 I have lost little in not going to Italy. When Colet speaks I might be listening to Plato. Linacre [Henry VIII.'s famous physician afterwards] is as deep and acute a thinker as I have ever met with. Grocyn is a mine of knowledge, and Nature never formed...  Twelve Catholic Men of Science - Page 15by Bertram Coghill Alan Windle - 1912 - 246 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Anthony Froude - 1894 - 494 pages
...When Colet speaks I might be listening to Plato. Linacre [Henry VIII.'s famous physician afterwards] is as deep and acute a thinker as I have ever met...happier disposition than that of Thomas More. The number of young men who are studying I/ ancient literature here is astonishing.1 Mountjoy had kept... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1894 - 450 pages
...When Colet speaks I might be listening to Plato. Linacre [Henry VIII.'s famous physician afterwards] is as deep and acute a thinker as I have ever met...happier disposition than that of Thomas More. The number of young men who are studying ancient literature here is astonishing.1 Mountjoy had kept his... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, Desiderius Erasmus - 1894 - 476 pages
...listening to Plato. Linacre [Henry VIII.'s famous physician afterwards] is as deep and acute a Uiinker as I have ever met with. Grocyn is a mine of knowledge,...happier disposition than that of Thomas More. The number of young men who are studying ancient literature here is astonishing.1 Mountjoy had kept his... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1907 - 508 pages
...either. They know their classics and so accurately that I seem to have lost little in not going to Italy. When Colet speaks I might be listening to Plato. Linacre...is as deep and acute a thinker as I have ever met. Grocyn is a mine of knowledge, and Nature never formed a sweeter and happier disposition than that... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1910 - 472 pages
...When Colet speaks I might be listening to Plato. Linacre [Henry VIII.'s famous physician afterwards] is as deep and acute a thinker as I have ever met with. Qrocyn is a mine of knowledge, and Nature never formed a sweeter and happier disposition than that... | |
 | Charles Hooper Jarvis - 1917 - 248 pages
...in England ' (Froude, p. 49). He made many friends, including Colet, More, and Archbishop Warham. ' When Colet speaks I might be listening to Plato. Linacre is as deep and acute a thinker as I ever met with, Grocyn is a mine of knowledge, and Nature never formed a sweeter and happier disposition... | |
 | Albert Henry Buck - 1917 - 644 pages
...Dutch scholar and theologian, in a letter addressed to John Fisher, Chancellor of Cambridge University: "Linacre is as deep and acute a thinker as I have ever met with." In England, during the seventeenth century, there appeared on the scene only one practicing physician... | |
 | 1918 - 114 pages
...fifteenth and sixteenth these poor sub-human creatures had friends among the great. Erasmus tells us that " Nature never formed a sweeter and happier disposition than that of Thomas More. . . . He is fond of animals of all kinds and likes to watch their habits. All the birds in Chelsea... | |
 | 1922 - 550 pages
...writes: — "They know their classics so accurately that I have lost but little in not going to Italy. When Colet speaks, I might be listening to Plato. Linacre is as deep and accurate a thinker as I have ever met with. Grocyn is a mine of knowledge ; and Nature never formed... | |
 | Esmé Wingfield-Stratford - 1928 - 594 pages
...either. They know their classics, and so accurately that I have lost little in not going to Italy. When Colet speaks, I might be listening to Plato....is a mine of knowledge, and nature never formed a sunnier and happier disposition than that of Thomas More. The number of young men who are studying... | |
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