The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository of General Information Upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field, Vol. 1 of 2: Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Sandwich, Ma

Excerpt from The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository of General Information Upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field, Vol. 1 of 2: Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Sandwich, Master of His Majesty's Stag Hounds

Buried in oblivion. F rom there faets may be inferred, the very trifling utility fuch books are of in the improved fports and refined polilh of the prefent time; more particularly when one juli and emphatic remark from the pen of a molt popular writer is adverted to, that there is no fubjeét upon which fo little has been judi cioufly written, as Upon the sports of the field; and what has ilfued from the prefs under titles of attracting fimilitude, have been much more the efl'orts of theoretic lucubration, than the refult of praftical knowledge, or per.

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