In tournaments and Equefirian Exercifes, his
fire and his courage arc irrefiftible. Amid his
boldeft exertions, he is equally collected and trac-
table; not obeying his own impetuofity, all his
efforts and his aalions are guided folely by his
rider. Indeed, fuch is the greatnefs of his obedi-
ence, that he appears to confult nothing but how
he fhall beft pleafe, and, if poflible, anticipate
what his maier wifhes and requires; every im-
preffion, he receives, produces refponfive and im-
plicit obedience; he darts forward, checks his
ardour, he flops at command; the pleasures, at-
tendant on his own exiflence, he renounces, or
rather centres them in the pleafure and fatisfac-
tion of man.


  Nothing can be more wonderful than the preci-
fion with which he performs every thing that is
required of him; refigned without any referve to
our fervice, he refufes nothing, however dangerous
or difficult to execute.


  He fenres with all his flrcngtb, and in his
flrenuous efforts to pleafe, oft-times out-does his
nature, and even dies in order the better to obey!
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