JO LAMENESS. 



the feverities of every feafon, whether the bad 

 roads J frojl and Jnow of winter, or xh.^ fid fry 

 heat, burning fands^ 2in& flinty roads mfummer^ 

 without a literal or relative confideration to 

 the neceffary, and indeed indifpenfable article 



of REST. 



• This perpetual drudgery a horfe of fpirit 

 and bottom will (from the inftindive power 

 of emulation) bear up againft with almoft in- 

 credible fortitude, particularly, if well fup- 

 plied with a fufficiency of hay and corn ; but 

 the repeated ftruggles and efforts of Nature 

 being at length totally fubdued by the extre- 

 mity of fatigue, ihe is compelled to fink un-, 

 der the burthen of inhuman perjecution^ and a 

 general inability or uniyerfal lamenefs becomes 

 the inevitable confequence. The caufe re- 

 quires but very little animadverfion for the 

 purpofe of either explanation or comprehen- 

 fion, as it may be with trifling attention and 

 reflexion iiniverfally underftood ; for the ten- 

 dons, by their almoft perpetual extenfion and 

 contradiion (without the leaft portion of reft 

 or inaftion to reftore their tone and elafticity) 

 become fo extremely relaxed, as to be ren- 

 ^red not only totally inadequate to the pur-> 



pofes 



