Category: Biographies

The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands

SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS, OF GROTIUS 1. _New edition of Stobæus_ 2. _His treatise de Jure Belli et Pacis_ 3. ---- _de Veritate Religionis Christianæ_ 4. ---- _de Jure summarum potestatum circa sacra._--And _Commentatio ad loca quædam Novi Testamenti, quæ de Antichristo agun...

Chapters

22. CHAPTER XIV.

In some of the preceding pages, the principal events in the history of the Seven United Provinces, till the death of William II, in 1680, have been briefly mentioned: in the pre...

9. CHAPTER XIV.

We propose to present to our readers, in this chapter, a succinct account, of the Geography, Devolution, and Literature of the Netherlands,--considering them, until they became...

19. CHAPTER X.

That literature is an ornament in prosperity, and a comfort in adverse fortune, has been often said by the best and wisest men; but no one experienced the truth of this assertio...

20. CHAPTER XII.

We left the Arminians under the iron arm of Prince Maurice:--He died in 1625:--We have mentioned, that Prince Frederick-Henry his brother, and successor in the Stadtholderate, a...

14. CHAPTER V.

It has generally happened, when a people have risen against their sovereign, that their first successes have been followed by divisions among themselves; and that these have end...

12. CHAPTER III.

There is not, perhaps, an instance of a person's acquiring at an age equally early, the reputation, which attended the first publication of Grotius. It was an edition, with note...

16. CHAPTER VII.

While the Synod of Dort continued its sittings, Prince Maurice and his party were actively employed in increasing the popular ferment against Barneveldt, Grotius and Hoogerbetz;...

15. CHAPTER VI.

The States General determined that the Synod[024] should be composed of twenty-six divines of the United Provinces, twenty-eight foreign divines, five professors of divinity, an...

21. CHAPTER XIII.

Every thing respecting the recall of Grotius being settled, he embarked at Dieppe for Holland. He was extremely well received at Amsterdam and Rotterdam: the constituted authori...

11. CHAPTER II.

In the ruin of the Roman Empire, her laws were lost in the general wreck. During the 200 years, which followed the reign of Constantine the Great, Europe was a scene of every ca...

18. CHAPTER IX.

Soon after the escape of Grotius from prison, he repaired to Paris: in this, he followed the advice of Du Maurier, the French ambassador at the Hague. His works had made him kno...

10. CHAPTER I.

The Life of Erasmus, which we have offered to the public, presents to its readers, the interesting spectacle of a person, born under every, disadvantage for the acquisition of l...

17. CHAPTER VIII.

We must now carry back our readers to events which preceded the Synod of Dort. We have mentioned the decease of Arminius: soon after it, a circumstance took place, which, to the...

13. CHAPTER IV.

The present chapter will lead our readers to the public life of Grotius: in a former page we succinctly mentioned the principal events in the history of the United Provinces, fr...

6. CHAPTER X.

SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS, OF GROTIUS 1. _New edition of Stobæus_ 2. _His treatise de Jure Belli et Pacis_ 3. ---- _de Veritate Religionis Christianæ_ 4. ---- _de Jure summaru...

3. CHAPTER V.

5. CHAPTER IX.

8. CHAPTER XII.

7. CHAPTER XI.

2. CHAPTER IV.

4. CHAPTER VII.

1. CHAPTER II.