They have not failed to inherit the superstition of their forefathers.
Many hundreds of years ago their forefathers lived in England and later on in Wales.
A man almost always knows his forefathers, and respects them: he thinks he already sees his remote descendants, and he loves them.
Let them only be permitted to use the sacrifices derived from their forefathers, with which they have been obliged to make acceptable atonements to God.
Toleration had hitherto been so little the principle of any Christian sect, that even the Catholics, the remnant of the religion professed by their forefathers, could not obtain from the English the least indulgence.
There are lots of diseases that our forefathers used to regard as necessarily fatal that nowadays we look upon as mere trifles, because people can be put physically into such a condition that they are practically immune to their ravages."