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impartially influenced to declare myfelf a 

 ycry (lender advocate for their continuance in 

 pracftice upon the bafis of general uti- 

 lity. There may be fome few cafes, and 

 thofe few very confined in number, where, 

 from a non-fubmiflion to the dicflates of a 

 more rational application, e}^periments may 

 be made by the credulous, of their yJ? uni^ 

 verfal reputation : but I am induced mofl: 

 heartily to believe, fuch alternative muft be 

 adopted much more upon the conftrucSion of 

 3I0PE, than the too flattering profped; of 



EXPECTATION. 



For my own part, voluntarily embarked 

 in a conditional truft of honour with the 

 public, for the promotion of equeftrian im- 

 provements by every rational and fcientific 

 means that can be advanced upon the face of 

 well-founded opinion or practical experience, 

 it is impoflTible for me to acquiefce in the 

 recommendation of their infertion, in the " 

 variety of indifcriminate cafes before recited ; 

 from which I have withheld my approba- 

 tion upon the firmeft conviction, that no 

 fyftematic fubftantiatcd reafons have ever 

 been promulgated, demonfl:rating the ope- 



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