 The next to be placed among the regiment of fools are such as make a trade of telling or inquiring after incredible stories of miracles and prodigies : never doubting that a lie will choke them, they will muster up a thousand several strange relations...  Tinsley's Magazine - Page 5061877Full view - About this book
 | Desiderius Erasmus - 1740 - 386 pages
...to belong to the Furies than to Folly i . The next to be placed among the Regiment of Fools are fuch as make a Trade of telling or inquiring after incredible...Miracles and Prodigies : Never doubting that a Lie will choak them, they'll mufter up a Thoufand feyeral ftrange Relations of Spirits, Ghofts, Apparitions,... | |
 | Edward Duke - 1837 - 686 pages
...passage from the translation of that spirited Satire by Kennet, Bishop of Peterborough, (p. 72) : " The next to be placed among the Regiment of Fools...Miracles and Prodigies : Never doubting that a Lie will choak them, they'll muster up a thousand several strange Relations of Spirits, Ghosts, Apparitions,... | |
 | Edward Duke - 1837 - 686 pages
...passage from the translation of that spirited Satire by Kennet, Bishop of Peterborough, (p. 72) : " The next to be placed among the Regiment of Fools...Miracles and Prodigies : Never doubting that a Lie will choak them, they'll muster np a thousand several strange Relations of Spirits, Ghosts, Apparitions,... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus - 1870 - 368 pages
...of it ends so oft in downright madness, that it seems rather to belong to the furies than to folly. The next to be placed among the regiment of fools...choke them, they will muster up a thousand several o 82 ERASMUS'S praise of FOLLY. strange relations of spirits, ghosts, apparitions, raising of the devil,... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus, Hans Holbein - 1876 - 424 pages
...of it ends so oft in downright madness, that it seems rather to belong to the furies than to folly. The next to be placed among the regiment of fools...spirits, ghosts, apparitions, raising of the devil, and such like bugbears of superstition, which the farther they are from being probably true, the more greedily... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus - 1887 - 318 pages
...of it ends so oft in downright madness, that it seems rather to belong to the furies than to folly. The next to be placed among the regiment of fools are such as make a trade of telling or_inquiring after incredible stories of miracles and prodigies. Never doubting that a lie will choke... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - 1904 - 370 pages
...Folly, a translation of the Satire by Erasmus called Moriae Encomium, the following passage occurs : "Among the regiment of fools are such as make a trade...after incredible stories of miracles and prodigies : and these absurdities do not only bring an empty pleasure and cheap divertiseinent, but they are... | |
 | Thomas Edward Watson - 1911 - 748 pages
...practices which one of their own order so unsparingly condemned. From page 149, Praise of Folly: ' ' The next to be placed among the regiment of fools...spirits, ghosts, apparitions, raising of the devil, and such like bugbears of superstition, which the farther they are from being probably true, the more greedily... | |
 | John Milton Berdan - 1920 - 602 pages
...Nichols, ii, 146-7. group. Erasmus, in this work, humorously develops even the modern sceptical spirit.1 The next to be placed among the regiment of fools...spirits, ghosts, apparitions, raising of the devil, and such like bugbears of superstition, which the farther they are from being probably true, the more greedily... | |
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