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" 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 79
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 314 pages
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American Literature ; an Historical Sketch, 1620-1880

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...
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Through war to peace, Volume 3

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....
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Complete Works, Volume 8

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...
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How to Do it: To which is Added, How to Live

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...
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The Works of Edward Everett Hale: How to do it ... How to live

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...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letters and social aims

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...
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My Soldier Lady

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...
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The Fortnightly Review, Volume 19

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,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 113

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...
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Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian

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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