I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that " the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow. Letters and Social Aims - Page 79by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 314 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Nichol - 1882 - 528 pages
...submission, the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow." " The third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified... | |
| mrs. Augustus H Maule - 1882 - 264 pages
...celebrity, quotes the experience of a lady who declared, " that the sense of being perfectly well dressed, gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow". The lady was honest, and the philosopher showed his usual perspicacity in his appreciation of the remark.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated. Remember George Herbert's maxim, " This coat with my discretion...the heart; we want friendship; we want knowledge; we wont virtue; a more inward existence to read the history of each other. Welfare requires one or two... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1900 - 422 pages
...submission the experience of the lady who declared that ' the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.' " This is to be remembered as a corrective whenever some preposterous fashion, like that which slaughters... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1900 - 424 pages
...submission the experience of the lady who declared that ' the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.' " This is to be remembered as a corrective whenever some preposterous fashion, like that which slaughters... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 496 pages
...submission the experience of the lady who declared that " the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion...to bestow." Thus much for manners : but we are not tent with pantomime; we say, This is onl] the eyes. We want real relations of the mind the heart; we... | |
| Ella Hamilton Durley - 1908 - 266 pages
...proposition it pays to wear stylish clothes. The club woman knows her Emerson well enough to realize with him that "the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives...tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow." Ours was a jolly party of twenty that went from here and as we had previously engaged apartments at... | |
| 1912 - 828 pages
...women to-day sympathize with the lady whom Emerson quotes: "The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow." Unfortunately, many women feel thus self-satisfied when clothed in the extreme of fashion and elegance,... | |
| 1914 - 884 pages
...admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that " the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow." ' 1 Mr. Slack, a timid citizen, emerges from his door unusually well dressed, and thereby 'gets the... | |
| Charles Sumner Young - 1922 - 588 pages
...person well-dressed. And possibly also she entertained the sentiment of Emerson, "The sense of being welldressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow." She agreed with Walt Whitman that only personal qualities endure, and dress bespeaks personal qualities.... | |
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