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 by Jean Lévesque de Burigny
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it is manifest that Grotius was born in 1583.
It must be owned, however, that the proof on which the President Bouhier builds his opinion, would be decisive, if there were no error in the text of a[15] letter written by Grotius to his brother, April 14, 1640, in which he says, "I have completed my fifty-eighth year:" but the other passages of Grotius just cited demonstrate that the editors of this letter, instead of _incepi_, I have begun, read _implevi_, I have completed: which Grotius could not have written without contradicting himself. FOOTNOTES: [8] Athenæ Batavæ, p. 205. Life of Grotius prefixed to his works. Le Clerc, Hist. de Hollande, l. 12. t. 2. See the critical Remarks on Bayle's Dict. ed. 1734. [9] Ep. 55. p. 18. [10] Ep. 95. p. 41. [11] Ep. 648. p. 952. [12] Ep. 697. p. 965. [13] Page 213. [14] Poemata, p. 217. [15] Ep. 491. p. 896. |
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