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... Chinese , a people whose way of thinking seems to lie as wide of ours in Europe , as their coun- try does . Their greatest reach of imagination is employed in contriving figures , where the beau- ty shall be great and strike the eye ...
... Chinese , a people whose way of thinking seems to lie as wide of ours in Europe , as their coun- try does . Their greatest reach of imagination is employed in contriving figures , where the beau- ty shall be great and strike the eye ...
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... Chinese , and by calling our taste in gardening le goût Anglo - Chinois . I think I have shown that this is a blunder , and that the Chinese have passed to one extremity of absurdity , as the French and all antiquity had advanced to the ...
... Chinese , and by calling our taste in gardening le goût Anglo - Chinois . I think I have shown that this is a blunder , and that the Chinese have passed to one extremity of absurdity , as the French and all antiquity had advanced to the ...
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... Chinese pagoda , a Gothic tower , or fictitious bridge , he proposes to them , at the first resting - place to erect a school ; a little farther to found an academy ; at a third distance , a manufacture ; and at the ter- mination of the ...
... Chinese pagoda , a Gothic tower , or fictitious bridge , he proposes to them , at the first resting - place to erect a school ; a little farther to found an academy ; at a third distance , a manufacture ; and at the ter- mination of the ...
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