The Life and Times of John Reuchlin, Or Capnion, the Father of the German Reformation |
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... Divine truth , its own best reward , hesitated not to travel into the remotest and fearfullest regions , to encounter perils desperate in themselves , and rendered horrible by the superstition of their times , and spend and be spent ...
... Divine truth , its own best reward , hesitated not to travel into the remotest and fearfullest regions , to encounter perils desperate in themselves , and rendered horrible by the superstition of their times , and spend and be spent ...
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... , if not , they are mischievous . ' This ridiculous plea had not even the merit of originality , for Omar had used it centuries before in relation to the Koran , when he · 8 SERENITY - DIVINE . P. I. sacrificed the great.
... , if not , they are mischievous . ' This ridiculous plea had not even the merit of originality , for Omar had used it centuries before in relation to the Koran , when he · 8 SERENITY - DIVINE . P. I. sacrificed the great.
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Francis Foster Barham. 8 SERENITY - DIVINE . P. I. sacrificed the great library of Alexandria - an enor- mity , for which literature has devoutly cursed his memory . Against this plea , Reuchlin strove with all his energies , and ...
Francis Foster Barham. 8 SERENITY - DIVINE . P. I. sacrificed the great library of Alexandria - an enor- mity , for which literature has devoutly cursed his memory . Against this plea , Reuchlin strove with all his energies , and ...
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... divine art of contentment , and an heroic contempt of the world . Such men conquer what Milton calls ' The last infirmity of noble minds , ' the desire of fame , the universal passion ; they subdue even the best of passions , fame and ...
... divine art of contentment , and an heroic contempt of the world . Such men conquer what Milton calls ' The last infirmity of noble minds , ' the desire of fame , the universal passion ; they subdue even the best of passions , fame and ...
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... divine and inspiring intelligences , who arise like prophets to reveal far higher conditions of being , than any that have yet been realized . But where can such be found ? ay , where ? Who now ( says Isaac Taylor ) ventures to rise to ...
... divine and inspiring intelligences , who arise like prophets to reveal far higher conditions of being , than any that have yet been realized . But where can such be found ? ay , where ? Who now ( says Isaac Taylor ) ventures to rise to ...
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Page 9 - How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill. Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the worldly care Of public fame or private breath ; Who envies none that chance doth raise.
Page 250 - It seems, this is a collection of letters which some profound blockheads, who lived before our times, have written in honour of each other, and for their mutual information in each other's absurdities. They are mostly of the German nation, whence, from time to time, inundations of writers have flowed, more pernicious to the learned world, than the swarms of Goths and Vandals to the politic. It is, methinks, wonderful, that fellows could be awake, and utter .such incoherent conceptions, and converse...
Page 25 - would be to establish two professors of the Hebrew language in each university, who should teach the theologians to read the Bible in Hebrew, and thus to refute the Jewish doctors.
Page 10 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 18 - Tis thus the spirit of a single mind Makes that of multitudes take one direction, As roll the waters to the breathing wind, Or roams the herd beneath the bull's protection...
Page 10 - Who envies none that chance doth raise, Or vice; who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise; Nor rules of state, but rules of good...
Page 250 - ... wonderful, that fellows could be awake, and utter such incoherent conceptions, and converse with great gravity, like learned men, without the least taste of knowledge or good sense. It would have been an endless labour to have taken any other method of exposing such impertinences, than by an edition of their own works : where you see their follies, according to the ambition of such virtuosi, in a most correct edition.
Page 250 - Epistles of the obscure Writers to Ortuinus*,' &c. The purpose of the work is signified in the dedication, in very elegant language, and fine raillery. It seems, this is a collection of letters which some profound blockheads, who lived before our times, have written in honour of each other, and for their mutual information in each other's absurdities. They are mostly of the German nation, whence, from time to time, inundations of writers have flowed, more pernicious to the learned world, than the...
Page 280 - In septem psalmos poenitentiales hebraicos interpretatio de verbo ad verbum et super eisdem commentarioli sui, ad discendum linguam hebraicam ex rudimentis
Page 219 - For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell ; and, having made peace by the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven.