...you will find them all contribute in their Order towards furnishing out an exact Dress: To instance more: Is not Religion a Cloak, Honesty a Pair of Shoes,...a Shirt, and Conscience a Pair of Breeches, which tho' a Cover tor Lewdness as well as Nastiness, is easily slipt down for the Service of both. ]p.78]...

...or rather a compleat Suit of Cloaths with all its Trimmings? As to his Body, there can be dispute; but examine even the Acquirements of his Mind, you...a Shirt, and Conscience a Pair of Breeches, which, tho' a Cover for Lewdness as well as Nastiness, is easily slipt down for the Service of both. The Tale...

...rather a compleat Suit of Cloaths with all its Trimmings? As to his Body, there can be no dispute; but examine even the Acquirements of his Mind, you...a Shirt and Conscience a Pair of Breeches, which, tho' a Cover for Lewdness as well as Nastiness, is easily slipt down for the Service of both." Prose...

...trimmings? as to his body, there can be no dispute: but examine even the acquirements of his mind . . . is not religion a cloak; honesty a pair of shoes worn...vanity a shirt; and conscience a pair of breeches . . . ? These postulata being admitted, it will follow in due course of reasoning, that those beings...

...be a large suit of clothes which invests everything. ... Is not religion,' he conceives them saying, 'a cloak, honesty a pair of shoes worn out in the...vanity a shirt, and conscience a pair of breeches?' Here, a hundred years in advance, we have the precise words of 'Sartor Resartus,' inverted through...

...himself is but a micro-coat. If you examine the acquirements of the human mind is not religion a coat, honesty a pair of shoes worn out in the dirt, self-love a surtout, and vanity a shirt ? These postulata being admitted, it followed in due course of reasoning that those...