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The mirror of the graces; or, the English lady's costume: combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity and economy, with fashion in dress; and adapting the various articles of female embellishments to different ages, forms, and complexions; to the seasons of the year, rank, and situation in life: with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness, and manners; the cultivation of the mind and the disposition and carriage of the body: offering also the most efficacious means of preserving beauty, health, and loveliness. The whole according with the general principles of nature and rules of propriety
(1811)
Preface, pp. [iii]-[viii]
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sex in general. The editor now presents it with confidence to the world, well aware that, while he offers to his fair countrywomen a most skilful and effici- ent HANDMAID in the decoration of their persons, he accompanies the gift with the presence of a MENTOR, who has as much power to adorn the MIND as to decorate the BODY. We are told by several ancient his- torians, that CORNELIA, the venerable mother of the GRACCHI, spent the best part of her time in the education of her children, and spared no care, no attention, no trouble, to render them worthy of 'herself, the daughter of Scipio, and of their name. They add, that she was so justly proud of them, that, to a rich Campanian lady, her guest, who with ridiculous complacency and girlish osten- tation, exhibited the precious caskets PREFACA. V
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