10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRUMPERY»
Discover the use of
trumpery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
trumpery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Laura Wade's depiction of wealth and privilege is savagely funny. --Time Out London. Darkly satirical. --Independent (London). Beautifully observed, very funny...Wade's gifts as a satirist are beyond doubt. --Evening Standard (London).
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Terrible Tractoration! a Poetical Petition Against ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series.
Thomas Green Fessenden, 2010
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Old Humphrey's observations
What is all the trumpery in the world to be compared with them ? Lastly, add to
your wisdom ; for laying up folly will be laying up trumpery indeed. Get a
knowledge of your own hearts, and learn to know Him, whom to know is eternal
life.
THE TRUMPERY BAG. From tbe fame. There are many things in the world that
appear too bad to keep, and too good to throw away. You must know, that 1 am
very fond, in a leisure moment, of sketching with my pen on paper, any thing that
...
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Culture and Politics from Puritanism to the Enlightenment
The child should not be given books, he wrote, "such as should fill his head with
perfectly useless trumpery." In this category he placed fairies and fairy lore,
superstition, books of "goblins and spirits." Avoiding useless trumpery meant ...
I have sold all my trumpery; not a counterfeit stone, not a ribbon, glass, pomander
, brooch, table- hook, ballad, knife, tape, glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring, to
keep my pack from fasting. They throng who should buy first, as if my trinkets had
...
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The North American Review
The statements of the reviewer, whom we just now noticed, are completely
ridiculous when he says, ' He has divested his researches of all the frivolous
trumpery, in which the philosophers of former days were often in the habit of
disguising ...
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In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel ...
In a June 25 letter to Lyell, for example, after again berating himself for caring
about priority, Darwin calls it a “trumpery affair” and a “trumpery letter influenced
by trumpery feelings.”20 After the July 1 meeting and the resolution of the priority
...
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Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases: Terms and ...
Clipped money will pass whilst the king's bankers " and at least the exchequer
takes it. Locke. " I will be cheater unto them both, and they shall be " exchequers
to me. Shakesp. Trumpery ; of no value ; in relation to what is had, or what is said,
...
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An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and ...
The phrase is evidently jocose, and seems to import the person in question
bestirred himself [shewed himself alarmed or in fear] upon an inadequate
occasion, about something childish and absurd, from some slight [trumpery]
cause. Hie puit ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRUMPERY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
trumpery is used in the context of the following news items.
Letter: Ending drug war would fix a lot of problems
I invite readers to look up egomania and trumpery in the dictionary. But heck, I'll save them the time. Egomania is the obsessive preoccupation with the self. «Chico Enterprise-Record, Aug 15»
Anti-Trump Jihad Spills Over to DMN News Pages
Anyone with half a lick of common sense, Glenn, and who has paid any attention to Trumpery, knows that legal, illegal, documented or undocumented, it's all the ... «D Magazine, Jul 15»
Return of the '60's
The upcoming presidential campaign provides opportunity for improvement (if not recovery), but the O'Malley debacle and all the noxious Trumpery into which ... «RealClearPolitics, Jul 15»
A Month in the Country review: Getting a grip on some love angles
“Hartz are trumpery?” asks a German tutor, Herr Schaff, over a hand of cards, apparently unsteady in the language but quite accurately summarising the play. «Irish Times, Jul 15»
Thoreau, the First Declutterer
“I look upon England to-day as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated from long housekeeping, ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Why Saudi Arabia is the right choice to head UN Human Rights …
By avoiding citizen input in their legislation, Saudi Arabia has much less trivial bureaucratic trumpery to go through when implementing the nation's law. «The Peak, Jun 15»
Alex Salmond: UK Government would be making “fatal mistake” if it …
“Given the political realities in Scotland the government would be making a fatal mistake if they believe that this costly trumpery; this useless, expensive, unlawful ... «CommonSpace, May 15»
'Tis the NZ season for trivialities
Unfortunately the really big questions are too hard and the debating fitness acquired on the trumpery tends to be wasted. Anyway where was I? The flag debate. «The Press, May 15»
A Day for Rating the Presidents
... the U.S.; if the founder of the country and the savior of the Union and emancipator of the slaves don't make it, the whole American project has been a trumpery. «National Review Online, Feb 15»
Swing Sling Brass - The Trumpery Hill Tour 2015
En 5-dagars session i Åsby kulturhus, utanför Örebro och en dag i Aulinsalen i Stockholms Konserthus ligger till grund för denna CD. Som seden bjuder, ger sig ... «Mynewsdesk, Feb 15»
