...that the soil was capable of receiving, a man might make a pretty landscape of his own possessions. ied a wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking...scalding rheum were galled and : Cold palsy shook h ride and line ; because, they say, any one may place trees in equal rows and uniform figures. They...

...that the soil was capable of receiving, a man might make a pretty landscape of his own possessions. Kuropeans, which are laid out by the rule and line ; because, they say, any one may place trees in...

...receiving, a man might make a pretty landscape of his own possessions." Continuing, the Essayist adds : " Writers who have given us an account of China tell...laid out by the rule and line ; because they say, anyone may place trees in equal rows and uniform figures. They choose rather to show a genius in works...

...lieu.Adorez It le genie et consultez le Dieu. " Joseph Addison in The Tatler, No. 218, speaks thus: "Writers who have given us an account of China tell...place trees in equal rows and uniform figures. They choose rather to show a genius in works of this nature, and therefore always conceal the art by which...

...the more immediate subject of our enquiry. " The Chinese," says Addison, " ridicule our plantations, which are laid out by the rule and line; because they say anyone may place trees in equal rows and uniform figures. They choose rather to show a genius in works...

...exalted kind of pleasure than what we receive from the nicer and more accurate productions of art ... Writers who have given us an account of China tell...laid out by the rule and line, because, they say, anyone may place trees in equal rows and uniform figures . . . For my own part, I would rather look...

...GL Dickinson had presented a Chinaman's view of English culture in Letters from a Chinese Official): The inhabitants of that country laugh at the Plantations of our Europeans, which are laid out by Rule and Line; because, they say, anyone may place trees in equal rows and uniform Figures. They chuse...