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Basle his dwelling-place for nearly eight years: 1521-9 Political thought of Erasmus Concord and peace Anti-war writings Opinions concerning princes and government New editions of several Fathers The Colloquia Controversies with Stunica, Beda, etc. Quarrel with Hutten Eppendorff

Divinity-student slightly flushed draws his shoulders back a little, as if a big falsehood or truth had hit him in the forehead. I should not make such a speech as that, you know, without having pretty substantial indorsers to fall back upon, in case my credit should be disputed. "DESIDERII ERASMI COLLOQUIA. Amstelodami. Typis Ludovici Elzevirii. 1650." Various names written on title-page.

JOHN DUNCAN, Colloquia Peripatetica. "Who say ye that I am?" MATT. xvi. 15. This was our Lord's question to His first disciples; and this, by the mouth of Simon Peter, was their answer: "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." And in all ages this has been the answer of the Holy Catholic Church throughout all the world.

In the long list of his polemics he gradually finds opportunities to define his views somewhat; circumstantially, for instance, in the answers to Alberto Pio, of 1525 and 1529. Subsequently it is always done in the form of an Apologia, whether he is attacked for the Colloquia, for the Moria, Jerome, the Paraphrases or anything else.

Falsely and insultingly do you expose your antagonist in the Colloquia. Lee quotes the spiteful passage referring to himself, and then exclaims: 'Now from these words the world may come to know its divine, its censor, its modest and sincere author, that Erasmian diffidence, earnest, decency and honesty! Erasmian modesty has long been proverbial.

Schoolmistress curious, takes a quick glance at divinity-student. Divinity-student slightly flushed; draws his shoulders back a little, as if a big falsehood or truth had hit him in the forehead. I should not make such a speech as that, you know, without having pretty substantial indorsers to fall back upon, in case my credit should be disputed. "DESIDERII ERASMI COLLOQUIA. Amstelodami.

Lilly's Latin Grammar was universally used, and was learned by rote, as by George Borrow, in the last century. See Lavengro for details. Conversation books, Sententiae Pueriles, were in use; with easy books, such as Corderius's Colloquia, and so on, for boys were taught to SPEAK Latin, the common language of the educated in Europe.

It may well puzzle a fellow-countryman of Erasmus to guess what a talent like his, with his power of observation, his delicacy of expression, his gusto and wealth, might have meant to Dutch literature. Just imagine the Colloquia written in the racy Dutch of the sixteenth century!

Whittle, vicar of Forthington. There were then with the knight Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Ralph Horsey, Mr. Carew Raleigh, Mr. John Fitzjames, etc. Towards the end of supper, some loose speeches of Mr. Carew Raleigh's being gently reproved by Sir Ralph Horsey with the words Colloquia prava corrumpunt bonos mores, Mr.

What Erasmus really demanded of the world and of mankind, how he pictured to himself that passionately desired, purified Christian society of good morals, fervent faith, simplicity and moderation, kindliness, toleration and peace this we can nowhere else find so clearly and well-expressed as in the Colloquia.