button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.60-61
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and at the St. Herbert's end of this scene, the two Cat Bells, and beyond them Hindsgarth in Newlands - the centre is occupied by Causey Pike, and the more distant mountain Grasmire, which mountain is the eastern boundary of Crummock Water.

  plate 32
  Derwent Water
No. 32.


DERWENT WATER, FROM CROW PARK.

Crow Park was, within the recollection of some people, covered with ancient oaks; now there are none.
Depredations of this sort are perpetually making upon the domains of taste; sometimes by the rich, and sometimes by their agents, in complete ignorance of the intrinsic value of such property. - Inclosed groups of trees planted in proper situations would restore the beauties of which this country has been thoughtlessly deprived; and the sons and daughters
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of the present generation would reap the benefits of such an improvement.
The end of all human pursuits is to procure to every individual the greatest quantity of that kind of happiness he is capable of enjoying: men with minds devoid of cultivation, frequently place their affections exclusively on the accumulation of wealth, and are seldom inclined so to educate their children as to render them capable of rationally enjoying that wealth when it devolves to them. In the opinion of such men, there is no security for the preservation of their property, but in their children being trained in the industrious habits of their fathers, and thus is insensibility to the objects of taste perpetuated.
Where refinement with honourable feeling and riches unite, every thing may be expected. A human being thus advantageously gifted, whatever may be his peculiar pursuit in life, will
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