Pogonologia, or, a philosophical and historical essay on beards / [By J.A.D.] Translated from the French [by E. Drewe?].

  • Dulaure, J.-A. (Jacques-Antoine), 1755-1835.
Date:
1786
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Pogonologia, or, a philosophical and historical essay on beards / [By J.A.D.] Translated from the French [by E. Drewe?]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    161/166 (page 143)
    the opinion of an illuftrious philofopher and profound moralift.* I cannot better conclude than with his own words. “ A perfedt man and a perfedt woman fliould “ no more be alike in mind than in face: thefe filly imitations of fex are the ‘‘ height of folly j they make the wife “ man laugh and the lover run away , . . In fhort, 1 take it, that, unlefs one ** be five feet fix inches high, have a “ firm, tenor voice, and a beard on his “ ch?n, he Ihould not pretend to be ** a man.** * John James Roufleau. THE END.