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THE CHARGER. 



REQUISITES OF A CHARGER HEIGHT COLOUR THE 



TROOP-HORSE FORM AND OTHER REQUISITES. 



No kind of horse, no animal, indeed, of any sort, 

 makes so prominent a figure in history, sacred or 

 profane, as " the goodly horse of the battle," or 

 war-horse. The description of him by Job is ad- 

 mitted to exceed the powers of human eloquence ; 

 "■ and," as M. Rollin says of it, " every word would 

 bear an explication to display its merits." The 

 Guardian (No. 86) has a very ingenious critique 

 upon it ; and Bochart devotes seventeen pages to 



