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Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts (1805)

Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818, Repton, J. Adey (John Adey), 1775-1860 · London : Printed by T. Bensley ... for J. Taylor ... · leaf 11

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ttleknown as an architect, because it was suppressed in manyworks begun in that of another person, to whom I freely,unreservedly, and confidentially gave my advice and assist-ance, while my son aided with his architectural knowledgeand his pencil to form plans and designs from which wehave derived… … PREFACE, CONTAINING SOME OBSERVx\TIONS ON TASTE. In every other polite Art, there are certain established rules or general prin-ciples, to which the professor may appeal in support of his opinions; butin Landscape Gardening every one delivers his sentiments, or displays histaste, as whim or caprice…

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