A New Treatise on the Diseases of Horses
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ISBN13: 9780217153485
Paperback|9780217153485
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: t CHAP. III. Such Faults and Defects as ought chiefly to be avoided in buying of Horses. No (mail T Believe moft of thofe who have any great in'ooUvm dealings in Horfes will readily agree in this, of a horu that few things in common life are more diffi- c, jjt tnan the buying of a Horfe well: and I have known many who beafted of their fkill and dexterity that way, and made greater pretences than others in the knowledge of Horfes, very much deceived. This is a matter that does jiot depend upon a man's having more wifdom or parts than his neighbours, but upon long experience, with a good taltv or fancy regulated with fome judgment; other wife a man is like to make but an indifferent choice. There are fo many circumftantial niceties about Horfes, efpecrally in what relates to the fhape, make, and goings of a Horfe; and fo much is laid about the marks of goodnefs and badnefs in Horfes, that it would fill up a whole volume to recount half of what one may hear talked in a few days upon that fubject; and therefore I lhall only here have a regard principally to fuch things as relate to a Horfe's being found or unfound, as that which more immediately concerns my prelent province, with fuch natural defects and imperfections as render Horfes the moft unfit for common ufe; and (hall recommend thofe who would be further inftrudted in fuch matters to the writings of chapter{{Section 4the Duke of Newcaftle, and to the works of the French and Italian equerries, who have been very minute in all thofe parts of Horfe- manfhip. When a man is about to chufe a Hbrfe, if he be never fo good a judge, yet he muft b forced to take fome things upon truft, unlefs he be allowed a fufficient trial; for feveral defects in a Horfe are of fuch a nature, that they can- not be eafily difcovered ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217153485 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217153488 |
| Weight | 0.99 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.68 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 304 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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