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a heretic, of the 2d century,|| and afterwards opposed Arianism, he died in hat our first parents were dethe form of a serpent Athenian comic poet, in the e used the freedom of the anh the vices of the people; life in a seafight between Lacedæmonians, his death at a statute was enacted, o poet should thenceforth

EUSEBIUS, bishop of Doryleum, in Phrygia, was deposed in 449.

ncient Greek poet, born in in the 1st year of the 75th a great number of tragealy esteemned, both in his death; and nothing can e high esteem they were ey did to the Athenians

EUSTACE, John Skey, a brave officer in the American war; sometime aid to general Lee, and afterwards to general Greene: he went to France in 1794, where he was made brigadier and major general; he returned and died in 1805. EUSTACHE, David, a protestant minister, of Montpelier, sent by the synod of Ludun, in 1669, to address the French king; his speech was much admired.

EUSTACHIUS, Bartholomew, an Italian physician, of the 16th century, who published anatomical tables; he died in 1570.

EUSTATHIUS, archbishop of Thessalonica, was born at Constantinople, and flourished about an army under the com-A. D. 1170. He is chiefly memorable for his ed all the calamities that " Commentaries upon Homer."

EUSTATHIUS, a learned Greek, commenta

tor on Homer and Dionysius the geographer; he died in 1194.

en to. The victors made of their victories: but, the Athenian soldiers nity, yet they were exas could repeat any of unhappy accident conas walking in a wood, sual manner, in deep unately happening upon was by them torn to piehis age. He is, of all having interspersed moosophical aphorisms in is said that he used to loomy cave, and there his cave was in the isle Fellius had the curiosity sed his verses with great complained to the poet three days he had been verses, though he had ight. Alcestis observed, ity, that he had written EUTROPIUS, a eunuch, and minister to Artinost ease. "Ay, but cadius, was consul, but was banished and beon't consider the differ-headed about 399. made to live no longer whereas mine are to conare now extant but 19 art of a 20th; though oposed 92.

EUSTOCHIUM, a Roman lady, well skilled in Greek and Hebrew; she died in 419.

EUSTRATIUS, a bishop of Nice, who wrote commentaries on Aristotle, lived in the 12th century.

EUTHYMIUS, an Isaurian, made patriarch of Constantinople, in 906; he was displaced, and died in exile, in 910 or 911.

EUTHYMIUS, Zigabenus, or Zigadenus, a Greek monk, of Constantinople, author of several works, died after 1118.

EUTOCIUS, a Greek mathematician, of the 6th century, author of several works.

Amyntas, king of MaPhilip. rer of Aridæus, was put

e, an English divine and e, was preferred in 1718 le had several enemies; pe, who put him into his To not know what provoof them, unless, by being f the laurel. He was no r, and died at his rectory, shire, in 1730.

of St. Cyr, at Marseilles, secure herself from the us, in 731.

lus, an ecclesiastical hise, bishop of Cæsarea; he 1 in 338.

of Berytus, and after-
e; he died in 341.
op of Emesa, in Syria,

of Vercell, in Piedmont,
nd died in 371.
of Samosata, favoured,

EUTROPIUS, Flavius, an Italian sophist, as Suidas calls him, wrote a compendious history of Roman affairs, divided into 10 books, from the foundation of the city, to the reign of Valens, (to whom it was dedicated,) that is, to A.D. 364.

EUTYCHES, an abbot of Constantinople, who maintained that Christ's body was an aerial form, and therefore not human.

EUTYCHIANUS, pope, successor of Felix, in 275, was martyred in 283.

EUTYCHIUS, patriarch of Constantinople, in 553; deposed in 564; restored, and died in 585.

EUTYCHIUS, a Christian author, patriarch of Alexandria, was born at Cairo, in Egypt, in 876, and became eminent in the knowledge of physic. He wrote annals from the beginning of the world to the year 900; in which may be found many things which occur no where else but certainly many more which were collected from lying legends, and are entirely fabulous. He died in 950.

