The polite academy, or school of behaviour for young gentlemen and ladies : Intended as a foundation for good manners and polite address, in masters and misses. Containing, I. The beauty and advantages of a genteel behaviour and agreeable complaisance. II. Some rules and observations, for moral behaviour in young ladies; very necessary to be inculcated while at the boarding-school, in order to be practis'd when they come from it. III. Directions for good manners, agreeable behaviour, and polite address, on most common occasions in life. IV. Some directions for an easy genteel carriage in walking, saluting, making a curtesy, bow, and dancing the minuet. V. Some observations on the real use and advantages of dancing, by Mr. Lock and the Chevalier de Ramsay; with a few very necessary instructions by an eminent Master. Illustrated with twelve copper-plate cuts, beautifully engraved.