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reftifF, that without any apparent motive 

 (at leaft perceptible to the rider) by which 

 the caufe may be difcovered, fiiddenly Jfop, 

 retreat, or t'arn round upon the road, vifibly 

 increafing his rcliicSance to go forward, in 

 proportion to the anger and violent oppoli- 

 tion of the rider ; who, too frequently a 

 Have to irafcibility, raflily fuppofes his cou- 

 rage is now put to the teil, and becomes im- 

 mediately determined to conquer by violence 

 or lofe his life in the attempt. This hafly 

 refolve affords no moment to refled upon 

 the imperfecftions of our oisjn ?7ature^ the 

 daily inconfiftency of our proceedings, or the 

 means by w^iich they arc excited or reftrainad ; 

 a total ftranger to. the Jchool of philofophy^ 

 and little read in the book of refined fenfatio?2^ 

 he deals about him with whip and fpur 

 moft unmercifully, till the animal, (with 

 perhaps a difpofition diredlly like his ov/n) 

 revolting ftill more at the feverity or inhu- 

 manity of the treatment, becomes outrageous, 

 and by exertions of ftrength or flratagem, 

 difmounts his rider, or in a retrograde motion 

 depofits him in a ditch, on one fide the road 

 or the other. The adlion is now renewed 

 between horfc and foot in a different way, 



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