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<p>all the stone he can saw & polish, all the wood he can saw<lb/> & plane with the benefit of his system of machinery & convert<lb/>to use, all the vessels he can build by a thousand men added<lb/> to any farther number as your Lordships may at any time<lb/>think fit to place under his care? Upon these terms and no<lb/> other may equal vicinity to the River 7amp; the Metropolis be<lb/> dispensed with.</p> | |||
<p>Even beauty, the supposed result of the three properties<lb/> abovementioned, beauty, that unfortunate and much envied<lb/> quality, the source of all the efforts which have been used to<lb/>deprive the institution of a soil it had so long called its own,<lb/> is perhaps not more essential to the value of the spot for<lb/>the purposes of private luxury, than to its fitness with a view<lb/> to the public service. The more beautiful the scene, the more<lb/> disposed will the respectable part of the public be to visit it: <lb/> and where one man could derive entertainment from it if<lb/> monopolized by a Villa, thousands may derive entertainment<lb/> and instruction from it too, while without thought or effort their<lb/> curiosity is operating as a security for good management, when<lb/>crowned, and your Memorialist will venture to repeat, adorned<lb/> by a Panopticon Penitentiary House. After this explanation, and<lb/> with a view to those public purposes which he will be bold to say,<lb/>and that without fear of contradiction, have always stood foremost<lb/> in his thoughts, he can not help looking on the spot as being<lb/>in the words of the Act <add>an</add> eminently convenient & proper<lb/> one, were it only on the score of beauty: a property which accordingly<lb/> as far as depends upon him he would be studious to<lb/> cultivate: though instead of <hi rend="underline">beauty</hi>, he should rather have said<lb/> <hi rend="underline">capacity of receiving beauty</hi>: for, when viewed in its present<lb/><add>uniformity</add></p> | |||
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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 any farther number as your Lordships may at any time
think fit to place under his care? Upon these terms and no
other may equal vicinity to the River 7amp; the Metropolis be
dispensed with.
Even beauty, the supposed result of the three properties
abovementioned, 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 to the value 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 be to visit it:
and where one man could derive entertainment from it if
monopolized by a Villa, thousands may derive entertainment
and instruction from it too, while without thought or effort their
curiosity is operating as a security for good management, when
crowned, and your Memorialist will venture to repeat, adorned
by a Panopticon Penitentiary House. After this explanation, and
with a view to those public purposes which he will be bold to say,
and that without fear of contradiction, have always stood foremost
in his thoughts, he can not help looking on the spot as being
in the words of the Act an eminently convenient & proper
one, were it only on the score of beauty: a property which accordingly
as far as depends upon him he would be studious to
cultivate: though instead of beauty, he should rather have said
capacity of receiving beauty: for, when viewed in its present
uniformity
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