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Hugo Grotius   Listen
Hugo Grotius

noun
1.
Dutch jurist and diplomat whose writings established the basis of modern international law (1583-1645).  Synonyms: Grotius, Huig de Groot.





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... by which the Arminians were excluded from the Dutch church, it established a standard of orthodoxy. In proportion as the synod gained the favor of the people, the Bible came into use, but more to serve the cause of polemics than of edification. Hugo Grotius, Erasmus, and other exegetical writers who had manifested independence in their interpretation of the Scriptures, were regarded with great suspicion and distrust. The door for the entrance of scholasticism was thrown wide open. To use the language ...
— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst
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... dreamers, but each Conference may be a landmark on the upward journey toward that consummation, anticipated by Utopians from the earliest times, foretold by prophets from Micah and Isaiah to Robert Burns and Tennyson, labored for by practical statesmen from Hugo Grotius to William H. Taft, when each man shall be a native of his state and ...
— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association
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