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a collection was made even of the notes that she wrote to her servants, several of which are to be met with in the edition of her letters GONZAGA, Scipio, a noble Italian, who wrote some poems, and left manuscript memoirs of himself: he died in 1593

GONZAGA, Vespasian, duke of Sabbione ta, a city which he founded; he died in 1591, much respected.

GONZALEZ, Thyrsus, a Spaniard, general of the jesuits, who died at Rome, in 1705.

died in 1620.

Another of that name, was au

thor of a commentary on the Bible.
GORDON, Alexander, a learned Scotchman,
an excellent draftsman and antiquary, and
secretary to the Antiquarian Society, in 1740.
He published a Journey through most parts of
the counties of Scotland, with 66 copper-plates;
The Lives of Pope Alexander VI. and his son
Cæsar Borgia;" "A Complete History of the
Ancient Amphitheatres," &c. &c.

GORDON, Hon. George, commonly called GOOCH, Sir William, a distinguished officer Lord George Gordon, a man whose restless in the military service of Great-Britain, com-spirit has furnished too many materials for fu mander of the forces raised for the Spanish war, ture history, to pass unmentioned in this collecand afterwards a major-general, and governor tion. He was son of Cosmo-George, duke of of the colony of Virginia, after Drysdale, in Gordon, and born in 1750. At an early period 1727. of life he entered into the royal navy, which GOODALL, Walter, a Scotchman, known he quitted during the American war, in conseas a philologist, and author of a vindication of quence of an altercation with the earl of SandMary; he died in 1758. wich, relative to promotion. He afterwards reGOODRICH, Elizur. D. D., minister of Dur-presented the borough of Ludgershall in parlia ham, Conn.; was distinguished for his literary inent during several sessions; and, as he aniand scientific acquirements: he was well ver-madverted with great freedom, and often with sed in the languages, and familiar with mathe-great wit, on the proceedings of both sides of matical and philosophical investigation: he the House, it was usual at that period to say, published several sermons, and died in 1797. that "there were three parties in parliament, GOODRICH, Chauncey, son of the prece-the ministry, the opposition, and Lord George ding, was an eminent lawyer and statesman, Gordon;" at length, however, taking a very vioof Hartford, Conn. He was a representative,lent part in the House against a "Bill for the and afterwards a senator in congress, a coun- Relief of Papists from certain Penalties and Dissellor and lieutenant governor of Connecticut, abilities," he headed a popular association to and mayor of the city of Hartford. For depth oppose the measure; which transaction gave and solidity of judgment, great professional at-rise to, though it certainly did not authorize, tainments, strict integrity, benevolence and pi- the dreadful riots by which the kingdom, and ety, he had few equals; and his death, which particularly the metropolis, was for some days happened in 1815, was lamented as a public ca-devastated in 1780. For this Lord George was lamity. tried on a charge of high treason; but acquitGOODWIN, Thomas, a puritanical divine, ted, on the ground that his intentions in assemone of the members of the assembly of divines at bling the people were not malicious and traitorWestminster, and author of theological works,ous. May 4, 1786, he was excommunicated by he died in 1679. the archbishop of Canterbury, for contempt, in GOODWIN, John, a most acute and subtle not appearing in court as witness in a cause. controversialist of the 17th century. He wrote Jan. 28, 1788, having received sentence on two a vindication of the death of Charles I., which convictions, for libelling the French ambassaat the Restoration was burnt by the common dor and queen, and the criminal justice of Great hangman. He was excepted out of the act of Britain, he retired to Holland, but was sent indemnity, and died soon after. His works are back under a guard, and committed to Newnumerous, but mostly in support of Arminian gate. In July, 1789, he presented a petition to doctrines. the national assembly of France, for its interGOOKIN, Daniel, author of the historical ference in his behalf; but Lord Grenville incollections of the Indians in New-England, and formed the French ambassador that the applica major-general of Massachusetts: died in 1687tion in his favour could not be admitted, and GOOKIN, Nathaniel, minister of Hampton, the ambassador acquainted him with it. He N. H.; much respected for his faithfulness;died in Newgate, in 1793; and his last moments he died in 1734.

