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bastic mysticism of its foreign eulogists, do not fall into the 

 contrary extreme and despise the whole, because its parts are 

 insignificant. If you do, for the same reason, you may despise 

 all arts, all sciences : — I may say all greatness whatever. For 

 what are these but a knowledge, — a collection — a multiplicity 

 of trifles ? The arch, the palace, the pyramid, would never 

 have been built, if their architects had singly quarrelled with 

 each particle of their material, on the score of its individual 

 want of importance. 



On account of ease to the rider, a lady's horse is only per- 

 mitted to canter with the right leg. Where this is the case, 

 he should never be cantered circles to the left, or turned 

 at a canter to the left ; as, unless the horse shifts his leg, it 

 will be an unfair exertion to demand of him ; that is, he must 

 be made to collect himself very much, or he will probably fall. 

 Cantering circles to the right, in open ground, where the horse 

 has nothing to bias him but the indications he receives from 

 the rider's hands and legs, is an admirable practice for a 



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