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See also:DUMONT, See also:JEAN (d. 1726) , See also:French publicist, was See also:born in See also:France in the 17th See also:century, the precise date being unknown. He followed the profession of arms; but, not obtaining promotion so rapidly as he expected, he quitted the service and travelled through different parts of See also:Europe. He stopped in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland with the intention of See also:publishing an See also:account of his travels. But in the See also:interval, at the See also:request of his bookseller, he wrote and published several See also:pamphlets, which were eagerly sought after, owing to the unceremonious manner in which he treated the See also:ministry of France. This freedom having deprived him of all See also:hope of employment in his own See also:country, he thought of forming a permanent See also:establishment in that where he resided, and accordingly commenced a course of lectures on public See also:law. The project succeeded far beyond his expectations; and some useful compilations which he published about the same See also:period made him favourably known in other countries. The See also:emperor appointed him his historiographer, and some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time afterwards conferred on him the See also:title of See also:baron de Carlscroon. He died at See also:Vienna in 1726, at an advanced See also:age.
The following is a See also:list of his publications:—(1) Voyages en France, en Italie, en Allemagne, a Malte, et en Turguie (See also:Hague, 1699, 4 vols. I2mo) ; (2) Memoires politiques pour serum. a la parfaite intelligence de l'histoire de la Paix de See also:Ryswick (Hague, 1699, 4 vols. I2mo); (3) Recherches modestes See also:des causes de la presente guerre, en ce qui concerne See also:les Provinces Unies (1713, I2mo); (4) Recueil de traites dalliance, de pai, et de See also:commerce entre les rois, princes, et etats, depuis la Paix de See also:Munster (See also:Amsterdam, 1710, 2 vols. I2mo) ; (5) Soupirs de l'Europe d la vue du projet de paix contenu dans la harangue de la reine de la Grande-Bretagne (1712, I2mo); (6) See also:Corps universel diplomatique du See also:droit des gens, contenant un recueil des traites de paix, d'See also:alliance, &c., faits en Europe, depuis See also:Charlemagne jusqu'd See also:present (Amsterdam, 1626, and following years, 8 vols. fol., continued after Dumont's See also:death by J. Rousset) ; and (7) Batailles gagnees See also:par le See also:Prince See also:Eugene de See also:Savoie (Hague, 1723). Dumont was also the author of Lettres historiques contenant ce qui se passe de plus important en Europe (I2mo). This periodical, which was commenced in 1692, two volumes appearing annually, Dumont conducted till 171o, from which time it was continued by See also:Basnage and others until 1728 The earlier volumes are much prized.
End of Article: DUMONT, JEAN (d. 1726)
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