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Sartor Resartus

Chapter VI. Aprons

Word Count: 760    |    Released on: 17/11/2017

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x's Daughter, "who threatened Sovereign Majesty that she would catch her husband's head in her Apron, rather than he should lie and be a bishop;" what though the Landgravine Elizabeth, with many other Apron worthi

those jingling sheet-iron Aprons, wherein your otherwise half-naked Vulcans hammer and smelt in their smelt-furnace, - is there not range enough in the fashion and uses of this Vestment? How much has been concealed, how much has been defended in Aprons! Nay, rightly considered, what is your whole Military and Police Establishment, charged at uncalculated millions, but a huge scarlet-colored, iron-fastened Apron, wherei

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it is. - Teufelsdrockh continues: "If such supply of printed Paper should rise so far as to choke up the highways and public thoroughfares, new means must of necessity be had recourse to. In a world existing by Industry, we grudge to employ fire as a destroying element, and not as a creating one. However, Heaven is omnipotent, and will find us an outlet. In the mean while, is it not beautiful to see five million quintals of Rags picked annually from the Laystall; and annually, after being macerated, hot-pr

ccessive Names, according as this or the other Able Editor, or Combination of Able Editors, gains the world's ear. Of the British Newspaper Press, perhaps the most important of all, and wonderful enough in its secret constitution and procedure, a

e business, confound the old authentic Presbyterian Witchfinder with a new, spurious, imaginary Historian of the B

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“Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or dog-hole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated, — it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes.”
1 Book I. Chapter I. Preliminary2 Chapter II. Editorial Difficulties3 Chapter III. Reminiscences4 Chapter IV. Characteristics5 Chapter V. The World in Clothes6 Chapter VI. Aprons7 Chapter VII. Miscellaneous-Historical8 Chapter VIII. The World Out of Clothes9 Chapter IX. Adamitism10 Chapter X. Pure Reason11 Chapter XI. Prospective12 Book II. Chapter I. Genesis13 Chapter II. Idyllic14 Chapter III. Pedagogy15 Chapter IV. Getting Under Way16 Chapter V. Romance17 Chapter VI. Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh18 Chapter VII. The Everlasting No19 Chapter VIII. Centre of Indifference20 Chapter IX. The Everlasting Yea21 Chapter X. Pause22 Book III. Chapter I. Incident in Modern History23 Chapter II. Church-Clothes24 Chapter III. Symbols25 Chapter IV. Helotage26 Chapter V. The Phoenix27 Chapter VI. Old Clothes28 Chapter VII. Organic Filaments29 Chapter VIII. Natural Supernaturalism30 Chapter IX. Circumspective31 Chapter X. The Dandiacal Body32 Chapter XI. Tailors33 Chapter XII. Farewell34 Appendix