A treatise on the use and peculiar advantages of dancing and exercises, considered as a means of refinement and physical development ... / by Francis Mason.

  • Mason, Francis.
Date:
1854
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    deformity, or of any peculiarity of awk- wardness requiring more particular atten- tion than can be given in the general routine of a dancing lesson; and this attention to grace and deportment is, in the writer’s estimation, of the greatest interest, and of the gravest importance. The inculcation of principles in the regulation of exercises is the very founda- tion of success in the correction of de- formity, and this the private lesson enables the master to accomplish by an explanation of the motives for any direc- tion or exercise he may consider neces- sary. The feelings, and even the preju- dices, of the young require to be treated with delicacy and respect, in order to obtain their confidence, that so a sort of friendly intercourse may be established