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32 LIFE OF TOLAND.tin, by one Cardinal Mat<strong>the</strong>w, in 1514, gave it toMr. Toland, who edited it, both in English andLatin: along with o<strong>the</strong>r violent expressions,it contains <strong>the</strong> following, Gallorum Ufigues jionresecandos, sed penltus evellendos esse; i. e. That<strong>the</strong> nails <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> French were not to be pared, buttorn out by <strong>the</strong> roots.Soon after, he published The Elector PalatinsDeclaration, lately published in favour <strong>of</strong> his protestantsubjects, &c.This Mr. Toland did, at <strong>the</strong>particular request <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> elector Palatine's minister.In <strong>the</strong> spring, Mr. Toland went to Germany,and visited Berlin, Hanover, Dusseldorp, Vienna,and Prague in Bohemia. At Dusseldorp, he wasmost graciously received by his electoral highness,who, in consideration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> English pamphlet,published by him, presented him with a gold chainand medal, besides a hundred ducats. FromPrague, he returned to Holland, where he staidtill 1710.In Holland, he published <strong>the</strong> following dissertations,viz.1st,Adeisidcemon, sive Titus Livius a SuperstitioneVindicatus, Sfc.2do, Origiies Judaica>, Sfc. In <strong>the</strong> course <strong>of</strong>this dissertation, he animadverterl on Huetiiis' BeonomtratioEvangelica,He ridicules Huetius foraffirming that several eminent persons recorded in<strong>the</strong> Old Testament are allegorized in <strong>the</strong> heatlienmythology; and particluarly Moses under <strong>the</strong>

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