Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word echafaudage.
Examples
-
La Harpe called it an infamous book, "un amas de betises qu'on ose appeler philosophie, inconcevables inepties, un immense echafaudage de mensonge et d'invective"; M. Villemain is much more calm and fair;
Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918
-
Mixed in with obligatory snapshots of the Eiffel Tower and the Moulin Rouge, for instance, is a photo of the "echafaudage."
-
Delisle de Sales found it a monstrosity ” a fratras; La Harpe called it an infamous book, “un amas de betises qu'on ose appeler philosophie, inconcevables inepties, un immense echafaudage de mensonge et d'invective”; M. Villemain is much more calm and fair; Lord Brougham, like Damiron, Buzonniere, and many others, found it seductive but full of false reasoning; Lerminier was so severe that St. - Beuve was moved to defend Holbach against him.
Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.