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Excerpt from Characteristic Anecdotes of Men of Learning and Genius, Natives of Great Britain and Ireland, During the Three Last Centuries: Indicative of Their Manners, Opinions, Habits, and Peculiarities, Interspersed With Reflections, and Historical and Literary Illustrations
One of the greatest men, in all respects, in that age, which has been denominated, with equal propriety, the Age of the Reformation, and that of the revival of Letters, was Sir Thomas More, the friend of Erasmus, and the victim of a sanguinary tyrant's caprice and cruelty.
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