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Title: Exercises for ladies;
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Walker, Donald. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: London, T. Hurst
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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PRINCIPLE OF ATTITUDE, 169 wardness solely to an accurate adoption, exceptwith one leg, of this medium grace ! If these teachers of grace would only make afew drawings or diagrams in strict conformitywith their principles—if they would but followthe advice of M. Blasis, who says, I shall con-clude this chapter by recommending to your at-tention the study of drawing, as almost indis-pensable to make a perfect dancer: by drawing,you acquire better ideas of symmetry, eleganceand gracefulness, especially if you pursue thebeau ideal, which this art possesses;—if theywould do this, we should have the fair means ofjudging. M. Blasis himself accordingly gives us,in his 11th Plate, the two figures accurately copiedin Plate XXX, figs, 3 and 4, as conforming withhis notions of grace and the beau ideal. Thesecond of these figures he calls an arabesquebackward; but though that curious position mayentitle the man to turn the front of his legs back-ward, the first figure might have been excused

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