A philosophical and practical treatise on horses, and on the moral duties of man towards the brute creation, Bind 1C. Whittingham, Dean Stree, Fetter Lane, 1802 |
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... groping the creft with your hands , to pare the thickest part thereof till it come all to one thinnefs ; then holding the horse still fast bound , to cover all the the place with great handfuls of swines - dung , 14 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
... groping the creft with your hands , to pare the thickest part thereof till it come all to one thinnefs ; then holding the horse still fast bound , to cover all the the place with great handfuls of swines - dung , 14 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
Side 61
... still less disposed than ever , to break . When in due time I effayed to mount this mare , fhe bent under me like a twig , although I could then have ridden confiderably lefs than nine stone . I was under the neceffity of giving her fix ...
... still less disposed than ever , to break . When in due time I effayed to mount this mare , fhe bent under me like a twig , although I could then have ridden confiderably lefs than nine stone . I was under the neceffity of giving her fix ...
Side 90
... Still , Horfes were fo deficient in number , that on the Spanish Invafion , the Queen found the utmost difficulty in mounting two or three thousand cavalry . In the reign of James , Horse - racing became fashionable , throughout all ...
... Still , Horfes were fo deficient in number , that on the Spanish Invafion , the Queen found the utmost difficulty in mounting two or three thousand cavalry . In the reign of James , Horse - racing became fashionable , throughout all ...
Side 118
... still is , the invariable custom of the bulk of mankind , not even ex- cepting legislators , both religious and civil , to look upon brutes as mere machines ; animated yet without fouls ; endowed with feelings , but utterly devoid of ...
... still is , the invariable custom of the bulk of mankind , not even ex- cepting legislators , both religious and civil , to look upon brutes as mere machines ; animated yet without fouls ; endowed with feelings , but utterly devoid of ...
Side 142
... still exists amongst thousands in this country ; with the detestable concomitant , that burning the animal alive , which is the supposed subject of it , is the only mode of detecting the witch . Numerous inftances of this cruel and ...
... still exists amongst thousands in this country ; with the detestable concomitant , that burning the animal alive , which is the supposed subject of it , is the only mode of detecting the witch . Numerous inftances of this cruel and ...
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Side i - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Side 255 - But beware that in difmounting, you bend not your right knee, left the horfe fliould be touched by the fpur. Grafp the reins with your hand, putting your little finger between them. Your hand muft be perpendicular, your thumb uppermoft upon the bridle. " Suffer him not to finger the reins (the groom, in holding the horfe) but only to meddle with that part of the headftall, which...
Side 266 - If he has been lately from grafs, or draw-yard, or has been kept within, upon the faving plan of abridging his food in proportion to his work (a favourite meafure with fome people) he will receive damage from a long journey, however good he may be in nature : in fuch cafe, from thirty, to five-and-forty miles, is a fufficient day's work.
Side 259 - ... next ftage, fall into a flow trot, bend their necks, foam at the mouth, refufe to bear an ounce upon the bit, and keep perpetually upon the curvet, as if they longed to be upon the parade. Whenever this happens, the beft way of concluding...
Side 248 - The modern feat on horfe-back, and it feems to have owed its eftablifhmeut to reafon, confirmed by experience, is, to fet naturally and eafily upright upon your faddle, as you would in your chair ; your knees about as much bent, and turned inward, your toes fomewhat out, and upward, your leg falling nearly ftraight, and...
Side 258 - There is a circumfpection to be adopted advantageoufly by the tinfkilful, which will, at firft, give them the femblance, afterwards the reality, of good riding. The method of taking a rein in each hand, occafionally (much in ufe of late years) gives the rider great command over the mouth, neck, and fore-quarters of a horfe.
Side 18 - He had read Dee's prefaces before, The Devil and Euclid, o'er and o'er.
Side 241 - I have already given divers hints on this part of the fubject, and once more repeat my advice of teaching the colt a good canter. If it fhould be held proper to learn him to leap the bar...
Side 109 - ... be fmall and fine ; noftrils capacious ; lips thin ; mouth of fufficient depth, and the tongue not too large ; the jaw-bones wide at top, where they join the neck ; the head not abruptly affixed to the extremity of the neck, but with a moderate curve and tapering of the latter. The NECK muft be of moderate, not too great length, nor too thick and grofs on the upper part, nor too large and deep, but rifing from the withers or forehand, and afterwards declining and tapering at the extremity, it...
Side 121 - The grand fource of the unmerited and fuperfluous mifery of beafts, exifts, in my opinion, in a defect in the conftitution of all communities. No human government, I believe, has ever recognized the jus animalium, which...