Word: sylvius
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...idyllic poverty. Eventually Lady Chatterley's husband agrees to give her a divorce, but Mellors' hell-cat wife will not do likewise. In fact, she pursues him abroad, upbraids and bedevils him until he shoots her. Exit Mellors. Lady Chatterley and her child take refuge with Sylvius, a supersensible Frenchman, half philosopher, half farmer. Lady Chatterley is tired of the passionate daily diet she has had with Mellors and Sylvius is much too cool a character to catch fire. But they grow fond of each other, in a sensible and subdued way, finally get married, look forward...
...Raising of Lazarus" and the very famous "Hundred Guilder Print", representing Christ healing the sick. Among the landscapes on exhibition are "Three Trees", the "Cottage and Dutch Bay-barn", and the "Gold-weigher's Field", Portraits fo the artist himself, his mother, and the men of his time--Sutma, Sylvius, and his friend, the Burgomaster Six, are also included...
...show how natural it was that virtue, which had meant manliness in the Roman Age and goodness in the Middle Ages, in this period came to mean mainly a knowledge of Latin. The theory of education in the Middle Ages was unfolded for us by the treatises of Aeneas Sylvius, and its practice illustrated by the writings of Vittorino Guarino and others. But these men were theorists; far greater were the two teachers who exemplify the practice of learning, though they refrain from embodying it in any formal treatise, --Vittorino da Feltre and Guarino of Verona. Both founded schools...
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