Sartor resartus; the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh (1893)
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes company · leaf 54
ronworthies, —figure here ? An idle wire-drawing spirit, some-times even a tone of levit)^, approaching to conventionalsatire, is too clearly discernible. What, for example, arewe to make of such sentences as the following? Aprons are Defences; against injury to cleanliness, tosafety, to modesty,… … APRONS.—Page 36. APRONS. 37 rally fastened on; to the thick-tanned hide, girt round himwith thongs, wherein the Builder builds, and at eveningsticks his trowel ; or to those jingling sheet-iron Aprons,wherein your otherwise half-naked Vulcans hammer andsmelt in their smelt-furnace,—is there not…
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