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1821. April 25.

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The consequence is, that if as between the inward sensation and the external cause - between the quantity of actual gratification and the quantity of the instrument of gratification - the proportion were correspondent, and kept pace, the intensity of the gratification afforded to the Royal Rider by the view of the humiliation submitted to by the most noble holder of the horse, would be ten times the amount of the gratification afforded to that most excellent King by the view of the humiliation, if any, submitted to by the untitled but well-skilled holder - a hundred times the mount of the gratification, if any, by the view of the service performed by the unskilled as well as untitled and rather honored than humiliated holder of the horse, attendant on the will and pleasure of the image of the divinity of Gods vice-gerunt upon earth.