Life, Character & Influence of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Volume 2 |
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... any existing errors . Until the work is completed , however , no change will be made in the familiar Vulgate now in use . " See Vol . I , p . 193 . hanger - on of kings and courts , epicurean in THE NOVVM TESTAMENTVM 5 THE Nouum ...
... any existing errors . Until the work is completed , however , no change will be made in the familiar Vulgate now in use . " See Vol . I , p . 193 . hanger - on of kings and courts , epicurean in THE NOVVM TESTAMENTVM 5 THE Nouum ...
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John Joseph Mangan. hanger - on of kings and courts , epicurean in taste and inclination , self- seeking , irreverent , totally devoid of spirituality , and a man who rejoiced in the making of enemies . Both were learned , but Valla not ...
John Joseph Mangan. hanger - on of kings and courts , epicurean in taste and inclination , self- seeking , irreverent , totally devoid of spirituality , and a man who rejoiced in the making of enemies . Both were learned , but Valla not ...
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... King James Version , which had been the standard translation of the Scriptures for English - speaking people since 1611. The revision was thorough and scholarly , and occupied the committee fourteen years . When this new translation was ...
... King James Version , which had been the standard translation of the Scriptures for English - speaking people since 1611. The revision was thorough and scholarly , and occupied the committee fourteen years . When this new translation was ...
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... King Henry , Wolsey , and some others who will be mentioned in their proper place , and was in our estimation the essential cause of his eventually leaving England for good . Moreover , Luther had just startled the world by nailing up ...
... King Henry , Wolsey , and some others who will be mentioned in their proper place , and was in our estimation the essential cause of his eventually leaving England for good . Moreover , Luther had just startled the world by nailing up ...
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... king likewise conceived so high an opinion of his political abilities that he sent him on several embassies to the continent . In 1529 he was made Chancellor of Sarum , and in 1531 was incorporated in the degree of D.D. at Oxford ...
... king likewise conceived so high an opinion of his political abilities that he sent him on several embassies to the continent . In 1529 he was made Chancellor of Sarum , and in 1531 was incorporated in the degree of D.D. at Oxford ...
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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...