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from that humble station , has maintained and educated his children liberally , and retired from business about fifteen years ago on a decent and sufficient competency . And all this accomplished by the union of diligence , perseverance , economy , and good management . His career
of life must now , however , soon be closed . He is rapidly advancing beyond the goal of threescore years and ten , and the world may soon have to pronounce whether or not , in his humble capacity , he contributed his share towards the improvement and happiness of his fellowmen . ' —pp . 21—23 .
Pass away when he will , the memory of this benevolent man will be held in honour when public pity or public contempt shall have been awarded to the memories of the ruthless persecutors of their species , known under the name of conquerors , whether . Napoleons or Wellingtons . His farewell is
touching' Conclusion . —Reader , this offering was composed in the chambe * of weariness and debility , from which the author has little hope he tshall ever emerge for any future enjoyments of life . Accept his good wishes , and cheer his aged and grateful heart by bestowing thine on him in return . Farewell !'
Mr . Loudon is another sample of a benevolent spirit , which has been silently working its share of . good seeking to improve the condition of the mass of the people by . awakening their dormant taste , and laying the seeds « of future refinement of their minds through the agencies of their senses . There is nothing of the bookmaker in his writings , nothing of the trader who gets up pretty
pictures for sale ; all that he writes is con amore . He loves gardens and he loves architecture , not the costly and unenjoyed possessions of the titled and the wealthy , but he loves the practically beautiful , adapted to meet the wants of the people , and thus render them happier through the extension of the sphere of their simple pleasures . There is a sweet , calm , gentle pleasure , in the perusal
of his books , something like that which Isaac Walton gives us ; and they are , moreover , unalloyed with the accursed thought of torturing organized beings for our gratification . This is , indeed , a big book , large enough for a * ha bible , but it can well be excused , for it is a good book , calculated to carry improvement into the furthest parts of the earth . What a treasure such a book
would have been to the first settlers in America , whether North or South . Instead of carrying with them the barbarous and inconvenient creations of their ancestors , and being swayed by them , the first settlers might have begun with the principles of utility in all matters related to their dwellings , and their compound
progression in all other things would have been enormous . There is , perhaps , scarcely any thing so calculated to mould infant taste as the external objects and general characters of a nation ' s dwellings ; and it is not saying too much to assert , that the character of a people might be safely described from an inspection of their dwellings . The perception * of elegance can only be awakened by the sight oi
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400 -Housebuilding and Housekeeping
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 490, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/30/
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