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Page 49
... artists have added new master- strokes to these touches ; perhaps improved or brought to perfection some that I have named . The introduction of foreign trees and plants , which we owe principally to Archibald duke of Argyle ...
... artists have added new master- strokes to these touches ; perhaps improved or brought to perfection some that I have named . The introduction of foreign trees and plants , which we owe principally to Archibald duke of Argyle ...
Page 68
... artists come within my plan , I should be glad to do justice to Mr. Brown ; he may be a gainer , by being reserved for some abler pen . or , but In general it is probably true , that the possess- if he has any taste , must be the best ...
... artists come within my plan , I should be glad to do justice to Mr. Brown ; he may be a gainer , by being reserved for some abler pen . or , but In general it is probably true , that the possess- if he has any taste , must be the best ...
Page 75
... artists and the relatives of certain dead ones by his censures , but his tenderness in this matter was overcome by the uncomfortable realization that he had kept an interested public waiting to complete its sets since 1764 when the ...
... artists and the relatives of certain dead ones by his censures , but his tenderness in this matter was overcome by the uncomfortable realization that he had kept an interested public waiting to complete its sets since 1764 when the ...
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