Word: jargon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...blows to admit his imputed profession and accompany them. When he is introduced to his patient, he also meets Leandre, her true lover, who contrives, under the disguise of an apothecary, to arrange an elopement with his mistress, while the supposed doctor engages her father with his professional jargon. When the couple return married. the indignation of Geronte is so great that he is about to hand over the false doctor to the police. Leandre, the objection to whom was his poverty, then informs his father-in-law that through the death of an uncle, he has inherited a large...
...Epicure is trapped by the hope of obtaining the philosopher's stone, which turns metals to gold. Tribulation seeks to enrich his church. Dame Pliant is brought by her brother Kastril to get a titled husband. Each is rapidly and cleverly fleeced, and the dialogue is full of the jargon of alchemy. Finally Lovewit returns and learns from the neighbors the strange doings at his house. Jeremy denies everything till the swindled and angry customers begin to return. Then he dupes Lovewit with a clever explanation, and on showing him how to win Dame Pliant, is pardoned. Thereupon inducing Subtle...
...manifestations art is one, in its great purpose of revealing new beauty or deeper harmony. The author successfully attempts to reduce the supposed mysteries of art discussion to the basis of everyday intelligence. The book, written as it is in a pleasantly, simple fashion, free from "the jargon of the schools," should prove of great interest to the college...