[Footnote 060: Page 300. M. Le Clerc, (_Sentimens de quelques Theologiens de Hollande, dix-septieme Lettre_) defends Grotius with great ability against the charge of Socinianism: he justly observes, that, his abstaining from unpleasing propositions, his silence on offensive doctrines, and his conciliating expressions, should not too easily be accounted proofs, of belief of his precise sentiments of any particular tenets. Grotius, says Le Clerc, was like an arbitrator, who, to bring to amity the parties in difference, recommends to each, that he should give something of what he himself considers to be his strict right.] [Footnote 061: Ep. 363. p. 364] [Footnote 062: Ep. 491. p. 195.] [Footnote 063: Ep. 494. p. 896.] [Footnote 064: Ep. 1706. p. 736.] [Footnote 065: _Comparison of Calvinism and Arminianism_. vol. ii. p. 560.] [Footnote 066: Ib. Vol. ii. p. 609.] [Footnote 067: Ep. 1538. p. 573, 690, 926.] [Footnote 068: Ep. 528. p. 400.] [Footnote 069: "Those," says Mr. James Nichols,[070] "who wish to behold the praises to which HUGO GROTIUS or HUGH DE GROOT, is justly entitled, and which he has received in ample measure from admiring friends and reluctant foes, may consult SIR THOMAS POPE BLOUNT's _Censura celebriorum Authorum_. His well earned reputation is founded on too durable a basis to be moved by such petty attacks as those to which I have alluded in a previous part of this introduction (p. xxi.), or those of Mr. Orme in page 641. "That a man so accomplished, virtuous, fearless, and unfortunate, should have had many enemies, among his contemporaries, is not wonderful. But the number of those who evinced their hatred to him, or to his philanthropic labours, increased after his decease, when they could display it with impunity. 'This very pious, learned, and judicious man,' says Dr. Hammond, 'hath of late, among many, fallen under a very unhappy fate, being most unjustly calumniated, sometimes as a SOCINIAN, sometimes as a PAPIST, and, as if he had learnt to reconcile contradictions, sometimes _as both of them together._'