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36 catch the eye and divide the attention. Dres ought to adorn the peron, and not rival it. It may be imple, elegant, and becoming, without being expenive; and ridiculous fahions diregarded, while ingularity is avoided. The beauty of dres (I hall raie atonihment by aying o) is its not being conpicuous one way or the other; when it neither ditorts, or hides the human form by unnatural protuberances. If ornaments are much tudied, a conciounes of being well dreed will appear in the face—and urely this mean pride does not give much ublimity to it.