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mately destined ; and in " whose hands the 

 most accomplished animal that ever was made 

 up, to gratify the high-toned feelings of a 

 thorough-paced sportsman, from a total want 

 of knowing how to manage him, as well as of 

 a due sense of self-government, and a conse- 

 quent relaxation of all discipline, would not be 

 worth a base bank-token in the course of a 

 fortnight." 



The reader can not fail, indeed, to perceive 

 that it is not to this class of men that I consider 

 a single page of this volume as addressed ; the 

 bulk of whom is composed of beings, with 

 whom I should as little think of reasoning as I 

 would with their unmanaged, and, as they have 

 rendered them, unmanageable dogs ; but among 

 whom also, I have known men of considerable 

 intelligence and integrity, fully competent to 

 the delicate and difficult business of instruc- 

 tion; who, equally with myself, have felt the 

 beauties, and could set a just value on the 

 refinements, of discipline ; whom I have heard 

 regret the necessity they were frequently under 

 of sacrificing their better judgment to the impe- 

 rious calls of their situation ; and whose very 

 language it is, with a tacit reference to their 

 immediate lords and masters, that I have, with 



