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We learn from Grotius's letters , that Salmasius, notwithstanding the advantageous idea he entertained of his own knowledge, sometimes consulted him. He changed all of a sudden: Grotius imagined it was to make his court to those in power in Holland; but Sarrau, who knew both, assures us that Salmasius's coldness wholly proceeded from the change of Grotius's sentiments in religion.
But such was Salmasius's character: jealous of the reputation of those who might be put in the scale against him, he had too high an opinion of himself, and too much despised others, in the judgment of the wise Gronovius.
These are some of the incivilities, not by any means the most revolting, but such as I dare reproduce, of this literary warfare. Salmasius's taunt about Milton's venal pen is no less false than his other gibes. The places of those who served the Commonwealth, were places of "hard work and short rations." Milton never received for his Defensio a sixpence beyond his official salary.
If any one thinks that classical studies of themselves cultivate the taste and the sentiments, let him look into Salmasius's Responsio.
For the rest, Salmasius's invectives injured only himself: and it was said publicly, that he plucked the hairs of a dead lion. Two medals were struck in honour of Grotius, which we find in the end of the first volume of the History of the United Provinces by Le Clerc, one of his greatest admirers.
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