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The mummeries of these impostors, consisting in pretended consultations with their oracles, are looked upon with confidence, and their mandates, however absurd, superstitiously submitted to. These are constituted of unmeaning ceremonies and prohibitions generally affecting the diet, both in kind and mode, but never in quantity.
He was exorcised according to the forms of his Church; but this ceremony, instead of quieting him, scared him out of almost all the little reason that nature had given him. In his misery and despair he was induced to resort to irregular modes of relief. His confessor brought to court impostors who pretended that they could interrogate the powers of darkness.
They are, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, from impostors, and are properly consigned to the waste-basket. Housekeepers have frequent applications every day for food. These are generally complied with, as, in all families of moderate size, there is much that must either be given or thrown away. Children and old people generally do this kind of begging.
Morally speaking, disaster and triumph are impostors. The cheers of the moment are not what a man ought to think about, but the verdict of his conscience and of the consciences of mankind. When I look at you, I feel as if I also and we all were enlisted men.
It has been his practice ever since "to connect every grievance with the subject of Repeal to convert every wrongful act of any Government into an argument for the necessity of an Irish Legislature." Can it be wondered at that the present Government, thoroughly aware of the true state of the case knowing their man should regard the cry for Repeal simply as an imposture, its utterers as impostors?
On which, saying with Danton 'Que mon nom soit fletri, mais que la patrie soit libre, he carried the philtre to the magistrate; laid his information; and Madame Phyllis and her male accomplice were sent to gaol as rogues and impostors. Her coloured victims looked on aghast at the audacity of English lawyers.
And just so long as unskilful and untaught people cannot tell coincidences from cause and effect in medical practice, which to do, the wise and experienced know how difficult! so long it will have plenty of "facts" to fall back upon. Who can blame a man for being satisfied with the argument, "I was ill, and am well, great is Hahnemann!"? Only this argument serves all impostors and impositions.
Astrologers, too, drive a roaring trade on such days, for the greatest reliance is placed on their prophecies by both parents and students, and much money is spent by the latter, therefore, in obtaining the opinion of these impostors.
Thus has the "mining spirit" been kept alive, and impostors of every variety have reaped their harvest, by speculating upon the well-known avidity of the "people of America!" It was in the beginning of 1827, that Joe, in a trip to Pittsburg, became acquainted with Rigdon.
It is, however, sincerely to be regretted, that the daily press continues to be inundated with advertisements; and that the lower, and less informed class of the community, are still imposed upon by a set of privileged impostors, who frequently puzzle the intelligent to decide, whether the impudence or the industry with which they endeavour to establish the reputation of their respective poisons, be the most prominent feature in their character.
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