A new method, and extraordinary invention, to dress horses, and work them according to nature as also, to perfect nature by the subtility of art, which was never found out, but by ... William Cavendishe ...

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A new method, and extraordinary invention, to dress horses, and work them according to nature as also, to perfect nature by the subtility of art, which was never found out, but by ... William Cavendishe ...
Author
Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.
Publication
London :: Printed by Tho. Milbourn,
1667.
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Horses -- Grooming.
Horsemanship -- Early works to 1800.
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"A new method, and extraordinary invention, to dress horses, and work them according to nature as also, to perfect nature by the subtility of art, which was never found out, but by ... William Cavendishe ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53074.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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A GENERAL RULE.

WHatsoever Leads, Fore-parts, or Hinder-parts; that which still Leads, tends to the Center, and the other parts of the Horse flie the Center: For it is a General Rule, and true; That whatsoever is the greater Circle, before or be∣hind, that which is the greatest Circle, is most Wrought; for it goes most Ground, and is at Liberty, whether it tends to the Center, or from it; and the Less Circle, most subjected, and prest: For, his Head to the Pillar (the Pillar on the out∣side

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of his Head) his Fore-parts Lead, and there∣fore tend to the Center, and his Hinder-parts flie the Center; yet his Hinder-parts are most wrought, because it is the greater Circle, and therefore his Fore-parts more subjected, and upon them, which is upon the Shoulders; so the Horse's Croup to the Pillar, the Pillar on the Inside of his Croup, his Croup In, his Fore-parts Lead, and therefore tend to the Center, and his Croup flies the Cen∣ter; but his Fore-parts are more Wrought, be∣cause it is the Larger Circle; and his Hinder-parts more subjected and prest, because it is the Narrower Circle; and so upon the Hanches; so in his Length the same; and upon Passager, he Laps his Leggs over but every Second time, be∣cause they are Cross, and upon the Action of a Trott.

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