Salmasius

When Milton says of his adversary's work, "I persuaded myself, the extemporary rhymes of some antic jack-pudding may better deserve printing," he is at his mildest; and even when he calls Salmasius "a vain and flashy man," and addresses him as "thou superlative fool," he does not attain the pitch of abuse to which he subsequently lashes himself.

The Pugnacious Style 1915

He calls Salmasius a poor grammarian, a pragmatical coxcomb, a silly little scholar, a mercenary advocate, a loggerhead, a hare-brained blunderbuss, a witless brawler, a mongrel cur; he reproaches him with the domestic tyranny put upon him by that barking she-wolf, his wife, and winds up with an elaborate comparison (not wholly unfamiliar to modern methods of controversy) between Salmasius and Judas.

Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

It but amounts to calling Salmasius fool and knave through a couple of hundred pages, till the exaggeration of the style defeats the orator's purpose, and we end by regarding the whole, not as a serious pleading, but as an epideictic display.

Milton Mark Pattison 1848

-- "Salmasius," says Mr. Gibbon in another part of the same entertaining publication, (vol.v. p. 209), "had read as much as Grotius; but their different modes of reading had made the one an enlighten'd philosopher; and the other, to speak plainly, a pedant puffed up with an useless erudition."] [Footnote 014: Bentivoglio, Histoire des Guerres de Flandres, l, xxviii.] [Footnote 015: _Bella plusquam civilia.

The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands Charles Butler 1791

Ménage, after Salmasius, derives it from bocca infiata — a bloated face; and it is true that a round face and swollen cheeks are requisite in a buffoon.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Yet Scaliger could confess to Salmasius how little satisfaction his emendations gave him.

Preface to Shakespeare 2004

Salmasius reads en rhaphais and quotes Martial, Sutilis aptetur rosa crinibus.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Yet Scaliger could confess to Salmasius how little satisfaction his emendations gave him.

Preface to Shakespeare 1969

Of this kind of sealing chiefly have we that long discourse of Salmasius, in the vindication of his Jus Atticum against the animadversions of Heraldus.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

Salmasius and Blondellus were “mortalium primi” that rejected these epistles.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966