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Colomiez, in his Bibliotheque choisie , has collected some of the Elogiums which had been then made of Grotius: "The President Jeannin, says he, according to the relation of Balzac, opposes Grotius to the greatest men of antiquity.
It contained the "Letter from a Country Attorney to a Country Parson concerning the Rights of the Church," and the philosopher Le Clerc's appreciative reference to Tindal's work in his Bibliothèque Choisie. Nevertheless, Queen Anne had given Tindal a present of £500 for his book, and told him that she believed he had banished Popery beyond a possibility of its return.
He has a great deal about it in his Bibliotheque Choisie . "Those who shall read Grotius's version, says he, will equally admire the happy genius, and the uncommon patience of that excellent man, who translated the whole book in the same number of verses as in the original, which he very often equals, and sometimes even surpasses.
Madame de Saint Laurent, and Madame la Baronne de Vaudrey, and Madame la Comtesse de Jonville, ladies of the highest rank, who keep a societe choisie and condescend to give dinners at five-francs a head, vied with each other in their attentions to Jack.
Vir magne, vir mirande, vir sine exemplo. Ep. 100. p. 474. Ep. 68. Cent. 2. Life, B. 2. p. 93. Life, B. 3. p. 182. Anti Baillet. c. 3. Popo Blanet, p. 746. Ep. 277. 2 Lettre du xxi. Livre, p. 831. Bibliotheque choisie, p. 461. Ep. 13. Præs. vir. p. 23. Du Maurier, p. 393. Ep. Sar. p. 145. Ep. Sar. 128. p. 143. Ep. 21. p. 24. Ep. Vossi, 728. p. 38. Vind. Grot. p. 446. Crenii Anim. phil. et hist.
Indeed, Sulpicius Severus is likened for style and eloquence to Sallust; he is known as the "Christian Sallust"; and Leclerc in the twentieth volume of his Bibliotheque Choisie, is loud in praise of his Latin, which is, certainly, purer than could have been imagined for his time.
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