philister

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Mr. --, my "philister," is a tobacco merchant in easy circumstances, having a pretty house in the faubourg of the city.

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  • Mr. --, my "philister," is a tobacco merchant in easy circumstances, having a pretty house in the faubourg of the city. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • These young men (together with the students of sciences) comport themselves towards the sober citizen pretty much as the German bursch towards the philister, or as the military man, during the empire, did to the pékin: -- from the height of their poverty they look down upon him with the greatest imaginable scorn -- a scorn, I think, by which the citizen seems dazzled, for his respect for the arts is intense. —  The Paris Sketch Book
 

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