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Puerilities, if you like, and yet how glad I should be not to have to reproach myself with them!

From Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian by Various

Eternal Shame to him who first introduced these foreign Puerilities into our Nation, renowned for teaching others the greater part of the polite Arts; particularly, that of Singing!

From Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers by Galliard, John Ernest

Puerilities of fancy and monstrosities of passion arbitrarily connected with principles claiming to be eternal truths should be carefully separated, and not the whole be despised and trodden on together.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville