Identifier: generalbiographyv4pt2aiki (find matches)
Title: General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822 Enfield, William, 1741-1797
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: London : Smeeton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Discourses, in which he freely exposed thevices and disorders of the clergy ; and numer-ous Letters, to be met with in the secondvolume of Browns Fasciculus Rerum expe-tendarum & fugicndarum, &c. For a parti-cular enumeration of his edited and ineditedworks, we refer to the first and last of our sub-joined authorities. Caves Hist. Lit. vol. I. sub sac- Schol. Gidivin de Pr.tsul. Aitglix. Dtipin.Pcg^es Life of Robert Grosseteste.—^L CiROTIUS, Hugo, one of the most illustri- 7ous names in modern literature, the glory andthe disgrace of his country, was born at DelftApril loth, 1583. His father, Jshii de Groot .(the proper family name), was a learned andrespectable citizen of Delft, of which he wassuccsssively shcritT and burgomaster, and like-wise curator of the university of Leytlen. Hismother was of one of the first families in thecountry. Hugo from his childhood gave proofsof wonderful quickness of parts, and it isaffirmed that at eight years of age he composed
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Ci R O ( ^7-5 ) G R O Latin elegiac verses. Hi.i memory was procligious, his judgment solid, and his applicationindefatigable. Due pains were taken by hisfather to cultivate sopramising a plant. lie waslirst boarded with Al. Utengobard, a learnedarminian minister at the Hague, for whom hecontracted a tender affection which continuedtill death. In his twelfth year he was removedto Leyden, where he was under tlie specialcare of Francis Junius. Tlie celebrated JosephScaliger, then almost at the-head of literature,was so much struck with die abilities of youngGrotius, that he deigned to direct him in hisstudies. At the age of fourteen he main-tained public theses in mathematics, law, andphilosophy. In such a theatre, his reputationcould not fail of being widely extended. Seve-ral of the most eminent scholars of the age,Pontanus, iMeursius, Barlacus, Dousa, Heinsius,mentioned him as a prodigy, and foretold hisfuture distinction in the republic of letters.A proof of the depth and compass of

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