The life of Thomas Hollis / [Anon].

  • Hollis, Thomas, 1720-1774
Date:
[1780]
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Credit: The life of Thomas Hollis / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    « narrativeof faCls places fuch fort of merit in the propereft point of view, whether for example to the prefent, or information to f' the rifing generation,” The fir ft of thefe Volumes is entitled <f Memoirs of Thomas Hollis, F. R. and A. S. S.” The fecond, which is entitled “ Appendix to the Memoirs,” confifts cl two parts.—The firft part contains a variety of remarks relating to the writings and characters of feveral eminent men for whole memory Mr. Hollis entertained the higheft regard, particularly Milton (f), Algernon Sidney, Hubert Languet, George Buchanan, (whofe famous Frea- tife De Jure Regni apud Scotos was a favourite book with Mr. Hollis,) Dr. John Poynet, Bilhop of Winchefter (g)} Edmund XiUdlow, and Mr. Trenchard.-—Thefe Remarks are followed by a number of curious Papers relative to the “ Memoirs amongft which are fome copious and valuable Extracts from various Authors, which Mr. Hollis had tranfcribed into the blank leaves of his copy of Milton’s Icenoclajles; a few ExtraCts from Mr. Hollis’s Epiftolary Correfpondence, and fome Letters and Effays which he had occafionally publifhed, under different fignatures, in the Lon¬ don Papers.—The fecond Part of this Volume relpeCts Virtu, and gives a general idea of Mr. Hollis’s collection, TJie numerous Engravings and Etchings with which both Vo¬ lumes are embellilhed have very great merit. They are princi¬ pally executed by Cipriani and Bartolozzi. Several of the Prints are well known, having been engraved for Mr. Hollis, in his life time, and by him bounteoufly diftributed amongft his friends (h). (f) The Remarks on Dr.Johnfori’s Life of Milton,which make a part of this appendix, have fince been pub- lifhed feparately, in a fmall Volume, with the addition of Milton’s Trac¬ tate of Education and Areopagitica. (§) What recommended this learned Prelate to Mr. Hollis’s par¬ ticular efteemwas “ AfhorteTrea- “ tife of politike pouuer, and of tl the obedience which fubjedes “ owe to kynges and other civil 4‘ Governours, &c.” which he pub¬ lifhed in the year 1556, and which was reprinted, in 4to, in 1642. Of the firft impreffion of this Treatife Mr. Hollis had a copy, in the blank leaves of which he had written as follows : ‘ This little book is full of excel- * lent principlesconcerning govern- * ment, and maintains the dodrine ‘ of killing tyrants ; and is the * more Angular for being written in ‘ fuch an age.’ And a little below : * I have read over this Treatife a ‘ fecond time,anddo truly think it a ‘ moll extraordinary and valuable * performance.’ (h) Monthly Review, as before. THE END OF THE TENTH VOLUME.