The Life of Erasmus: From A.D. 1467 to A.D. 1529

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Strana 171 - Then consider the great company of idle priests, and of those that are called religious men. Add to these all rich men, chiefly those that have estates in land, who are called noblemen and gentlemen, together with their families, made up of idle persons, that are kept more for show than use.
Strana 69 - The floors, says he, are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes; under which lies, unmolested, an ancient collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and every thing that is nasty.
Strana 172 - ... religion he pleased, and might endeavour to draw others to it by the force of argument, and by amicable and modest ways, but without bitterness against those of other opinions ; but that he ought to use no other force but that of persuasion ; and was neither to mix with it reproaches nor violence ; and such as did otherwise were to be condemned to banishment or slavery.
Strana 316 - I much offended, that in your printed books, to gain their favour, or to soften their rage, you have censured us with too much acrimony. We saw that the Lord had not conferred upon you the discernment, the courage, and the resolution to join with us...
Strana 241 - Inquisition gives this account — that had not the holy tribunal put a stop to those reformers, the protestant religion had run through Spain like wild-fire. People of all degrees, and of both sexes, being wonderfully disposed at that time to have embraced it: and the writer of the pontifical history, who was present at some of those executions, says, that had those learned men been let alone but three months longer, all Spain would have been put into a flame by them. The most eminent of them all...
Strana 175 - I thank our Lord, son," quoth he, " I find His Grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this Realm; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us), it should not fail to go.
Strana 38 - Warham, had piety without superstition, and moderation without meanness, an open and a liberal way of thinking, and a constant attachment to the cause of sober and rational liberty, both civil and religious. Thus he lived and died; and few great men ever passed through this malevolent world better beloved and less censured than he.
Strana 175 - Master (quoth he) to serve the King's turn will not stick to agree to his own father's death." So Sir Thomas More returned to the Bishop no more. And had not the King...
Strana 251 - I follow, says he, the decisions of the pope and the emperor when they are right, which is acting religiously; I submit to them when they are wrong, which is acting prudently : and I think that it is lawful for good men to behave themselves thus, when there is no hope of obtaining any more.
Strana 250 - Wherein could I have assisted Luther, if I had declared myself for him and shared the danger along with him ? Only thus far, that, instead of one man, two would have perished. I cannot conceive what he means by writing with such a spirit: one thing I know too well, that he hath brought great odium upon the lovers of literature.

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