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

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    between the master and his pupil, and thus the sensitiveness of the latter is not wounded or outraged by any slight cor- rection which might otherwise have a tendency to create dislike, either of the master or of the art itself, towards which- ever it might be directed. On the other hand, the academy fosters refinement and stimulates to excellence, by a more gene- ral intercourse with others whose little defects and infirmities the young are sufficiently apt to detect, and should he desirous of correcting in themselves; for their impressions being derived from abso- lute observation, they see, as in a mirror, the reflection of their own imperfections, which constitutes a silent reprover and is greatly conducive to improvement. It is a positive truism, in fact, that