10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPECIOSITIES»
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speciosities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
speciosities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Understanding A Tale of Two Cities: A Student Casebook to ...
Open Scoundrels rode triumphant, bediademed, becoronetted, bemi- tred; or the
still fataler species of Secret-Scoundrels, in their fair-sounding formulas,
speciosities, respectabilities, hollow within: the race of Quacks was grown many
as the ...
2
Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. ...
Century spendthrift, fraudulent bankrupt, gone at length utterly insolvent, without
real money of performance in its pocket, and the shops declining to take
hypocrisies and speciosities any further : what could the poor century do but at
length ...
Century spendthrift, fraudulent bankrupt, gone at length utterly insolvent, without
real money of performance in its pocket, and the shops declining to take
hypocrisies and speciosities any further: what could the poor century do but at
length ...
4
The Life of John Sterling
in speciosities, astucities, — in the miserable gifts for becoming Chief
Demagogos, Leader of a deep-sunk Populace towards its Lands of Promise ;
which trade, in any age or country, and especially in the Ireland of this age, our
indignant friend ...
Thomas Carlyle, John Sterling, 1871
5
Exercises, Political and Others
They hated ' shows,' ' cant,□ ' formulas,' ' speciosities,' ' quacks,' ' incarnate
falsehoods.' They made no distinction between things which God had designed
for good, and man only had rendered useless, and things which God himself ...
Thomas Perronet Thompson, 1842
6
The French Revolution: The guillotine
Open- Scoundrels rode triumphant, bediademed, becoronetted, bemitred ; or the
still fataller species of Secret-Scoundrels, in their fair-sounding formulas,
speciosities, respectabilities, hollow within : the race of Quacks was grown many
as the ...
7
The United States Democratic Review
Lyons fusilladings, Nantes noyadings, reigns of terror, and such other universal
battle-thunder and explosion; these, if we will understand them, were but a new
irrefragable preaching abroad of that. It would appear that Speciosities which are
...
8
Carlyle and the Open Secret of his Life
Wrappages and speciosities all worn off, the haggard naked fact speaks to us :
Are these millions taught ? Are these millions guided ? We have a Church, the
venerable embodiment of an idea which may well call itself divine 104 CARLYLE
, ...
9
A Manual of English Prose Literature
Most of his stormy warfare of words is directed against the evils of this life
gathered up under abstractions familiar to the most incidental reader of his books
— Shams, Unveracities, Speciosities, Phantasms, and suchlike. We must be
content ...
10
The Works of Thomas Carlyle
... first-class claret, social honour, and the like small ware), where only eternal
loss was possible; and who now, stripped of all his gildings and cunningly-
devised speciosities, swung there an ignominious detected scoundrel ; testifying
aloud to ...
Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, 2010
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPECIOSITIES»
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Oh ye Hypocrisies and Speciosities, Royal mantles, Cardinal plushcloaks, ye Credos, Formulas, Respectabilities, fair-painted Sepulchres full of dead-men's ... «World Socialist Web Site, Jul 10»
