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... ists who set patterns for posterity to copy , and nature could not be better employed than in conforming to them . Man's assistance in this work was ' gardening ' , and for many gentlemen of the time , Horace Walpole included , it was.
... ists who set patterns for posterity to copy , and nature could not be better employed than in conforming to them . Man's assistance in this work was ' gardening ' , and for many gentlemen of the time , Horace Walpole included , it was.
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... employed in contriving figures , where the beau- ty shall be great and strike the eye , but without any order or disposition of parts that shall be commonly or easily observed . And though we have hardly any notion of this sort of ...
... employed in contriving figures , where the beau- ty shall be great and strike the eye , but without any order or disposition of parts that shall be commonly or easily observed . And though we have hardly any notion of this sort of ...
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... employed . The French version is filled with errors which a French type - setter would hardly make , the English is comparatively ac- curate . The inference is that this is a pirated ed- ition probably made in England . Walpole com ...
... employed . The French version is filled with errors which a French type - setter would hardly make , the English is comparatively ac- curate . The inference is that this is a pirated ed- ition probably made in England . Walpole com ...
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