Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Sportsman's Dictionary: Containing Instructions for Various Methods to Be Observed in Riding, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Farriery, Hawking, Breeding and Feeding Horses for the Road and Turf
The mind of man is incapable of a constant application, either to stud} or business; it is therefore highly necesstiry to felieve it, at convenient seasons, by such relaxations as mty refresh its faculties, and recruit the animal sfirits that have been dissipated by laborious pursuits, or'a length of strict attention. And when the amusements to which we ham-(seem. On such occasions, are friendly to health, delightful to the senses, andperfcctly consistent with innocence, the)? Have all the recommendations we can possibly desire.
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