Now all white paints, or lotions, or whatever they may be called, are mercurial, consequently poisonous, consequently ruinous in time to the constitution.

The Miss B---- above mentioned was a miserable witness of this truth, it being certain that her flesh fell from her bones before she died.

Lady Coventry was hardly a less melancholy proof of it; and a London physician perhaps, were he at liberty to blab, could publish a bill of female mortality, of a length that would astonish us.
"For these reasons I utterly condemn the practice, as it obtains in England; and for a reason superior to all these I must disapprove it.
I cannot, indeed, discover that Scripture forbids it in so many words.
But that anxious solicitude about the person, which such an artifice evidently betrays, is, I am sure, contrary to the tenor and spirit of it throughout.

Show me a woman with a painted face, and I will show you a woman whose heart is set on things of the earth, and not on things above.
"But this observation of mine applies to it only when it is an imitative art.

For in the use of French women, I think it is as innocent as in the use of a wild Indian, who draws a circle round her face, and makes two spots, perhaps blue, perhaps white, in the middle of it.