 | Robert Southey - Authors, English - 1808 - 414 pages
...run as eagerly after receipts and doctors, and the money which was given thre« centuries ago for the health of the soul, is now given for the health of the body, by the same sort of people, women and halfwitted men. Quacks 'are despised in countries where they... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1817 - 374 pages
...run after receipts and physicians : the same money which, three hundred years ago, was given for the health of the soul, is now given for the health of...of the multitude. TO MR. WORTLEY. Padua, September 16, 1748. I AM informed that your health and sight are perfectly good, which gives me courage to trouble... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 346 pages
...run after receipts and physicians : the same money which, three hundred years ago, was given for the health of the soul, is now given for the health of...managing the fear and hope which rule the actions of the multitnde. XLI. TO MR. WORTLEY. Padua, September 16, 1718. I AM informed that your health and sight... | |
 | John Read (maker to the army.) - 1825 - 572 pages
...as eagerly after receipts and doctors ; and the money which was given, three centuries ago, for the health of the soul, is now given for the health of the body, by the same sort of people — women and half-witted men. Quacks arc despised in countries where they... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 440 pages
...run as eagerly after recipes and doctors ; and the money which was given three centuries ago for the health of the soul, is now given for the health of the body, by the same sort of people ; women and half-witted men. Quacks are despised in countries where they... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 442 pages
...run after receipts and physicians: the same money which, three hundred years ago, was given for the health of the soul, is now given for the health of...of the multitude. TO MR. WORTLEY. Padua, September 16, 1748. I AM informed that your health and sight are perfectly good, which gives me courage to trouble... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 446 pages
...run after receipts and physicians : the same money which, three hundred years ago, was given for the health of the soul, is now given for the health of...of the multitude. TO MR. WORTLEY. Padua, September 16, 1748. I AM informed that your health and sight are perfectly good, which gives me courage to trouble... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 388 pages
...run after receipts and physicians : the same money which, three hundred years ago, was given for the health of the soul, is now given for the health of...people, women and half-witted men : in the country where tkey have shrines and images, quacks are despised, and monks and confessors find their account in managing... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1843 - 574 pages
...run after receipts and physicians. The same money which three" hundred years ago was given for the health of the soul is now given for the health of the body, and by the same sort- of persons, women and half-witted men. In the countries where they have shrines and images quacks arc... | |
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I attribute it to the fund of credulity which is in all mankind. We have no longer faith in miracles and relics, and, therefore, with the same fury, run after recipes and physicians. The same money which, three hundred years ago, was given for the health... 
