blockheadism

Robespierre, when he heard of it, broke out into something almost like swearing at the brutish blockheadism of this Hébert; on whose foul head his foul lie has recoiled.

Archive 2007-08-19 de Brantigny........................ 2007

Robespierre, when he heard of it, broke out into something almost like swearing at the brutish blockheadism of this Hébert; on whose foul head his foul lie has recoiled.

"Trial of Marie-Antoinette." by Thomas Carlyle de Brantigny........................ 2007

She grew more and more gloomy and sullen and indifferent, till she grew exactly into her Scotch predecessor translated into English, - minus the utter blockheadism!

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

'Inexpressibly delirious seems to me the puddle of Parliament and public upon what it calls the Reform Measure, that is to say, the calling in of new supplies of blockheadism, gullibility, bribability, amenability to beer and balderdash, by way of amending the woes we have had from previous supplies of that bad article.'

Obiter Dicta Augustine Birrell 1891

No idea, or shadow of an idea, is in that Address but what had been set forth by me tens of times before, and the poor gaping sea of prurient blockheadism receives it as a kind of inspired revelation, and runs to buy my books (it is said), now when I have got quite done with their buying or refusing to buy.

Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863

That is the thought you are to take for the Thought of the Eternal Mind, -- that double-distilled falsity of a blockheadism from one who is false even as

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

Weary and worn with dull blockheadism, chagrin (next to no sleep the night before). "

Why Worry? George Lincoln Walton 1897

Robespierre, when he heard of it, broke out into something almost like swearing at the brutish blockheadism of this Hebert; (Vilate,

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838