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fenmtion, which is, that " the lefs (hcep are changed, the 

 better." It demands the farmer's attention, as fhewing the 

 injury of folding in many cafes. And it is noticed, that the 

 grazing cattle are changed while the bufinefs of hohb'wg the 

 hclds is performed, and that the foon?r tliis is executed tlie 

 better ; as when the grafs tufts are cat while young, the 

 cattle will eat the produce well. 



Upon the fubjed of llocking grazing land, Mr. Marfiiall 

 remarks, that " the fairs at Birmingham are among the worll 

 in the country for fat flock, the butchers giving tlie graziers 

 T\o encouragement to drive their (lock to them, preferring 

 the toil of riding twenty, thirty, or perhaps forty, miles 

 from home to pick up tlieir "fat!" fpending a jirincijial 

 part of their time and their profits in an emplovmcnt truly 

 ridiculons. Hov.- convenient it would be to the grazier, as 

 well as to the butcher, to have a weekly market, a Smith- 

 field at or near Birmingham ! to the grazier, in tliereby having 

 a ciniitant and certaui inarkct whenever he wanted cither 

 keep or money ; and, to the butcher, m faving time and 

 travelling expences. Yet the few animals which are taken 

 there at prcfent, are frequently drove out unfold. But 

 Thurfday, which is the ordinary market-dar, is improper. 

 Monday or Tuefday would be a more fuitaljle day ; and Sut- 

 ton, perhaps, the moil fuitable place. In performing the 

 bufinefs of purchafing in tlock, the nearell fairs are always 

 to be preferred, if it can be done there with propriety ; as 

 much injury and lofs is frequently fullaincd by driving from a 

 cmifiderable diilanoe. 



And the bufinefs of grazing other forts of animals may, 

 in feme cafes, be a profitable concern, but mull alwavs be 

 regulated by the nature of the land and circumliances of the 

 farmer. Where he has a confiderable extent of the more 

 coarfe fort of pafture-land, he may often find it advantageous 

 to graze young horfes, efpecially where he has tiie conve- 

 nience of breeding them likewife. But though it is a practice 

 fometimes followed by grazing farmers, to admit horfes in 

 the fame pa'.lurcs with the other iiock, it fliould conllantly 

 be avoided as much as pofiible, as they are very injurious by 

 teazing and driving the fattening cattle about, and prevent- 

 ing their refting fo much as is otherwife the caie. It is a 

 better method to let them follow this fort of (lock. ^Vhen 

 horfes are admitted upon the grazing lands in Somerfetfhire, 

 it is feldom done in a larger proportion than that of one to 

 twenty acres. But there is another animal which it has long 

 been a practice in particular fituations to graze. This is the 

 hog, which, where the farmer has a piece of rich grafs, 

 1 either of the artificial or natural kind, he msy turn upon it 

 with much advantage. With clover, and fome other arti- 

 licial grafies, the animals are found to fucceed perfeftly well 

 in this fort of management ; but it is obieclionable as lofing 

 a vail fource of manure of an excellent kind. When the 

 field is fo fituated as that the hogs can return in the evenings 

 to the well littered (lies, it may, however, b« a highly 

 beneficial lyilem of practice. There can be no doubt but 

 that this fort of management might be much more extcn- 

 fively employed with this animal, and that thereby much of 

 the food of ilore pigs might be faved. See Hoc. 



GRAZIOSO, Ital. Grac'uujhnent, Fr. gracefal, are 

 terms in Miijic, addreifcd to the performer ; but if the com- 

 pofition is devoid of grate, the term can convey no inllrnc- 

 tion to the performer. It is in vain for the coinpofer to 

 fit down with a refolution to compofe a graceful raovenunt ; 

 it mull come inifought, and infenfibly. 



Marmontel has defined grace in poetr)-, grace in attitudes, 

 grace in motion, grace in the arrangement of words in 

 profe, of figures in painting, as a polilh, a lacquer, a vamifh. 



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a gilding to every human aclion ; without which we may be 

 lurpnfcd and entertained, but never perftctly plcafid 



No poet, perhaps, abounds in grace ind fac-ility fo much 

 as Mctallafio ; for examples, fee his cantatas. 



