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Synopsis
Excerpt from Madison's Method by Breast or Shoulder Measures, and Operated With the Ordinary Square or With a Graduated Scale or Graduated Square: A System of Perfect Proportions for the Average Form of All Sizes, From 24 to 50 Breast
A man who is comparatively unknown may risk much for the hope of glory but the author of this work has been so long known to the trade, has written so much of its literature, has been so energetically hated by a few, and been made to feel the gratitude of so many for what he has done, that whatever longings he may have had for professional glory were laid to rest long ago. The pride, however, with which his father's high reputation inspires him, and which naturally results from the pleasing consciousness of having done a vast amount of work which the profession has pronounced good, would prevent him from publishing anything he did not honestly believe of value for the sake of gain, or from publishing anything, how. Ever meritorious, which he did not believe would sell.
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