EUZORIUS, a deacon of Alexandria, deposed and condemned by the council of Nice, for adhering to Arius; he baptized Constantius, and died in 376. Another of the same name was bishop of Cæsarea

EVAGORAS, king of Cyprus, was defeated by the Persians, and assassinated 394 B. C.

EVAGORAS, a Greek writer, in the age of Augustus, author of a history of Egypt, &c.

EVAGRIUS, a monk of the 5th century, author of "Altercatio Simonis Judæi et Theophili Christiani."

392.

EVAGRIUS, a bishop of Antioch, died

EVAGRIUS SCHOLASTICUS, an ancient EVERARD, Sir Richard, baronet, was ecclesiastical historian, born at Epiphania, a city ||prietary governor of North-Carolina, in of Syria Secunda, about the year 536. He pub-after an administration of three or four y lished "Six Books of Ecclesiastical History," which was disturbed by controversies with beginning with the year 431; where Theodoret, branches of the government, he returned to Socrates, and Sozomen, conclude; and ending gland, where he died in 1733. with 594. It is not certain when he died. EVAGRIUS, Ponticus, a monk of the 4th century, archdeacon of Constantinople.

EVANGELISTA, a learned civilian, author of "Consulta varia in juro canonico," &c., died in 1595.

EVANS, Cornelius, during the civil wars he played the part of an impostor, pretended he was the prince of Wales, who had escaped from France; was sent to Newgate, but escaped, and was never after heard of.

EVANS, Arise, a Welch engineer, died about the time of the rebellion.

EVANS, Abel, generally styled Dr. Evans the Epigrammatist, lived at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. He was bursar to St. John's college, Oxford, vicar of Saint Giles', and appears to have been inti- | mate with Mr. Pope.

EVANS, John, D. D., a dissenting minister, was popular as a preacher, and died in 1732. EVANS, Caleb, D. D., instructed young men for the dissenting ministry; he published some works, and died in 1791.

EVÁNS, Evan, a clergyman, obtained no preferment, and died of intemperance in 1790.

EVERDINGEN, Cæsar Van, a Dutch pa of eminence, died in 1675.

EVERETT, Oliver, minister in Bosto some years; afterwards judge of the cou common pleas for Norfolk; he died in 1802 EVREMOND ST., Charles de St. D lord of, a celebrated French officer and sat writer, born in Normandy, 1613, died 1703. for religion, he always professed the Romi which he was born; though at the botto was certainly a freethinker: but whatever ||be his sentiments of religion, he never le any loose expressions about it: he coul bear that any one should droll upon it; for he, "bare decency, and the regard due to fellow-creatures, will never suffer it."

EWALD, John, a native of Copenh who, from a military life, studied divinity wrote several poems of much merit; he in 1781.

EWING, John, D. D., minister in Phil phia, and provost of the college in that he was much respected for his talents, lear and piety, and died in 1802.

EXPILLI, Claude d', president of the p ment of Grenoble, and a writer of some n he died in 1636.

EXUPERIUS, a Romish saint, bishop of

EVANS, Nathaniel, a minister of N. Jersey, and a poet, was a missionary in the employment of the society for propagating the gospel;louse, distinguished for his charities, died he died in 767.

EVANS, John, came from England as deputy governor of Pennsylvania, in 1703. His unpopularity caused his impeachment and removal in 1709.

417.

EYCK. See VAN EYCK.

EYKENS, Peter, a much admired pai of Antwerp, born in 1599.

EYMAR, A. M. d', a deputy from F

tached to the principles of Rosseau, as a of republicanism; lie died in 1805.

EVANS, Lewis, eminent for his acquain-quier to the states-general, in 1789, muc tance with American geography, was surveyor in Philadelphia: he constructed many maps. EVANSON, Edward, a native of Warrington, author of some works, died in 1805.

EVANTIUS, an old Latin poet, who wrote "De ambiguis, sive hybridis animalibus." EVANTUS, a bishop of Vienne, in the 6th century, died in 586.

