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Title: The Life of Hugo Grotius

Author: Charles Butler

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Language: English

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THE LIFE OF HUGO GROTIUS

With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History
of the Netherlands

by

CHARLES BUTLER, ESQ.

Of Lincoln's-Inn

London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street.

M.DCCC.XXVI.

TO
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
THE DUKE OF SUSSEX,
THIS BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT
OF
ONE OF THE MOST AMIABLE AND RESPECTABLE DEFENDERS OF THE NOBLE CAUSE OF
CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY,
OF WHICH
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS HAS UNIFORMLY BEEN A CONSTANT AND POWERFUL ADVOCATE,
IS
(WITH HIS PERMISSION),
MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
BY
THE AUTHOR,

Great Ormond Street

29 Sept. 1826

CONTENTS

In the following pages we shall attempt to present our Readers, with a
Life of HUGO GROTIUS; and MINUTES OF THE CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND
LITERARY HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS.

In writing these pages, we principally consulted his life, written in
the French language, by _M. de Burigni_, Member of the French Royal
Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres; an English translation of
it, was published in 1754, in one Volume, 8vo.;

_Hugonis Grotii Manes, ab iniquis obtrectationibus vindicati_; 2
vols. 8vo. 1727: the author of this work is said to be M. Lehman;

The article _Grotius_, in _Bayle's and Chalmers's
Dictionaries_;

And many of the letters in _Hugonis Grotii Epistolae_, published at
Amsterdam in 1687, in one volume, folio; and many in the _Praestantium
et Eruditorum Virorum Epistolae Ecclesiasticae_, published at Amsterdam
in 1684, in one volume, 4to.

For what we have said on GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS, we principally
consulted,

_Schmidt's Histoire des Allemands_;

_Pfeffell