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Excerpt from Kalogynomia or the Laws of Female Beauty: Being the Elementary Principles of That Science
I. We observe a woman possessing one species of beam z - Her neck is tapering; her shoulders, without being angular, are sufficiently broad and definite; her waist remarkable for fine proportion, is almost an inverted cone her haunches are mode rately expanded her thighs proportional; her arms, as well as her limbs, are taper ing; and her hands and feet are small. The whole figure is precise, striking and brilliant. From its proportions, it seems almost aerial; and you would imagine that if your hands were placed under the lateral parts of her tapering waist, the slightest pressure would suffice to throw her into the air. Yet has she few or none of the quali ties of the succeeding.
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