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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Erastus, Thomas
Britannica 11thERASTUS, THOMAS (1524-1583), German-Swiss theologian, whose surname was LUber, Lieber, or Liebler, was born of poor parents on the 7th of September 1524, probably at Baden, canton of Aargau, Switzerland. In 1540 he was studying theology at Basel. The plague of ...
Vol. 9, pp. 732-733
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Erasmus, Desiderius
Britannica 11th... est Italian Latin is but an echo and an imitation; like the painted glass which ERASTUS we put in our churches, it is an anachronism. Bembo, Sadoleto and the rest write purely in a dead language. Erasmus's Latin was a living and spoken tongue. Though Erasmus h ...
Vol. 9, pp. 727-732
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United States
Britannica 11th... uP °f men. soon to be known as the " war governors" — Israel Washburn of Maine, Erastus Fairbanks of Vermont, Ichabod Goodwin of New Hampshire, John Albion Andrew of Massachusetts.William Sprague of Rhode Island, William Alfred Buckingham of Connecticut, Edwin ...
Vol. 27, pp. 612-735
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