The Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I.

Erasmus

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The Colloquies of Erasmus. TRANSLATED BY N. BAILEY. _Edited, with Notes, by the Rev. E. Johnson, M.A._ VOL. I. LONDON: 1878. CONTENTS. VOL. I. _Prefatory Note_ _Dedication_ _Admonitory Note_ _To the Divines of_ Louvain _Copy of_ Bailey's _Title_ Bailey's _Preface_ _Life of_ Erasmus _Courtesy in Saluting_ _Family Discourse_ _Of Rash Vows_ _Of Benefice-Hunters_ _Of a Soldier's Life_ _The Commands of a Master_ _The School-master's Admonitions_ _Of Various Plays_ _The Child's Piety_ _The Art of Hunting_ _Scholastic Studies_ _The Profane Feast_ _The Religious Treat_ _The Apotheosis of_ Capnio _A Lover and Maiden_ _The Virgin Averse to Matrimony_ _The Penitent Virgin_ _The Uneasy Wife_ _The Soldier and Carthusian_ Philetymus _and_ Pseudocheus _The Shipwreck_ _Diversoria_ _Young Man and Harlot_ _The Poetical Feast_ _An Enquiry concerning Faith_ _The Old Mens Dialogue_ _The Franciscans,_ [Greek: Ptôchoplousioi], _or Rich Beggars_ _The Abbot and Learned Woman_ _The Epithalamium of Petrus Ægidius_ _The Exorcism or Apparition_ _The Alchymist_ _The Horse-Cheat_ _The Beggars' Dialogue_ _The Fabulous Feast_ _The Lying-in Woman_ Prefatory Note. The present English version of Erasmus' _Colloquies_ is a reprint of the translation of N. Bailey, the compiler of a well-known Dictionary. In his Preface Bailey says, "I have labour'd to give such a Translation as might in the general, be capable of being compar'd with the Original, The present English version of Erasmus' _Colloquies_ is a reprint of the translation of N. Bailey, the compiler of a well-known Dictionary. In his Preface Bailey says, "I have labour'd to give such a Translation as might in the general, be capable of being compar'd with the Original, endeavouring to avoid running into a paraphrase: but keeping as close to the original as I could, without Latinizing and deviating from the English Idiom, and so depriving the English reader of that pleasure that Erasmus

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