The Votaries of common sense make the same mistake as philosophers do, but they make it in another way.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
It is true that, amongst civilized men, substance is still represented by the yellow ore, and that the Votaries of beauty "bend in silken slavery;" but are not beauty or gold as dust in the balance, substantial though they be, when weighed in lofty minds against glory or immortality?
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
His power increasing with his Votaries, he found means to link all christendom to the triple crown, and acquired an unaccountable ascendency over the human mind: The princes of Europe were harnessed, like so many coach horses.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton