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.
  His uncertainty what course of life to follow, 344
  Applies to the study of the law, 346
  Uneasiness which his irresolution gives his father, ibid
  His marriage, 347
  The edition which he purposed to publish of his father’s works, ibid
  Enters into the service of the elector Palatine, 348
  Is nominated pensionary of Amsterdam, ibid
  Rise of his displeasure against France, ibid. 
  Goes ambassador to Stockholm, 349
  His great knowledge of men, 349
  Is made pensionary of Rotterdam, and nominated ambassador from
    Holland to France, 350
  Success of his embassy, ibid
  Involved in the disgrace of the De Wits, 351
  Arrested and acquitted, ibid
  His death, 352
  His elogium by Vicquefort, ibid.

Gustavus, king of Sweden, Grotius great veneration for that prince, 133
  His esteem for Grotius, 135
  Purposes to engage him in his service, ibid
  Gives orders before his death for employing him in the Swedish
    ministry, ibid
  The value he set upon his treatise of War and Peace, ibid.

H.

Heemskerke, Elselinga, her family, and marriage with Hugo de Groot, 2
  Her children, ibid.

Heinsius, Daniel, his elogium of Grotius when a boy, 7
  His Aristarchus Sacer, 264
  The rival and secret enemy of Grotius, ibid
  Ill success of his commentary on the New Testament, 266
  Grotius’s management of him, ibid. 
  Verses by Heinsius to be put under Grotius’s picture, 330.

Heinsius, Nicholas, 18, 351.

Henry IV., the reception given by him to Grotius, 11.

Hoffman, calls Grotius the Phoenix of his age, 334.

Holland, the counts of, who was the first, 27
  Their power and authority, ibid.

Holland, the states of, their first regulation with regard to the
Arminians and Gomarists, 41
  They declare for a toleration, 46. 
  Their edict on this subject, 47
  Authorise the magistrates of the towns to raise troops, 49
  Deputation sent by them to the town of Amsterdam, and its success, 50,
    57
  Vain scheme prepared by them for a re-union, 54
  Afraid of the holding of a national synod, why, 55
  Deputation sent by them to Utrecht, on what occasion, 56
  Consent to the holding of the synod of Dort, 60
  Their complaints against the imprisonment of Barnevelt, and the rest,
    61
  They are accused of favouring Socinianism, 82
  Their apology by Grotius, ibid.

Holland, the grand pensionary of, his office, and power, 29.

Hoogerbetz, pensionary of Leiden, deputed to Utrecht, on what occasion,
56
  Arrested by order of prince Maurice, 58
  Is condemned to perpetual imprisonment, 73
  Is removed to the fortress of Louvestein, 74
  He comes out of prison, 107
  His death, ibid.

Horn, Marshal, made prisoner at the battle of Norlinguen, 139, 225
  Grotius negotiates his exchange for John de Vert, 225.

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