 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...that sex is frailer than man is, so is it easier to be entrapped in these grosse snares of the Divell, as was over well proved to be true by the serpent's deceiving of Eva at the beginning, which makes him the homelier with that sexe sensine." His majesty, in this work,... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - Country life - 1849 - 342 pages
...those gross snares of the devil, as was overwell proved to be true, by the serpent's deceiving of Eva at the beginning, which makes him the homelier with that sex sensine.' " " A good and sufficient reason, Master Potts," said Nicholas, laughing; " Is it not so, Mistress... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1850 - 498 pages
...frailer than man is, so it is easier to be entrapped in those gross snares of the devil, as was overwell proved to be true, by the serpent's deceiving of Eve...which makes him the homelier with that sex sensine.'" "A good and sufficient reason, Master Potts," said Nicholas, laughing; " is it not so, Mistress Nutter... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1856 - 602 pages
..." as the sex is frailer than man, so it is easier to be entrapped in the gross snares of the Divell as was over well proved to be true by the serpent's deceiving of Eve in the beginning," and of course when the weaker sex is at its period of greatest weakness, when it... | |
 | William Edward Baxter - Books and reading - 1860 - 264 pages
...frailer than man is ; so is it easier to be entrapped in these grosse snares of the Divell, as was ever well proved to be true by the serpent's deceiving of Eve at the beginning, which makes him the homlier with that sex sensine." Then there are the brownies, who, unlike warlocks, are kind and considerate... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1861 - 388 pages
...entrapped in those gross snares of the Divell, " as was over-well proved by the serpent's deceiving of Eva at " the beginning, which makes him the homelier with that sex " sensine." So far as the writer is aware there is now no classification of witehes into white, black, and grey,... | |
 | Howard Williams - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1865 - 300 pages
...that sex is frailer than man is, so is it easier to be entrapped in the gross snares of the devil, as was over- well proved to be true by the serpent's deceiving of Eva at the beginning, which makes him the homelier with that sex sensine : ' and it is profoundly observed... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald - American essays - 1869 - 338 pages
...these grosse snares of the Divell, as was over-well proved to be true by the serpent's deceiving Eva at the beginning, which makes him the homelier with that sex sensine." But, seriously, if the reason assigned were the true reason of the persecution of the felines, any... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1878 - 778 pages
...frailer than man is, so it is easier to be entrapped in those gross snares of the devil, as was overwell proved to be true, by the serpent's deceiving of Eve...which makes him the homelier with that sex sensine. ' " "A good and sufficient reason, Master Potts," said Nicholas, laughing; " is it not so, Mistress... | |
 | Alexander Kinloch Forbes - Gujarat (India) - 1878 - 844 pages
...sex is frailer than man is, so is it easier to be " entrapped in these gross snares of the Divell, as was over well proved to be true " by the serpent's deceiving of Eva at the beginning, which makes him homelier " with that sexe sensine." Colonel Tod describes a custom... | |
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Demonology," assigns the following as his explanation of the supposed fact, that witches exist to wizards, in the proportion of twenty to one : .. The reason is easy, for as the sex is frailer than man is, so is it easier to be entrapped in these grosse... 
