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character ; the more so when we consider they 

 are not usually men enjoying much advantages 

 of education, but on the contrary have usually 

 received little more than the general knowledge 

 a training stable affords, which can tend httle 

 towards a high tone of feeling. The chief 

 advantage they do possess, is their being kept 

 as boys from scenes of depravity, it remains 

 with themselves, in after life, to secure or not 

 any advantage education affords ; such as do 

 not avail themselves of such advantage, by 

 which we may suppose the mind is, or ought 

 to be, awakened to a sense of propriety of 

 conduct when they evince such, have in them 

 the germ of innate honesty of purpose that 

 reflects on them credit that we cannot always 

 award to those connected with the turf, from 

 whom better things might be expected. 



We now come to a character that I regret 

 custom compels me to admit under the name of 

 a sporting one, but for whom, in a general way. 



