| Society of Antiquaries of London - 1804 - 524 pągines
...fhould be thought too tedious [«]. [tfi] It is wittily obferved by Fuller, that as careful mothers and nurfes, on condition they can get their children to...Knives, are contented to let them play with Rattles ; fo they permitted ignorant people ftill to retain fome of their fond and foolim cuftoms, that they... | |
| 1814 - 786 pągines
...wittily observed by Fuller, C'h. Hist. p. 375, that, as careful Mothers and Nurses, on condition they cnn get their Children to part with knives, are contented to let them play with rattles: so they permitted ignorant people still to retain some of their fomi aod fouiish Customs, that they... | |
| 1814 - 548 pągines
...Gnostic origin, may possibly be some forgotten divinity of that country. ' As careful mothers and nurses on condition they can get their children to part with knives, are content to let them play with rattles, so they permitted ignorant people still to retain some of their... | |
| Thomas Fuller - 1837 - 562 pągines
...Reformers begin, as the subject they wrote on would give them leave. For as careful mothers and nurses, on condition they can get their children to part with...knives, are contented to let them play with rattles, so they permitted ignorant people still to retain some of their fond and foolish customs, that they... | |
| John Brand - 1849 - 574 pągines
...mankind,n 1 It is wittily observed by Fuller, Ch. Hist., p. 375, that, as careful mothers and nurses, on condition they can get their children to part with...knives, are contented to let them play with rattles, so they permitted ignorant people still to retain some of their fond and foolish customs, that they... | |
| 1853 - 632 pągines
...reformers begin, as the subject they wrote on would give them leave. As careful mothers and nurses, on condition they can get their children to part with...knives, are contented to let them play with rattles ; so they permitted ignorant people still to retain some of their loved and foolish customs, that they... | |
| George Punchard - 1856 - 538 pągines
...at once." Or, according to old Fuller, they intended to imitate " careful mothers and nurses, who, on condition they can get their children to part with...knives, are contented to let them play with rattles ; so they [the Reformers] permitted ignorant people still to retain some of their fond and foolish... | |
| Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 1863 - 714 pągines
...Dingwall by ALEX". MACLEAN, DD, Pby-Clk. Fuller wittily observes, that as careful mothers and nurses, on condition they can get their children to part with...knives, are contented to let them play with rattles, so the early Christian teachers permitted ignorant people to retain some of their former foolish customs,... | |
| George Punchard - 1865 - 546 pągines
...much at once." Or, according to old Fuller, they intended to imitate "careful mothers and nurses, who, on condition they can get their children to part with...knives, are contented to let them play with rattles ; so they [the Reformers] permitted ignorant people still to retain some of their fond and foolish... | |
| William Carlos Martyn - 1867 - 502 pągines
...Fuller puts it in his figurative style, they intended to imitate " careful mothers and nurses who, on condition they can get their children to part with knives, are content to let them play with rattles. "1 Instigated by Cranmer, the regents decreed a royal visitation,... | |
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