A manual on beauty and health : containing useful remarks on the proper treatment of the human system, so as to secure health and beauty : with several valuable miscellaneous receipts : to which is added Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters, and A picture of the female character as it ought to appear when formed, by George Horne : the whole forming an excellent consulting companion / by a friend to humanity.

  • Horne, George.
Date:
1848
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A manual on beauty and health : containing useful remarks on the proper treatment of the human system, so as to secure health and beauty : with several valuable miscellaneous receipts : to which is added Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters, and A picture of the female character as it ought to appear when formed, by George Horne : the whole forming an excellent consulting companion / by a friend to humanity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not extremely on her guard. The finest parts in such a girl may not always prove sufficient for her security. The dark and crooked paths of cunning are unsearchable and inconceivable to an honorable and elevated mind. The following, I apprehend, are the most genuine effects of an honorable passion among the men, and the most difficult to counterfeit. A man of delicacy often betrays his passion by his too great anxiety to conceal it, especially if he has little hopes of success. True love, in all its stages, seeks concealment, and never ex- pects success. It renders a man not only re- spectful, but timid to the highest degree in his behavior to the woman he loves. To conceal the awe he stands in of her, he may sometimes affect pleasantry, but it sits awkwardly on him, and he quickly relapses into seriousness, if not into dullness. He magnifies all her real per- fections in his imagination, and is either blind to her failings, or converts them into beau- ties. Like a person conscious of guilt, he is jealous that every eye observes him—and to avoid this, he shuns all the little observances of common gallantry. His heart and his character will be improved in every respect by his attach- ment. His manners will become more gentle, and his conversation more agreeable—but diffi- dence and embarrasment will always make him appear to disadvantage in the company of his mistress. Tf the fascination continue long, it will totally depress his spirit, and extinguish ev- ery active, vigorous, and manly principle of his D