Pogonologia; Or, A Philosophical and Historical Essay on Beards

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J.-A. Dulaure. Pogonologia; Or, A Philosophical and Historical Essay on Beards

Pogonologia; Or, A Philosophical and Historical Essay on Beards

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PREFACE

ERRATA

CHAP. I. Of Fashion

CHAP. II. Of bearded Chins

CHAP. III. Of some shaved Chins

CHAP. IV. Of bearded Women

CHAP. V. That long Beards are salutary

CHAP. VI. Of false Beards

CHAP. VII. Of golden Beards

CHAP. VIII. Of Whiskers

CHAP. IX. Of the Beards of Priests

CHAP. X. Of the People that wear Beards

CHAP. XI. The Conclusion

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J.-A. Dulaure

Published by Good Press, 2022

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The article of ladies’ head-dresses would fill a volume entire: we should find, that, in proportion as they have taken from their heads, they have added to their hips. The enormous hoop and the large high head-dress have alternately succeeded each other; these last have lately sunk under their own weight, if I may be allowed the expression, in order to let the great hips and false rumps be in vogue. The ladies are determined not to lose any of their bulk, so much are they persuaded that their merit is in proportion to the space they occupy in the world.

In one of those revolutions which ladies’ heads have suffered, a lady wrote to her friend as follows.

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