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" ... apparent inconsistencies of all writers, ancient and modern, who deserved the name of wise, as he had already attempted by Plato and Aristotle. In these arduous labours he was cut off by a fever at the age of thirty-one, in 1494, on the very day that... "
Hand-book for travellers in northern Italy [by sir F. Palgrave]. - Page 517
by sir Francis Palgrave - 1847
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Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and ..., Volume 1

Henry Hallam - Literature, Modern - 1854 - 630 pages
...on the very day that Charles VIII. made his entry into Florence. A man, so justly called the phrenix of his age, and so extraordinarily gifted by nature,...much superior and more wonderful a person as John Picus of Mirandola should not be forgotten.6 97. If, leaving the genial city of Florence, we are to...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 115

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1859 - 520 pages
...forward on his behalf simply instal him as a cleverish or dexterous ape."* " We talk," says Mr. Hallam, " of the Admirable Crichton, who is little better than a shadow, and lives but in panegyric."')' The Edinburgh Reviewer of Mitchell's Aristophanes compares the Athenian Sophists — venal and unprincipled,...
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The epigrammatists: a selection, with notes and an intr. by H. P. Dodd

Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...age of thirty-one. " If we talk," says Hallam in his " Introduction to the Literature of Europe," " of the admirable Crichton, who is little better than...much superior and more wonderful a person as John Picus of Mirandola should not be forgotten." The epitaph is best known in Pope's parody. Spence gives...
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The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ...

Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1870 - 652 pages
...thirty-one. " If we talk," says 1 1; J In in in his " Introduction to the Literature of Europe," " of the admirable Crichton, who is little better than...much superior and more wonderful a person as John Picus of Mirandola should not be forgotten." The epitaph is best known in Pope's parody. Spence gives...
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Bibliotheca Diabolica: Being a Choice Selection of the Most Valuable Books ...

Henry Kernot - Demonology - 1874 - 50 pages
...Mirandulaiius. 12mo. Paris, 1051, old calf, very rare 1 7Л If we talk of the admirable Chrichton, who is little better than a shadow, and lives but in panegyric, so much superior aud wonderful a persou as John Picus of Mirándola should not be forgotten. '—llaUam. 1653.— RAMESEY,...
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The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient ...

Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1875 - 748 pages
...talk," says Hallau in his " Introduction to the Literature of Europe," " of the admirable Crichlon, who is little better than a shadow, and lives but...much superior and more wonderful a person as John Picus of Mirandola should not be forgotten." The epitaph is best known in Pope's parody. Spencc gives...
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Heroes of the Cross: Or, Studies in the Biography of Saints, Martyrs and ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - Christian biography - 1880 - 520 pages
...Pico's life. In Pico, says Villari, neither renown, nor praise, nor his high opinion of himself,1 1 "A man so justly called the Phoenix of his age, and...passed over, though he may have left nothing which could be read with advantage. If we talk of had been able to corrupt the heart. His disposition, differing...
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Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth ..., Volumes 1-2

Henry Hallam - Europe - 1887 - 936 pages
...he was cut off* by a fever, at the age of thirty-one, in 1494, <m iln- very day that Charles VIII. made his entry into Florence. A man so justly called...could read with advantage. If we talk of the admirable Cricliton, who is little better than a shadow, and lives but in panegyric, so much superior and more...
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