10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOUNTEBANKERY»
Discover the use of
mountebankery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mountebankery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Scalpel: An Entirely Original Quarterly Expositor of the ...
Stethoscopic Mountebankery. 91 moving the spoiled or diseased tissues, and
motion to circulate the blood and carry it freely to the minute arteries which repair
the tissues wasted by disease. Whoever supposes that there can be any tonics in
...
2
Hey Presto!: Swift and the Quacks
Here, I am concerned with the frames of mountebankery and of demonic
possession —which Henry More collapses in his discussion of Apollonius in An
Explanation ofthe Grand Mystery ofGodliness(1660). Rigorously construed, these
two ...
In his bids at mountebankery, there had never been any room spared for
accommodation. The internal logic of his highbind- ing was as rigid as that of a
game of chess: chance and the imponderable were relegated to the lowest order
of ...
Her likeness to Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy must strike every connoisseur of the
higher mountebankery. Both emerged from obscure and stupid family circles,
both invented romantic biographies for themselves, both played heavily with love
...
Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan,
1931
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THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. No. CXXVII. JULY, 1843. VOL. ...
How long is the country to be disturbed and affrighted, and the government and
the legislature affronted, by the apery and the mountebankery of a sedition the
most groundless, the most mischievous and the most profligate of any that ever ...
The Dublin University Magazine.VOL.XXII July to December,1843,
1843
But I suppose it takes some training to be a master of any sort of mountebankery
? JEFFREY. Had I gone up twenty or thirty years ago, my friend, I feel that Ishould
have done something—But now—nowé'tis out of the question. If you were to ...
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Clarendon and the English Revolution
Clarendon explained the 'mountebankery' behind the mass petitions which
reached parliament. He thought that some moderate petition would be drawn up,
for instance protesting against the new Etcetera oath which had been imposed by
the ...
Ronald Walter Harris,
1983
The first paragraph here quoted, and particularly the part put in Italics, is a piece
of political mountebankery with a vengeance, a real piece of quackery. If Mr.
Cobbett have a draft of such an all-potent law, why not publish it? Why make the
...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
There is no fun going on now-a-days — no' quackery, no mountebankery, no
asses, colonial or otherwise. The dull jogtrot fellows who have got into Downing
Street have made politics no joke ; and now that silence, as of the tomh, reigns ...
It is thus, indeed, that the whole white-slave mountebankery has been launched,
with its gaudy fictions and preposterous alarms. And it is thus, more importantly,
that whole regiments of neurotic wives have been convinced that their children ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOUNTEBANKERY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
mountebankery is used in the context of the following news items.
The smart way to keep people out of prison
... wonder to find that when they emerge from an institution, their best employment opportunities lie in the fields of mayhem and mountebankery. «The News Journal, Mar 15»
Sleight of the Invisible Hand
... Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance, every phase of our market society's expansion was shaped by deceit, fraud and mountebankery. «In These Times, Dec 14»
Make Tom Wolf run through the weeds, Governor
Now, whether Tom Corbett has enough time and the savvy to expose Wolf's strategy for what it is — political mountebankery — is another ... «Tribune-Review, Sep 14»
Wilmington on DVDs: Taken/Taken 2: We're the Millers
A few questions emerge from this cannabis-laced mountebankery. Why would any self-respecting pot trafficker, even as devious a miscreant as ... «Movie City News, Dec 13»
Wilmington on Movies: We're the Millers
A few questions emerge from all this cannabis-laced mountebankery and mayhem. Why would any self-respecting pot trafficker, even as ... «Movie City News, Aug 13»
The Party of Civil Rights
That Republicans have let Democrats get away with this mountebankery is a symptom of their political fecklessness, and in letting them get ... «National Review Online, May 12»