Erasmus

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Methuen, 1905 - 226 pages
 

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Page 170 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 107 - 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 145 - Our present problems are said to be waiting for the next (Ecumenical Council. Better let them wait till the veil is removed and we see God face to face.
Page 65 - Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Page 186 - It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books in order to love them much. The scholar, in Chaucer, who would rather have " At his beddes head A twenty bokes, clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy, Than robes rich, or fiddle, or psaltrie...
Page 31 - ... may venture to look in it till he is a master of fifteen years' standing. If younger men try they become blind as moles. " Epimenides went out walking one day. He missed his way and wandered into a cave, which struck him as a quiet place for thinking. Even doctors of divinity do now and then wander. He sat down, he gnawed his nails, he turned over in his mind his instances, his quiddities and his quoddities. He dropped asleep, and so remained for forty-seven years. Happy Epimenides that he woke...
Page 147 - The Pope's little finger is stronger than all Germany. Do you expect your princes to take up arms to defend you — a wretched worm like you ? I tell you no ! And where will you be then — where will you be then?" Sustained by his sublime faith, Luther calmly replied: "Then, as now, in the hands of Almighty God.
Page 79 - Then I annexed Bologna to the Holy See. I beat the Venetians. I jockeyed the Duke of Ferrara. I defeated a schismatical council by a sham council of my own. I drove the French out of Italy, and I would have driven out the Spaniards, too, if the Fates had not brought me here. I have set all the princes of Europe by the ears. I have torn up treaties, kept great armies in the field. I have covered Rome with palaces, and I have left five millions in the Treasury behind me.
Page 187 - I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

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