 | 1776 - 586 pagina’s
...Grotius *, a man of genius and learning, who preferred his moderation amidft the fury of contending feas, and who compofed the annals of his Own age and country,...fubmit our belief to the authority of Grotius, it m un be allowed, that the number of Proteflants, who were executed in a fmgle pro>ince, ,2nd a fingle... | |
 | Joseph Lomas Towers - 1808 - 346 pagina’s
...genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country, at a time when...printing had facilitated the means of intelligence, and increased the danger of detection".' Father Paul, however, it is proper to state, reduces these Belgic... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - 1828 - 430 pagina’s
...genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country at a time when...printing had facilitated the means of intelligence, and increased the danger of detection." — GIBBON. Bignon was born at Paris 1590, and died in the 67 th... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - 1828 - 440 pagina’s
...genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country at a time when...printing had facilitated the means of intelligence, and increased the danger of detection." — GIBBON. Bignon was born at Paris 1590, and died in the 6yth... | |
 | Philip Allwood - 1829 - 538 pagina’s
...and learning; who " preserved his moderation amidst the fury of " contending sects; and who composed the annals " of his own age and country, at a time,...printing had facilitated the " means of intelligence, and increased the danger " of detection a ." Making allowance for those unhappy prejudices against Christianity,... | |
 | John David Macbride - 1848 - 1080 pagina’s
...genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the Annals of his own age and country, at a time when...printing had facilitated the means of intelligence, and increased the danger of detection." Even allowing much exaggeration, we may at least suppose the number... | |
 | 1851 - 372 pagina’s
...genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country at a time when...printing had facilitated the means of intelligence, and increased the danger of detection. If we are obliged to submit our belief to the authority of Grotius,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pagina’s
...genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country at a time when...printing had facilitated the means of intelligence and increased the danger of detection. If we are obliged to submit our belief to the authority of Grotius,... | |
 | Edwin Heycock - 1872 - 520 pagina’s
...genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country at a time when...printing had facilitated the means of intelligence and increased the danger of detection. If we are obliged to submit our belief to the authority of Grotius,... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - 1876 - 184 pagina’s
...fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a shade from the heat. — Cowper. Grotius wrote at a time when the invention of printing had facilitated the means of intelligence, and increased the danger of detection. — Gibbon. NOTE. — Observe how such sentences are thrown forward... | |
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Grotius. a man of genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country at a time when the invention of printing had facilitated the means of intelligence and increased... 