GOOL, John, Van, a Dutch painter, born at the Hague, in 1685.

were embittered by the knowledge that he could not be buried among the Jews, whose religion he had embraced, during his imprisonment, and to which he was warmly attached.

GORDON, Andrew, a native of Aberdeen, professor and author; he died in 1751.

GORDIAN I., emperor of Rome, invested with the purple in Africa, much against his will, in 237, in the reign of Maximinus, and soon after killed by a general of that monarch. GORDON, Sir Adam, an English divine, rector GORDON, Robert, of Stralogh, author of of Hinckworth, and prebendary at Bristol, au "Theatrum Scotia," an excellent work, con-thor of sermons and other works, died in 1817. taining a description of the whole country of GORDON, Patrick, succeeded Sir Williams Scotland, with maps of every county. He died about the middle of the 17th century.

Keith, as governor of Pennsylvania, in 1796 His administration was prudent, judicious, and advantageous to the colonists; he died in 1736.

GORDON, Thomas, a native of Scotland, greatly distinguished by his writings on political and religious subjects. He was concerned with Mr. Trenchard in the composition of "Cato's Letters," and "The Independent Whig;" and 1807. published English translations of Sallust and Tacitus, with additional discourses to each au- author of some Latin poems, died in 1684. GORE, Thomas, a native of Alderton, and GORDON, James, a jesuit, who taught phi-the manner of Dante, a history of his county GORELLI, an Italian poet, who wrote, afte hy and languages at Paris and Bourdeaux,from 1010 to 1384.

GORDON, William, D. D., minister of Roxbury, Mass., and author of a history of the Re volution of the United States, &c.; he died in

thor

He died in 1750.

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GORGIAS, Leontinus, a philosopher, of Sici-
of great eminence, 417 B. C.
CORHAM, Nathaniel, a member of congress
784, and president of that body; afterwards a
egate from Massachusetts to the convention
ich formed the constitution of the United
tes; he died in 1796.

FORIUS, or GORIO, Antonius Franciscus,
storian, critic, and antiquarian, of Florence,
author of some valuable works, died in 1757.
ORLÆUS, Abraham, an antiquarian, of
werp; died in 1609.

ORLÆUS, David, a native of Utrecht, in 17th century; he wrote on philosophy, and anced some new opinions.

GOTTIGNIES, Giles Francis, professor of mathematics at Rome, and author of several mathematical works; he died in 1685.

GOTTLEBER, John Christopher, an excellent German critic; he died in 1786.

GOTTSCHED, John Christopher, a German poet of Koningsberg, who was the means of banishing buffoonery from the stage; he died in 1762.

GOUDELIN, or GOUDOULI, Peter, a poet of Gascony, so celebrated that he is called the Homer of Gascony; he died in 1649.

GOUDIMEL, Claudius, an excellent musician; he was put to death for setting the psalms of Marot and Beza to music.

GOUDINOT, John a native of Rheims, zealously attached to the tenets of the Jansenists; he died in 1749.

OROPIUS, John, a physician, of Brabant, settled at Antwerp, and maintained that mish was the language of Adam; he died in GOUFFIER, Marie Gabriel Auguste Laurent, ORRAN, Nicholas de, an eloquent preach-count de Choiseul, ambassador from France to and confessor to Philip the Fair; he died in the Porte. During the revolution he went to Russia, where he was made a privy counsellor, and keeper of the imperial library. In 1802, he returned to France. On the restoration of Louis XVIII, he was made a peer of France, and died in 1817. He was author of "Voyage en Grece," &c.

ORREUS, a protestant physician at Paris, published a translation of Nicander, and in 1572.

ORTER, John, became medical lecturer public physician at Harderwyck; he wrote us works, and died in 1762.

GOUGE, William, one of the ministers of ORTON, Samuel, the first settler of War- the assembly of divines, and appointed one of , Rhode Island, was persecuted for his re-the annotators of the Bible; he died in 1653. is opinions in Massachusetts, and for a imprisoned; he died after the year 1676. SNOLD, Bartholomew, an Englishman, first discovered and gave name to Cape in 1602; he died in Virginia, in 1607. SSELINI, Julian, a writer, born at Rome; as appointed secretary to Ferdinand Gonviceroy of Sicily, and died in 1587.

