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you, proceed with a discussion of some of the 

 minor parts of practice, which, in the above 

 comprehensive view of general duty, I have 

 purposely avoided being led off by, as well as 

 of other collateral points which are closely con- 

 nected with the subject. 



Such form of address will be more imme- 

 diately convenient, if the idea of throwing these 

 notions into a shape fitted for the public eye, 

 which you have so much urged upon me, and 

 which you are pleased to attach so much impor- 

 tance to, as " the means of presenting the sports- 

 man with somewhat like a rational direction of 

 his conduct, of which he is at present so lament- 

 ably in want," should ever be realized. 



With such more general object, therefore, 

 indefinitely in view, yet retaining, as being more 

 agreeable to me, the form of that familiar address 

 which I have assumed to you, I shall, as occa- 

 sion may furnish leisure or inclination, proceed 

 to the further elucidation of my subject, with 

 an addition of materials, which it is probable 

 will never assume all the advantages of form 

 that might have been given to them ; but which, 

 in whatever may concern a well-grounded edu- 

 cation upon each " particular of duty," it shall 



