Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr TeufelsdrockhSartor Resartus ("The Tailor Retailored") is a fictional introduction to the history of clothing by the German Professor Diogenes Teufelsdrockh, however, as noted by some "its deeper concerns are social injustice, the right way of living in the world, and the large questions of faith and understanding." |
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... Society , the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the cooking of a Dumpling ; concerning which last , indeed , there have been minds to whom the question , How the Apples were got in , presented difficulties . Why mention ...
... Society , the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the cooking of a Dumpling ; concerning which last , indeed , there have been minds to whom the question , How the Apples were got in , presented difficulties . Why mention ...
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... society by this fact , that , in dry weather or in wet , ' they never appear with- ' out their umbrella . ' Had we not known with what ' little wisdom ' the world is governed ; and how , in Germany as elsewhere , the ninety and nine ...
... society by this fact , that , in dry weather or in wet , ' they never appear with- ' out their umbrella . ' Had we not known with what ' little wisdom ' the world is governed ; and how , in Germany as elsewhere , the ninety and nine ...
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... society Teufelsdröckh appears to have seen little , or has mostly forgotten what he saw . He speaks out with a strange plainness ; calls many thing by their mere dictionary - names . To him the Upholsterer is no Pontiff , neither is any ...
... society Teufelsdröckh appears to have seen little , or has mostly forgotten what he saw . He speaks out with a strange plainness ; calls many thing by their mere dictionary - names . To him the Upholsterer is no Pontiff , neither is any ...
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... Society works ( uneasily enough ) ; guarding ' itself from some soil and stithy - sparks , in this Devil's- smithy ( Teufels - schmiede ) of a world ? But of all ' Aprons the most puzzling to me hitherto has been the Episcopal or ...
... Society works ( uneasily enough ) ; guarding ' itself from some soil and stithy - sparks , in this Devil's- smithy ( Teufels - schmiede ) of a world ? But of all ' Aprons the most puzzling to me hitherto has been the Episcopal or ...
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... Society is founded upon Cloth ; ' and again , ' Society sails through the Infinitude on Cloth , ast on a Faust's Mantle , or rather like the Sheet of clean ' and unclean beasts in the Apostle's Dream ; and with- ' out such Sheet or ...
... Society is founded upon Cloth ; ' and again , ' Society sails through the Infinitude on Cloth , ast on a Faust's Mantle , or rather like the Sheet of clean ' and unclean beasts in the Apostle's Dream ; and with- ' out such Sheet or ...
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Adamite amid art thou Auscultator authentic Thaumaturgy Baphometic become biped Blumine Body Capricornus celestial CHAPTER Clothes-Philosophy conjecture Dandiacal Dandy dark dead Devil Diogenes discern divine doubtless dröckh Earth Editor Enchiridion of Epictetus English Entepfuhl Eternity everywhere existence eyes faculty fancy feeling fire Garment genesia glance Godlike Goethe hand happy hast thou heart Heaven Herr Heuschrecke hitherto Hofrath hope Hugo von Trimberg infinite John Balliol less lies light living look Love man's Mankind Marchfeld Mystagogue mysterious mystic Nature never Nevertheless nowise once perhaps Philosophy of Clothes Poor-Slave present Professor Teufelsdröckh readers round Sartor Resartus Satanic School Sect seems shadow shews silent Society Sorrow sort soul speak spectres Spirit stand Stoicism strange Symbols Tailor Teufels Teufelsdröckh thee thereof thing thought thyself tion toil Tophet true Universe unspeakable Vestures visible Volume Weissnichtwo whereby wherein whole whoso wonder words worship young