The Life of Hugo Grotius
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The title page reads "THE LIFE OF HUGO GROTIUS: WITH BRIEF MINUTES OF THE CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS" and "BY CHARLES BUTLER". The opening says "In the following pages we shall attempt to present our Readers, with a Life of HUGO GROTIUS". The dedication is addressed "TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX" and ends with "Great Ormond Street , 29 Sept . 1826."
The text says "One, for the express purpose of teaching the Greek language, was founded by Charlemagne at Osnabruck." The text says "The best edition of Grotius's treatise de Jure Belli et Pacis was published at Amsterdam in 1730, by John Barbeyrac." The text says "The most partial spectator of our synodal acts cannot but confess, that, in the late discussion of the Remonstrants, with so much choler and heat, there was a great oversight committed".
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- Charles Butler
- Pages
- 153
- Language
- English
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- European History
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