ON THE HORSE IN GENERAL. 11/ 



to repeat an adage of old Bracken, " A good 

 horfe is never of a bad colour." Modern light 

 and experience, have been happily employed 

 in detecting and exploding the theoretic 

 whimfeys of antiquity, upon almort all fubje&s; 

 among the reft, upon that of attributing this or 

 that, good or evil quality, or temperament, to 

 the colour of a horfe. All that I am war- 

 ranted in faying, from my own obfervation, is, 

 that I have feen more bad Horfes, of all kinds, 

 among the light bays, with light-coloured legs 

 and muzzle, than amongft any other colours ; 

 and the moft good faddle and coach-horfes, 

 among the common bays, with black legs and 

 manes, and the chocolate browns. This, in all 

 probability, has been accidental. 



CHAP. III. 



ON THE RIGHTS OF BEASTS. 



E'en the poor beetle, that we tread upon, 

 In corporal fuff'rance feels a pang as great, 

 As when a giant dies — i 



NOTWITHSTANDING the conftant and 

 profelfed averfion of a confiderable part 

 of mankind, to the difcuffion of abftracl princi- 

 ples, it appears to me an axiom, that truth, be 

 whatever the fubjeft:, is to be difcovered by 



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