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"Celtis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... beyond the Alps found themselves united in a common bond which they were not eager to share. We have seen the kind of gibe with which Agricola's eloquence was greeted at Pavia. The more such insults are deserved, the more they sting. We may be sure that in many cases they were not forgotten. Celtis returning from Italy to Ingolstadt in 1492 delivered his soul in an inaugural oration: 'The ancient hatred between us can never be dissolved. But for the Alps we should be eternally at war.' In other countries the feeling, though less acute, was much the same. Thus ...
— The Age of Erasmus - Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London • P. S. Allen |
Words linked to "Celtis" : Celtis occidentalis, genus Celtis, Ulmaceae, nettle tree, American hackberry, family Ulmaceae, hackberry, Celtis australis, magnoliopsid genus, elm family, Mediterranean hackberry, dicot genus, European hackberry, sugarberry |
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