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Butler, Charles, 1750-1832

"With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands"

He tells us that, when he was deprived of pen and ink,
he was got to the forty-ninth title, which is an invective against
tyranny, that had a great relation to what passed at that time in
Holland. On his removal to Louvestein, he resumed this work, and
finished it at Paris. He made several happy corrections in the text
of Stobaeus; some, from his own conjectures or those of his friends;
others, on the authority of manuscripts in the King's library,
which were politely lent him by the learned Nicholas Rigaut,
librarian to his majesty.
[Sidenote: His edition of Stobaeus.]
[Sidenote: CHAP. X. 1621-1634]
"Prefixed to this book, are _Prolegomena_, in which the author shews
that the works of the ancient Pagans are filled with maxims
agreeable to the truths taught in holy writ. He intended to
dedicate this book to the Chancellor Silleri: he had even writ the
dedication, but his friends, to whom he shewed it, thought he
expressed himself with too much warmth, against the censurers of
his _Apology_.


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