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Erasmus in Praise of Folly; With Portrait, Life of Erasmus, and His Epistle to Sir Thomas More (Paperback)
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Erasmus in Praise of Folly; With Portrait, Life of Erasmus, and His Epistle to Sir Thomas More (Paperback)
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original
book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not
illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...accounted good soldiers. And
the Germans are noted for their tall, proper stature, and for their
skill in magic. But not to mention any more, I suppose you are
already convinced how great an improvement and addition to the
happiness of human life is occasioned by self-love: the next step
to which is flattery; for as self-love is nothing but the coaxing
up of ourselves, so the same currying and humoring of others is
termed flattery. Flattery, it is true, is now looked upon as a
scandalous name, but it is by such only as mind words more than
things. They are prejudiced against it upon this account, because
they suppose it jostles out all truth and sincerity, whereas indeed
its property is quite contrary, as appears from the examples of
several brute creatures. What is more fawning than a spaniel? And
yet what animal is more faithful to its master? What is more fond
and loving than a tame squirrel? And yet what is more sportive and
inoffensive? This little frisking creature is kept up in a cage to
play withal, while lions, tigers, leopards, and such other savage
emblems of rapine and cruelty are shown only for their great
rarity, and otherwise yield no pleasure to their respective
keepers. There is indeed a pernicious and destructive sort of
flattery wherewith rookers and sharks work their several ends upon
such as they can make a prey of, by decoying them into traps and
snares beyond recovery. But that which is the effect of folly is of
a very different nature; it proceeds from a softness of spirit, and
a flexibleness of good humor, and comes far nearer to virtue than
that other extreme of friendship, namely, a stiff, sour, dogged
moroseness: it refreshes our minds when tired, enlivens them when
melancholy, reinforces them when languishing, ..
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Imprint: |
Theclassics.Us
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2013 |
First published: |
September 2013 |
Authors: |
Desiderius Erasmus
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Dimensions: |
246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
46 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-230-26143-0 |
Barcode: |
9781230261430 |
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LSN: |
1-230-26143-5 |
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