An unseasonable, or improper gift, tending to the injury, not to the profit of the receiver: as a large sum of money to voung persons, which they, not knowing how to use properly, often apply in such ways, as to become destructive to their health, their morals, and their fortunes; authority, to ignorant and inexperienced, or to base and worthless men, who will use it to the injury of those whom they ought to favour and protect; or preferment in the church, to ignorant and illiterate divines, who, like the ape, only become the more disgraced, the higher they rise.
Fuente: Erasmo,3204.
