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" 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... "
The praise of folly, made Engl. by W. Kennet, adorn'd from the designs of H ... - Page 69
by Desiderius Erasmus - 1740
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Prolusiones Historicæ: Or, Essays Illustrative of the Halle of John Halle ...

Edward Duke - Architecture, Domestic - 1837 - 686 pages
...Kennet, Bishop of Peterborough, (p. 72) : " The next to be placed among the Regiment of Fools are such as make a Trade of telling or inquiring after incredible...Never doubting that a Lie will choak them, they'll muster np a thousand several strange Relations of Spirits, Ghosts, Apparitions, raising of the Devil,...
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Prolusiones Historicæ: Or, Essays Illustrative of the Halle of John Halle ...

Edward Duke - Architecture, Domestic - 1837 - 686 pages
...Kennet, Bishop of Peterborough, (p. 72) : " The next to be placed among the Regiment of Fools are such as make a Trade of telling or inquiring after incredible...Never doubting that a Lie will choak them, they'll muster up a thousand several strange Relations of Spirits, Ghosts, Apparitions, raising of the Devil,...
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Tinsley's Magazine, Volume 20

English fiction - 1877 - 688 pages
...only in the potentiality of the future : ' The next to be placed among the regiment of fools are such as make a trade of telling, or inquiring after, incredible...miracles and prodigies. Never doubting that a lie will choke them, they will muster up a thousand several strange relations of spirits, ghosts, apparitions,...
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Erasmus in praise of folly [tr. by W. Kennett] illustr. by H. Holbein, with ...

Desiderius Erasmus - 1870 - 368 pages
...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...miracles and prodigies : never doubting that a lie will choke them, they will muster up a thousand several o 82 ERASMUS'S praise of FOLLY. strange relations...
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Erasmus in Praise of Folly: Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts, Designed ...

Desiderius Erasmus, Hans Holbein - Folly - 1876 - 424 pages
...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...miracles and prodigies : never doubting that a lie will choke them, they will muster up a thousand several strange relations of spirits, ghosts, apparitions,...
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The Praise of Folly: By Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus - Folly - 1887 - 318 pages
...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 of spirits, ghosts, apparitions,...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 656 pages
...<THE PRAISE OF FOLLY ' < ENCOMIUM MORI/U ' THE next to be placed in the " Regiment of Fools " are such as make a trade of telling or inquiring after incredible stories of miracles and prodigies. . . . And these absurdities do not only bring an empty pleasure and cheap diversion, but they are a...
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The Journal of the British Archaeological Association

British Archaeological Association - Archaeology - 1904 - 370 pages
...Erasmus called Moriae Encomium, the following passage occurs : "Among the regiment of fools are such as make a trade of telling or inquiring after incredible stories of miracles and prodigies : and these absurdities do not only bring an empty pleasure and cheap divertiseinent, but they are...
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Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine, Volume 13

Thomas Edward Watson - 1911 - 748 pages
...condemned. From page 149, Praise of Folly: ' ' The next to be placed among the regiment of fools are such as make a trade of telling or inquiring after incredible...miracles and prodigies; never doubting that a lie will choke them, they will muster up a thousand several strange relations of spirits, ghosts, apparitions,...
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Early Tudor Poetry, 1485-1547

John Milton Berdan - English poetry - 1920 - 610 pages
...develops even the modern sceptical spirit.1 The next to be placed among the regiment of fools are such as make a trade of telling or inquiring after incredible...miracles and prodigies: never doubting that a lie will choke them, they will muster up a thousand several strange relations of spirits, ghosts, apparitions,...
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