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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    tastes and sympathy of souls. If you have these sentiments, you will never marry any one,when you are not in that situation, in point of fortune, which is necessary to the happiness of either of you. What that competency may be, can only be determined by your own tastes. It would be ungenerous in you to take advantage of a lover's attachment, to plunge him into distress; and, if he have any honor, no personal gratifi- cation will ever tempt him to enter into any connection which will render you unhappy. If you have as much between you as to satisfy all your demands, it is sufficient. I shall conclude with endeavoring to remove a difficulty which must naturally occur to any woman of reflection on the subject of marriage. What is to become of all those refinements of delicacy, that digni- ty of manners, which checked all familiarities, and suspended desire in respectful and awful admiration? In answer to this, I shall only ob- serve, that if motives of interest or vanity have had any share in your resolutions to marry, none of those chimerical notions will give you pain; nay, they will very quickly appear as ri- diculous in your own eyes, as they probably al- ways did in the eyes of your husbands. They have been sentiments which have floated in your imaginations, but have never reached your hearts. But if these sentiments have been truly genuine, and if you have had the singular hap- py fate to attach those who understand them, you have no reason to be afraid. Marriage, in- deed, will at once dispel the enchantment rais-