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Hythloday in reply to a comment from Colore Oscuro
Sleeper Bill of the Month: Our Own Truth & Reconciliation Commission 2009
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Barry Champlain in reply to a comment from Hythloday
Sleeper Bill of the Month: Our Own Truth & Reconciliation Commission 2009
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‘I have the more cause,’ says Hythloday, ‘to fear that my words shall not be believed, for that I know how difficultly and hardly I myself would have believed another man telling the same, if I had not myself seen it with mine own eyes.’
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The hero of his discourse (Hythloday) is very unwilling to become a minister of state, considering that he would lose his independence and his advice would never be heeded (Compare an exquisite passage, of which the conclusion is as follows: ‘And verily it is naturally given ... suppressed and ended.’)
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Hythloday in what part of the world Utopia is situated; he
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The design may have failed through the disappearance of Hythloday, concerning whom we have ‘very uncertain news’ after his departure.
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This Raphael, who from his family carries the name of Hythloday, is not ignorant of the Latin tongue, but is eminently learned in the Greek, having applied himself more particularly to that than to the former, because he had given himself much to philosophy, in which he knew that the Romans have left us nothing that is valuable, except what is to be found in Seneca and Cicero.
Utopia 1999
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This Raphael, who from his family carries the name of Hythloday, is not ignorant of the Latin tongue, but is eminently learned in the Greek, having applied himself more particularly to that than to the former, because he had given himself much to philosophy, in which he knew that the Romans have left us nothing that is valuable, except what is to be found in Seneca and Cicero.
Utopia Thomas More
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Hythloday contends that English laws are badly administered.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Hythloday answers this objection by giving an account of the institutions and customs of the Utopians.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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