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BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY.
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THE
RIGHTS
O F
WAR
AND
GROT I us.
O N
WAR and PEACE.
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XV 1 Cr H T S
O F
WAR
AND
P E AC E,
IN THREE BOOKS.
Wherein are explained.
The LAW" of Nature and Nations^
AND
The Principal Points relating to Government.
Written in L A 'T I N by the Learned
HUGO G R 0 r I U S,
And Tranflated into ENGLISH.
To which are added.
All the large Notes di Mx, J, E A R E E T R A C,
Professor of La w at Groningen,
And Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin,
LONDON:
Printed for W. Innys and R. Man by, J. and P. Knapton,
D. Brown, T, Osborn, and E. Wicksteed.
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AB.A.f^iS^j, tI
THE
LIFE
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HUGO G R O T I
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■^ O look into the Manners of Antiquity^ and recover the Memory of frecediitg Ages, is an Entertainment of the higheft
Pleafure and Advantage to the Mind, it eftabHfhes very lafting Impreflions of Virtue in us, enlarges the Soul, and moves our
Emulation to follow and excel the leading Charadters before us j when we are tracing the Exploits of some Worthy of Old^ with what Delight do we purfue him in every Circumftance of Adion, we admire the Example, and tranfmit the Beauties of his Life into our own Condud by Pra&ice and Imitation; for the Mind of Man is of a fearching Nature, very wide and extenjive in her Speculations; an…