JOHN COLET, ERASMUS, AND THOMAS MORE.
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THE OXFORD REFORMERS
JOHN COLET, ERASMUS, AND THOMAS MORE.
BEING A HISTORY OF THEIR FELLOW-WORK.
BY FREDERIC SEEBOHM.
‘Tu interea patienter audi; ac nos ambo, collidentibus inter se silicibus, si quis ignis excutiatur, eum avide apprehendamus. Veritatem enim quærimus, non opinionis offensionem....’ (Colet, Eras. Op. v. p. 1292).
‘Take no heed what thing many men do, but what thing the very law of nature, what thing very reason, what thing Our Lord himself showeth thee to be done’ (_Pico della Mirandola_, translated by More: More’s English Works, p. 13).
‘Cur sic arctamus Christi professionem quam Ille latissime volnit patere?’ (Erasmus, Letter to Volzius, prefixed to the ‘Enchiridion’).
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PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
Since this book was written, years ago, the works of Dean Colet have one after another been placed within reach of the public, ably edited by my friend Mr. Lupton, and now I understand that a biography by the same competent hand is also in the press.
Under these circumstances I have had some hesitation in allowing a Third Edition to be printed. I have yielded, however, to Mr. Lupton’s pleading that this history of the fellow-work of the three friends, imperfect as it always was, and antiquated as it has now become, may live a little longer.
F. S.
THE HERMITAGE, HITCHIN: March 8, 1887.