Miscellaneous Selections and Original Pieces: In Prose and Verse; Consisting Principally of Pieces of Moral Instruction, Description of Fine Scenery, Delineations of Distinguished Characters, &c (Classic Reprint)

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ON the summit of a mountain, we discovered the house of mrfjesreason, which stands pre eminent in these retirements. It was he who who built it, and prefered this situation for al though he possessed considerable property in the neighbourhood. There was nothing to prevent him from fixing his residence wherever he thought proper. But it was a debt nature owed to a philosopher, and a man of taste, that in his own possessions he should find a spot where he might best study and enjoy her. He calls his house Monticello, (in Italian, little mountain) a very.

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