On Female beauty (1774) [ Concepts ]
… the same country thinks differently, at different times. The ancients had a very different taste from what prevails at present. The eye-brows joining in the middle was considered as a very peculiar grace, by Tibullus, in the enumeration of … but are also praised for the redness of their hair. The nose also of the Grecian Venus, was such as would appear at present an actual deformity; as it fell in a straight line from the forehead, without the smallest sinking between the eyes; without which we never see a face at present. Among the moderns, every country seems to have peculiar ideas of beauty [Mr Buffon]. … "Every country has its …
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