LECTURE ON HORSEMANSHIP. 

 Addrefs to the Audience. 



LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 



PERMIT me to obfervc that the Horfe is an ani- 

 mal, which, from the earliefl ages of the world, 

 has been deftined to the pleafure and fervices of 

 Man; the various and noble qualities with which 

 nature has endowed him fufficiently fpeaking the 

 ends for which he was defigned. 



Mankind were not long before they were acquaint- 

 ed with them, and found the means of applying them 

 to the purpofes for which they were given : this is ap- 

 parent from the Hiftories and traditions of almoft 

 all nations, even from times the mod remote ; info- 

 much that many nations and tribes, or colonies of peo- 

 ple who were entirely ignorant, or had but very im- 

 perfedl notions, of other improvements anl arts of 

 life; and even at this day *are unacquainted with 

 them, yet faw and underftood the generous proper- 

 ties of this creature in fo lironga light as to treat him 

 with fondnefs and the greateft attention, fufficiently 

 to declare the high opinion they entertained of his 



* Such as the Wild Arabs, Indians, &c. 



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