This caution will have also this good in it, that it will put them upon considering, and teach them the necessity of examining more than they do. Locke.

Good is what is apt to cause or increase pleasure, or diminish pain in us; or else to procure or preserve us in the possession of any other good, in absence of any evil. Id.

Refuse to leave thy destined charge too soon, And for the church's good defer thy own. Prior. A thirst after truth, and a desire of good, are principles, which still act with a great and universal Rogers.

force.

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Works may have more wit than does them good. As bodies perish through excess of blood. Pope. Prosperity; advancement.

If he had employed

Those excellent gifts of fortune and of nature Unto the good, not ruin of the state. Ben Jonson. Earnest; not jest.

The good woman never died after this, 'till she came to die for good and all. L'Estrange.

Moral qualities, such as are desirable; virtue; righteousness; piety; the contrary to wicked

ness.

Depart from evil, and do good.

Psalms xxxiv. 14.

If a man be good, or doth or sayth a thing to goode entente, the backbiter wol turne all that goodnesse up so down to his shrewde entente.

Chaucer. The Persones Tale. Not only carnal good from evil does not justify; but no good, no not a purposed good, can make evil good. Holyday.

O sons, like one of us is Man become,
To know both good and evil, since his taste
Of that defended fruit; but let him boast
His knowledge of good lost, and evil got;
Happier had it sufficed him to have known
Good by itself, and evil not at all.

Milton.

Empty of all good, wherein consists Woman's domestick honour, and chief praise.

Id.

By good, I question not but good, morally so called bonum honestum, ought, chiefly at least, to be understood; and that the good of profit or pleasure, the bonum utile, or jucundum, hardly come into any account here. South.

Nor holds this earth a more deserving knight For virtue, valour, and for noble blood, Truth, honour, all that is comprized in good.

Dryden. Good placed after had, with as, seems a substantive; but the expression is, I think, vicious; and good is rather an adjective elliptically used, or it may be considered as adverbial. See Good, adv.

Without good nature and gratitude, men had as good live in a wilderness as in a society. L'Estrange.

The pilot must intend some port before he steers his course, or he had as good leave his vessel to the direction of the winds, and the government of the South.

waves.

Says the cuckow to the hawk, Had you not as good have been eating worms now as pigeons? L'Estrange.

GOOD, interj. Well! right! It is sometimes used ironically.

GOODALL (Walter), a learned Scottish antiquary and philologist, born in 1689. He was many years keeper of the Advocates' Library, which gave him an opportunity of examining the original papers, and authentic documents, preserved among the records of that learned faculty, which he did not fail to improve. Being a zealous friend to the exiled royal house of Stuart, he was anxious to rescue the character of Mary, queen of Scots, from the calumnies that had been thrown upon it for nearly two centuries; and accordingly, after much deep investigation,

Personal or moveable estate.

Chapman.

This hinders nothing the procedures of the civil courts, which respect the temporal punishment upon body and goods. Lesley.

That a writ be sued against you, To forfeit all your goods, lands, tenements, Castles and whatsoever. Shakspeare. Henry VIII. Wares; freight; merchandise.

Her majesty, when the goods of our English merchants were attached by the duke of Alva, arrested likewise the goods of the low Dutch here in England. Raleigh's Essays. Salee, that scorned all power and laws of men, Goods with their owners hurrying to their den.

Waller. GOODWIN SANDS, or GODWIN SANDS, famous sand-banks off the coast of Kent, lying between the North and South Foreland. As they run parallel with the coast for three leagues together, at about two leagues and a half distant from it, they add to the security of that capacious road, the Downs: for, while the land shelters ships with the wind from south-west to north-west only, these sands break all the force of the sea when the wind is at E. S. E. The most dangerous wind, when blowing hard on the Downs, is the S.S. W. These sands occupy the space that was formerly a large tract of low ground, belonging to Godwyn, earl of Kent, father of king Harold II.; and which being afterwards given to the monastery of St. Augustin, at Canterbury, the abbot neglecting to keep in repair the wall

Hudibras.

The more shame for her goodyship, To give so near a friend the slip. GOOLGUNGE, a town of the district of Bundelcund, Hindostan, near which is a pass in the mountains called Goomaghaut. Long. 85° 38 E., lat. 24° 26' N.

GOOLPUSSERA, a town of the province of Nepaul, Hindostan, on the road between the cities of Patna and Nepaul. Near it is an extensive forest of fine saul timber, next in value to the teak. Long. 85° 10′ E., lat. 27° 1′ N.

GOOMAH, a town of Hindostan, in Bahar, situated at the junction of three roads. It formerly had a fort, which commanded a pass through the mountains leading into Bengal. Long. 85° 20′ E., lat. 24° 24′ N.

GOOMSUR, a town and small district of Hindostan, at the north-west extremity of the Northern Circars, surrounded by a forest of bamboos, through which it is excessively difficult to pass. Long. 84° 55′ E., lat. 19° 53′ N.

