Life, Character & Influence of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Volume 1 |
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... folly or perverse affection ? With how many battering- rams was his courage shaken ! One would depict for him a lovely image of monastic tranquillity , singling out its best phases : even an intermittent fever could be so praised by ...
... folly or perverse affection ? With how many battering- rams was his courage shaken ! One would depict for him a lovely image of monastic tranquillity , singling out its best phases : even an intermittent fever could be so praised by ...
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... folly of the multitude . My books will not waft me into fame at once ; but I prefer my glory to be lasting , even though a little late , rather than earlier but of the sort that one regrets ; and that is what I notice has happened to ...
... folly of the multitude . My books will not waft me into fame at once ; but I prefer my glory to be lasting , even though a little late , rather than earlier but of the sort that one regrets ; and that is what I notice has happened to ...
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... Folly . But before we proceed to analyze this famous book , which we intend to do at some length , we must return to where we left him at Rome , busily engaged in jotting down the materials for it . From what we have just set down above ...
... Folly . But before we proceed to analyze this famous book , which we intend to do at some length , we must return to where we left him at Rome , busily engaged in jotting down the materials for it . From what we have just set down above ...
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... Folly . We In all other respects his Italian visit had been a pleasant experi- ence ; for besides having made a host of friends , he had met the most brilliant scholars of that country and had had the opportunity of meas- uring himself ...
... Folly . We In all other respects his Italian visit had been a pleasant experi- ence ; for besides having made a host of friends , he had met the most brilliant scholars of that country and had had the opportunity of meas- uring himself ...
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... Folly , and we shall be compelled to devote considerable time to an analysis of the book , premising at once that it fully merits our deepest atten- tion . Under the guise of an allegory , Erasmus has put more of him- self into this ...
... Folly , and we shall be compelled to devote considerable time to an analysis of the book , premising at once that it fully merits our deepest atten- tion . Under the guise of an allegory , Erasmus has put more of him- self into this ...
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Page 313 - 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 188 - 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 313 - 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 57 - 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 57 - 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 314 - will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent will I reject.
Page 188 - 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 297 - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth.
Page 178 - 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 358 - 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...