Pogonologia, or, a philosophical and historical essay on beards / [By J.A.D.] Translated from the French [by E. Drewe?].

  • Jacques-Antoine Dulaure
Date:
1786
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    i9 the king; ** Sir, when your father, of glorious memory, did me the honour to confult me on his great and important affairs, the firft thing he did was to fend away all the buffoons and ftage-dancers of his court.” The tuft of hair under the nether lip infenfibly diminilhed, and at length en- tirely difappeared. This refolution caufed much griefi feveral complained bitterly, and obftinately refolved not to follow the new mode. Le Mercure of that period bears honourable teftimony of the efteem in which the long beards were held, even after their difgrace. The following fort of funeral elogy is taken from that work : The beard, which is natural only to ‘‘ man, is the mark of his virility, and “ gives him precedency among his fpe- cies; ’tis this token of manhood which adds a dignity to his features, and gives him an air of gravity and modelfy, which makes him look full of wifdom.”J Neither the complaints of the one nor the elogies of the other w^ere of any effedl. Every body followed the court.§ Thou, O celebrated Mithon, whofe name me- C 3 rics J Mercure of A. D. 1678. § Marflial Baflbrapierre fald, that all the change ]ie found In the world, after pafling twelve years in prifon, was, that the iriCn had loft their beards and the horfes their tails.