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only m. in each case, or or less than the +jssth part of a 
major comma! and yet this temperament, so perfectly m 
eerie eo sree 
TC QUATION or Tie. See Astronomy. p.652, am. 
EQUATIONS. See Atcesra, 
EQUATOR. See Astronomy and GrocrapHy. 
EQUATORIAL Insrrements. See Osserva- 
TORY. 
EQUINOCTIAL. SeeAstnonomy and Grograpny. 
EQUINOXES,, Precession or. See Astronomy, 
p- 712, 714. 
P EQUISETUM. See Finices. 
. ERANTHEMUM. See Botany, p- 85. 
ERASMUS, or Desipenivs, * one of the most cele- 
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sae of his treatises, and compelled him te spend Erasmus 
reading lectures to young students,, ““—~-* 
of his time in 
He received, however, frequent donations from his 
friends and patrons, particularly from Anne Bersala, 
Marchioness of Ure, whom he often addressed in let- 
ters of the most complimentary style, and to whom he 
made known his wants with very little deli- 
oe About the beginning of the year 1507, he went 
taly, in order to take a doctor’s degree, which, he 
observes, “‘ makes one neither better nor wiser, but must 
be done, if a man would be esteemed by the world.” 
Having ‘resided about a year in Florence, he ed 
to Venice, where he published a third edition of his 
Adages ; and, after rade a short time at Padua, he.- 
arrived in Rome in 1509. At this time, he was acting 
as tutor, to Alexander, fo pore of St Andrews, na- 
tural son of James IV., of w draws a very high 
character, and who was aoe slain, with his fa. 
ther, at the sr pcan rae Field. At Rome, he at 
“experienced most flattering attentions, and re~ 
ceived several ady: offers to induce him to set« 
pi en ap but at | he -seems to have 
the sincerity of his Italian friends, and, in. 
“ Praise of Folly,” which he wrote soon after, ex- 
ply Se, ap od inert oe 
treated ane oe popes court. there 
fore, the invitations .of Henry VIII. and of his former 
ations, to return to England, where he 
continued a considerable time in great favour with the 
King, with fue with Warkam Archbishop of Can« 
wieate with Sir Thomas More, and many other nobles . 
of distinction. Invited to Cambridge by 
» of Rochester, he was oted succes~ 
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tre sant invectives against the monastic. orders, are upon 
him the bitterest 
persecutions tions from that 
order to shelter himself from their ~ nt 
his edition of the New Testament i in Greek.and: Latin, 
with notes, a work which had long occupied his -chief - 
attention, and which, while it drew upon-him the cen~ 
sures” of i t and envious critics, was highly va- 
lued by all who were capebve. ani of appreciating its merits. 
About the same tim roduced, and fnscribed to 
Archbishop Warkam, an edition of the works of Je« 
rome, whom he professed, in rather exaggerated terms, 
to hold in the cuetaat estimation, as an author and a 
/ _ ® His original, name was Gerard, signifying « amiable,” which, according to the custom of.the times, he rendered into the Latin epi 
thet Desidertus, and the Greck Erasmus, ptt on | as he afterwards wished to have expressed it, Erasmius. 
