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Excerpt from Practical Instructions in Horsemanship: Including Hints for Instruction, an Essay on-Proper Bridling; And on the Method of Correcting the Usual Defects in the Working of the Curb Reins
The writers upon horsemanship do not all cover the same field of instruction; in this art, as in all others, there is that diversity of Opinion which is the necessary consequence of the peculiar views, and even fancies of authors this diversity is however, more apparent than real. It sometimes results from ignorance, sometimes from error in translation and very often from the incapacity of one author to render intelligible an idea which another, by a peculiar felicity of expression has made clear; another difficulty in the path of instruction is also to be found in the fact, that most writers either omit altogether to define the necessary terms of their art, or, if a definition be attempted, another expression (which to the author may seem equivalent) is used, to the utter confusion of the student. Many instances might be given of this vice if it were not so apparent as to render their enumeration unnecessary.
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