EVARISTUS, bishop of Rome in 100, was martyred nine years after.

EZEKIEL, the third of the great prop was a captive at Babylon, 599 B. C.

EZEKIEL, an eminent Jew and poet, a of some fragments on Scripture subjects, rished, according to some, 300, accordi others, 200 B. C.

EZRA, one of the descendants of Aaron of Seraiah; he rebuilt the temple at Jerus about 467 B. C.

F

EVELYN, John, one of the greatest natural philosophers that England ever produced, was born at Wotton, in Surry, in 1620. Among his numerous writings (which are on the subjects of agriculture, navigation, commerce, antiqui- FABER, or, according to some, FEVRE ties, sculpture, painting, &c.) the most cele-Nicholaus, a very ingenious, learned, and brated at the present day is "Sylva; or a Dis-man, born at Paris, in 1544. During the.co course of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of of his studies, a terrible accident happene Timber in His Majesty's Dominions." Full of him. As he was cutting a pen, a bit of the age and honours, this amiable author died Feb. flew into his eye, and gave him such exces 27, 1705-6, in his 86th year; and was interred pain, that hastily lifting up his hand to i at Wotton, under a tomb of freestone, shaped struck it out with the knife. He applied like a coffin, with an inscription upon a white self to the mathematics particularly; in w marble, expressing, according to his own inten-he succeeded so well, that he discovered in tion, that, "Living in an age of extraordinary diately the defect in Scaliger's demonstra events and revolutions, he had learned from of the quadrature of the circle. When H thence this truth, which he desired might be IV., of France, became at length the peace thus communicated to posterity, That all is possessor of the crown, he appointed Faber vanity which is not honest, and that there is no ceptor to the prince of Conde. During this solid wisdom but in real piety." The eulogiuins portant trust, he found time to labour upon s which have been bestowed upon him are as considerable works and composed his fine numerous as they are great. face to the fragments of Hilary, in which he covered many important facts relating to history of Arianism, not known before. A the death of Henry IV., he was chosen by

EVELYN, John, son of the preceding, at the age of 15 wrote an elegant Greek poem; he died in 1698.

11.

een, preceptor to Lewis XIII. He died in of Venice, settled upon him a yearly stipend of 1000 crowns in gold, and honoured him with a FABER, Tanaquil, in French, Taneguy le Fe-statue and a gold chain. He died about 1603, e, a very learned man, born at Caen, in Nor- leaving behind him several treatises both in andy, in 1615. Cardinal de Richelieu, settled physic and chirurgery.

him a pension of 2000 livres, to inspect all FABRICIUS, George, a learned German, born eworks printed at the Louvre. He died in in Upper Saxony, 1516. His chief work is en 12, leaving a son of his own name, and two titled "Roma," containing a description of that. ughters, one of whom was the celebrated city. He was the author of numerous Latin dame Dacier, the other married Paul Bauldri, poems, written with great purity and elegance, ofessor at Utrecht. and died in 1571. FABIAN, a saint of the Romish church, who FABRICIUS, John Lewis, professor of theois made pope, in 826, and suffered martyrdom ||logy and philosophy, at Heidelberg, and also the reign of the emperor Decius. ecclesiastical counsellor to the elector, died at FABIAN, Robert, author of the "Chronicle Frankfort, in 1697.

England and France," or, as he himself calls FABRICIUS, Vincent, a learned German, "The Concordance of Stories," was born in born at Hamburgh. He wrote Latin poetry with ndon, in the 15th century. He was brought ease and elegance; he was counsellor to the to trade, and became so considerable a mer-bishop of Lubec, and 13 times deputy to Poland; int, that he was chosen an alderman of that he died in 1667. V and in 1493, was one of the sheriffs for same. He died at London, in 1512, and s buried in St. Michael's, Cornhill. ABIUS,Maximus Rullianus,a Roman,master the horse, and afterwards dictator, 287 B. C. 'ABIUS, Maximus Quintus, an illustrious man general, who opposed Hannibal in Italy; died 203 B. C.

