609.]
[Footnote 067: Ep. 1538. p. 573, 690, 926.]
[Footnote 068: Ep. 528. p. 400.]
[Footnote 069: "Those," says Mr. James Nichols,[070]
"who wish to behold the praises to which HUGO GROTIUS or HUGH DE
GROOT, is justly entitled, and which he has received in ample
measure from admiring friends and reluctant foes, may consult SIR
THOMAS POPE BLOUNT's _Censura celebriorum Authorum_. His well
earned reputation is founded on too durable a basis to be moved by
such petty attacks as those to which I have alluded in a previous
part of this introduction (p. xxi.), or those of Mr. Orme in page
641.
"That a man so accomplished, virtuous, fearless, and unfortunate,
should have had many enemies, among his contemporaries, is not
wonderful. But the number of those who evinced their hatred to him,
or to his philanthropic labours, increased after his decease, when
they could display it with impunity. 'This very pious, learned, and
judicious man,' says Dr.
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