 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1892 - 342 pages
...fury run after recipes 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...sort of people — women and half-witted men. In the countries where they have shrines and images, quacks are despised, and monks and confessors find their... | |
 | Timothy Holmes - 1898 - 292 pages
...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 are despised,...and confessors find their account in managing the hopes and fears which rule the actions of the multitude." And here I may notice, though out of its... | |
 | 1898 - 284 pages
...fury run after recipes 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 are... | |
 | Timothy Holmes - Surgeons - 1898 - 282 pages
...fury run after recipes 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 are... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - English letters - 1906 - 572 pages
...fury run after recipes 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...sort of people — women and half-witted men. In the countries where they have shrines and images, quacks are despised, and monks and confessors find their... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - English letters - 1906 - 580 pages
...fury run after recipes 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 people—women and half-witted men. In the countries where they have shrines and images, quacks are... | |
 | George Paston - 1907 - 628 pages
...run after recipes 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...same sort of people — women and half-witted men." Mr. Wortley seems to have mentioned in the letter to which the above was in answer, that Lord Sandwich... | |
 | George Paston - Authors, English - 1907 - 672 pages
...run after recipes 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...same sort of people — women and half-witted men." Mr. Wortley seems to have mentioned in the letter to which the above was in answer, that Lord Sandwich... | |
 | Peter Burke, Roy Porter - History - 1987 - 236 pages
...the same Fury run after receits and Physicians. The same Money which 300 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 People: Women and halfe-witted Men. In the countries where they have shrines and Images, Quacks are despis'd and Monks... | |
 | Nadine Fenouillat - Impostors and imposture - 1991 - 420 pages
...run 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 are despised in countries where they... | |
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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... 
