitations adapted to the milder seasons os
the year, in which Art and Nature unite to furnish a
variety of whatever is beautisul, elegant, extraordinary
or entertaining ; whilst the larger improvements are suited
to the more open amusements of the owner, contrived
upon a bolder system, for a more distant and cursory
inspeclion: they are a noble indication of his confequence^
a benevolent, as well as artful tribute to the community ’
which, whilst it serves to multiply the conveniencys, or
promote the innocent amusements os the public, secures
the popularity of the benefactor, and marks, in the
strongest colours, his power, wealth and munificence.
How these considerations operate in England, I, who
am a stranger, cannot determine; but in the kingdoms*
of the East they have rreat weight*
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Your connoisseurs will, I know, object to our arti-
ficial scenery; which they consider as unnatural, and
These choice pieces of cultivation are appropriated to
the owner and his select sriends; set aside for convivial
pleasures, and enjoyments that can only be tailed in
private: they may be considered as more spacious apart—
meats, as habitations adapted to the milder seasons os
the year, in which Art and Nature unite to furnish a
variety of whatever is beautisul, elegant, extraordinary
or entertaining ; whilst the larger improvements are suited
to the more open amusements of the owner, contrived
upon a bolder system, for a more distant and cursory
inspeclion: they are a noble indication of his confequence^
a benevolent, as well as artful tribute to the community ’
which, whilst it serves to multiply the conveniencys, or
promote the innocent amusements os the public, secures
the popularity of the benefactor, and marks, in the
strongest colours, his power, wealth and munificence.
How these considerations operate in England, I, who
am a stranger, cannot determine; but in the kingdoms*
of the East they have rreat weight*
7 0 o
Your connoisseurs will, I know, object to our arti-
ficial scenery; which they consider as unnatural, and