Among mufical compofers, perhaps, none hare beea 

 more gifted with tliis charm than PtTgolcfi, Sacchini, and 

 Limarofa. 



The time of a grazlofo movement is nearly tlic farrc a« 

 amiaiilc ; fmooth, gentle, and inclined to piano ; no coarfe 

 i.ro.ws of the bow on tiic violin, or drv .-ovp, ,!e /.;«.-« oo 

 the Cr flute, except, to vary the expreiJion and effcc'i, the 

 con-pofer indicates the contrary. 



.. PJK'^^.'^^^'^' '" ^^''S'-aphy, a town of Italv ; 1 1 milr« 

 S.S.W. of Verona. ' •' 



GRAZZINI, Gro. P-voLO.of Ferrara,in Z?/Vr<7«/.r,Icft 



the proteinon of goldlmilli to become a painter at an advanced 

 pcnod of his life ; his clii.-f inftruaions he owed to the friend- 

 (liip of Carlo IVmono. Th^ firft fpecirr.en of his capacity wai 

 a p.cture of St. Eligio placed in the goidfmith's hall of 

 Ferrara. • Eight years which he had employed to finifh the 

 work were amply redecn-.ed by the difplay of a n;a.'>erhand, 

 and a tone of colour that j.laced liim near in rank to Porde- 

 none, and allonifiitd all Ferrara, who had known Grazzini 

 for half a century. He continued to produce works of lcf« 

 compafs, but of equal taite, which are met with in private 

 colledions. He died in 1632. Fufcli's Pilkington. 



Gr.azzi.m, .A.ntiiony-Fr ANci.s fumamcd // Lafca, an 

 Italian writer, wa.< born at Florence in 1503, and is known 

 to polterity as a confidera'.ik- writer in profe and verfe. He 

 is particularly remembered for his light and jocofc poems, 

 among which are many of the Canti Carnafcialcfchi, or 

 Carnival Songs. Thefe, it is faid, were tirll invented by 

 Lorenzo de Medici, and a collection of them was poblilhcd 

 by Grazzini at Florence in 1559. His other works are 

 as follow : " La Guerra dc Moilri, pocma giocofo," 1584. 

 "Stanze," 5;c. " Comedie VII. ;" " 11 Lafca, Dialol 

 golo," &c. ; " Lettere,' " Orazionc," «' Rin c,' No- 

 velle XI. The lall was an extremely popular work, and at 

 a noveliil Grazzini was thought to be a worthy rival of Boc- 

 cace in the elegance of his narration and purity of his ftrle. 

 He was one ot the founders of the academy Delia Crufca. 

 Morcri. 



GREASE, among Farrier 1, &c. an inflammation and 

 fwelling of the heels about the fetlocks, and fometimes of 

 the legs of a horfe, as high as the knee or hock, with the 

 fecrct on of an oily matter, to which the difeafe owes iti 

 name. The matter diiVharged from the heels has a peculiar 

 ofTeiiCve fnuil, and the heels themfclves are fometimes ulce- 

 rated. Heavy horfes, with round flrfhy legs, are the moft 

 fubjedl to this diforder, rnd the white legs more thji the 

 reil. It is almoft always found in the poUerior cxtren.hics, 

 Greafe is occafioned by fudden changes from a cold td'a hot 

 temperature, fucJi as the removing of horfet from rral's into 

 hot ftables ; fn;m the too fudden change of a generous to an 

 impovendiing diet ; from negleA on the part of gro..n'.s ia 

 leaving the heils wet and full of fand ; and from conftittitional 

 debility. On the approach of tliis difeafe, and for fcvcral dan 

 before any very conliderable appearances of fwelling and lij- 

 flammation. the animal feems u> fcil much pain in the affi rtcd 

 heel, which is indicated by his railing it frequently from the 

 ground, and his not being able to rell upon it without un. 

 eahuefs X\. this early period, the diforder may in general be 

 removed by :i poultic- of boiled brao and linfeed powdei- 

 conllantly applied to the pert, and kept nioill with warra 

 water; giving every iiigfit, or every fecond r.ij;ht, a n:ilj 

 diiirctic. Wheo theii-.flammation and fwelling are confider. 

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