Excerpt from The Horse: Its Habits, Diseases and Management, in the Stable, and on the Road, With Advice to Purchasers IN all nations, and in all ages, the horse has been esteemed as one of the noblest and most valuable ani mals of the brute creation. It is unnecessary for the object of the present work to make any particular allu sion to the pride and admiration in which he was held in ancient Greece and Rome, and indeed among every warlike people. Caligula, it is recorded, invested his horse with the dignity of a consul. Innumerable passages might be quoted from the poets descriptive and illustrative of the qualities of this beautiful quadruped; but we shall confine ourselves, in this introductory matter, to a citation from the Book of Job. The following verses are so applicable to our subject, and so sublime in conception and expression, that it would be almost an unpardonable omission not to lay them before the reader, who need not be told that the apostrophe is to the Deity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.