Erasmus has described the beautiful domestic life of this lord chancellor : with him you might imagine yourself in the academy of Plato. -But I should do injustice to his house by comparing it to the academy of Plato, where numbers and geometrical figures,... A Sketch of the Reformation - Page 178by Thomas Bayley Fox - 1836 - 259 pagesFull view - About this book
| Statesmen - 1831 - 388 pages
...him, says Erasmus, " you might imagine yourself in the academy of Plato. But I should do injustice to his house by comparing it to the academy of Plato,...discussion ; it would be more just to call it a school and exeicise of the Christian religion. All its inhabitants, male or female, applied their leisure to liberal... | |
| Ireland - 1884 - 716 pages
...yourself in the academy of Plato. But I should wrong his house by comparing it to Plato's academy, where numbers and geometrical figures, and sometimes...subjects of discussion. It would be more just to call it the school and exercise of the Christian religion. All its inhabitants, male or female, applied their... | |
| 1835 - 430 pages
...With him says Erasmus, "you might imagine yourself in the academy of Plato. But I should do injustice to his house by comparing it to the academy of Plato,...school and exercise of the Christian religion. All its inhahitants, male or female, applied their leisure to liberal studies and profitable reading, although... | |
| William Joseph Walter - Christian saints - 1840 - 404 pages
...to his house"by comparing it to the school of that philosopher, where nothing but abstract questions and sometimes moral virtues were the subjects of discussion: it would be more just to call it a school of religion, and a palestra for the exercise of the Christian virtues. All its inmates, male or female,... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 688 pages
...them."* Says Erasmus, " You might imagine yourself in the academy of Plato. But I should do injustice to his house by comparing it to the academy of Plato, where numbers, and geographical figures, and sometimes moral virtues, were the subjects of discussion ; it would be more... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...chancellor : "with' him you might imagine yourself in the academy of Plato. But I should do injustice to his house by comparing it to the academy of Plato,...discussion : it would be more just to call it a school and an exercise of the Christian religion. All its inhabitants, male and female, applied their leisure... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1848 - 702 pages
...them."f Says Erasmus, " You might imagine yourself in the academy of Plato. But I should do injustice to his house by comparing it to the academy of Plato, where numbers and geographical figures, and sometimes moral virtues, were the subjects of discussion ; it would be more... | |
| Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 882 pages
...him" (More), he says, "you might imagine yourself in the academy of Plato. But I should do injustice to his house by comparing it to the academy of Plato,...discussion : it would be more just to call it a school and an exercise of the Christian religion. All its inhabitants, male and female, applied their leisure... | |
| Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 902 pages
...him" (More), he says, "you might imagine yourself in the academy of Plato. But I should do injustice to his house by comparing it to the academy of Plato,...discussion : it would be more just to call it a school and an exercise of the Christian religion. All its inhabitants, male and female, applied their leisure... | |
| Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 874 pages
..." (More), he says, " you might imagine yourself in the academy of Plato. But I should do injustice to his house by comparing it to the academy of Plato,...virtues, were the subjects of discussion : it would bo more just to call it a school and an exercise of the Christian religion. All its inhabitants, male... | |
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