10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CARDCASTLE»
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cardcastle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cardcastle and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Hypatia Or New Foes with an Old Face
... with venom increasing, after the wont of parties, with their decrepitude,
assailed the beautifully bespangled cardcastle of Neo-Platonism, as an empty
medley of all Greek philosophies with all Eastern superstitions. All such
Philistines had as ...
2
The Works of Honoré de Balzac: And Other Stories
... but now as they came along the pathway by the river, they pulled down the frail
structure of imaginings, the child's cardcastle, on which neither of them had dared
to breathe. That hope was over. ' That very evening Lord Grenville left them.
3
Can't Catch Me: And Other Twice-Told Tales
Written orders, as my own sergeant taught me, “Written and in-hand, please,
Cardcastle,” he'd say. In my early days it was all drill and look sharp, none of this
dicing and smoking, each man his own tobacco. We all shared the same shag in
my ...
4
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
... was published two years before the Sartor, he tells us that “ the reader would
widely err who supposed that this transcendental system of metaphysics was a
mere intellectual cardcastle, or logical hccus-pocus contrived from sheer idleness
, ...
... he tells us that “the reader would widely err who supposed that this
transcendental system of metaphysics was a mere intellectual cardcastle, or
logical hoeus-pocus contrived from sheer idleness, and for sheer idleness
without any bearing ...
6
Critical and miscellaneous essays
The reader would err widely who supposed that this Transcendental system of
Metaphysics was a mere intellectual cardcastle, or logical hocus-pocus, contrived
from sheer idleness and for sheer idleness, being without any bearing on the ...
Our former ventures were one thing 3 this is quite another. By degrees we are
getting far too many eggs in one basket. Have you ever thought what we should
stand to lose if this cardcastle collapsed 1' ' It won't collapse,' persisted Mr. Snow.
James Hogg, Florence Marryat, 1881
The reader would err widely who supposed that this Transcendental system of
Metaphysics was a mere intellectual cardcastle, or logical hocus-pocus, contrived
from sheer idleness and for sheer idleness, being without any bearing on the ...
9
A woman of thirty. Madame Firmiani. Gobseck. La Grande ...
... which they dared not account to themselves; but now as they came along the
pathway by the river, they pulled down the frail structure of imaginings, the child's
cardcastle, on which neither of them had dared to breathe. That hope was over.
Honoré de Balzac, George Saintsbury, 1915
10
Works of Thomas Carlyle
The reader would err widely who supposed that this Transcendental system of
Metaphysics was a mere intellectual cardcastle, or logical hocus-pocus, contrived
from sheer idleness and for sheer idleness, being without any bearing on the ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CARDCASTLE»
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cardcastle is used in the context of the following news items.
DH Lawrence: A Letter from Germany
I was always glad when my cardcastle fell but these goths and alemans seemed to have a craze for peaky heights. The Rhine is still the Rhine, ... «New Statesman, Aug 13»
