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the excifing the fuperfluous Ikia might not be 

 attended with any danger, but the removal of 

 the paps would be fatal, and "^'S'" P'^^^'', ^ 

 ftrangle the animal-Very true mdeed. Equally 

 lue k .s, that cuttmg a fuperfluous wart from 

 „,an's nofe, would be a harmlefs and peAa^ 

 falutary operation, wh.lft the excfton of hs 

 thole nofe, or even the half of n m.ght prove 

 a dreadful eyefore to him, and ftdl more to h« 

 „,fe D.d Mr. Blaine imagme, that it could 

 ever'be poffibly intended to r^°°P °"/; ?^ P^j-^' 

 as boys do modicums from apples ? In this cale, 

 "mmon fenfe ought to have ^^^aated toj;™ 

 the neceffity of giving examples of malprattice 



'^Thif wretched trifling is adduced, as another 

 proof of the ignorance of (amend the expref- 

 fion^ anli-coUegiate times : what it really does 

 p ot requires^o exphcatiou. . Bracken and 



Lrtlet. it feems, were --?^-"'^^,;" 

 anatomy of the horfe, an opinion with refpett 

 to ^e firmer, which can neither be upported 

 . f°om his wruings, nor his own acknowledgment 

 hnce he informs us, that diffatisfied with the 

 orig nal work of Snape, and ,he Compend.urn 

 of G.bron, he had engaged in a f^^'-'ar -or", 

 h mfelf, which it IS probable he <l'd "- '- - 

 finifti Mr. Blaine feems aware that the old 

 a Imifts were acquainted wuh 'he nature and 

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