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almost the centrical point of every good, 

 (whether in pleasure or profit) is certainly 

 entitled to the utmost exertion of tenderness 

 and humanity. And I will venture t;o alSSirm 

 that no man, w^hose line of conduct is reo'u- 

 lated by the principles of unsulHed rectitude, 

 (or whose heart is opei) to those finer feel- 

 ings that are even in enjoyment or possession- a 

 gratification,) ever did or ever lo'ill, after a 

 chace ox journey, indulge the calls of appetite 

 till the partner of his pleasure, or the com- 

 panion of his labour, has had every attention 

 paid to his wants ; which nature has formed, 

 equally numerous and necessary with those 

 of his (often unnatural) rider. 



The frequent boasting of every unfeelin<y 

 puppy who has rode tliirty or forty miles in 

 *' so many hours and so many minutes, with- 

 *' out baiting,'' and other equestrian ex- 

 ploits, equally wonderful, leaving the jaded 

 object of his persecution to the affected di- 

 lio;ence of idle s;rooms or drunken ostlers, 

 not only accounts, in the variety of cases^ 

 for the appearance of windgalls, but for very 

 many of the long Ust of diseases upon which 

 we proceed to expatiate. 



