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by land-carriage from London to his supposed
inland situation & back again all the stone he
can saw & polish, all the wood he can saw & plane
with the benefit of his system of machinery &
convert to use, all the vessels he can build by a
thousand men added to such farther number as
your Lordships may at any time think fit to
place under his care? Upon these terms & no others
may equal vicinity to the River & the
Metropolis be dispensed with.
Even beauty, the supposed result of the three
properties above mentioned, beauty that unfortunate
and much envied quality the source of
all the efforts which have been used to deprive
the institution of a soil it had so long called its own,
is perhaps not more essential of the spot for the
purposes of private luxury than to its fitness with
a view to the public service. The more beautiful the
scene, the more disposed will the respectable part
of the public to be visit it: and where one man
could derive entertainment from it if monopolized
by a Villa, thousand may derive entertainment
& instruction from it too while without thought or
effort their curiosity is operating as a security
for good management, when crowned, and
your
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