Edwin Percy Whipple Quote

A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.


Literature and life, lects (ed. 1851)


A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.

A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.

A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.

A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.