Life, Character & Influence of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Derived from a Study of His Works and Correspondence, Volume 2

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Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1928 - 404 pages

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Page 84 - 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 114 - 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 131 - 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 150 - WE have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Page 134 - Church, then may we with just order proceed to the reformation of the lay part ; which truly will be very easy to do, if we first be reformed. For the body followeth the soul, and such rulers as are in the city, like dwellers be in it — wherefore, if priests that have the charge of souls be good, straight the people will be good. Our goodness shall teach them more clearly to be good than all other teachings and preachings. Our goodness shall compel them into the right way, truly more effectually...
Page 130 - 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 122 - No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Page 133 - ... 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 294 - I do not however disparage, (in their estimation it is almost more disgraceful not to be a Ciceronian than not to be a Christian...
Page 134 - ... the fourth to the poor people. Let the laws be rehearsed, yea, and that oftentimes, that take away the filths and uncleanliness of courts; that take away those daily newfound crafts for lucre: that busy them to pull away this foul covetousness, the which is the spring and cause of all evils, the which is the well of all iniquity. At the last let be renewed those laws and constitutions of fathers of the celebration of councils, that command provincial councils to be oftener used for the reformation...

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