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Excerpt from The Life of Hugo Grotius: With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands
SO far as Literature depends upon the favour of the monarch, no eera in history promised more than the reign of Charlemagne. His edu cation had been neglected; but he had real taste for learning and the arts, was sensible of their beneficial in?uence both upon the public and the private welfare of a people; and possessed the amplest means of encouraging and diffusing them; his wisdom would suggest to him the.
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