 | Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...account was much entertained to hear an old man lamenting with regret the degeneracy of the times, particularly the contempt in which objects of former...unthinking crowd. If the infirmities of years and the distance of his residence did not prevent him, he would still pay his devotional visits to the well... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - Archaeology - 1892 - 322 pages
...account was much entertained to hear an old man lamenting with regret the degeneracy of the times, particularly the contempt in which objects of former...unthinking crowd. If the infirmities of years" and the distance of his residence did not prevent him, he would still pay his devotional visits to the well... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 360 pages
...account was much entertained to hear an old man lamenting with regret the degeneracy of the times ; particularly the contempt in which objects of former...unthinking crowd. If the infirmities of years and the distance of his residence did not prevent him, he would still pay his devotional visits to the Well... | |
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Not later than a fortnight ago " (it is added) " the writer of this account was much entertained to hear an old man lamenting with regret the degeneracy of the times, particularly the contempt in which objects of former veneration were held by the unthinking... 