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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)
On deportment, pp. 138-153
Page 153
O0 DEPORTMENT. manifs best knowledge and her praises;" to show her what is indeed the proper, the grace- ful, the winning deportment, is the design of these few following pages; and I trust that my young reader will receive them as the admo, nition of a tender and experienced parent, and not allow "a mother's precepts to be vain !" Having laid it down as a first principle, that nodemeanour, whether in a princess or a coun- try-girl, can be becoming that is not ground. ed infeminine delicacy, I shall proceed to show that a different deportment is expected from different persons. Certain characteristics of persons are suited to certain styles of manners; and also the same demeanour does not agree as well with the steward's daughter as the squire's bride. As in a former chapter I have particularized the dresses which are adapted to the gay and the grave, so in the next I propose pointing out the appropriate miens which belong to the VMrious degrees of beauty and classes of society. 0 153
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