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By this invariable prefervation of temper 

 and perfeverance of difcipline, I never found 

 but little difficulty in effecSting my purpofc, 

 not only in reducing them to unconditional 

 fubmilFion, but in exciting fo great an attach- 

 ment from them, that their obedience and 

 perfe6tion in the field, or upon the road, 

 rendered them objects of general requeft 

 among my friends, at any equitable price I 

 thought proper to fix t!:^em at. If I had, 

 however, a fingle doubt remaining upon the 

 propriety of this mode of treatment, a recent 

 cafe has arifen to eradicate a thoufand if they 

 had exifted ; and left me in the mofi: unfullied 

 poffeffion of an opinion not to be relinquifned 

 upon the perfuafion of any advocate for the 

 violent meafures I have fo juftly reprobated, 

 and io earneftly defpife. 



The inftance fo far exceeding all others I 

 have feen, is of a blood horfe now in my 

 pofTelTion, and univerfally known to be one of 

 the fleeteft in five of the moft fafiiionable 

 popular hunts in the kingdom ; this horfe, 

 when purchafed, was perhaps the moft refiiff^ 

 fulleriy and refradiory, ever brought into ufe j 

 his figure and qualifications were neverthelefs 

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