Life, Character & Influence of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Volume 2 |
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... LOUVAIN XII . THE STORM INCREASES : ANOMALOUS POSITION OF ERASMUS . XIII . ACCESSION OF ADRIAN VI : HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH ERASMUS • • · • XIV . CONTINUED ATTEMPTS TO JUSTIFY POSITION : QUARREL WITH HUTTEN . • · XV . ACCESSION OF ...
... LOUVAIN XII . THE STORM INCREASES : ANOMALOUS POSITION OF ERASMUS . XIII . ACCESSION OF ADRIAN VI : HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH ERASMUS • • · • XIV . CONTINUED ATTEMPTS TO JUSTIFY POSITION : QUARREL WITH HUTTEN . • · XV . ACCESSION OF ...
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... Louvain , when he was informed that in the Premonstratensian monastery of Parc there was a copy of Valla's Annotationes in Nouum Testamentum . Since this work had never been printed , he secured the loan of it , recopied it for the ...
... Louvain , when he was informed that in the Premonstratensian monastery of Parc there was a copy of Valla's Annotationes in Nouum Testamentum . Since this work had never been printed , he secured the loan of it , recopied it for the ...
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... Louvain , April 17 , 1518.1 Such a letter does honor to Erasmus and manifests a truly Christian spirit . However , Faber did not respond in kind , but kept a profound silence which disturbed Erasmus more than ever . He continued to make ...
... Louvain , April 17 , 1518.1 Such a letter does honor to Erasmus and manifests a truly Christian spirit . However , Faber did not respond in kind , but kept a profound silence which disturbed Erasmus more than ever . He continued to make ...
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... Louvain , perhaps better known by the title of Atensis , and one of those whom Erasmus thought to be behind Dorp in his criticism of the Praise of Folly , did not hesitate to appear in person as a critic of the New Testament in Erasmus ...
... Louvain , perhaps better known by the title of Atensis , and one of those whom Erasmus thought to be behind Dorp in his criticism of the Praise of Folly , did not hesitate to appear in person as a critic of the New Testament in Erasmus ...
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... Louvain . The same year he was consecrated Archbishop of York , which post he held through varying vicissitudes until his death in 1541. He lived in the stirring times of the Reformation , and , like most of the English bishops under ...
... Louvain . The same year he was consecrated Archbishop of York , which post he held through varying vicissitudes until his death in 1541. He lived in the stirring times of the Reformation , and , like most of the English bishops under ...
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Page 325 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 353 - Come to me all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you ; take my yoke upon you, and you shall find rest to your souls.
Page 70 - Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please me not...
Page 100 - For dignity composed, and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason...
Page 136 - WE have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Page 117 - The warring of them is not carnal but spiritual. For our warring is to pray, to read and study scriptures, to preach the word of God, to minister the sacraments of health, to do sacrifice for the people, and to offer hosts for their sins. For we are mediators and means unto God for men. The which...
Page 116 - Hath not this vice so grown and waxen in the Church as a flood of their lust, so that there is nothing looked for more diligently in this most busy time of the most part of priests than that that doth delight and please the senses? They give themselves to feasts and banqueting; they spend themselves in vain babbling; they give themselves to sports and plays; they apply themselves to hunting and hawking; they drown themselves in the delights of this world.
Page 108 - No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Page 119 - ... courts for earthly things. For it is in the council of Chalcedon that monks ought only to give themselves to prayer and fasting, and to the chastening of their flesh, and observing of their rules.
Page 280 - I do not however disparage, (in their estimation it is almost more disgraceful not to be a Ciceronian than not to be a Christian...