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... to allow that , considering who designed it , there might be a labyrinth full of Æsop's fables , yet he does not conceive that four of the largest rivers in the world were half so magnificent as an hundred fountains full 3.
... to allow that , considering who designed it , there might be a labyrinth full of Æsop's fables , yet he does not conceive that four of the largest rivers in the world were half so magnificent as an hundred fountains full 3.
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... half a century before the introduction of modern gardening , or our incredulous descendants will defraud the poet of half his glory , by being per- suaded that he copied some garden or gardens he had seen so minutely do his ideas corre ...
... half a century before the introduction of modern gardening , or our incredulous descendants will defraud the poet of half his glory , by being per- suaded that he copied some garden or gardens he had seen so minutely do his ideas corre ...
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... half the merit , or rather the originality of the invention , by ascribing the discovery 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 ...
... half the merit , or rather the originality of the invention , by ascribing the discovery 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 ...
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