GOOMTY, a river of Hindostan, which rises in the mountains of Kemaon, whence it flows in a south-east direction through Oude, and after passing the cities of Lucknow, Sultanpore, and Joanpore, falls into the Ganges, about fourteen miles below Benares. It is navigable at all times for boats as high as Lucknow.

GOONDUL, a southern district of the province of Mysore, India. It possesses the strong fort called Hengul.

GOONEE, a river of Hindostan, province of Sinde, which, rising in the hills of Poollejar, unites with the Loonee, or salt river, and the Indus, and forms a large island called Majur. During the rainy season it is navigable for boats from Mondavic to Hyderabad.

GOOR, a range of lofty mountains in Persia, dividing Khorassan from Cabul.

GOORACKPOOR, a district in the province of Oude, Hindostan, situated to the north of the Goggrah, or Dewah River, between the twentysixth and twenty-eighth degrees of northern latitude. It was ceded in 1801 by the nabob of Oude to the British; and abounds with fine timber. Marquis Hastings assigned a portion of it to the Pindarie chiefs. It is situated to the north of Bengal, and well watered by various streams.

GOORACKPOOR, the capital of the above district, is situated on the eastern bank of the Boora Rapty, which is navigable for boats at all seasons. It formerly had a brick citadel, is the residence of the civil establishment of the district, and has

a cantonment for a battalion of native infantry, &c. Long. 83° 22′ E., lat. 26° 45′ Ν.

GOOSE, n. s.

GOOSEBERRY, N. S. GOOSE CAP, n. s.

GOOSE FOOT, n. s. GOOSE GRASS, n. s.

Sax. zor; Belg. goes; Erse. gawe, sing, gewry, plural; Welch, guyz. A large water fowl prover

bially noted, we know not why, for foolishness: a foolish person: wild orach, an herb so called: a tailor's smoothing iron. Gooseberry, goose and berry, because eaten with young geese as sauce. A berry and tree.

This miller to the toun his daughter send For ale and bred; and rosted hem a goos; And bond hir hors he should no more go loos. Chaucer. The Reves Tale.

Thou cream-faced lown, Where got'st thou that goose look? Shakspeare. Macbeth. Since I pluckt geese, played truant, and whipt top, I knew not what 'twas to be beaten till lately.

Nor watchful dogs, nor the more wakeful geese, Disturb with nightly noise the sacred peace. Dryden. Goosegrass, or wild tansy, is a weed that strong clays are very subject to. Mortimer.

Upon a gooseberry bush a snail I found;

For always snails near sweetest fruit abound. Gay.
While man exclaims, See all things for my use',
'See man for mine!' replies a pampered goose. Pope.
The royal game of goose,' as I may say,
Where every body has some separate aim,
An end to answer, or a plan to lay.
GOOSEBERRY, in botany. See RIBES.
GOOSEFOOT. See CHENOPODIUM.
GOOSEGRASS. See GALIUM,

Byron.

GOOSE ISLAND, an island of the river St. Lawrence, about twelve miles below Orleans. It is connected with Crane Island by a marsh, and they together about twelve miles long; and inhabited by about forty families. They produce wheat, and have fine pasturage.

GOOSE ISLAND, an island in Christmas Sound, on the south coast of the island of Terra del Fuego, so named by captain Cook.

GOOSE ISLAND, another small island lying off the south of New Holland.

GORBELLY, n. s.) From Sax. zon, dung, GORBELLIED, adj. and belly, according to Skinner and Junius. It may perhaps come from Welsh, gor, beyond; too much; or, as seems to me more likely, may be contracted from gormand, or gorman's belly, the belly of a glutton. -Dr. Johnson. A big paunch; a swelling belly. A term of reproach for a fat man.

Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are you undone ? No, ye fat chuffs, I would your store were here.

Shakspeare.

GORCAH, GHURKA. A town and district of northern Hindostan, the original country of the present Nepaul sovereigns, situated between the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth degrees of north latitude. The Trisoolgunga once separated the territories of the Ghoorkali and Newar (or Nepaul) princes, the western limit of the Ghoorka district, being marked by the Mursiangdi. This territory, besides a numerous peasantry, contains several Rajpoot families, and some Newars, but, according to Mr. Hamilton, it is principally occupied by the Brahminical and Khetri tribes; and as these constituted the principal strength of Purthi Narrain's government, and continue to form the main support of the present one, they possess considerable authority. Their chiefs are known by the name of thurgurs, from whom are selected the leading conductors of affairs. numbers are thirty-six, the title properly descending only to the heads of families, and these thirty-six are subdivided into three other gradations. The Ghoorkhali reigning family pretend to derive their descent from the Rajpoot princes of Odeypoor, in the same manner as the Sevajee family claimed a similar origin. For a considerable period they have existed in the mountainous country bordering on the river Gunduck, during which time they have gradually risen into power by successive encroachments neighbours. After the conquest of Nepaul by the Ghoorkhalies, in 1768, the seat of government was transferred to Catmandoo, and the city of Gorcah, having since been much neglected, is greatly decayed.'

Their

on their

Near Gorcah is said to be a very considerable mass of rock crystal.

