A dissertation on oriental gardening / By Sr. William Chambers.

  • William Chambers
Date:
1773
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Credit: A dissertation on oriental gardening / By Sr. William Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Whether the Chinefe manner of Gardening be better or vvorfe than thofe now in ufe amongft the Europeans, I will not determine: comparifon is the fureft as well as the eafieft teft of truth: it is in every man’s power to compare and to judge for himfelf.—Should the prefent publication contain any thing ufeful, my purpofe will be fully anfwered ; if not, it may perhaps afford fome little entertainment, or ferve at worft to kill an idle hour. I muft not enter upon my fubjedl, without apologizing for the liberties here taken with our Englifh Gardens,. There are, indeed, feveral that do not come within the compafs of my defcription ; fome of which were laid out by their owners, who are as eminently {killed in Garden¬ ing, as in many other branches of polite knowledge;- the reft owe moft of their excellence to nature; and are* upon the whole, very little improved by the interpofitiort of art; which, though it may have heightened fome of their beauties, has totally robbed them of many others.
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