Of a Horse that RETAINS his FORCES.
WHen a Horse Retains his Forces, you must Gallop him fast, and so Terra a Terra, to put him from thinking; for it is his Resty think∣ing, that makes that Vice: And let me tell you,
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 ...
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- Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.
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- 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 May 6, 2024.
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that ill Riders, and Bunglers, at the first, makes (for the most part) all these Faults, and Vitious Horses, by ill Riding, correcting them out of time, or else in letting them have their wills too much.
Let me tell you for a great Truth, that the worst natured Jade in the world by Nature, is much easier Drest, and reduc'd to Obedience, than a Horse that hath been Spoil'd, and made Resty by ill Riding; so much worse is an ill Custom continued, than an ill Disposition by Nature: For, a customary Drunkard is hardly Reclaimed, which is not by Nature; and if Men be so, Horses may well be so too.