Prose of the English RenaissanceJohn William Hebel Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952 - 882 pages |
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Page 52
... excellent wisdom with divine eloquence , absolute virtue with pleasure incredible , and every place is so enforced with profitable counsel , joined with honesty , that those three books be almost sufficient to make a perfect and excellent ...
... excellent wisdom with divine eloquence , absolute virtue with pleasure incredible , and every place is so enforced with profitable counsel , joined with honesty , that those three books be almost sufficient to make a perfect and excellent ...
Page 149
... excellent . To this , with very great charges , he gathered together a great number of most excellent and rare books , in Greek , Latin , and Hebrew , the which all he garnished with gold and silver , esteeming this to be the chiefest ...
... excellent . To this , with very great charges , he gathered together a great number of most excellent and rare books , in Greek , Latin , and Hebrew , the which all he garnished with gold and silver , esteeming this to be the chiefest ...
Page 689
... excellent works ; a great divine , according to the divinity of those times ; an expert physician , a politician , an excellent mathematician , as Diacosmus and the rest of his works do witness . He was much delighted with the studies ...
... excellent works ; a great divine , according to the divinity of those times ; an expert physician , a politician , an excellent mathematician , as Diacosmus and the rest of his works do witness . He was much delighted with the studies ...
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SIR THOMAS MORE | 1 |
JOHN BOURCHIER LORD BERNErs | 24 |
SIMON FISH | 33 |
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