GOUGE, Thomas, son of the preceding, wrote many books, and distributed many thousand copies of the Bible and Catechism, &c., among the 300 schools established in Wales.

GOUGES, Mary Olympe de, a native of Montauban, whose heroic conduct in defending Louis XVI., caused her to be guillotined in 1792.

GOUGH, Richard, a very learned and eminent SSELIN, Antony, regius professor of his-English antiquary, born in 1735, in London, and and eloquence at Caen, and principal of llege du Bois, published a "History of the ent Greeks, in Latin, 1636."

educated at Cambridge. The principal of his very numerous works are, "British Topography," a new edition of "Camden's Britannia," and "Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain." Mr. Gough died at Enfield, in 1809.

GOUJET, Claude Peter, a French writer, born at Paris, in 1697, died in 1767. He published Supplements to Moreri's Dictionary," and to "Dupin's Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Writers," &c.

SSON, Stephen, a divine and poet, born
nt, in 1554, educated at Christ Church,
d, took orders, and obtained the living of
otolph, Bishopsgate, where he died, in
He wrote three plays and afterwards,"
9, published an invective against poets,
s, &c. called "The Schoole of Abuse."
TH, Stephen, archbishop of Upsal, who,
mpting to restore the Catholic religion in
en, nearly kindled a civil war, in the 16th

y.

GOUJON, John, a sculptor, of Paris, called the Coreggio of sculpture; he was killed in the massacre of St. Bartholomew, in 1572.

GOULART, Simon, a Frenchman, who succeeded Calvin as minister at Geneva, and wrote several valuable works; he died in 1628.

GOULD, Robert, an English poet of some celebrity, in the 17th century, died in 1709. GOULIN, John a French writer of merit,

GOULSTON, Theodore, an English physician of great celebrity, died in 1632.

GOULU, John, a Frenchman; he translated Epictetus, Arian, &c., and died in 1625.

THOFRED, the name of a very learned
, originally of France. Denis Gothofred,
rated lawyer, born in 1549, died in 1622.
now best known by an edition of the
us Juris Civilis." Theodosius, the eld
of Denis, born in 1560, became a coun-died in 1799.
of state, and died in 1649. James, another
Denis, born in 1587, was preferred to the
ces in the republic of Geneva, and died
1652. Denis, the son of Theodosius,
1615, died in 1681. He inherited his
= taste for French history, and made
dditions to what his father had done.
kind are the histories of Charles VI.,
- VII., and Charles VIII., magnificently
at the Louvre. John, son of the fore-
ad also, like his father, a passion for the
and antiquities of France. He gave an
of "Philip de Commines," and other
and died in 1732.

TESCHALC, vid. Godeschalc.
TI, Vincent Lewis, an Italian, made
by Benedict XIII.; he died in 1742.

GOUPIL, James, royal professor of physic at Paris, in 1555; he edited several Greek medical works, and died in 1564.

GOUPY, Joseph, a French artist, who taught the princess of Wales, died in 1747.

GOURDON, Simon, a native of Paris, who lived an austere life, was author of Cases of Conscience, and died in 1729.

GOURNAY, Mary de Jars, lady of, a Frenchwoman devoted to literature, and much attached to Montaigne, whom she called her father; she died in 1645.

GOURVILLE, John Herauld, author of " Me

moirs," containing anecdotes of the French ninisters, from Mazarin to Colbert, &c.; he died in 1705.

GRACIAN, Balthazar, a Spanish jesuit, whose sermons were esteemed; he died in 1658. GRADENIGO, Peter, a doge of Venice, who

GOUSSET, James, a French protestant, pro-changed the government of his country from a fessor of Greek at Groningen, and author of a Hebrew dictionary, died in 1704.

GOUTHIERES, James, a French advocate, author of some valuable works, died in 1638. GOUVION, N., a French officer, who served in America, afterwards general in the army of the north, where he was killed, in 1793.

democracy to an aristocracy; he died in 1303. GRÆCINUS, Julius, a native of Frejus; he was put to death by Caligula, for refusing to be come the accuser of M. Silvanus.

GRÆME, John, a Scotch poet and iniscel laneous writer of considerable merit, born in 1748, died 1772.

GRÆVIUS, John George, a celebrated critic See GREVIUS.

