 ... judge is so clear and open as to declare against that impious vulgar opinion that the devil himself has power to torment and kill innocent children, or that he is pleased to divert himself with the good people's cheese, butter, pigs and geese, and...  The Foreign Review - Page 1611830Full view - About this book
 | Roger North - Judges - 1808 - 360 pages
...with the good people's cheefe, butter, pigs, and geefe, and the like errors of the ignorant and foolim rabble ; the countrymen, (the triers) cry this judge...no religion, for he doth not believe witches ; and fo, to ihew they have fome, hang the poor wretches. All which tendency to miftake, requires a very... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...the good people's cheese, butter, pigs, and geese, and the like errors of the ignorant and foolish rabble ; the countrymen (the triers) cry this judge...requires a very prudent and moderate carriage in a judge, whereby to convince, rather by detecting of the fraud, than by denying authoritatively such power to... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 404 pages
...the good people's cheese, butter, pigs, and geese, and the like errors of the ignorant and foolish rabble ; the countrymen (the triers) cry this judge...requires a very prudent and moderate carriage in a judge, whereby to convince, rather by detecting of the fraud, than by denying authoritatively such power to... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 406 pages
...the good people's cheese, butter, pigs, and geese, and the like errors of the ignorant and foolish rabble ; the countrymen' (the triers) cry this judge...requires a very prudent and moderate carriage in a judge, whereby to convince, rather by detecting of the fraud, than by denying authoritatively such power to... | |
 | Roger North - College teachers - 1826 - 592 pages
...countrymen (the triers) cry, this judge hath no religion, for he doth not believe witches ; and so, to show they have some, hang the poor wretches. All which...requires a very prudent and moderate carriage in a judge, whereby to convince, rather by detecting of the fraud, than by denying authoritatively such power to... | |
 | Roger North - Great Britain - 1826 - 482 pages
...the good people's cheese, butter, pigs, and geese, and the like errors of the ignorant and foolish rabble, the countrymen (the triers) cry, this judge...religion, for he doth not believe witches ; and so, to show they have some, hang the poor wretches. All which tendency to mistake requires a very prudent... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1827 - 624 pages
...acquittals on the charge of sorcery. If, says the biographer, he declare against the vulgar opinion, ' the countrymen, the triers, cry, This judge hath no...religion, for he doth not believe witches ; and so, to show they have some, hang the poor wretches.' The obstinacy of the popular delusion on this subject,... | |
 | Law - 1831 - 494 pages
...the heels of her, a popular rage that does little less than demand her to be put to death. And if the judge is so clear and open as to declare himself against...this judge hath no religion, for he doth not believe in witches, and so to show they have some, hang the pdor wretches : all which tendency to mistake,... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...pigs, and geese, and the like errors of the ignorant and foolish rabble, the countrymen, the jury, cry, this judge hath no religion, for he doth not believe witches, and so, to show that they have some, they hang the poor wretches." A writer in the Gentleman's Magazine for March,... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...geese, and ihe like errors of ihe ignorant and foolish rahHe, the countrymen, the jury, cry, ihis junge hath no religion, for he doth not believe witches, and so, to show that they have some, they hang the poor wretches." A writer in the Gentleman's Magazine for March,... | |
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