 | William Russell Macdonald - Anti-Catholic literature - 1829 - 286 pages
...was not Luther nor Zuinglius that contributed so much to the Reformation as Erasmus, especially among us in England ; for Erasmus was the man who awakened...Friar's divinity to a relish of general learning." — Stillingfleet. " He [Erasmus] as was commonly said of the Reformation, laid the egg, and Luther... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1835 - 664 pages
...reformation, as Erasmus, especially among us in England. For Erasmus was the man who awakened men s understandings, and brought them from the friar's...of the Latin fathers to light, and published them in excellent editions, with useful notes, by which means men of parts set themselves to consider the... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1835 - 636 pages
...reformation, as Erasmus, especially among ns in England. For Erasmus was the man who awakened men s understandings, and brought them from the friar's...of the Latin fathers to light, and published them in excellent editions, with useful notes, by which means men of parts set themselves to consider the... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1839 - 636 pages
...For Erasmus was the man who awakened men a understandings, and brought them from thefriar'sdivinity to a relish of general learning. He by his wit laughed...of the Latin fathers to light, and published them in excellent editions, with useful notes, by which means men of parts set themselves to consider the... | |
 | James Bass Mullinger - 1873 - 796 pages
...was not Lnther or Zwinglins that contributed BO much to the Reformation, as Erasmus, especially among us in England. For Erasmus was the man who awakened men's understandings, and brought them from the friars' divinity to a relish of general learning. He by his wit laughed down the imperious ignorance... | |
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Erasmus was the man who awakened men s understandings, and brought them from the friar's divinity to a relish of general learning. He by his wit laughed down the imperious insolence of the monks, and made them the scorn of Christendom ; and by his learning... 