A treatise upon the modes, or, A farewell to French kicks . Z^ Language, that it has in theLanguage of any other Country, For inothet Countries it is calid a Circle^ from xhtFigure into which Company forms v: felf^ {exthe better convenience of being heard. Butin France J over and above this reafon, it h- D aifo 34 y^ T RE Atl S E alfo caird a Circle^ with allufion to the Or-der and Method of Speech usd in their Con-verfations ^ which, according to the Figureof a Circle, is without Beginning or End:It not being proper to fay of any One, thathe fpoke fir ft, or fpoke laft 5 becaufe all theCompan
A treatise upon the modes, or, A farewell to French kicks . Z^ Language, that it has in theLanguage of any other Country, For inothet Countries it is calid a Circle^ from xhtFigure into which Company forms v: felf^ {exthe better convenience of being heard. Butin France J over and above this reafon, it h- D aifo 34 y^ T RE Atl S E alfo caird a Circle^ with allufion to the Or-der and Method of Speech usd in their Con-verfations ^ which, according to the Figureof a Circle, is without Beginning or End:It not being proper to fay of any One, thathe fpoke fir ft, or fpoke laft 5 becaufe all theCompany fpeak together. For which reafon, in Rome^ or in Holland,or in many Parts of Switzerland^ where thereis a greater confluence of foreign-Nationsthan in other Countries 5 if ever, as you pafsby a Houfe, you hear a more than ordinaryNoife, it is always concluded to be an Ex-plofion of the Brillant. End of the Firjl Van. THE upon the MODES. 35 C* Si? O nir e^- iir ilr ?-r ^B i^ VJf ^^ ^ rJ W ^f Si? ^s SS^ *».- ^?-* %• THE SYSTEM. HERE is this difference be-tween the Art of Dress,and other Arts, confiderd inthe Pradical Part of it ^ thatother Arts are lookd on withfome Indulgence, tho theyfhouid not fo well referable Nature: Butunlefs the Operations of this Art be abfo-lutely dilTembled, it gives occafion to Ludi-crous Conceits 5 perhaps, bscaufe it is thebulinefs of Dr^/i to fupply Defeds, of whichthere mufl be no fufpicion. And it may likewife happen, that thisSystem, which is the Art o^Drefs m Spe-culation, if I have not fucceeded in compilingof it, as I once proposd to do, may raifeMirth in fome Perfons. To whom I can D 2 odI^ 3^ y^ T RE ATISE only fay^ as a certain Author did upon fuchVludkation another Occafion, That if this Treatife be fhlr^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^f ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^*^ ^s not rayfault ^ for I did what I could to make it fo. Care of the J ^luft ofFer farther, in Vindication of myGrecians, prefent Undertaking, That as the Grecians %IfJX ^^^
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