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much to be wished, that a better taste should prevail among
these new proprietors; and, as they cannot be expected to
leave things to themselves, that skill and knowledge should
prevent unnecessary deviations from that path of simplicity
and beauty along which, without design and unconsciously,
their humble predecessors have moved. In this wish the
author will be joined by persons of pure taste throughout
the whole island, who, by their visits (often repeated) to
the Lakes in the North of England, testify that they deem
the district a sort of national property, in which every man
has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a
heart to enjoy.
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