 | John Dowling - 1871 - 962 páginas
...minds, calm trembling consciences, save sinking states, and defend their inhabitants from all sorts of calamities. Nor did these pious travellers return...found a rich prey in the stupid credulity of the Latin relic hunters, and made a profitable commerce of this new devotion. The latter paid considerable sums... | |
 | John Gotlieb Matteson - 1895 - 648 páginas
...33 Dowling's " History of Romanism," book ii, chap, v, par. 30, 31 " Nor did these pious travelers return home empty ; the craft, dexterity, and knavery...found a rich prey in the stupid credulity of the Latin relic hunters, and made a profitable commerce of this new devotion. The latter paid considerable sums... | |
 | 1849 - 400 páginas
...exert what was deemed a valuable influence, led, of course, to a great amount of fraud and imposture. The craft, dexterity and knavery of the Greeks found a rich prey in the credulity of the Latin relic-hunters. The latter paid considerable sums for legs and arms, skulls and... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1823 - 874 páginas
...minds, calm trembling consciences, save sinking states, and defend their inhabitants from all sorts of calamities. Nor did these pious travellers return home empty; the craft and knavery of the Greeks, found a rich prey in these stupid and credulous relic-hunters. The latter... | |
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Latin relic-hunters, and made a profitable commerce of this new devotion. The latter paid considerable sums for legs and arms, skulls and jaw-bones (several of which were Pagan, and some not human), and other things that were supposed to... 
