THE 



PREFACE 



OF all the Books of Horfemanjhip yet 

 extant, Mr. SolleyfelV Compleat 

 Horfeman is juftly accounted the heft. The 

 Reception it met with, not only in the Ori- 

 ginal French^ hut in the Englifli and other 

 Translations D is fujjicient Evidence of its di- 

 ftinguifhing Merit. The Author was a Ter~ 

 Jon who made it his hujinefs to improve all 

 the Tarts of Horfemanfhip, andfucceeded 

 fo well in that Trofejfton, that not only the 

 French Court , and the Academies of Paris., 

 hut even the (per Jons of Quality of other 

 Nations, particularly the Incomparable 

 Duke of Newcaftle^ paid him the Defe- 

 rence that was due to the Character of a 

 Majier in that way. Till the Eighth Edi- 

 tion of this Book was publiftSd, the World 

 was mi fled by the falfe Opinions andTra* 

 Slices that blind Qtftom had eftabliftpd. 

 Remedies were prefcriVd by roat, and the 

 flea of Antiquity fti fled the proper Prefer ip- 

 tions. Had a f erf on of lefs Authority than 

 our Author offered to with ft and the Current 3 

 the Crowd of Opiniative Far tiers held been 



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