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Thoughts was published as a direct response tothe critique in themontidy Review; the preface clearly suggests that this was its purpose, andnofewer than seven footnotes are inserted in answer to the charges of cruelty; moreover the third edition did not appear until 1796. This work is a reprint of the fourth published in 1802.
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Peter Beckford, Esq. Was born in 1740. He was a great sportsman and famous master of foxhounds, and he was the first English writer to give a full and accurate description of the whole system of the sport of hunting. He died in England in 1811.
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