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.

Reigersberg, Grotius’s brother-in-law, troubles which Grotius’s enemies
endeavoured to stir up to him, 119
  Blondius’s ill treatment of him, 317.

Reigersberg, Mary, her birth, 24
  Her marriage to Grotius, and her elogium, ibid
  Is denied permission to continue with him, even to see him, or speak
    with him during his imprisonment, 59, 66
  Obtains liberty to see him in his prison at Louvestein, 74
  The means she made use of to obtain his liberty, 78
  Is confined, but afterwards discharged, 80, 81
  Comes to her husband at Paris, 93
  Her journey to Zealand, and return, 105
  Goes to her husband at Francfort, 136
  Waits on the french queen to compliment her on her pregnancy, 196
  Her answer to Salmasius’s slanders against her husband, 337
  Professes the religion of the church of England, 338
  Her death, ibid.

Religion, Grotius first composes in Dutch verse his treatise of the
truth of the christian religion, 76
  Afterwards publishes it in latin, 259
  The general approbation, and several translations of this work, 259,
    260
  Accusation brought against the author on account of it, 260
  A new edition of it with additions, 262
  The opinion of the learned concerning this performance, ibid.

Remonstrants, see Arminians.

Renaudot, publishes an article in his Gazette which gives offence to
Grotius, 186.

Richelieu, cardinal, seems to blame the conduct of Mess. de Luynes with
regard to Barnevelt’s death, 66
  Nominated prime minister, 116
  Confers with Grotius, ibid
  Gives him great hopes, ibid
  His stratagem to make the Swedes comply with his desires, 149
  Is unwilling the high Chancellor should come to France, 151
  Makes a new treaty with him, 153
  The English dispute the privileges of his cardinalship, 170
  He purposes to take Brisac out of the duke of Weymar’s hands, 213
  His uneasiness at not gaining that prince, ibid
  Is suspected of contributing to cut him off, 214
  The death of the cardinal, 230
  Gives orders that Grotius’s works may be printed without passing the
    examination of the censors, 266
  Grotius flatters himself without reason that the cardinal will favour
    his project of re-uniting christians, 312
  The cardinal ranks Grotius among the three most learned men of his
    age, 330

Rights of war and peace, the author’s view in writing this book, 109
  Barbeyrac’s commendation of it, 110
  Translations of it, 110, 111
  Its defects, 112
  Put into the Index Expurgatorius at Rome, 113.

Rivetus, how he treats Grotius with regard to his writings in favour of
a coalition, 274
  Grotius’s answer, ibid.

Ruarus, his opinion of Grotius’s writings on Antichrist, 271
  His judgment of Grotius’s scheme for a coalition, 316.

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