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| War or battle as a thing very beastly, and yet to no kind of beasts in so much use as it is to man, they do detest and abhor. |
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| 1478–1535, English statesman and author of Utopia, celebrated as a martyr in the Roman Catholic Church. He received a Latin education in the household of Cardinal Morton and at Oxford. Through his contact with the new learning and his friendships with Colet, Lyly, and Erasmus, More became an ardent humanist.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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Pronunciation:  môr, m r from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- Utopia
More's description of the ideal commonwealth. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXVI, Part 3.
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- More, Sir Thomas, 40665 to 40669
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- “The Life of Sir Thomas More”
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXVI, Part 2.
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- “More”
Sections by Rev. William Hunt with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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