...the mendicant orders of monks. " Though this sort of men," he says, " are so detested by every one, that it is reckoned unlucky so much as to meet them by accident, CHAP. IV. aedes, ab aedibus ad scholas honorificentissime comitati perduxere. Dii me perdant,viri Cantabrigienses,...

...the mendicant orders of monks. " Though this sort of men ," he says , "are so detested by every one, that it is reckoned unlucky so much as to meet them...asinine voices bray out in the churches their psalms , which they can count , but not understand («) , then it is they fancy that the ears of the saints...

...hold on popular favour. " Though this sort of men," observes Erasmus, " are so detested by every one, that it is reckoned unlucky so much as to meet them...they think nothing equal to themselves, and hold it as a proof of their consummate piety, if they are illiterate as not to be able to read ; and when,...

...the time of Luther. "Though this sort of men," observes Erasmus, speaking of the mendicant orders, "are so detested by everyone, that it is reckoned...they think nothing equal to themselves, and hold it as a proof of their consummate piety, if they are so illiterate as not to be able to read. And when...

...this sort of men," observes Erasmus, speaking of the mendicant orders, " are so detested by every one that it is reckoned unlucky so much as to meet them...they think nothing equal to themselves, and hold it as a proof of their consummate piety, if they are so illiterate as not to be able to read. And when...

...against them. . . . Though this sort of men are so detested by every one that it is reckoned unlucky even to meet them by accident, they think nothing equal to themselves, and hold it a proof of consummate piety if they be so illiterate as not to be able to read. And when their asinine voices...

...the mendicant orders of Monks. 'Though this sort of men,' he says, ' are so detested by every one, that it is reckoned unlucky so much as to meet them...asinine voices bray out in the churches their psalms, which they can count, but not understand, then it is they fancy that the ears of the saints above are...

...an equal during his century, the fourteenth." About monks Erasmus says: " Though this class of men are so detested by everyone that it is reckoned unlucky...accident, they think nothing equal to themselves, and they hold it a proof of their consummate piety if they are so illiterate as not to be able to read....