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The praise of folly, made Engl. by W. Kennet, adorn'd from the designs of H ... - Page 85
by Desiderius Erasmus - 1740
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Erasmus in praise of folly [tr. by W. Kennett] illustr. by H. Holbein, with ...

Desiderius Erasmus - 1870 - 368 pages
...any comprehensive knowledge of them : hence the sect of academic philosophers have modestly resolved, that all things being no more than probable, nothing...could, yet would it but interrupt and abate from the pleasure of a more happy ignorance. Finally, our souls are so fashioned and moulded, that they are...
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Erasmus in Praise of Folly: Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts, Designed ...

Desiderius Erasmus, Hans Holbein - 1876 - 424 pages
...any comprehensive knowledge of them : hence the sect of academic philosophers have modestly resolved, that all things being no more than probable, nothing...could, yet would it but interrupt and abate from the pleasure of a more happy ignorance. Finally, our souls are so fashioned and moulded, that they are...
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An Outline of the History of English Literature ...: The Renaissance

Ernesto Cesare Longobardi - 1913 - 270 pages
...any comprehensive knowledge of them; hence the sect of academic philosophers have modestly resolved, that all things being no more than probable , nothing...could, yet would it but interrupt and abate from the pleasure of a more happy ignorance ยป. We ,read elsewhere that happiness is an illusion, and that madness...
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In Praise of Folly: With Illustrations After Hans Holbein, Together with a ...

Desiderius Erasmus - 1939 - 266 pages
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Erasmus in Praise of Folly: With Portrait, Life of Erasmus, and His Epistle ...

Desiderius Erasmus - 1922 - 346 pages
...any comprehensive knowledge of them : hence the sect of academic philosophers have modestly resolved, that all things being no more than probable, nothing can be known as certain ; or if there could, yet it would but interrupt and abate from the pleasure of a more happy gnorance. Finally, our souls are...
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An Anthology of World Prose

Carl Van Doren - 1935 - 1652 pages
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In Praise of Folly: With Illustrations After Hans Holbein, Together with a ...

Desiderius Erasmus - 1937 - 274 pages
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Readings in European Literature

Gerald Edwin SeBoyar - 1946 - 928 pages
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Spain and the Western Tradition: The Castilian Mind in Literature ..., Volume 3

Otis Howard Green - 1965 - 524 pages
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Spain and the Western Tradition: The Castilian Mind in ..., Volumes 1-4

Otis Howard Green - 1965 - 524 pages
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