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The Epistles of Erasmus from His Earliest Letters to His Fifty-First Year Arranged in Order of Time Volume 2; English Translations from the Early ... and Supplying Further Biographical - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... he made no way by threats and wrangling, fetches in his brother, the merchant already mentioned, a singularly courteous and fairspoken gentleman. The interview takes place in his garden, where the boys are invited to sit down; cups are brought in, and after some friendly converse, the old proposal is introduced more carefully and in a different fashion. The guardians were all amiability. They told many fibs about the marvellous felicity of that state of life; they pointed to brilliant hopes of future grandeur; added entreaties, and what not? Under this influence the elder youth began to waver, having apparently forgotten his repeated oaths of constancy; while the younger nevertheless persevered in his resolution. To cut the matter short, the traitor betrayed his brother, and submitted to the yoke, quietly purloining whatever ready money there was, a proceeding that was no novelty on his part. His story had a fine ending. As he was inert in mind, so he was robust of body, attentive to business and in that respect sharp and cunning, thievish in money matters, a brave tippler and an arrant rake, in fine so unlike his brother, that you might suppose him a changeling. For indeed to him he was never anything but his evil genius; and, not appellavit nebulonem, negavit habere spiritum. 34 Character of Florence long after, he took the same part among his companions as Iscariot among the Apostles. When however he saw his brother caught in the trap, he was touched by the stings of conscience, and lamented that he had enticed him into the net and brought him to destruction. It was the confession of Judas! Would that he had hanged himself like his prototype, before he had been guilty of so impious a crime! Florence, like most of those who are born for literature, was u...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130796124
- ISBN 13 9781130796124
- BindingPaperback
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