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Show PRIVATE DANCING. 487 PART THE SIXTH. PRIVATE DANCING. " Que vos graces soient naturelles ; Ne les contrefaites jamais : Dfes que Ton veut courir apres, O n commence a s'e'loigner d'elles." DEMOUSTIER. SEVERAL persons have employed themselves in writing systems for teaching Private Dancing, but their works contain the universal fault of every performance that has appeared upon the subject of dancing in general, namely, a want of principles, positively and clearly stated : such works are read, but almost nothing can be learned from them. In giving theoretical laws for the formation of any art, and presenting means to bring that art to perfection, not only ought the laws to be clear, but the means should be practised. Never can we demonstrate so plainly to others, as when we ourselves have seen and experienced that upon which we discourse. In the mean time, we dare flatter ourselves that our treatise will not be found to 31* |