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.

States General, entirely devoted to prince Maurice, 55
  Convene the synod of Dort, ibid
  Disband the new levies, 56
  The placard issued by them in relation to the imprisonment of
    Barnevelt and the others, 58
  The ill offices they do Grotius by their ambassadors on his arrival at
    Paris, 89
  Condemn his Apology, and proscribe him, 95
  The new ordinance which they publish against him, 123.

Statius, Grotius’s notes on that poet, 246.

Stobeus, the subject and use of his work, 103
  Grotius gives a new edition of it, ibid
  A copy of it found with notes in Grotius’s hand writing, 104.

Swedes, state of their affairs when Grotius entered into their service,
137
  Their defeat at the battle of Nordlinguen, 139
  The assistance they received from Lewis XIII., ibid
  Discussions between them and France, 146
  The difficulties they make about the treaty concluded with that crown
    by the envoys of the allies, 147
  Grotius diverts them from sending plenipotentiaries to the congress at
    Cologn, 181
  Their dispute with the English for precedency, 184
  Consternation into which they are thrown by the death of the duke of
    Weymar, 215
  Renew their alliance with France, 228.

T.

Tacitus, Grotius’s notes on that historian, 246.

Thou, the president de, Grotius’s esteem and veneration for him, 11
  Their correspondence together, 12
  The friendship which that magistrate expresses for Grotius, ibid
  Grotius’s elogium of him, 13
  His approbation of Grotius’s edition of Martianus Capella, 15
  commends his edition of Aratus’s Phoenomena, 17.

Thou, Francis de, son of the president, generously gives Grotius the use
of his library, 105
  His visit to him on his arrival in France in the character of Swedish
    ambassador, 141.

Trent, council of, its decision concerning the number of sacraments
defended by Grotius, 293
  Respect with which he spoke of that council, 299.

V.

Valois, M. what he says of Grotius’s connection with father Petau, and his disposition to turn Roman Catholic, 300.

Vassor, character of that historian, 281
  His judgment of Grotius’s letters, ibid.

Venice, its ambassador disputes with Grotius for precedency, 179
  another discussion between them, 183

Vert, John de, made prisoner by the duke of Weymar, 194
  Is exchanged for marshal Horne, 227.

Voetius, attacks Grotius’s treatise of the truth of the christian
religion, 260
  Grotius’s opinion of his criticism, ibid.

Vondel, a famous Dutch poet, translates Grotius’s tragedy of Joseph into
Dutch, 19
  His conjectures concerning Grotius’s departure from Stockholm, 238.

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