Holland
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his native Holland · the Dutch · the country of his birth
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The Rights of War and Peace
Grotius's native country, which exiled him but later honored him.
His fame as a jurist had become international and, rudely repelled by his native Holland, he became the center of European interest.
Thus, more than a century after his death, and again still another century later, Holland has paid her tribute of respect to her illustrious citizen.
The country of his birth, which had so long denied him citizenship, received him at last to the silent hospitality of the tomb.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The Dutch Republic, destination of English clothiers and merchants who emigrated due to religious persecution.
The discouragement and destruction of all good subjects, of whom are multitudes, both clothiers, merchants and others, who being deprived of their ministers, and overburthened with these pressures, have departed the kingdom to Holland, and other parts, and have drawn with them a great manufacture of cloth and trading out of the land into other places where they reside, whereby wool, the great stap …
And so afflict and trouble others, that great numbers to avoid their miseries departed out of the kingdom, some into New England and other parts of America, others into Holland,
Where they have transported their manufactures of cloth, which is not only a loss by diminishing the present stock of the kingdom, but a great mischief by impairing and endangering the loss of that particular trade of clothing, which hath been a plentiful fountain of wealth and honour to this nation.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Dutch territory, cited both as a historical site of sectarian revolution and as a modern model of religious toleration.
Revolutions of a similar kind happened in Holland, in Scotland, and in Switzerland.
Would you prevent a sect from overturning the state, imitate the present wise conduct of England, of Germany, of Holland;
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Holland and its people the Dutch, repeatedly cited as a leading historical example of wealth achieved through free importation of manufactures.
Holland long flourished in the midst of Europe, under very unfavourable circumstances, tottering on the brink of some political precipice, by importing the manufactures of all countries within her reach.
The Dutch were extremely wealthy, whilst their warehouses groaned with the most valuable manufactures of all nations.
This principle, and not prohibition, was the basis of Carthaginian, Venetian and Dutch commercial prosperity;
History of Modern Philosophy from Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
Holland is listed as a region covered in the chapter on philosophy outside Germany.
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Holland
Common Sense
Dutch republic cited as evidence that non-monarchical government produces more peace than monarchy
Holland without a King hath enjoyed more peace for this last century, than any of the Monarchical governments in Europe.
Law in a Free State
Country to which English cloth trade was driven as an unintended consequence of the Act against making cloth by machinery.
there are the old sumptuary laws, the fish laws, the cloth laws, the Tippling Acts, the Lord's Day Observance Act, the Act against making cloth by machinery, which, by its prohibition of the “divers devilish contrivances,” drove trade to Holland and to Ireland, and thus made it needful to suppress the Irish woollen trade.