 | François Rabelais - 1807 - 370 pages
...that I know, is, +t» count the hours. What good comes of it ? Nor can there be any greater dotage in the world, than for one to guide and direct his...put no women into nunneries, but such as were either J purblind, blinkards, lame, crooked, ill-favoured, mis-shapen, fools, senseless, spoiled, or corrupt... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...time that I know is, to count the hours. What good comes of it ? Nor can there be any greater dotage in the world, than for one to guide and direct his...bell, and not by his own judgment and discretion. — liabelms. CCCCXXIX. If idleness be the root of all evil, then matrimony's good for something, for... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...time that I know is, to count the hours. What good comes of it ? Nor can there be any greater dotage m the world, than for one to guide and direct his courses...the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment and discretion.—liabelais. CCCCXXIX. If idleness be the root of all evil, then matrimony1s good for something,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 374 pages
...time that I know is, to count the hours. What good comes of it? Nor can there be any greater dotage in the world, than for one to guide and direct his...bell, and not by his own judgment and discretion. — Rabelais. CCCCXXIX. If idleness be the root of all evil, then matrimony'.* good for something,... | |
 | 1856 - 372 pages
...time that I know is, to count the hours. What good comes of it? Nor can there be any greater dotage in the world, than for one to guide and direct his...bell, and not by his own judgment and discretion. — Rabelais. CCCCXXIX. If idleness be the root of all evil, then matrimony'.' good for something,... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...consequences of our place of birth. . — Rabelais. there be any greater dotage in the world, than for one tc guide and direct his Courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment and discretion. , — Oowper. To follow foolish Precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think. .... | |
 | John Timbs - 1863 - 280 pages
...of it? Nor can there be any greater dotage in the world, than for one to guide and direct his course by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment and discretion." In similar exuberance has this gay satirist said : " There is only one quarter of an hour in * The... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1879 - 208 pages
...to govern himself by the sound of a bell, and not by the dictation of judgment and common-sense. " Item, Because at that time they put no women into nunneries but such as were either purblind, lame, crooked, illfavoured, misshapen, lunatic, senseless, or corrupt ; nor any men but those... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1879 - 218 pages
...to govern himself by the sound of a bell, and not by the dictation of judgment and common-sense. " Item, Because at that time they put no women into nunneries but such as were either purblind, lame, crooked, illfavoured, misshapen, lunatic, senseless, or corrupt ; nor any men but those... | |
 | François Rabelais, Walter Besant, Sir Walter Besant - 1883 - 410 pages
...women — they immediately sweep the ground which they have trod upon ; therefore was it ordained, that if any man or woman, entered into religious orders,...but such as were either one-eyed, lame, humpbacked, ill-favoured, misshapen, foolish, senseless, spoiled, or corrupt; nor encloistcred any men but those... | |
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Nor can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment and discretion. 