1794

FABRICIUS, John Albert, a most learned and laborious historian and critic, born at Leipsic, 1668, died 1736. Fabricius has laid the whole learned world under the greatest obligations; since he has contributed, more perhaps than any other man ever did, to abridge and shorten the fatigue and drudgery which scholars are obliged to undergo, in order to be acquainted ABIUS, Pictor, the first Latin historian with the materials of their profession. ntioned among the Romans, 225 B. C. FABRICIUS, Baron, known to the public by 'ABRE, Jean Claude, a priest of the orato-his letters relating to Charles XII., of Sweden, of Paris, known as an indefatigable compi- during his residence in the Ottoman empire. died in 1753. He stood very high in the good graces of that FABRE, N., a native of Languedoc, who prince; accompanied him in his exercises, was untarily submitted to 6 years confinement infrequently at his table, and spent hours alone galleys, to save his father from that punish- with him in his closet. He had but one enemy nt in 1752. in the court, viz. general Daldorf, who was FABRE, D'EGLANTINE, Philip Francis made prisoner by the Tartars when they stormzaire, successively an actor, a comic writer,ed the king's camp at Bender. Fabricius took I a statesman, was the friend of Danton, and pains to find him out, released him, and supplier promoters of the infernal butcheries, dur-led him with money; which so entirely vanthe revolution; he was himself guillotined quished the general, that he afterwards be me a warm friend. This amiable person was ке'ABRETTI, Raphael, a very learned anti-wise in favour with king Stanislaus, and with ry of Italy, born at Urbino, in 1619; died 1700. George I., whom he accompanied in his last bretti had an admirable talent for decyphering journey to Hanover, and who may be said to most difficult inscriptions; and discovered have died in his arms. Lethod of making something out of those ich seemed entirely disfigured through age, I the letters of which were effaced in such a uner as not to be discernable. He cleaned surface of the stone, without touching those ces where the letters had been engraven. then laid upon it a piece of thick paper well istened, and pressed it with a sponge, or oden pin, covered with linen; by which ans the paper entered into the cavity of the ers, and taking up the dust there, discovered traces of the letters. FABROT, Charles Hannibal, a French advo'ABRI, Honore, a learned jesuit, professor cate and professor of law, at Aix, in Provence. philosophy, at Lyons, and penitentiary at He published, at Paris, an edition of the Basine, died in 1688. He is said to have disco-licæ, or the constitutions of the Eastern empeed the circulation of the blood before Hervey.rors, and other valuable and importan' works, ABRIANO, Gentile da, a historical painter, and died in 1659. Verona, who deservedly attained the honours FACCIOLATI, Giacomo, an Italian brator Venetian nobility; he died in 1412. and grammarian, of Padua, died in 1769 'ABRICIUS, Caius, a Roman general, who FACHETTI, Pietro, an eminent painter, of quered the Samnites, and spurned the offers Mantua, died at Rome, in 1613. Pyrrhus to bribe him. He afterwards expos- FACINI, Pietro, a historical painter, of Boo Pyrrhus, the plot of his ysician to poi-logna, pupil to Annibal Carracci, died in 1602. him, 250 B. C. FACIO, Bartholomeo, a Genoese historian ABRICIUS, William, a surgeon and physi-and biographical writer, in Latin, born at Spez1, at Berne, author of several surgical works,zio, in Genoa, died in 1457. I in 1634.

FABRICIUS, Charles, a painter, of Delft, who gave indications of great merit, perished in his house, with his pupil Spoors, by the explosion of a powder magazine.

FABRONI, Angiolo, a native of Tuscany, was prior of St. Lorenzo's church, at Florence, and curator of Pisa University. He wrote an account of the illustrious men of the house of Medicis, and another of the learned men of Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries, in 21 vols; he died in 1802.