GRAFFIO, a jesuit of Capua, in the 16th cen

GOUX DE LA BOULAYE, Francis le, of Anjou, who travelled through Asia and Africa, and published an account of his travels, in 1653. GOUYE, John, a jesuit and mathematician, oftury, author of two volumes on moral subjects. Dieppe, and member of the academy of sciences; he died in 1725.

GRAFIGNY, Frances, a French novelist and dramatic writer, born in 1694, died 1758.

GOUYE LONGUEMARE, a French author, GRAFTON, Richard, an English printer, in wrote on the history of France, and died in 1763. the 16th century. He compiled the greater part GOVEA, Martial, a Latin poet of the 16th cen- of "Hall's Chronicle ;" and, in 1562, published tury, and author of a Latin grammar. "An Abridgment of the Chronicles of England." GOVEA, Andrew, brother of the preceding, His large Chronicle appeared in 1569. Graftor established, under John III. of Portugal, the col-was a great promoter of the reformation, by lege of Coimbra; he died in 1548. printing Bibles. He was living in 1572.

GOVEA, Antony, youngest brother of the preceding, professor of law at Toulouse, died of eating cucumbers, in 1565.

GRAFTON, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, duke of, was educated at Cambridge university, of which he was afterwards chancellor, and sucGOWER, John, an English lawyer and poet, ceeded to the family honours, in 1757. He was cotemporary with Chaucer, but older, being born made secretary of state, and afterwards first lord about 1320. Though Gower was born first, of the treasury, which office he held till 1770. yet he outlived Chaucer, and was his successor From 1771 until 1775, he was lord privy seal, in the laurel. In his character as a lawyer, he and, after that time, was an opponent of the mimade so considerable a figure, that he is said to nistry till his death, in 1811. The celebrated lethave been raised to the first rank in that profes-ters of Junius, were many of them addressed to sion, and to have sat chief justice of the Com- him, with a severity which must have been dicmon Pleas. His principal production, as a poet, tated by private hatred. is "Confessio Amantis," a folio, first printed by Caxton. He died in 1402.

GOYEN, John Van, a painter, of Leyden, distinguished for his landscapes; he died in

1656.

GRAHAM, George, clock and watch maker, was born at Gratwick, a village in the north of Cumberland, in 1675; and, in 1688, went to London. He was not put apprentice to Tompion, as is generally said; but, after he had been some GOZON, Deodati, grand master of the order time with another master, Tompion received him of St. John of Jerusalem, died in 1353. into his family purely for his merit, and treated GOZZI, Count Gaspar, a Venetian noble, dis-him with a kind of parental affection till his tinguished for his lyrical and satirical poems; death. That Graham was, without competition, he died in 1786. the most eminent of his profession, is but = GRAAF, Regnier de, a celebrated Dutch phy-small part of his character; he was the best me sician and writer on anatomy, born in 1641, died 1673.

GRAAF, Barent, a painter, of Amsterdam, who died in 1709.

GRAAW, Henry, a native of Hoorn, disciple to Van Campen, died in 1682.

chanic of his time, and had a complete knowledge of practical astronomy; so that he not only gave to various movements for the mensuration of time, a degree of perfection which had nevem before been attained, but invented several astronomical instruments, by which considerable advances have been made in that science; he made great improvements in those which had before been in use; and, by a wonderful manual desterity, constructed them with greater precision and accuracy than any other person in the world GRACCHUS, Sempronius, a Roman, ban-He was many years a member of the royal so ished to a solitary island, on the coast of África, for his licentious conduct.

GRABE, John Ernest, a learned theological and critical writer, and editor of the "Septuagint, ," from the Alexandrian MS. in the king of England's palace, at St. James', was born at Koningsberg, in 1666, and died 1712.

||ciety, to which he communicated several ingeni ous and important discoveries, and died in 1751 GRACCHUS, Tiberius, who, being elected tri- GRAHAM, Catherine Macauley, a celebrates bune of the Roman people, demanded of the English historian. She began her literary caree senate, in their name, the execution of the Agra- with the "History of England, from James L. rian law, by which all persons possessing above the Brunswick line." Her other works were 500 acres of land, were to be deprived of the sur-"History of England from the Revolution to t plus, for the benefit of the poor citizens, among present time, in a series of Letters to a Friend whom an equal distribution was to be made. A Treatise on the Immutability of Mars Having carried his plan into execution by vio-Truth;" "An Address to the People of Englan lent measures, he fell a victim to his zeal, being Scotland, and Ireland, on the present importa assassinated by his own party, 133 B. C. Caius, Crisis of Affairs;" "Letters on Education," his brother, pursuing the same steps, caused a She died in 1791. sedition, in which he was killed by the consul, Opimius, 121 B. C.

