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pedantic consequential pretenders, who by 

 their futile r^emarks and ig-norant instruction^ 

 excite the jealous irritabihty of men, who, 

 conscious of their own ability and integrity, 

 possess (Hke Hotspur) too much innate spi- 

 rit and personal courage to be perpetually 

 pestered by '' a popping jay/' 



It has been before observed, that many 

 horses have undergone various operations far 

 supposed lamenesses in different parts, when 

 TIME, and the lucky interposition of a ju- 

 dicious opinion, have discovered the cause 

 to be (where it is too seldom accurately 

 searched for) in the foot. Lameness of this 

 description proceeds in general from some one 

 or other of the following causes ; the nail- 

 holes for the fastening of the shoe to the foot 

 beincy inserted too far from the outer edoje, 

 in the web of the shoe, and consequently, 

 when tightly clinched^ bearing too hard upon 

 the fleshy edge of the inner sole, constitutes 

 a preternatural compression upon the inter- 

 nal parts and consequent impediment to ease 

 or action. 



Another cause exceedingly common, (when 



