The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius eBook

Jean Lévesque de Burigny
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius.

The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius eBook

Jean Lévesque de Burigny
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius.

O.

Ocean, contents of Grotius’s treatise on the freedom of the ocean, 24
  The several answers to it, 26.

Oldemburg, his elogium of Grotius, 334.

Orange, William prince of, his death, 8
  What confusion it occasions in the United Provinces, ibid.

Ostend, Prosopopoeia of that town, written by Grotius, 18
  The great character of this piece, ibid.

Overchie, Alida, her marriage with John de Groot, 4
  Her family, ibid
  Her death, ibid.

Oxensteirn, high Chancellor of Sweden, sends for Grotius, 133
  Is his patron at Gustavus’s court, 135
  Nominated regent of Sweden during the minority of queen Christina,
    ibid
  Opposes the treaty made with France by the envoys of the allies, 147
  His journey to France and arrival at court, 151
  Makes a new treaty with the french king, 153
  His satisfaction with Grotius’s preface to his history of the
    antiquity of the Goths, 255.

Oxensteirn, Benedict, a relation of the high Chancellor, sent to France
by king Gustavus, 134
  Esteem which he conceives for Grotius, ibid.

P.

Patin, Guy, what he says of the manner of Grotius’s death, 242
  His elogium of that learned man, 333.

Patiniana, what it says of Grotius’s pretended inclination to judaism, 325.

Pau, ambassador from Holland to France, at a loss how to behave to
Grotius, 144
  The ill offices which he doth him, 173

Petau, Father, Grotius’s esteem for him, 266
  Sends him his commentary on the Gospels, ibid
  His connection with Grotius, 300
  Says mass for his soul, 301
  The account he gives of his first acquaintance with that learned man,
    313.

Peyresc, Nicholas, visits Grotius on his arrival at Paris, 90
  Sets him about writing the treatise of war and peace, 108
  Services which he did him when compiling his annals of the Low
    Countries, 259
  His esteem for him from his youth, 327.

Pontanus, Isaac, his elogium of Grotius when a boy, 7, 326.

Pope, Grotius maintains and proves his supremacy, 288.

Provinces, United, state of their affairs at Grotius’s birth, 7
  Embassy sent by them to Henry III. of France, ibid
  refuse to make peace with Spain, 10
  Embassy sent by them on that subject to Henry IV., ibid
  Refuse the truce offered them, 11
  Nominate Grotius to be their historiographer, 21
  See Dutch.

Puffendorf, allows that little remained to be said after what Grotius had written of war and peace, 110.

Q.

Quistorpius, John, minister of Rostock, assisted Grotius at his death,
239
  Relation which he gives of it, ibid.

R.

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