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" 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 178
by Thomas Bayley Fox - 1836 - 259 pages
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Eminent British Statesmen: Sir Thomas More [by Sir J. Mackintosh] Cardinal ...

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...
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The Catholic Penny Magazine, Volumes 1-2

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...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

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...
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Sir Thomas More: His Life and Times : Illustrated from His Own Writings, and ...

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,...
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

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...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

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...
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

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...
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Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851

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...
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Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851

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...
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Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851

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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