credunt

But, as Hairy himself remarked, "Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt."

Chickpea Walter Jon Williams 2007

[2702] Quod nimis miseri timent, hoc facile credunt, we are apt to believe, and mistake in such cases.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Qui talibus credunt, aut ad eorum domos euntes, aut suis domibus introducunt, aut interrogant, sciant se fidem Christianam et baptismum praevaricasse, et Apostatas esse.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

These tales of Herodotus, as well as all others in the same taste, are now so decried by all people of sense — reason has made so great progress that even old women and children will no longer believe such extravagances — “Non est vetula quæ credat nec pueri credunt, nisi qui nondum ære lavantur.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

In some parts of Greece at this day, like those old Jews, they will not believe their wives are honest, nisi pannum menstruatum prima nocte videant: our countryman [6141] Sands, in his peregrination, saith it is severely observed in Zanzynthus, or Zante; and Leo Afer in his time at Fez, in Africa, non credunt virginem esse nisi videant sanguineam mappam; si non, ad parentes pudore rejicitur.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Quod nimis miseri volunt, hoc facile credunt, still, still, still, that good father, that good son, that good wife, that dear friend runs in their minds:

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

[6579] Ut pueri infantes credunt signa omnia ahena

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Mulierum conditio misera; nullam honestam credunt nisi domo conclusa vivat.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Singula [1168] nonnulli credunt quoque sidera posse

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Istorum sectæ sunt Moal siue Tartari, quantum ad hoc, quod ipsi non credunt nisi vnum Deum: tamen faciunt de filtro imagines defunctorum suorum, et induunt eas quinque pannis preciosissimis, et ponunt in vna biga vel duabus, et illas bigas nullus audet tangere: et sunt sub custodia diuinatorum suorum, qui sunt eorum sacerdotes, de quibus postea narrabo vobis.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004