babil

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Argan that his doctors will confess this much, that the cure of a patient is a very minor consideration with them, "_toute l'excellence de leur art consiste en un pompeux galimatias, en un spécieux babil, qui vous donne des mots pour des raisons, et des promesses pour des effets.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
Morhof seems to seize with avidity Baillet's lively sentence of condemnation -- "Il y a trop de babil et trop de ce que nous appellons _fatras_," &c.] [Footnote 119: Le Pere LOUYS JACOB published his "_Traicté des plus belles Bibliothéques publiques et particulières, qui ont esté, et qui sont à présents dans le monde_," at

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811