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Excerpt from The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Vol. 91: Containing, Letters, Debates, Essays, Tales, Poetry, History, Biography, Antiquities, Voyages, Travels, Astronomy, Geography, Mathematics, Mechanics, Architecture, Philosophy, Medicine, Chemistry, Husbandry, Gardening and Other Arts and Sciences
Could any art or fcience derive im portance from its antiquity, Dancing might fiand in the firft rank for this claim. The accounts of it run almofl as high as any thing we find upon authentic record. Nothing partien lar, indeed, concerning this art, has defcendéd to us, except the traéis of Athenzus and Lucian: but Plato and Xenophon have made honourable mention of it.
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