GRACCHUS, Rutulius, a Roman poet, of the
century, of some merit.
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GRAHAM, James, a Scotch poet, and a cie early life, in 1811. gyman of the church of England; he died

GRAHAM, Isabella, a native of Scotland, w

ame, in 1789, to New-York, where she esta-lake, in Oxfordshire, he was seized with a sudplished a seminary for young ladies, which was den fit while administering the sacrament at the extensively useful. She was a rare example of communion-table, by the bursting of a vessel in piety and active benevolence. She died in 1814. his brain, in 1776, and died the next morning. GRAIN, John Baptiste le, a French historian, This death was similar to that of the cardinal born in 1565, died in 1643. de Berulle. GRAINDORGE, Andrew, a physician and phi- GRANGER, Gideon, a native of Connecticut; losopher of the Epicurean sect; he died in 1676. he graduated at Yale college in 1787, and was GRAINGER, Dr. James, a physician and poet, soon after admitted to the bar of his native born at Dunse, in Scotland, about 1723, died at state, where he practised law with considerable St. Christopher's, in the West Indies, 1767. He reputation. He was appointed postmaster-gewas author of several medical tracts, wrote an neral of the United States, in 1801, and retained excellent poem on the "Sugar Cane," and ano-the office until 1814, after which he removed to ther on "Solitude," and published a good trans-New-York, and was chosen a member of the lation of "Tibullus." senate of that state; he died in 1822.

GRAMAYE, John Baptist, provost of Arnheim; he wrote a history of Africa, and died in 1635.

GRANT, Francis, lord Cullen, an eminent lawyer and judge, of Scotland, died in 1726, universally respected.

GRAMMOND, Gabriel, lord of, president of GRANT, Patrick, a Scotch judge, who wrote the parliament of Toulouse, and author of the against the rebellion; he died in 1762. history of Lewis XIII.; he died in 1654. GRANVILLE, George, viscount Lansdowne, GRAMONT. There were three French no-an eminent English poet, born in Devonshire bles of this name, who distinguished themselves in 1667, died in 1735. Having vainly endeaby" Memoirs of the reigns of Lewis XIII. and XIV.," and died at the latter end of the 17th, or beginning of the 18th century.

GRANBY, Marquis of, a celebrated English general, born in 1720, died in 1770.

GRANCOLAS, John, doctor of the Sorbonne, and author of some works; he died in 1732. GRAND, Antony le, a Cartesian philosopher, of the 17th century, author of some historical treatises.

GRAND,Joachim le, a French political writer, much esteemed at the court of Lewis XIV.; he died in 1733.

GRAND, Mark Antony le, a French actor, whose comedies were received with applause ; he died in 1728.

voured to get employment in arms, for the defence of James II., to whose cause he was warmly attached, he passed the course of king William's reign in private life, enjoying the company of his muse, which he employed in celebrating the reigning beauties of that age; as Waller, whom he strove to imitate, had done those of the preceding. We have also several dramatic pieces of his, which were all well received.

GRAPALDUS, Francis Marius, a native of Parma, so distinguished as an ambassador to the pope, that Julius II., crowned him with his own hand.

GRAS, Anthony le, an ecclesiastic of Paris, who translated C. Nepos; he died in 1761.

GRATAROLUS, William, a learned physician, of Basil. wrote many books, and died in 1562.

