Erasmus: the Rede Lecture Delivered in the Senate-House On June 11, 1890 ...
Erasmus: the Rede Lecture Delivered in the Senate-House On June 11, 1890 ...
Richard Claverhouse Jebb
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At the end of January, 1500, he sailed from Dover for France. A serious mishap befell him just before he went on board. He carried with him a considerable sum of money, contributed by friends for the purpose of enabling him to visit Italy. The custom-house officers at Dover deprived him of nearly the whole, on plea of a law forbidding the exportation of gold coin of the realm above a certain amount. His friends at court afterwards tried to recover it for him, — but in vain. On reaching Paris, h...e fell ill. When he recovered, he set hard to work. The next five years were spent chiefly at Paris, with occasional visits to Orleans or the Netherlands. Digitized by VjOOQ IC AT PARIS.^REVISITS ENGLAND. 15 They form a quiet yet memorable period of his life. In 1 500 he published his first collection of/ proverbial sayings from the classics, — th^Adagiay — which, in its enlarged form, afterwards brought him so much fame. And during these years his incessant labour at Greek gradually qualified him for yet greater tasks.
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