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Erasmus: The Rede Lecture Delivered in the Senate-House on June 11, 1890 ... Richard Claverhouse Jebb No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 46 - I long that the husbandman should sing portions of them to himself as he follows the plough, that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveller should beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey.
Page 6 - It has two chief characteristics — quiet, watchful sagacity, and humour, half playful, half sarcastic. The eyes are calm, critical, steadily observant, with a half-latent twinkle in them ; the nose is straight, rather long, and pointed ; the rippling curves of the large mouth indicate a certain energetic vivacity of temperament and tenacity of purpose ; while the pose of the head suggests vigilant caution, almost timidity. As we continue to study the features, they speak more and more clearly of...
Page 36 - ... prizing no judgment but theirs ; he took the most profitable authors of antiquity, — profitable in a moral as well as a literary sense, — chose out the best things in them, — and sought to make these things widely known, applying their wisdom or wit to the circumstances of his own day. Secondly, he had an educational aim, — and this of the largest kind. The evils of his age, — in church, in state, in the daily lives of men, — seemed to him to have their roots in ignorance, — ignorance...
Page 44 - ... decently keen and bright ; but they could not feel the joyous energy of the soldier who had sharpened and burnished them for battle. Long afterwards, Erasmus expressed what the fourteenth century had already begun to feel, when, asking how Christendom was to set about converting Turks, he said — ' Shall we put into their hands an Occam, a Durandus, a Scotus, a Gabriel, or an Alvarus ? What will they think of us, when they hear of our perplexed subtleties about Instants, Formalities, Quiddities,...
Page 2 - is barbarous Latin for that, and Erasmus is barbarous Greek for it. ... The combination, Desiderius Erasmus, is probably due to the fact that he had been known as Gerhard Gerhardson. It was a singular fortune for a master of literary style to be designated by two words, which both mean the same thing, and are both incorrect.
Page 5 - Erasmus was a rather small man, slight, but well-built ; he had, as became a Teuton, blue eyes, yellowish or light brown hair, and a fair complexion. The face is a remarkable one. It has two chief characteristics, — quiet, watchful sagacity, — and humour, -half playful, half sarcastic. The eyes are calm, critical, steadily observant, with a half-latent twinkle in them ; the nose is straight, rather long, and pointed ; the rippling curves of the large mouth indicate a certain energetic vivacity...
Page 6 - ... watchful sagacity, — and humour, -half playful, half sarcastic. The eyes are calm, critical, steadily observant, with a half-latent twinkle in them ; the nose is straight, rather long, and pointed ; the rippling curves of the large mouth indicate a certain energetic vivacity of temperament, and tenacity of purpose; while the pose of the head suggests vigilant caution, almost timidity. As we continue to study the features, they speak more and more clearly of insight and refinement; of a worldly...
Page 36 - Two things broadly distinguish him [Erasmus], as a scholar, from the men before and after him. First, he was not only a refined humanist, writing for the fastidious few, and prizing no judgment but theirs ; he took the most profitable authors of antiquity, — profitable in a moral as well as a literary sense, — chose out the best things in them, — and sought to make these things widely known, applying their wisdom or wit to the circumstances of his own day.
Page 28 - ... Cambridge, he went down to that University, then much in advance of Oxford in ' good learning,' and gave lectures on Greek there. In 1511 he was elected to the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, and in 1513 — the election was then biennial — he was re-elected. ' This,' Professor Jebb observes, 'is a noteworthy fact. The electing body comprised the whole Faculty of Theology, regulars as well as seculars. The " Praise of Folly " must, by that time, have been well known there. If Erasmus...
Page 18 - ... that Italian soil was the common ground on which the princes of Europe were prosecuting their ambitions, and that the Pope had unsheathed the sword in pursuit of temporal advantage. Julius II was already an* elderly man, but full of martial ardour. Venice seemed to be his ulterior object. Meanwhile, in the autumn of 1506, he had reduced Perugia and Bologna. Erasmus was in Bologna when the Pope entered in November, and the late roses of that strangely mild autumn were strewn in his path by the...