52/72 "I wholly forget what I have been, says he, when I see those to whom I have done so great services, remember me only to hurt me." These sentiments of an indifference bordering on hatred he did not entertain till after the Dutch had done every thing to make him uneasy, as we shall see in the sequel. The year after the publication of the treatise _Of the Freedom of the Ocean_, Grotius printed his work _De antiquitate reipublicae Batavae_, divided into seven chapters. |