10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PETTIFOGGING»
Discover the use of
pettifogging in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pettifogging and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
212. On. pettifogging. Attornies. [Sept. 1,. not to allow them to rest their arms on,
or lean over the walls of the ramparts, or to walk over every part of the rock
without a particular permission; and it is attended with difficulty sometimes to
obtain ...
ingly denounces “the mind of a pettifog- dence of our constitutional incapacity to
be which objects so strongly accurate; of our pettifogging-attorney cast to our “
capacity for twisting language," and of mind; of our propensity to twist language.
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The Plain Dealer: A Comedy, in Five Acts
Ay, to chuse, I thank you ! for I have taken leave of lawyering and pettifogging. :
Mrs. Black. Pettifogging, you profane villain ! have you so ?— Pettifogging ! then
you shall take " your leave of me, and your estate too ; you shall be an alien to me
...
William Wycherley, Isaac Bickerstaff, 1786
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British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan
400 Jer. No, for I have taken my leave of lawyering and pettifogging. Wn>.
Pettifogging! thou profane villain, hast thou so? Pettifogging! — then you shall
take your leave of me, and your estate too; thou shalt be an 405 alien to me and it
forever.
George Henry Nettleton, Arthur Ellicott Case, 1975
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The dramatic works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and ...
No; for I have taken my leave of lawyering and pettifogging. Wid. Pettifogging !
thou profane villain, hast thou so ? Pettifogging ! — then you shall take your leave
of me, and your estate too ; thou shalt be an alien to me and it for ever.
William Wycherley, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, 1840
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The Modern British Drama: In Five Volumes
No ; for I have taken my leave of lawyering, and pettifogging. Wid. Pettifogging !
thou prophane villain, hast thou so? — Pettifogging! then you shall take your
leave of me, and your estate too ; thou shalt be an alien to me and it for ever.
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Plays Written by Mr. William Wycherley: Containing The Plain ...
No ; for I have taken my leave of Lawyering and Pettifogging. Wid. Pettifogging!
Thou prosane Villain, hast thou so? Pettifogging !—— then you shall take your
leave of me, and your Estate too; thou shalt be an Alien to me and it for ever.
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The Country Wife and Other Plays
JERRY No—for Ihavetakenmy leave of lawyering and pettifogging. WIDOW
BLACKACRE Pettifogging! Thou profane villain,hast thou so? Pettifogging! Then
you shalltake your leaveof me, and your estate too; thou shalt be an alien to me
and it ...
William Wycherley, Peter Dixon, 2008
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Works: Containing Plain-dealer ; Country-wife ; ...
No ; for I have taken my Leave of Lawyer- ing, and Pettifogging. Wid. Pettifogging!
Thou prophane Villain, hast thou so? Pettifogging! then you shall take your Leave
of me, and your Estate too j thou flialt be an Alien to me and it for ever.
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The Sensational Restoration
Pettifogging! — then you shall take your leave of me, and your estate too; thou
shalt be an alien to me and it for ever. Pettifogging! JER. O, but if you be there too
mother, we have the deeds and settlements, I thank you: Wou'd you cheat me of ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PETTIFOGGING»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pettifogging is used in the context of the following news items.
How to revive our sad high streets
To bring life and vitality back to our town centres, etiolated by out-of-town shopping malls and pettifogging parking restrictions, he must follow ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
Abe's historic opportunity to reset regional relations
This compromise indicates the possibilities for diplomacy, though subsequent undignified pettifogging over whether “forced to work” means ... «The Japan Times, Jul 15»
Greece should vote yes and Europe should be ashamed
Small leaders and pettifogging bureaucrats called the shots. And now Greece, for its own sake, has to tell them they won. [Bloomberg View]. «Kathimerini, Jul 15»
Greek 'no' vote is a singular moment for the euro, a currency in …
The EU's treaties do not foresee a country leaving the euro but — important in the pettifogging world of Brussels lawyers — it does not rule it out ... «The Times, Jul 15»
Formula One must be made simpler and engine development must …
It is fashionable to lambast Formula One. It goes along the lines of: a tired concept; run by a geriatric dictator; bound by pettifogging rules; ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
My Corbyn-Kendall conundrum, Gove's grammar, Woodhead's …
I now think that, while editors and ministers are right to insist on good style and clarity, they should not lay down pettifogging rules that have ... «New Statesman, Jul 15»
What's Changed, and What Hasn't, in the Town That Inspired "To Kill …
His grievance was not a sequence of dramatic events like the novel, it was just the unfairness of the Southern grind. The pettifogging dragged on for ten years, ... «Smithsonian, Jul 15»
How Much Better Would CBS' 'Zoo' Be From the Animals' Perspective?
(Editor's note: My partner uses the phrase “pettifogging” in arguments ALL THE TIME. It's his reaction to my claim that he's gaslighting me. «New York Observer, Jul 15»
Antonin Scalia Is the Supreme Court's Greatest Writer
Scalia's dissent also gave voice to his familiar wrathful disdain for the pettifogging prose of his inferiors, as when he snorted, "Lawmakers ... «The New Republic, Jun 15»
Washington Post's One Error -- Seeing UN Gaza Report as News
This admission of incompetence or pro-Palestinian pettifogging—either sufficient to disqualify the commission and its report from further ... «Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, Jun 15»
