"Weaning" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... passed from politics to religion. "I am fond of fun," said he, "I think it is the sign of a clear conscience. My life has been spent among sailors. I have begun with many a blue jacket hail-fellow-well-met in my own rough way, and have ended in weaning him from wicked courses. None of your gloomy religion for me. When I see a man whose religion makes him melancholy, and averse from gaiety, I tell him his ...
— Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family • Andrew Archibald Paton
... up in the Royal nursery for the reception of two Alderney cows, preparatory to the weaning of the infant Princess; which delicate duty Mrs. Lilly commences on ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... upon the temple and its service. The purpose of these was explained above in connection with the institution of sacrifice, namely that it was a concession to the primitive ideas and customs of the people of those times for the purpose of gradually weaning them ...
— A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy • Isaac Husik |