FACUNDUS, bishop of Hermianum, in Asia,

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ABRICIUS, Jerome, an Italian, was a phy-during the reign of Justinian. an of vast repute in his day The republic FADLALLAH, or CHODSA RASCHIP

FA

FA

FAISTENBERGER, Anthony, a distinguish

ADDIN, a Persian, author of a history of the Moguls, was vizier to Cazan, the sultan of Tau-ed landscape painter, of Inspruck died in 1722 His brother Joseph was equally eminent in the rus, about 1294. same branch of his profession.

FALCANDUS, Hugo, an accurate historian,

FAERNUS, Gabriel, a native of Cremona, was a favourite of pope Pius i V., and was distinguished as a critic and poet in the 16th cen-of Sicily; the time of his death is unknown. tury; he died in 1561.

FAGAN, Christopher, a French comic poet, born 1702, died 1755. His plays were printed in 4 vols. 12mo, in 1760.

FAGE, Raimond de la, an artist, celebrated for his drawings with the pen and Indian ink he died at Languedoc, in 1690.

FALCONBERG, Mary, countess of, third daughter of Oliver Cromwell, was a woman of great beauty, and uncommon strength of mind. On the deposition of her brother Richard, she exerted her influence in favor of the restora;tion of Charles II. She died in 1712.

FALCONE, da Benevento, secretary to pope FAGIUS, Paul, alias BUCHLIN, a very | Innocent II., and author of a History of Naples learned protestant German minister, born at from 1102 to 1140.

Rheinzabern, in 1504. He and Bucer went to FALCONER, William, an ingenious Scotch England, upon receiving letters from Cranmer, sailor, author of a "Marine Dictionary," 4to-, in 1549, were entertained soine days in the pa-and of a charming pathetic poem called "The lace at Lambeth, and destined to reside at Cam-Shipwreck," founded on a disaster experienced bridge, where they were to perfect a new trans-by himself; in a second calamity of which lation and illustration of the Scriptures, Fagius kind he lost his life, in 1770, on board of the taking the Old Testament, and Bucer the New, Aurora frigate. for their several parts. But this was all put an end to by the sudden illness and death of both these professors. Fagius died Nov. 1550; and Bucer did not live above a year after. FAGNANI, Prospero, an Italian commentator on the 5 books of the decretals, and secreta-lived in the age of Theodosius. ry to the holy congregation, died in 1678.

FALCONET, Camille, an eminent physician, of Lyons, a member of the French academy, His library contained nearly died in 1761. 500,000 volumes.

FALCONIA, Proba, a Latin poetess, who

FALDA, Giovanni Baptista, an admired

FAGNANO, Julius Charles, count of, mar-Italian engraver of the last century. quis of Toschi, author of a treatise on the pro- FALETI, Jeronimo, a poet, historian, and perties and use of the geometrical curve; he statesman, of Savona, near Genoa, ambassador from the duke of Ferrara to Venice, lived about died in 1760.

FAGON, Guy Crescent, an eminent physi-1560. cian and botanist, of Paris, professor of botany FALIERI, Ordelalo, a doge of Venice, was and chymistry in the royal gardens, and physi-killed at the siege of a revolted city in Dalmacian to Louis XIV., died in 1718. One of his tia, in 1120. sons became a bishop, the other a counsellor of state.

FAGUNDY, Stephen, a Portuguese Jesuit, died at Lisbon, in 1645.

FALIERI, Marino a doge of Venice, who was detected in a plot to render himself absolute, by the assassination of all the senators; he was executed in 1354, at the age of 80, with about 400 of his associates.

FAHRENHEIT, Gabriel Daniel, a natural philosopher, eminent for his great improvements FALK, John Peter, a Swede, who studied bo in the construction of thermometers, was born tany and medicine under Linnæus, and was af at Dantzic, 1686. He published a "Disserta-terwards professor of botany at Petersburgh tion on Thermometers," 1724, and died in 1736. he died in 1774.

FAILLE, William de la, a syndic of Toulouse, FALKENSTEIN, John Henry, director of a and author of a history of that city, died in 1711.academy of noblemen at Erlingen, and after FAIRCLOUGH, Samuel, an English clergy-wards in the service of the margrave of Anë man, educated at Cambridge, died in 1678.

