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I acknowledge that this definition, though not 

 quite satisfactory to my mind, is more so than any 

 other that I have happened to find. It ought to be 

 recollected, that the domesticated animal is in a ne- 



guilty ofj^great dishonesty; but this is the first time I ever heard 

 that it was not competent to an author to quote the published 

 opinion of another person by name, without subjecting himself to 

 the charge of iilagiarism ! 



The fact is, that I received the opinion in the first instance, 

 from a friend, who, knowing that I was engaged on the subject of 

 Horse warranty, thought it would 'be interesting to me. I under- 

 stood from him that it had been delivered in a court of law, and I 

 have so quoted it above. Long after my work was gone to press, 

 I heard of the Horseman's Manual for the first time. I read it 

 with attention, and I found it badly arranged, very superficial, 

 and what is still worse, inaccurate both in the quotation and 

 construction of cases. I will at present quote but one instance ; 

 the first that occurs to me on opening the book. The author at 

 page 69, cites the case of Fenn v. Harrison, 3 T. R. 757, and 

 puts into Lord Kenyon's mouth an opinion directly opposite to 

 that tvhich his Lordship pronounced ; and this, not by any accidental 

 error of the press, but by a correct quotation of the judicial lan- 

 guage, and an incorrect application of it to the subject; thus 

 proving to demonstration that he did not comprehend what he 

 was writing about ! My object not being to criticise the works of 

 others, but to improve my own, I thought the most charitable 

 course was to omit the notice of a book that I could not quote 



