There is, however, in New England, an aristocracy, if you choose to call it so, which has a far greater character of permanence. It has grown to be a caste, — not in any odious sense, — but, by the repetition of the same influences, generation after... Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny - Page 2by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 376 pagesFull view - About this book
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - American literature - 1891 - 544 pages
...Madeira chilled in embossed coolers, wearing their hair in powder, and casing their legs in long boots with silken tassels. There is, however, in New England,...distinct organization and physiognomy, which not to recognize is mere stupidity, and not to be willing to describe would show a distrust of the good-nature... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 518 pages
...Madeira chilled in embossed coolers, wearing their hair in powder, and casing their legs in long boots with silken tassels. There is, however, in New England,...distinct organization and physiognomy, which not to recognize is mere stupidity, and not to be willing to describe would show a distrust of the good-nature... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 552 pages
...Madeira chilled in embossed coolers, wearing their hair in powder, and casing their legs in long boots with silken tassels. There is, however, in New England,...distinct organization and physiognomy, which not to recognize is mere stupidity, and not to be willing to describe would show a distrust of the • good-nature... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 540 pages
...Madeira chilled in embossed coolers, wearing their hair in powder, and casing their legs in long boots with silken tassels. There is, however, in New England,...distinct organization and physiognomy, which not to recognize is mere stupidity, and not to be willing to describe would show a distrust of the good-nature... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 548 pages
...Madeira chilled in embossed coolers, wearing their hair in powder, and casing their legs in long boots with silken tassels. There is, however, in New England,...an aristocracy, if you choose to call it so, which lias a far greater character of permanence. It has grown to be a caste, — not in any odious sense,... | |
| Arthur Dendy - Biology - 1924 - 252 pages
...may remember a passage in " Elsie Venner " in which this popular view is very clearly expressed. " There is, however, in New England, an aristocracy,...generation after generation, it has acquired a distinct organisation and physiognomy, which not to recognise is mere stupidity." A little later, speaking of... | |
| Arthur Dendy - Biology - 1924 - 252 pages
...may remember a passage in " Elsie Venner " in which this popular view is very clearly expressed. " There is, however, in New England, an aristocracy,...generation after generation, it has acquired a distinct organisation and physiognomy, which not to recognise is mere stupidity." A little later, speaking of... | |
| American essays - 1860 - 804 pages
...chilled in embossed coolers, wearing their hair in powder, and casing their legs in white-topped boots with silken tassels. • There is, however, in New...distinct organization and physiognomy, which not to recognize is mere stupidity, 'and not to be willing to describe would show a distrust of the good-nature... | |
| Peter D. Hall - History - 1984 - 340 pages
...significant extent, the cause of its survival. This was the "Brahmin Caste of New England:" There is ... in New England, an aristocracy, if you choose to call...acquired a distinct organization and physiognomy. . . . If you look carefully at any class of students in one of our colleges, you will have no difficulty... | |
| American essays - 1860 - 798 pages
...chilled in embossed coolers, wearing their hair in powder, and casing their legs in white-topped boots with silken tassels. There is, however, in New England,...distinct organization and physiognomy, which not to recognize is mere stupidity, and not to be willing to describe would show a distrust of the good-nature... | |
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