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Next comes a very neat and compact little Seneca, in four 18mo volumes, bound in rich old Russia, and bearing the esteemed imprint, "Amstelodami apud Ludovicum et Danielem Elzevirios, M.D.CLVIII." As the Baskerville classics are the noblest for the library table, so the Elzevirs are the neatest and prettiest for the pocket or the lecture-room.
XIII. Grotius, even whilst engaged in the dispute against the zealous Protestant Ministers, undertook to clear up the origin of the Americans; which enquiry involved him in a controversy that gave him much uneasiness. Amstelodami apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, anno 1643 .
Amstelodami, apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1655. At the head of this work is a very learned Preface, in which the author acquaints us, that he revised the Gothics and Vandalics of Procopius by the Greek manuscripts; that he new-translated them because there were many things omitted in the old translations, which were otherwise badly done; and that, by the assistance of the Vatican manuscripts, he filled up large gaps.
The second edition of D'Aubigné is the poorer for being shorn of these caustic passages. The Jesuit Keller's Admonitio ad Ludovicum XIII. , and the same author's Mysteria Politica, , were both sentenced to be burnt; also the Jesuit Sanctarel's Tractatus de Hæresi , which claimed for the Pope the right to dispose, not only of the thrones, but also of the lives of princes.
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