His

FAIRFAX, Edward, an English poet, who flourished in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I., and chiefly distinguished himself by a translation of Tasso's "Godfrey of Bouillon." merits were so great, that Waller professed to have learnt from him the art of versification. He was born at Denton, in Yorkshire, and died in 1632.

FAIRFAX, Thomas, lord, general of the parliament forces against Charles I., died 1671. See CROMWELL, Oliver.

FAIRFAX, Brian, minister of the episcopal church in Alexandria, Virginia, died in 1802. FAIRTHORNE, William, an eminent English painter and engraver, who flourished in the 17th century. He wrote a book "Upon Drawing, Graving, and Etching," for which he was celebrated by his friend Flatman, the poet, in an elegy which ends with these lines:

"So long as brass, so long as books endure, "So long as neat-wrought pieces, thour't se

cure;

"A Fairthorne sculpsit,' is a charm can

pach; he died in 1760.

FALKLAND, lord. See CARY. FALLE, Philip, a clergyman, author of the History of Jersey, where he was born in 1655 FALLOPIUS, Gabriel, born at Modena, in 1490. He possessed great powers of mind, which he cultivated by an intense application to his studies in philosophy, physic, botany, and an tomy. In this last he made some new discoveries and, among the rest, that of the tubes by which the ova descend from the ovarium, and which from him, are called the "Fallopian tubes." He died at Padua, in 1563.

FALS, Raymond, a medal engraver, settle at Paris, where he obtained a pension of 190 livres, died at Berlin, in 1703.

FALSTAFF. See FASTOLF.

FALSTER, Christian, a Danish critic, whos writings are numerous; the time of his death i unknown.

FANCOURT, Samuel, an English dissentin clergyman and controversial writer, and inst tutor or promoter of the first circulating librar ever opened in England. He died in 1768, ag 90 years.

FANEUIL, Peter, founder of Faneuil hall, Boston, died in 1743.

FANNING, Edmund, LL. D., a native of ty was prodigality, and their applause adoraConnecticut, settled as a lawyer in North-Caro-tion. "One God, one Farinelli!" will be long lina. In the war of the revolution, he united remembered of a lady of distinction, who, bewith the British, and was conspicuous, for the ing charmed with a particular passage in one of bitterness and zeal he displayed against his coun-his songs, uttered aloud from the boxes that imtrymen. He was afterwards made a general in pious exclamation. He quitted England in 1737. the British service, and lieutenant-governor of FARINGDON, Anthony, an English divine, Nova-Scotia. He died in 1818. and author of several yolumes of sermons, died in 1658.

FANNIUS, surnamed Strabo, a Roman, known by his law to check the extravagance of FARMER, Hugh, a dissenting minister, eduhis countrymen. Another of the same name,cated under Dr. Doddridge, and known as a wrote an account of Nero's reign, which is lost. theological writer; he died in 1787. FANSHAW, sir Richard, an English gentle- FARMER, Dr. Richard, master of Emmanuel man, famous for his embassies and poetic writ-College, Cambridge, principal librarian to the ings, born at Ware Park, in Hertfordshire, 1607, university, &c. &c., was born at Leicester, in dred 1666. A translation by him, of the "Pastor 1735, and distinguished, himself in the walks Fido" of Guarini, did him much credit. Some of literature by a very masterly "Essay on the interesting private history of this family will be Learning of Shakspeare;" in which he decided found in Mr. Sewards "Anecdotes of Distin-a point that had been much litigated among the guished Persons."

FARDELLA, Michael Angelo, professor of natural history and astronomy at Padua, died at Naples, in 1718.

FARE, Charles Augustus, marquis de la, a captain in the French guards, known as the author of Memoirs on the reign of Louis XIV., died in 1712.

FAREL, William, an able reformer, born in 1489. Being driven from Paris, as a protestant, he went to Strasburgh, Geneva, Basil and Neuf chatel, where he preached the doctrines of the reformation, with zeal, ability, and success, although opposed with ridicule and abuse. He was the associate of Calvin, and died in 1565. FARET, Nicholas, one of the first members of the French academy, died in 1646.

