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body and pallid countenance are forgotten when the towering mind takes possession of our senses ; and for the time being Erasmus sways us whither he will . With kindling zeal and stimulating enthusiasm he wins us wholly , as with ...
body and pallid countenance are forgotten when the towering mind takes possession of our senses ; and for the time being Erasmus sways us whither he will . With kindling zeal and stimulating enthusiasm he wins us wholly , as with ...
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May I die if I ever wrote anything in my life before so repugnant to my mind as those trifles , yea , those Gnathonisms , which I wrote to my Lady , to the Provost , and to the Abbot . Now you will accuse me of bad temper , I know ...
May I die if I ever wrote anything in my life before so repugnant to my mind as those trifles , yea , those Gnathonisms , which I wrote to my Lady , to the Provost , and to the Abbot . Now you will accuse me of bad temper , I know ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
MONASTIC LIFE AT STEYN | 39 |
SECRETARY TO THE BISHOP OF CAMBRAI MATRICULATION | 49 |
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