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... farther remarks on this de- scription . Any man might design and build as sweet a garden , who had been born in and never stirred out of Holbourn . It was not peculiar to sir William Temple to think in that manner . How many Frenchmen ...
... farther remarks on this de- scription . Any man might design and build as sweet a garden , who had been born in and never stirred out of Holbourn . It was not peculiar to sir William Temple to think in that manner . How many Frenchmen ...
Page 39
... farther to found an academy ; at a third distance , a manufacture ; and at the ter- mination of the park to endow an hospital . Thus , says he , the proprietor would be led to meditate , as he saunters , on the dif- ferent stages of ...
... farther to found an academy ; at a third distance , a manufacture ; and at the ter- mination of the park to endow an hospital . Thus , says he , the proprietor would be led to meditate , as he saunters , on the dif- ferent stages of ...
Page 41
... farther , and the tide turned . Bridgman , the next fashionable designer of gardens , was far more chaste ; and , whether from good sense , or that the nation had been struck and reformed by the admirable paper in the Guardian , No 173 ...
... farther , and the tide turned . Bridgman , the next fashionable designer of gardens , was far more chaste ; and , whether from good sense , or that the nation had been struck and reformed by the admirable paper in the Guardian , No 173 ...
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