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Rh. We muſt not omit what Thuanus relates of a converſation he had with him in the year 1579. He got acquainted with Languet at the wells of Baden in the year 1579, and was ſo well pleaſed with this man’s behaviour, and with his agreeable and learned converſations, that he thought he ſhould never be able to part with him. Here follows the elogy he beſtows upon him; I tranſcribe it here, because neither Voetius nor Monſieur Teiſſier mention it in the leaſt. ''Argentinâ Badam ventum, ubi Thuanus Languetum vacuum nactus ita mordicus per triduum ei adhæſit, ut ab to divelli non poſſe putaretur. Ita candor hominis illum ceperat, inſigni probitate, judicio non ſolum in literis, ſed in publicis negotiis, quæ tota vita ſub variis Principibus magna fide geſſerat, præditi ad hæc rerum Germaniæ callentiſs. Ut Germanos ipſos res patrias ſuas doceret. Toto illo tempore cum to aſſiduus, niſi quantum aquis ſumendis impendebat, cum multa didicit, tum breviculum manu ipſius perſcriptum, quod & nunc ſervat, poſtquam binc diſceſſit, ab eo accepit, quo generalis Germaniæ ſtatus, ſicut bodie eſt, comitiorum jus, circulorum numerus, conſiliorum ordo deſcribitur''. i. e. “From Straſburg we came to Baden, where Thuanus meeting with Languet, who was free from all buſineſs, ſtuck ſo cloſely to him during three days, that it was imagined he could never part from him: ſo pleaſed was he with this man’s eminent probity, and with his great judgment not only in the Sciences, but alſo in publick affairs, in which he had been ingaged all his life time, having ſerved ſeveral Princes very faithfully: he was particularly ſo well acquainted with the affairs of Germany, that he could inſtruct the Germans themſelves in the affairs of their own country. Thuanus being conſtantly, with him all that time, except when he was drinking the waters, learnt a great many things from him; and when he had left that place, he received from him ſome memoirs, written in his own hand, containing an account of the preſent ſtate of Germany, of the rights of the diets, of the number of the circles, and of the order or rank of the different councils of that Country, which memoirs he ſtill keeps by him.” 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? Thuanus, who did not underſtand the deſign of this queſtion, made no anſwer to it. Whereupon Languet explained the whole myſtery to him, and told him that the German Lord was the Count of Iſemburg, who had lately reſigned the Archbiſhopric of Cologne, to marry Jane de Lignes, the Count of Aremberg’s ſiſter. He added that the ſuppreſſion of Celibacy was burthenſom to the great Proteſtant Lords in Germany; for whereas in the time of Popery they uſed to put their daughters into Nunneries, with certain hopes to ſee them ſoon raised to the dignity of Abbeſſes in ſome rich Nunnery, they were now obliged to provide huſbands for them, though they lived in a country, where people were very prolific.

LANSBERGIUS (PHILIP) had a rank amongſt the Mathematicians of the ſeventeenth Century. He was born in Zealand in the year 1561, and was a Miniſter of the Goſpel at Antwerp in the year 1586, and afterwards for ſeveral years at Goes in Zeland; and being afterwards diſcharged of his functions on account of his old age, he retired to Middleburg, where he died in the year 1632. You will find the titles of his works below.
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LANSDOWNE (GEORGE GRANVILLE, Lord) was deſcended of an antient and noble family derived from Rollo, the firſt Duke of Normandy, and was ſecond ſon of Bernard Granville, who was ſecond ſon of Sir Bevil Granville, killed at the battle of Lanſdowne in 1643, and younger brother of Sir John Granville, who was a chief inſtrument in the Reſtoration, after which he was created Earl of Bath and Viſcount Lanſdowne. The Nobleman, of whom we treat in this article, received the firſt tincture
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