Pierre Bayle

“ Lastly it is very strange, that if Languet had been Camerarius’s disciple and boarder at Leipsic in the year 1548, Camerarius should yet assert that Langius did not come into Germany till the year 1549, out of a desire to see Melanchthon, occasioned by a book he read in Italy. It is unquestionable that either Camerarius or Monsieur de la Mare must be here mistaken. ”

“ I never heard a man, who could expound with so much prudence, certainty, plainness, evidence, and eloquence, whatever he undertook to relate; he never mistook the names of men; he was never wrong in the circumstances of time ”

“ No body can deny but he is sacred in his own person, and it is every honest man’s duty to defend it. You are pleased to say, it is yet doubtful, if the Hollanders are rash enough to make such an attempt. ”

“ Thuanus also relates that Languet made him take notice of a German Lord who was at a window with his wife, and asked him afterwards with a smile, If you were put to your choice, would you prefer a woman as beautiful as she is, before the Archbishoprick of Cologne? ”

“ LANGUET (HUBERT) born at Viteaux in Burgundy, [Notes 1] gained a great reputation by his learning and virtue in the sixteenth Century. Having read a book of Melanchthon in Italy, it created in him so strong a desire to be acquainted with that great man, that he went into Germany on purpose to visit him. ”

“ To which is added a Dissertation on the Thundering Legion, wherein are examined the authorities of the Ancients on which this history has hitherto been admitted as true.” Monsieur Daniel de Larroque the son, who had already given proofs of his learning and wit, is the author of that dissertation on the Thundering Legion. He tells us that his father undertook to write a Church history, and had finished the three first centuries, and begun the fourth. It is to be hoped that the publick will some time or other be presented with that work. ”

“ He charmed him by his agreeable conversation; for with a strong memory he had also a very acute judgment. [Notes 2] He continued a long while one of the first Counsellors of Augustus Elector of Saxony, [Notes 3] and if we may believe Thuanus, [2] he left that Court only because he was suspected to be one of those who advised Gasper Peucer to publish an Exposition of the Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper agreeable to the Geneva Confession of Faith. That Historian adds, that having left the Court of Saxony he retired with the Prince of Orange, and was employed in very important affairs ”

“ I find something in this account, which puzzles me; for it is not at all probable, that a man who has conceived such an esteem for Melanchthon, by reading his Body of Divinity, that he takes him for the only wise man in the world, [7] should take a journey to Leipsick, continue there some time, and embrace there the Protestant Religion without waiting once upon that divine ”

“ Fromond a Doctor of Louvain refuted it in his Anti-Aristarchus, five orbis terræ immobilis: “A treatise in which it is proved that the earth stands still.” Lansbergius, who did not live long enough to reply to this refutation, left a son, who published an answer to Fromond, and at the same time to Morin, Regius Professor at Paris, and to a Dane named Peter Bartholinus. ”

“ Where several wanderers travel day and night,
By different paths, and none are in the right.”
↑ He afterwards altered this Comedy, and published it among his other works under the title of Once a Lover, an always a Lover, which, as he observes in the preface, "is a new building upon an old foundation. It appeared first under the name of the She Gallant; and by the preface then prefixed to it is said to have been but the Child of a Child. By taking it since under examination so many years after, the author flatters himself to have made a correct Comedy of it. He found it regular to his hand ”

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↑ It was written before he was twenty-two years old, and was as follows:
“Sir,
“Your having no prospect of obtaining a commission for me, can no way alter or cool my desire at this important juncture to venture my life in some manner or other for my King and my country. I cannot bear living under the reproach of lying obscure and idle in a country-retirement, when every man, who has the least sense of honour, should be preparing for the field. ”

“ The Gentry assembled at York to agree upon the choice of Representatives for the country, have prepared an Address, to assure his Majesty they are ready to sacrifice their lives and fortunes for him upon this and all other occasions ”

“ Elizabeth Higgons in answer to one sent him by that Lady in his retirement. [2] In 1696 his Comedy called The She-Gallants was acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln’s-Inn Fields; [3] as his Tragedy intitled, Heroic Love, was in the year 1696. ”