GRAND, Lewis, a doctor of the Sorbonne, GRAS, James le, an advocate of Rouen, who born at Luzigni, in Autun; he wrote some va-translated Hesiod into French verse, in the 17th luable theological works, and died in 1780. century. GRAND, Peter le, a captain of a Dieppe pri- GRASWINCKEL, Theodore, a native of vateer, famous for his courage. Delft, eminent as a lawyer, and a man of letters; GRANDET, Joseph, a French priest, of An-he vindicated the Venetians against the duke gers, of great amiableness; he wrote several of Savoy, and died in 1666. volumes of biography, and died in 1724. GRANDI, Francis Lewis, a native of Cremo na, professor of philosophy at Florence, &c., he wrote various mathematical works, and died in GRATIAN, one of the most virtuous of the 1742. Rom emperors, son of Valentinian, born in GRANDIER,Urban, curate and canon of Lou-359, was assassinated by rebels in 383. don, in France, famous as a martyr to the superstitious belief of magic; being burnt alive on a charge of having bewitched several Ursuline nuus of Loudon. He was born at Bouvere, near Sable, and suffered in 1634.

GRANDIN, Martin, a doctor of the Sorbonne, and author of a system of theology, died in 1691.

GRATIAN, a private soldier, raised to the throne of Britain, in 407; he reigned 4 months.

GRATIAN, a monk of Tuscany, in the 12th century; he was employed 24 years in reconciling the contradictory canons one to another.

GRATIANI, Jerome, an Italian of the 17th century; he wrote, Conquest of Grenada, &c. GRATIUS, Faliscus, an eminent Latin poet, GRANDIUS,Guido, a mathematician, of Cre-supposed to have been cotemporary with Ovid. mona, translated Euclid into Italian, and died in 1742.

GRANDUET, Charles, a French actor, who played with success.

We have the fragment of a poem of his on hunting, called "Cynegeticon."

GRATIUS, Ortuinus, a learned German, who wrote several works; he died in 1542.

GRANET, Francis, a French writer, highly GRATTAN, Right Hon. Henry, a statesman, spoken of by Abbe de Fontaine; he died in 1741. and an orator, born in Dublin, about 1750. He GRANGE, Joseph de Chancel, a French wri-was bred to the bar, but relinquished that proter, who was imprisoned and exiled for writing fession for the senate. He was elected into the against Philip, duke of Orleans; he died in 1758. Irish parliament in 1775, and by his powerful GRANGE, Nicolas, an able writer, who trans- eloquence obtained for his country a participalated Lucretius, Seneca, &c.; he died in 1775. tion in the commerce of Britain: for which he GRANGER, James, a learned and ingenious was rewarded with a vote of 50,000l. He was English divine, author of a very valuabie work the active and vigilant leader of the opposition, in 4 vols., 4to, under the title of "A Biographi- till the Union, which measure he resisted with cal History of England." When vicar of Ship-all his power. In the British parliament !

1652.

chiefly exerted his talents in advocating the GREAVES, Joim, an eminent mathematician Catholic claims, to which cause he fell a mar-and antiquary, born at Colmore, Hants, in 1602, tyr, by leaving Ireland in an exhausted state of published several learned works, and died in health, to carry to England the petition with which he had been intrusted. He died soon after his arrival, May 14, 1820, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

GRAUNT, John, a well known author of "Observations on the Bills of Mortality," born in London, in 1620, died in 1674.

GRECOURT, John Baptist Joseph Villart de, a French poet, who became a favourite of men of wit and rank; he died in 1743.

GREEN, Robert, a dramatic author in queen Elizabeth's reign, born in 1550. He was a man of great wit and humour, but in the life that he GRAUNT, Edward, a learned man, head of led prostituted great talents to the purposes of Westminster school, died in 1601. vice and obscenity; and upon the whole, both GRAVELOT, Henry Francis Bourguignon, ain theory and practice, seems to have been very famous engraver, born at Paris, in 1699, most perfect libertine. His works of different died in 1773. kinds are very numerous; many of them are GRAVEROL, Francis a French advocate, pastoral romances in prose and verse. His drahe wrote Sorberiana, and died in 1694. matic pieces, amounting to four or five, may be GRAVES, Thomas Lord, a gallant British ad-seen in the "Biographia Dramatica;' miral, born at Thanckes, in Cornwall, died in 1532. One of his biographers says of him in 1802. that his works contain the seeds of virtue, while his acts display the tares of folly.

