 | Cesare Blasi - Architecture - 1824 - 756 pages
...explain how a horse should be more fatigued by travelling on a road uniformly level, than by travelling over a like space upon one that crosses heights and...has been said, gives the animal wind, and enlarges the chest. It may also, with equal truth, be affirmed, that many horses lose their wind under this... | |
 | John Gregory - Engineering - 1843 - 350 pages
...by travelling on a road uniformly level, than by travelling a like space upon one that crosses hills and hollows. But it is demonstrably a false idea,...truth be affirmed, that many horses lose their wind by this sort of training, and irrecoverably suffer from imprudent attempts to induce such a habit."... | |
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... over a like space upon one that crosses heights and hollows ; but it is demonstrably a false idea, that muscles can alternately rest and come into motion in cases of this kind. The daily practice of ascending heights, it has been said, gives the animal... 