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Gentlemen who have outlets might contrive to make ornament subservient to utility: a pleasing eye-trap might also contribute to promote science: an obelisk in a garden or park might be both an embellishment and an heliotrope.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756
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A bridge without water is an abfurdity •, and half an one ftuck up as an eye-trap is a paltry trick, which, though it may flrikc the ftranger, cannot fail of difguiUng when the fraud is found out ..
Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise 1785
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