Stable Talk and Table Talk
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ISBN13: 9780217058735
Paperback|9780217058735
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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: EDUCATING HORSES. Tis Education makes us all. ? Zara. That the term Education may appear misapplied, or at all events inappropriate, as regards horses, I am quite aware ? it is for this very reason I have adopted it, hoping by so doing to awaken ideas on the subject somewhat at variance with the general term of breaking horses. If horses were, what Wombwell's showman assures us the laughing hyaena is, a hanimal untameable by man, we may take great credit to ourselves when we can say, as he does, notwithstanding the hanimal being tmtameable, this one you see is parfectly tame. Now to show the most woraciousest beast in the forest, wot entices the young children into the woods by his cries and then dewours them, as he says, parfectly tame, does credit to the tamer; but horses are neither untameable, difficult to tame, nor woracious (in a general way): so I consider the term educating implies the mode of treatment required by most young horses better than the hackneyed Oug of breaking; for we must always annex the ideas of force and violence to the latter term, and in nineteen cases in twenty neither the one nor the other is required, or should be used, towards colts. The system of education advocated and described by friend Jean Jacques Rousseau as very proper for his eleve might lead us to imagine the Island of Utopiafirst Catch A Hare.?Mrs. Glasse. 173 was the locale the tutor had in view as the residence of his protege. His idea, taken as a whole, was perhaps visionary, and the picture too highly coloured: but if we made a copy, and softened down the] tints a little, we should have nearly a perfect composition: we only then want a perfect engraver, and posterity would derive much benefit from the efforts of the two artists. In giving hints or o...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217058735 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217058736 |
| Weight | 0.91 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 In |
| List Price | $22.81 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 278 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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