"Grotius" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Both Grotius and Wetstein had been the forerunners of Ernesti in this method of interpretation. What he wrought against the New Testament had its counterpart in the mischief effected by John David Michaelis against the Old. This theologian was profoundly learned in the ...
— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst
... with an inconsiderable alteration, is given in Bosch's Anthologia Graeca, vol. ii. p. 478., with a close Latin translation by Grotius. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 • Various
... paintings, missals, manuscripts—now a ruin. Alas! for the ruined harvests and the smoking villages! Alas, for the Cathedral that is a heap, and the library that is a ruin. Where the angel of happiness was there stalk Famine and Death. Gone, the Land of Grotius! Perished the paintings of Rubens! Ruined is Louvain. Where the wheat waved, now the hillsides are billowy with graves. But let us believe that God reigns. Perchance Belgium is slain like the Saviour, that militarism may die like Satan. Without shedding of innocent blood there is no remission ...
— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein |
