...d the Philosophy of Clothes, and the Author of such Philosophy, be brought home, in any measure, to the busi- ness and bosoms of our own English Natio... ... amica veritas; Teufelsdrockh is our friend, Truth is our divinity. In our historical and critical capacity, we hope we are strangers to all the world... ...thout father or mother of any kind; sometimes, with reference to his great historic and statistic knowledge, and the vivid way he had of expressing hi... ...of this when he sees it, readers may wonder; we, safe in the stronghold of Historical Fidelity, are careless. The main point, doubtless, for us all, i... ...s that, with all our writing and reporting, Teufelsdrockh could be brought home to him, till once the Documents arrive? His Life, Fortunes, and Bodily... ...here not only hits the nail on the head, but with crushing force smites it home, and buries it.—On the other hand, let us be free to admit, he is the ... ...ps, in short, and subterranean passages, and sloughs of Despair, and steep Pisgah hills, has he reached this wonderful prophetic Hebron (a true Old-Cl... ...er reach the Entepfuhl Circulating Library, some cultivated native of that district might feel called to afford explanation. Nay, since Books, like in...

...f the same distinction; go where they will, they take a pride in their old home. Venice, it has been said, differs from another cities in the sentimen... ...osters, are altogether out of key. Chartered tourists, they make free with historic localities, and rear their young among the most picturesque sites ... ... who had never crossed her doors: day after day, from their various rustic Pisgahs, they had seen the pile of build- ing on the hill-top, and the long... ...orners have been swept away, and some associations turned out of house and home. But what slices of sunlight, what breaths of clean air, have been let... ...rave harvest, and, like Samson, by pulling down one roof, destroyed many a home. None who saw it can have forgotten the aspect of the gable; here it w... ...so easily appreciated where they dwelt! And this is not only so in country districts where the shep- herd must wade in the snow all day after his floc... ...e village smoke rises from among goodly trees. At the church gates, is the historical joug; a place of penance for the neck of de- tected sinners, and... ...rical joug; a place of penance for the neck of de- tected sinners, and the historical Louping-on Stane, from which Dutch-built lairds and farmers clim... ...ty, and yet most of the elements are common to all parts; and the southern district is alone distinguished by considerable summits and a wide view. Fr...

.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 CHAPTER VII — MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES .... ...uld the Philosophy of Clothes, and the Author of such Philosophy, be brought home, in any measure, to the business and bosoms of our own English Natio... ... amica veritas; Teufelsdr¨ ockh is our friend, Truth is our divinity. In our historical and critical capacity, we hope we are strangers to all the wor... ...without father or mother of any kind; sometimes, with reference to his great historic and statistic knowledge, and the vivid way he had of expressing ... ...s that, with all our writing and reporting, Teufelsdr¨ ockh could be brought home to him, till once the Documents arrive? His Life, Fortunes, and Bodi... ... there not only hits the nail on the head, but with crushing force smites it home, and buries it.—On the other hand, let us be free to admit, he is th... ...teps, in short, and subterranean passages, and sloughs of Despair, and steep Pisgah hills, has he reached this wonderful prophetic Hebron (a true Old ... ...hl Circulating Li 60 SARTOR RESARTUS brary, some cultivated native of that district might feel called to afford explana tion. Nay, since Books, lik...

... ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29 -- CHAPTER VII? MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL, 31 -- CHAPTER VIII? THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES, 34 -- CHAPTER IX? ADAMITISM, 39 -- CHAPTER X? PURE REASON, 43 -- CHAPTER XI? PROSPECTIVE, 47 -- BOOK II 55 -- CHAPTER I ?GENESIS, 55 -- CHAPTER II ?IDYLLIC, 61 -- CHAP...

... is an equal opportunity university. Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ......................................................................... ... circulation. R. L S. 5 Memories and Portraits CHAPTER I THE FOREIGNER AT HOME “THIS IS NO MY AIN HOUSE; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books... ... Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred vary- ing stages of transition. You may go ... ...strata. Masses of experience, anecdote, incident, cross-lights, quotation, historical instances, the whole flotsam and jetsam of two minds forced in a... ... seem to myself to wander in a ghostly street – E. W., I think, the postal district – close below the fool’s-cap of St. Paul’s, and yet within easy he... ...in the Vicomte, he had much to do with the contest of Fouquet and Colbert. Historic justice should be all upon the side of Colbert, of official honest... ...g-room in his fine, natural civility; he will sail near the wind; he is no district visitor – no Wesley or Robespierre; his conscience is void of all ... ... do, than of those which he has done. Desire is a wonderful telescope, and Pisgah the best observatory. Now, while it is true that nei- ther Mr. James...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of ra...

...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 14 CHAPTER III: OL...