FOOTNOTES.
Reading edition
A large branching oak is, perhaps, the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
See Shenstone’s Essay on Gardening.
This is daily observed in nature and as this newness of situations is grounded only on the shapes of the clouds, and their motions, which are very inconstant and unequal, if follows, that these accidents are arbitrary; and a painter of genius may dispose of them to his own advantage when he thinks fit to use them.
See Mons. du Piles.