A dissertation on horses: wherein it is demonstrated, by matters of fact, as well as from the principles of philosophy, that innate qualities do not exist, and that the excellence of this animal is altogether mechanical and not in the blood / By William Osmer.
- Osmer, William
- Date:
- 1756
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dissertation on horses: wherein it is demonstrated, by matters of fact, as well as from the principles of philosophy, that innate qualities do not exist, and that the excellence of this animal is altogether mechanical and not in the blood / By William Osmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![c*,6] but partial only, which no realbning man will be abfurd enough to allow. But I much fear our diflindtions of good and bad blood are determined O ______ ____ with much partiality; i or every jockey has his particular favourite blood, of which he judges from events, fuccefs, comes it to or prejudice: elfe, pafs, that we fee the different opini¬ ons and fafiiions of blood varying daily ! nay, we fee the very fame blood undergoing the very fame fate; this year rejedted, The next in zl_ _._ eftcein; or 1KIT year in high repute, the next held at nothing. How ma¬ ny changes has the blood of Childers undergone ! once the belt, then the word, now good again ! Where are _1__ O__0________ the defendants of Bay Bolton, that once were the terror of their antago- hills!](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30367219_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
