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Gentleman's Magazine 1790 p.930
centuries, he might perhaps improve Nature, or at least
concur with her in her improvements. The felling-axe is not
to be trusted in every hand. We do not mean every hand that
wants its aid to recruit its profusion or necessities, but
that which attempts what is commonly called
improvement; witness the devastations of Brown at
Roche abbey, censured by Mr. G. In the building line of
improvement at Keswick Mr. G. prefers bridges to mansions,
or the "bringing a few loads of bricks or stone, and puting
them together in some odd shape, whitening them over, and
calling them a ruin."
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