The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius: Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His WorksBurigny, M. de (Jean Lévesque)
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The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius: Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works
Burigny, M. de (Jean Lévesque)
Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645
[704] Vir magne, vir mirande, vir sine exemplo. Ep. 100. p. 474.
[705] Ep. 68. Cent. 2.
[706] Life, B. 2. p. 93.
[707] Life, B. 3. p. 182. Anti Baillet. c. 3.
[708] Popo Blanet, p. 746.
[709] Ep. 277.
[710] 2 Lettre du xxi. Livre, p. 831.
[711] Bibliotheque choisie, p. 461.
[712] P. 487.
[713] Ep. 13. Praes. vir. p. 23.
[714] Du Maurier, p. 393.
[715] Ep. Sar. p. 145.
[716] Ep. Sar. 128. p. 143.
[717] Ep. 21. p. 24.
[718] Ep. Vossi, 728. p. 38.
[719] Vind. Grot. p. 446.
[720] Crenii Anim. phil. et hist. Part 5. p. 95.
[721] In jugulo causa, c. 5. Crenius, Anim. phil. Part 5. p. 85.
[722] Lett. 265.
[723] Lett. 545.
[724] Lett. 538.
[725] Amb. l. 1. p. 95.
[726] Polihist. l. 1. c. 24.
[727] Pope Blount, p. 946.
[728] Supplement de Moreri.
[729] Ep. 21. p. 45.
[730] Ep. 229. p. 78.
[731] Ep. 697. p. 964.
[732] Ep. Sarr. 165. Ep. 163. p. 168.
[733] In Crenii Anim. Phil. & Hist. t. 1. p. 23.
[734] See Book 3. sec. 9. p. 243.
XXVI. It remains that we should relate what we know of Grotius's family.
After his death, his wife communicated with the Church of England;
which, it is reported, she said she did in conformity to the dying
intentions of her husband. It is certain[735] that Grotius had a respect
for the Church of England; but it is difficult to believe, that he
should desire his wife to declare he died in the communion of that
Church: for, besides that this fact is not easy to be reconciled with
his later works, it has no foundation but a letter written June 23,
1707, which is supported only by a hearsay ill-circumstantiated.
Grotius's wife died at the Hague in the communion of the Remonstrants;
which, according to Le Clerc, was not contrary to her husband's last
orders, as the Remonstrants allowed of communion with the Church of
England.
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