he died

GRAVES, Richard, 52 years rector of Claverton, near Bath, was born at Mickleton, in GREEN, Matthew, an ingenious English poet, Gloucestershire, in 1715; at the age of 16 he born in 1696, of a good family among the diswas chosen a scholar of Pembroke College, senters; held an office in the custom-house of Oxford; and in 1736 elected a fellow of All London, and died in 1737. His poems were first Souls. He was presented to the living of Cla-collected and published in 12mo, in 1796. The verton, in 1750; and from that time to his death most celebrated of them is entitled "The Spleen," in 1804, never absented himself a single month in which (says Mr. Melmouth) "there are more at any one time: thus setting an example worthy original thoughts thrown together, than I have the approbation and imitation of all clergymen. ever read in the same compass of lines. Mr. Graves was the intimate friend and corres- GREEN, Dr. Maurice, an eminent musician pondent of Shenstone, as well as of many other and composer, who was successively organist literary characters, and was author of an inge-and composer to the Royal Chapel, professor nious satirical novel; called "The Spiritual of music in the university of Cambridge, and Quixotte;" besides a dramatic piece, essays, and master of the royal band. About 1750, he conmany poems, translations, and sermons on vari-ceived a project of reforming church-music, ous subjects. He always enjoyed good health, and had made a considerable progress in the and but a few months before his death, when work; but, his health failing him, he transmitted nearly 90 years of age, published "The Invalid, the further prosecution of it to his friend Dr. with the obvious Means of enjoying Life, by a Boyce, who completed and published it. Dr. Nonagenarian." There is an ease, and spright-Green was born in London, and died in 1755 liness, and an epigrammatic turn in his writ- GREEN, John Richard. See GIFFORD ings, which was peculiar to himself, and will John. make them be always read with pleasure.

GREEN, John, bishop of Lincoln, and an GRAVESANDE, William James, a cele-eminent controversial and miscellaneous writer, brated mathematician and moral philosopher, born at Hull, about 1798, died in 1779. born in 1688, at Bois-le-Duc, in Holland, died GREEN, Samuel, the first printer in NorthAmerica, who printed first the freeman's oath

in 1742.

GRAVINA, Peter, an Italian poet, who pub-then an almanac; he died after 1685. lished a 4to vol. of poems much admired. GREEN, Edward Burnaby, a gentleman well GRAVINA, John Vincent, an eminent dra-known in the regions of Parnassus, by "Trans matic poet, critic, antiquary, and lawyer, of Italy, born at Roggiano, in 1664, died in 1718. The greatest of all his works, and for which he will be ever memorable, is his three books, "De Ortu et Progressu Juris Civilis.'

lations of Anacreon and Pindar," and maus single poems and essays; he died in 1788.

GREENE, William, deputy governor and go vernor of the colony of Rhode-Island, died in 1758.

GREENE, William, chief justice and after wards governor of the state of Rhode Island, died in 1809.

GRAY, Thomas, eminent for a few poems that be has left, was born in London, in 1716, and died in 1771. He was perhaps the most learned man in Europe, equally acquainted with the GREENE, Nathaniel, a major-general in the legant and the profound parts of science. Alarmy of the United States, during the revolu new arrangement of his poems, with notes and tion, distinguished himself in the batties of Tren aditions, was made and printed in 8vo., in 1799. ton and Princeton, and afterwards, in that of GRAYSON, William, a senator of the United Germantown, where he commanded the left, States. from Virginia; of great abilities and and of Monmouth, where he commanded the unimpeachable integrity; he died in 1790. right wing of the army. He was appointed GRAZZINI, Antony Francis, surnamed Lasca, quarter master general, in 1778, and in 1780 to considered nearly of equal merit as a writer with the command of the southern army, with which Boccace; he died in 1583. he gained the victory at the Eutaw Springs. GREATRAKES, Valentine, a most extraordi-His bravery, skill, and services, were such nary person, celebrated for his power (real or to merit the express approbation of congress, and supposed) of curing the king's evil and other of his country; he died in Georgia, in 1786 diseases by stroking the affected parts with his GREENHILL, John, a very ingenious Enhands. He was born in Ireland, in 1628, but it is glish painter, the most excellent of all the disci not recorded in what year he died. He was ples of Sir Peter Lely, who is said to have conliving, however, in 1681. sidered him so much a rival, that he never 220

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