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... wrote his biography in very lucid Latin . Chancellor Schnurrer has also written a Life of Reuchlin , as having been one of the princi- pal Hebrew and Greek professors who presided over the early destinies of the admirable university of ...
... wrote his biography in very lucid Latin . Chancellor Schnurrer has also written a Life of Reuchlin , as having been one of the princi- pal Hebrew and Greek professors who presided over the early destinies of the admirable university of ...
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... wrote to Pope Leo X. that Reuchlin was a man of consummate merit in all the sciences , and the very Phoenix of Germany . ( Epis . I. and II . ) He solicited for him , in the most pressing terms , the favour of the cardinals Grimani and ...
... wrote to Pope Leo X. that Reuchlin was a man of consummate merit in all the sciences , and the very Phoenix of Germany . ( Epis . I. and II . ) He solicited for him , in the most pressing terms , the favour of the cardinals Grimani and ...
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... wrote against it , and complained that it was designed to spread some heresy , though what heresy he could not tell . Erasmus allows it to be witty , but condemns it , and with it all anonymous and defamatory libels , the exploits of ...
... wrote against it , and complained that it was designed to spread some heresy , though what heresy he could not tell . Erasmus allows it to be witty , but condemns it , and with it all anonymous and defamatory libels , the exploits of ...
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... wrote any books to which he did not put his name . But after all , these Epistles of the Obscure may be considered as a piece of harmless mirth , levelled against men who were not only egre- gious boobies , but , which was infinitely ...
... wrote any books to which he did not put his name . But after all , these Epistles of the Obscure may be considered as a piece of harmless mirth , levelled against men who were not only egre- gious boobies , but , which was infinitely ...
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... that Reuchlin had done , wrote to him shortly after his victory over the Do- minicans : The Lord hath acted in thee , so that the light of the Scriptures should begin to shine in this P. I. NEANDER'S PREFACE . 27 Germany , where for.
... that Reuchlin had done , wrote to him shortly after his victory over the Do- minicans : The Lord hath acted in thee , so that the light of the Scriptures should begin to shine in this P. I. NEANDER'S PREFACE . 27 Germany , where for.
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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.