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  LECTURES
  ON
  HORSEMANSHIP,

  Wherein is Explained
  EVERY
  NECESSARY INSTRUCTION
  FOR BOTH
  LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
  In the Useful and Polite
  ART OF RIDING,
  WITH
  EASE, ELEGANCE, AND SAFETY,


  BY T. S.
  Professor of Horsemanship.


  _LONDON_:
  1793.




LECTURE ON HORSEMANSHIP.

Address to the Audience.


  LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

Permit me to observe that the Horse is an animal, which, from the
earliest ages of the world, has been destined to the pleasure and
services of Man; the various and noble qualities with which nature has
endowed him sufficiently speaking the ends for which he was designed.

Mankind were not long before they were acquainted with them, and found
the means of applying them to the purposes for which they were given:
this is apparent from the Histories and traditions of almost all
nations, even from times the most remote; insomuch that many nations and
tribes, or colonies of people, who were entirely ignorant, or had but
very imperfect notions, of other improvements and arts of life; and even
at