IV DEDICATION. 



imagine that the following Essay will, in 

 uiany respects, be found useful. 



When called upon to exercise your abili- 

 ties in a horse cause, and when the respec- 

 tive j)roperties of the subject that may 

 happen to be in dispute, are taken into con- 

 sideration, the jur}^ can seldom be at a loss 

 for examples to direct their judgment. 



In the (pialities of grace and dignity of 

 action^ many of you exhibit a striking ana- 

 logy to that noble animal ; and although 

 the professional peruque is not strictly the 

 fac simile of the flowing mane, yet the lofty 

 carriage of the head, the grand expression 

 of the eye, together with the tremendous 

 accompaniement of thumping the table, 

 must ever remind them of that sublimity of 

 motion which Virgil (speaking of the horse) 

 has thus poetically described, " Gressus 

 glomerare superbos." And who can witness 

 the accustomed preparation for the exor- 

 dium, without callino; to mind the Ibllowin^ 

 passage in ]3ryden : — 



" Th' impatient courser pants in every vein, 

 Au(J, pawing, seems to beat tlie distant plain ; 

 Hills, vales, and iloods appear already crost. 

 And ere he starts, a thousand ste[)s are lost." 



But perhaps the folloAving parody may 

 not be unacceptable : — 



