Both Uses of
ephemeral
in
Selected Essays
- Some great decorum, some fetich[62] of a government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up[63] by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down.†
Chpt 1.ephemeral = existing only for a short time
- A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he.†
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