FARIN, Emanuel de Sousa, a Portuguese knight, and ambassador at Rome, distinguished as a poet and historian, died in 1650.

FARINACCIO, Prosper, an Italian lawyer, whose writings on the civil law, are much esteemed at Rome, died in 1618.

learned For a man of his rare endowments he published but little: the essay already mentioned; some "Notes on Shakspeare;" a "Poem on laying the first stone of the public library in 1755," and a sonnet on the king's death, in 1760, (both in the Cambridge collection of verses;) "Directions for the study of English History " (Europ. Mag. xix. 415,) and a "Letter on Dernis the Critic," (Europ. Mag. xxv. 412,) being all that is known. Dr. F., however, assisted many authors in various works, for which he received their public acknowledgments and thanks He died in 1797.

FARNABY, Thomas, an English grammarian and critic, born in London, in 1575, died in 1647.

FARNESE, Peter Louis, son of pope Paul III., by a secret marriage, duke of Parma, and Placentia, was assassinated in 1547, on account of his tyranny and debauchery.

FARNESE, Alexander, known by the title of cardinal Farnese, was son of the first duke of Parma, and born 1520 (long before his father was advanced to the dukedom.) At fourteen years of age he was made bishop of Parma by Clement VII. Paul III., raised him to the purple in 1554, and employed him in various embassies. He died in 1589, lamented as a true patron of the arts, and protector of men of letters.

FARNESE, Alexander, nephew to the Cardi nal, was the 3d duke of Parma, and governor of the Low Countries. He was mortally wounded, at the siege of Rouen by Henry IV., of France and died in 1592.

FARINATO, Paul, an eminent Italian painter, born at Verona, 1522, and cut, it is said, out of his mother's womb, who was just dead in labour. He was famous also for being an excellent swordsman and a very good orator, and for his knowledge in sculpture and architecture, especially that part of it which relates to fortifications. His last moments are said to have! been as remarkable as his first, on account of the death of his nearest relation. He lay upon his death-bed in 1606, and his wife, who was ick in the same room, hearing him cry out, he was going," told him, "she would bear FARNEWORTH, Ellis, distinguished by him company; and was as good as her word, translating some eminent authors, was born at they both expiring at the very same minute. Bonteshall, in Derbyshire, and died 1763." His FARINELLI, Carlo Broschi, an Italian sing-publications were, "The Life of Pope Sixtus er, born at Naples 1705; and, being trained to V., translated from the Italian," "Davila's inging, acquired great reputation at Rome and History of France," "The works of Machiavei, at Bologna. The fame of his great talents reach-illustrated with Annotations, Dissertations, and ng England, he was engaged to sing in the several new plans on the art of war." opera at London, in 1734; for England was FARQUHAR, George, an ingenious comic then, as it is eminently now, the place of all writer, was the son of a clergyman, in Ireland, places for fiddlers, singers, dancers, tumblers, and born at Londonderry, in 1678. In 1696 he harpers, and impostors of every kind, to flock went to London, and was solicited by his friend o and grow rich. His arrival in that country Wilks, the celebrated actor, to write a play; but was in the newspapers announced to the public he was still more substantially invited by a as an event worthy of national attention. Upon genteel accommodation, which suffered him to what terms Farinelli, was engaged to sing is not exercise his genius at his leisure: for the earl of known to any degree of certainty; his salary, Orrery, who was a patron as well as master of however, be it what it might, bore but small letters, conferred a lieutenant's commission upon proportion to the annual amount of his profits. him in his own regiment in Ireland, which The excessive fondness which the nobility dis- Farquhar held several years, and behaved himcovered for this person, the caresses they be- self so well as an officer, giving several proofs towed on, and the presents they made him, both of courage and conduct. He died in April, indicated little less than infatuation: their boun-1707, before he was 30 years of age. His come