Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… of femininity, morality, and sociability. 1 . Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature (London: J. Nourse, 1774), vol. 2, p. 76. Identifying the features of a beautiful physical appearance was somewhat simpler … by the viewer: how did one interpret inner beauty? 3 . Thomas Gibson, M. D., The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized (London: T. W. and John Churchill, 1703), p. 438–439. By the mid-century, in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of … body and soul. 4 . Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), p. 118. The conceptualisation of beauty as a mixture of interior and exterior qualities …
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