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the work, notwithstanding its limited scale, will not be deemed unworthy of being the humble
harbinger to the more splendid and elaborate editions that may hereafter be published by the
British Museum.
Doomed, as a practitioner of the Veterinary Art, to pursue an avocation but little calculated
to exercise the nobler faculties of the human mind, the meridian of life had passed away, ere these
precious remains of antiquity first gratified his eye, and confirmed the total alienation of his
thoughts from every other pursuit. Hence little remains to him but unavailing regret that his
ability to profit by these admirable examples is abridged by circumstances over which there is
no control.
harbinger to the more splendid and elaborate editions that may hereafter be published by the
British Museum.
Doomed, as a practitioner of the Veterinary Art, to pursue an avocation but little calculated
to exercise the nobler faculties of the human mind, the meridian of life had passed away, ere these
precious remains of antiquity first gratified his eye, and confirmed the total alienation of his
thoughts from every other pursuit. Hence little remains to him but unavailing regret that his
ability to profit by these admirable examples is abridged by circumstances over which there is
no control.