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Page vii
... us . The meagre form and the neurotic temperament disappear in turn ; the frail body and pallid countenance are forgotten when the towering mind vii Just . Mediaveral AT THE University: RELATIONS WITH MOUNTJOY and Batt.
... us . The meagre form and the neurotic temperament disappear in turn ; the frail body and pallid countenance are forgotten when the towering mind vii Just . Mediaveral AT THE University: RELATIONS WITH MOUNTJOY and Batt.
Page viii
... mind was too great for that . But it did react on his character , and in many ways modified and informed his acts . It made him volatile and variable . With all their brilliant incisiveness , his letters often evince his vacillating ...
... mind was too great for that . But it did react on his character , and in many ways modified and informed his acts . It made him volatile and variable . With all their brilliant incisiveness , his letters often evince his vacillating ...
Page ix
... mind were naturally precipitate ; which defect is most unfortunate in anyone who wishes to do work demanding perfect accuracy . He was therefore poorly fitted temperamentally for the task which he most loved : textual criticism and ...
... mind were naturally precipitate ; which defect is most unfortunate in anyone who wishes to do work demanding perfect accuracy . He was therefore poorly fitted temperamentally for the task which he most loved : textual criticism and ...
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... mind that has ren- dered so difficult the task of his biographers ; nor is it greatly to be wondered at if there are those who see him , either intentionally or unintentionally , in one only of his innumerable aspects . His critics are ...
... mind that has ren- dered so difficult the task of his biographers ; nor is it greatly to be wondered at if there are those who see him , either intentionally or unintentionally , in one only of his innumerable aspects . His critics are ...
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... mind . This has necessitated an almost constant reproduction of his letters , or lengthy quotations therefrom , entailing a toilsome burden of translation . But if by so doing I shall have rendered Erasmus more comprehensible to my ...
... mind . This has necessitated an almost constant reproduction of his letters , or lengthy quotations therefrom , entailing a toilsome burden of translation . But if by so doing I shall have rendered Erasmus more comprehensible to my ...
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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...