 | Henry Charles Shelley - Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1913 - 256 pages
...faith in such matters, and am willing to be deceived, where the deceit is pleasant and costs nothing. I am therefore a ready believer in relics, legends,...charm of the reality ? There is nothing like resolute goodhumoured credulity in these matters." Easy faith of a bygone day ! But the scientific historian... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1913 - 262 pages
.... in such matters, and am willing to be deceived, where the deceit is pleasant and costs nothing. I am therefore a ready believer in relics, legends,...false, so long as we can persuade ourselves into the 12 belief of them, and enjoy all the charm of the reality? There is nothing like resolute goodhumoured... | |
 | Thomas Philip Terry - Mexico - 1922 - 1068 pages
...such matters, and am very willing to be deceived, where the deceit is pleasant and costs nothing. I am therefore a ready believer in relics, legends,...charm of the reality? There is nothing like resolute good-humored credulity in these matters." Public Security. The towns and highways of Mexico are as... | |
 | Anne Carroll Moore - Children - 1923 - 216 pages
...AMERICA . 173 INDEX ......... 193 NEW ROADS TO CHILDHOOD CHAPTER ONE THE ROMANCE OF THE STREETS I am a ready believer in relics, legends, and local anecdotes of goblins and great men; and would advise all travelers who travel for their gratification to be the same. WASHINGTON IRVING ARE you a citizen of... | |
 | Thomas Philip Terry - Mexico - 1922 - 1080 pages
...such matters, and am very willing to be deceived, where the dece t is pleasant and costs nothing. I am therefore a ready believer in relics, legends, and local anecdotes of gob1 ns and great men; and would advise all travellers who travel for their gratification to be the... | |
 | Thomas Philip Terry - Mexico - 1927 - 1066 pages
...such matters, and am very willing to be deceived, where the deceit is pleasant and costs nothing. I am therefore a ready believer in relics, legends,...the belief of them, and enjoy all the charm of the real.ty? There is nothing like resolute good-humored credulity in these matters." Public Security.... | |
 | David Lowenthal - History - 1998 - 362 pages
...1815, they are "ever willing to be deceived, where the deceit is pleasant, . . tl' ' and costs nothing. What is it to us, whether these stories be true or...long as we can persuade ourselves into the belief of them?"36 Irving himself was a practiced spinner of false historical yarns, but neither he nor his readers... | |
 | Tony Tanner - Literary Collections - 2000 - 276 pages
...such matters, and am ever willing to be deceived, where the deceit is pleasant, and costs nothing. I am therefore a ready believer in relics, legends,...of them, and enjoy all the charm of the reality?' And the church in which Shakespeare is buried - the Deathplace - gives Irving what he is sure is the... | |
 | Terence G. Young, Terence Young, Robert B. Riley - Amusement parks - 2002 - 324 pages
...Stratford in 1815, they are "ever willing to be deceived, where the deceit is pleasant, and costs nothing. What is it to us, whether these stories be true or...long as we can persuade ourselves into the belief of them?"3 Irving himself was a practiced spinner of historical yarns; both he and his readers relished... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pages
...it into the realm of whimsy, where fact and fantasy mingle. In "Stratford-on-Avon" he wrote, [I am a] ready believer in relics, legends, and local anecdotes of goblins and great men, . . . What is it to us, whether these stories be true or false, so long as we can persuade ourselves... | |
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I am always of easy faith in such matters, and am ever willing to be deceived, where the deceit is pleasant and costs nothing. I am therefore a ready believer in relics, legends, and local anecdotes of goblins and great men ; and would advise all travellers... 
