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the other '' Vivant Rex, Dead as a door nail, 

 by G-d, Sh'." These slips are, however, to 

 be charitably considered sublime effusions of 

 fancy, to which men of superior genius are 

 justly entitled, as laudably emerging from 

 vulgar explanation, and sublimely soaring 

 beyond the limits of common comprehension. 



- Experience is, upon the foundation of 

 the ancient adage, universally said to ?nake 

 fools izise.** To a little of that salutary ex- 

 perience I acknowledge myself indebted : and 

 am not ashamed to confess, that in the very 

 early part of life I became a. temporary 

 fclave to custom, and credulously bestowed 

 my premium of three guineas, exclusive of 

 the keep, to have a colt rendered every thing 

 that zcas bad, by the most popular distribu- 

 tor of equestrian discipline in the neigh- 

 bourhood of my residence : v/hen, after an 

 absence of six weeks, the time fixed on ne- 

 pessary to complete his education, and ren- 

 der him a paragon of perfection, he was re- 

 turned so caparmned, bitted, cavisoned, mar^ 

 tingaled, and cruppered, that he seemed ad- 

 mirably decorated for the immediate adven- 

 ^nres of a knisiht-errant, the field-day charger 



