The Life of Hugo Grotius Part 26

[Footnote 081: Epist. 1706, p. 736.]

[Footnote 082: Ib. Epist. 613.]

[Footnote 083: Epist. part. I. Epist. 432. part II. Epist. 53. The French public strongly suspected the Cardinal of this design. It gave rise to the celebrated libel, ent.i.tled "_Optatus Gallus,_" _Grotius_, (Lit. 982.) notices a prophecy of Nostradamus, then in circulation:

"_Celui qui etait bien avant dans le regne, Ayant chat rouge, proche, hierarchie, Apre et cruel, et se fera tant craindre, Succedera, a sacree Monarchie._"

If the event in question had happened, Nostradamus would have pa.s.sed, with many for a prophet.]

[Footnote 084: Eclairciss.e.m.e.ns de l'edit de Nantes, page 1. c. 6.]

[Footnote 085: V. 2. p. 38, 148.]

[Footnote 086: We are grieved to add, that he allowed the _right_ of a sovereign to persecute for religion.]

[Footnote 087: This article is extracted from Oeuvres Posthumes de Bossuet, vol. i. Nouvelle edition des Oeuvres de Bossuet, vol. ii.

Leibnizii Opera, studio Ludovici Dutens, vol. i. and v. And the Pensees de Leibniz, vol. ii. 8vo.]

[Footnote 088: Tom. xiii.]

[Footnote 089: See the Appendix to the Sermons of Dr. Jebb, the present excellent Bishop of Limerick.--Cadel, 1824.]