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pedantic confequential pretenders, who by 

 their futile re?narks and ignorant inJiruElion^ 

 excite the jealous irritability of men, who, 

 confcious of their own ability and integrity, 

 poffefs (hkc Hotfpur) too much innate fpirit 

 and perfonal courage to be perpetually pef- 

 tered by ^' a popping jay.** 



It has been before obferved, that many 

 horfes have undergone various operations for 

 fuppofed Ia?neneffes in different parts, when 

 TIME, and the lucky interpofition of a ju- 

 dicious opinion, have difcovered the caufe 

 to be (where it is too feldom accurately 

 fearched for) in the foot> Lamenefs of this 

 defcription proceeds in general from fome one 

 or other of the following caufes : the nail 

 holes for the faftening of the flioe to the foot 

 being inferted too far from the outer edge, 

 in the web of the fhoe, and confequently, 

 when tight clinched, bearing too hard upon 

 the flefhy edge of the inner fole, conftitutes 

 a preternatural compreffion upon the internal 

 parts and confequeut impediment to cafe or 

 adiion. 



Another caufe exceedingly common, (when 



the 



