Life, Character & Influence of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Volume 1 |
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... Erasmus , but especially for his accompanying biographical and bibliographical notes , which shed so much light on the correspondents and contemporaries of Erasmus . In this study I have followed his numeration of the letters as far as ...
... Erasmus , but especially for his accompanying biographical and bibliographical notes , which shed so much light on the correspondents and contemporaries of Erasmus . In this study I have followed his numeration of the letters as far as ...
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... Erasmus had a brother named Peter , older than himself by three years ; and Erasmus ' testimony on this point is not to be gainsaid . Some of his biographers , assuming that the letter to Lambert Grunnius hereafter to be given , in ...
... Erasmus had a brother named Peter , older than himself by three years ; and Erasmus ' testimony on this point is not to be gainsaid . Some of his biographers , assuming that the letter to Lambert Grunnius hereafter to be given , in ...
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... Erasmus had given his confidence to the Pope , who was a personal friend , and to whom presumably he had told the whole story , or as much of it as he deemed absolutely necessary ; and the Pope said that Erasmus feared , not only that ...
... Erasmus had given his confidence to the Pope , who was a personal friend , and to whom presumably he had told the whole story , or as much of it as he deemed absolutely necessary ; and the Pope said that Erasmus feared , not only that ...
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... Erasmus is not quite fair to these old instructors of his . In his letter to John Botzheim he says that , when he was a boy of twelve , he saw Rudolph Agricola at the school in Deventer.1 Now what was the great man doing in that school ...
... Erasmus is not quite fair to these old instructors of his . In his letter to John Botzheim he says that , when he was a boy of twelve , he saw Rudolph Agricola at the school in Deventer.1 Now what was the great man doing in that school ...
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... Erasmus in 1899 , after stating that any biographer of Erasmus must be always striving to fix the line where history ends and literature begins , says : [ Erasmus ] felt himself to be the centre of the world . In a sense that is true of ...
... Erasmus in 1899 , after stating that any biographer of Erasmus must be always striving to fix the line where history ends and literature begins , says : [ Erasmus ] felt himself to be the centre of the world . In a sense that is true of ...
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Page 287 - Then said he unto them, But now he that hath a purse let him take it, and likewise his scrip : and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.
Page 164 - You speak truth," said the master; "all is finished now." Placed upon the pavement, his head supported in his scholar's arms, his face turned to the spot where he was wont to pray, Bseda chanted the solemn
Page 287 - Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Page 33 - I was admitted to the society of the fellows, and fondly expected that some questions of literature would be the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth ; and their constitutional toasts were not expressive of the most lively loyalty for the house of Hanover.
Page 33 - The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder; their days were filled by a series of uniform employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffeehouse and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience...
Page 288 - will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent will I reject.
Page 164 - A few days before Ascension-tide his sickness grew upon him, but he spent the whole day in teaching, only saying cheerfully to his scholars, " Learn with what speed you may ; I know not how long I may last.
Page 277 - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth.
Page 154 - The first purpose for which you have been brought together is that you dwell in unity in the house, and that you have but one soul and one heart in God ; and call not anything your own, but let all things be...
Page 330 - Ibidspiritual concerns of his flock. Julius II. is therefore not to be judged by a rule of conduct which he neither proposed to himself nor was expected to conform to by others. His vigorous and active mind corresponded with the restless spirit of the times, and his good fortune raised him to an eminence from which he looked down on the proudest sovereigns of the earth. His ambition was not, however, the passion of a grovelling mind, nor were the advantages which he sought...