. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. was ordainedpriest; but in 1496 he went to Paris and supported himselfby giving private lectures. In 1497 he visited England andmet with a liberal reception from the most eminent scholars. Onhis return he spent twelve years in France, Italy, and the Nether-lands, and during that time he published several works. In 1506he took his do
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. was ordainedpriest; but in 1496 he went to Paris and supported himselfby giving private lectures. In 1497 he visited England andmet with a liberal reception from the most eminent scholars. Onhis return he spent twelve years in France, Italy, and the Nether-lands, and during that time he published several works. In 1506he took his doctors degree at Turin, and went to Bologna, wherehe continued some time. Thence he removed to Venice and re-sided with the famous Aldus Manutius. From Venice he went toPadua and Kome, where many offers were made him to settle ; buthaving received an invitation from Henry VIII., he came to Eng-land again in 1510, wrote his Praise of Folly while residingwith Sir Thomas More, and was appointed Margaret Professor ofDivinity and Greek lecturer at Cambridge. In 1514 he oncemore returned to the Continent, and lived chiefly at Basel, wherehe vigorously continued his literary labors and prepared his edi-tion of the New Testament with a Latin translation, his Cicero-. CONNECTED WITH RELIGIOUS HISTORY. 75 nianus, and his celebrated Colloquies, which gave such offenceto the monks that they used to say : Erasmus laid the egg whichLuther hatched. With Luther, however, whom he had provokedby his treatise on u Free-Will, he was in open hostility. In 1528appeared his learned work, De recta Latini Graecique Sermo-nis Pronunciatione, and his last publication, which was printedthe year before his death, was entitled Ecclesiastes, or the Man-ner of Preaching. He died at Basel in 1536. Erasmus was aman of great learning, a great wit, and an able critic, but hewas a coward ; he loved ease and his good name more than hecared for truth and the Reformation ; and so while he saw clearlythe need of the wo
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