BREAKING. ill 



the latter attacking the former with the ut- 

 moft violence over the head and eyes, erro* 

 neoufly adopting a n Ir i ci s m , to bring him 

 ■forward by driving him back : this perpe- 

 tual and fevere difcipline often foufes in the 

 fubjedt a certain kind of habitual callofity 

 to every future intervention of tendernefs, 

 and renders him ever after incapable of 

 becoming cheerfully obedient to what he 

 confiders his moft inveterate enemy. 



Some horfes are alfo brought to a certairi 

 degree of ftarting exceedingly dangerous, by 

 a fimilar and equally improper mode of treat- 

 ment j for there can be no doubt but horfes 

 that are young, or have been but little ufed^ 

 muft have fome time, patience, care, and 

 attentiorr bellowed to reconcile them to the 

 Jl range and numerous objects upoii a public 

 road, before they can be expecfied to ap- 

 proach or pafs them without fudden furprife 

 and trouble. Indeed, the great variety and 

 velocity of the different vehicles upon all the 

 populous roads, but particularly round the 

 metropolis, render it a matter of abfolute 

 wonder, how fuch an infinity of the highefi: 

 mettled horfes in the kingdom, fhould be 



I % eternally 



