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"nium ofculis receperis, five difcedas aliquò, " ofculis dimitteris. Redis, redduntur fuavia ; "venitur ad te, propinantur fuavia; difceditur "abs te, dividuntur bafia; occurritur alicui, "bafiatur affatim; deniquequocunque te moveas, "fuaviorum plena funt omnia."

Luther in his "Table-Talk" fpeaks thus of this great scholar and elegant writer :

"Erafmus was ftained and poifoned at Rome "and at Venice with Epicureifm. He praises "the Arians more than the Papifts. But

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amongst all his blunted darts I can endure "none lefs than his Catechifm, in which he "teaches nothing certain; he only makes young

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perfons err and despair. His principal doctrine is, that we must carry ourselves according to the times, and as the proverb fays, We must "hang the cloak according to the wind. Eraf"mus only looked to himself, to eafy and pleafant days. Erafmus is an enemy to true reli

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gion; a picture and image of an Epicure and "of Lucian."

When the portrait of Erafmus was one day fhewn to Luther, he faid, "Were I to look like "this picture, I fhould be the greatest knave in "the world,"

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Luther had a perfonal diflike to Erafmus. They differed in opinion refpecting free-will. the beginning of the disputes between the Papists and the Proteftants, Luther had done every thing in his power to bring him over to his opinion, and according to Boffuet had written fome very fervile letters to him for that purpose. At first Erafmus favoured the fentiments of Luther; but when he found the fchifm between the two Churches openly declared, he withdrew from Luther, and wrote against him with his usual moderation. Luther anfwered with extreme violence; and Erafmus in one of his letters to Melanthon fays, "I really thought that Lu"ther's marriage would have foftened him a

little. It is very hard for a man of my mode"ration, and of my years, to be obliged to write against a savage beaft and furious wild boar."

Erafmus, in another letter to Melanthon, fpeaks of Luther's excefs of vehemence, and gives a folution of it. "What fhocks me the "moft in Luther is, that whatever opinion he "undertakes to defend, he pushes it to the ut"moft. And when he is told of this, inftead "of becoming more moderate he goes on ftill farther, and feems to have a great pleasure to "hurry on to a greater extremity. I know his difpofition from his writings as well as if I was living with him. He is of an ardent and impetuous

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petuous fpirit. You fee in every thing that he does an Achilles, whofe anger is not to be "fubdued. Add to all this, his great fuccefs, "the favourable opinion of mankind, and the

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applauses of the great Theatre of the World, there is furely fufficient to spoil a man of the "most modeft difpofition,"

Malichias fays of Erafmus," that he used to "rife early, and give up his mornings to study "and to writing; then, in imitation of the An

tients, make a late dinner, and afterwards give "himself up to the company of his friends, or "take a walk with them, and in converfation "chat pleasantly and chearfully with them, or <c repeat thofe fentences which, taken down in writing from his mouth by fome of them, have "fince appeared with the title of his Familiar "Colloquies."

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Erafinus had fo great an averfion to fish, that he could not even bear the smell of it: this made the Papifts fay, that Erafmus had not only a Lutheran difpofition, but a Lutheran ftomach.

The memory of Erafmus was held in fuch veneration even by fovereigns, that Philip the Second of Spain, Mary Queen of Hungary, and many Princes in their train, who were at Rotter

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dam in 1549, inflamed with a veneration for the memory of this great man, vifited the houfe and the chamber in which he was born.

ARCHBISHOP WARHAM.

THE memory of this learned and excellent Prelate will be ever endeared to all lovers of li terature, for the patronage which he conftantly afforded to Erafmus.

Warham died, as d'Alembert says a Catholic Bishop ever fhould die, without debts and without legacies. Though he had paffed through the highest offices in the Church and State, he left little more than was requifite to pay his funeral charges. Not long before he died, he called for his fteward to know how much money he had in his hands, who told him that he had about thirty pounds. "Well then,” replied he cheerfully, "fatis viatici ad Cælum: There is. "enough to laft me to Heaven."

Erafmus, on hearing of the death of this kindest patron he ever had, thus expreffed himfelf in one of his letters to Charles Blunt, the fon of Lord Mountjoy:" My letter is, I fear, an "unpleasant

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unpleasant melancholy letter. I have this in"ftant heard that that incomparable treasure of "virtue and goodness William Warham has

changed this life for a better. I lament my fate, not his; for he was truly my conftant "anchor. We had made a folemn compact to

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gether, that we would have one common fepulchre; and I had no apprehenfion but "that he, though he was fixteen years older "than myself, would have furvived me. Nei"ther age nor disease took away from us this "excellent man, but a fatality not only to him

felf, but to Learning, to Religion, to the "State, to the Church. Though, as Lord

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Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chan"cellor of England, obliged to give audiences "to Ambaffadors, and his time to fuitors, yet "he had ftill time enough not only to transact "all his fecular bufinefs, but to bestow a large "portion of it upon ftudy and religion: for he "never loft a moment in hunting, in gaming, "in idle talk, or in amufement of any kind. "He occafionally received two hundred guests "at his table; amongst whom were Bishops, "Dukes, and Earls; yet the dinner was always 66 over within the hour. Himfelf feldom tasted "wine; and when he was near seventy, he "drank, and that very moderately, a weak "liquor which the English call Beer. Though "fo fparing in his diet, he was always cheerful ❝ and

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