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

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Life of Hugo Grotius, by Charles Butler
Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, London.
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.
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 Epistolæ , published at Amsterdam in 1687, in one volume, folio; and many in the Præstantium et Eruditorum Virorum Epistolæ Ecclesiasticæ , 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 ;