GORD, n. s. An instrument of gaming, as appears from Beaumont and Fletcher.-Warburton.

Thy dry bones can reach at nothing now, but gord and ninepins. Beaumont and Fletcher.

Let vultures gripe thy guts; for gords and Fulham holds. Shukspeare.

GORDIAN KNOT, in antiquity, a knot made by K. Gordius, in one of the cords of his yoke, or, as some have it, in the leathers of his chariot harness; which was so very intricately twisted, that it was impossible to discover where it began or ended. The oracle of Apollo having declared, that whoever should untie this knot should be master of all Asia, many attempted it, but without success; till at last Alexander the Great, after likewise attempting in vain to untie it, cut it asunder with his sword, and thus either eluded or fulfilled the prediction. See GORDIUS.

GORDIANUS I. (Mæcius Antonius), a Roman general, for his virtues chosen emperor by the army in the reign of Maximinus, A. D. 236. He was descended on the father's side from the Gracchi, and on the mother's from Trajan. He had been twice consul, and was proconsul of Africa when chosen emperor; but his son being slain by Capellian, the governor of Mauritania, he killed himself in his eightieth year. See ROME. He had collected into his library 62,000 books.

GORDIANUS II. (Mæcius Antonius), surnamed Africanus, the son of the preceding, by Annia Orestille, the grand-daughter of the emperor Marcus Antoninus, was made consul by the em

peror Alexander, and afterwards associated with his father in the empire, but slain in fighting against the partisans of Maximinus, A. D. 237. GORDIUM, a city of Phrygia Major, where

Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot. GORDIUS, in fabulous history, a poor husbandman who had two yokes of oxen, wherewith he ploughed his land and drew his wain. An eagle sitting a long while upon one of his oxen, he consulted the soothsayers; a virgin bad him sacrifice to Jupiter in the capacity of king. He married the virgin, who bore to him Midas. The Phrygians, instructed by the oracle to set the first person they met in a wain upon the throne, met Gordius, and made him king. Midas, for this good fortune, dedicated to Jupiter his father's cart; and Gordius hung up the knot of the yoke in the temple. See GORDIAN KNOT. GORDIUS, in zoology, the hair worm, a genus of animals belonging to the class of vermes and order of intestina. There are several species:

G. aquaticus, the water hair-worm, is ten or twelve inches in length, and of about the thickness of a horse hair; its skin is smooth and glossy; its color pale yellowish-white all over, except the head and tail, which are black. The body is rounded, and very slender in proportion to its length: the mouth is small, and placed horizontally; the jaws are of equal length, and obtuse at their extremities. This species is common in our fresh waters, especially in clay, through which it passes as a fish does through

the water.

G. argillaceus, or clay hair-worm, only differs from the preceding in color, being yellowish at the extremities, and in being chiefly found in clay.

G. marinus, the sea hair-worm, is filiform, twisted spirally, and lying flat, about half an inch in length; of a whitish color, smooth, and scarcely diminishing at the head. It infests herrings, bleaks, and various other fish.

G. medinensis, the muscular hair-worm, is all over of a pale yellowish color.

GORDON (Alexander), M. A., an eminent Scottish antiquary, was secretary to the Society for Encouragement of Learning. He succeeded Dr. Stukely as secretary to the Antiquarian Society, which office he resigned in 1741 to Mr. Joseph Ames. He went to Carolina with governor Glen, where, besides a grant of land, he held several offices, and died a justice of the peace, leaving a handsome estate to his family. He published, 1. Itinerarium Septentrionale, or a Journey through most of the Counties of Scotland, in two parts, with sixty-six copper-plates, 1726, folio. 2. Supplement to the Itinerarium, 1732, folio. 3. The Lives of Pope Alexander VI. and his son Cæsar Borgia. 4. A complete History of the Ancient Amphitheatres, 1730, 8vo. afterwards enlarged in a second edition. 5. An Essay towards Explaining the Hieroglyphical figures on the Coffin of the ancient Mummy belonging to captain William Lethieuller, 1737, folio, with cuts. 6. Twenty-five plates of all the Egyptian Mummies and other Egyptian Antiquities in England, 1739, folio.

GORDON (hon. George), or lord George Gordon, was born in London, in 1750. He early

entered into the navy, but quitted it during the American war, in consequence of an altercation with earl Sandwich. He was elected M. P. for Ludgershall, Wilts, in 1774; and during several sessions animadverted, with great freedom and humor, on the speeches and proceedings of both ministry and opposition. An alarm having been excited by the repeal of certain penal statutes against the Roman Catholics, in 1779, lord George was chosen president of the Protestant association at London; and, on the 2d of June 1780, went to the house of commons, to present their petition against that rescissory act, attended by 60,000 of the petitioners. The dreadful consequences of this imprudent measure are related under the article GREAT BRITAIN. Lord George was imprisoned in the Tower, on the 9th June 1780; and tried for high treason, but acquitted on the 4th February, 1781; on which occasion there was a very general illumination in Scotland, and £485 were subscribed to reimburse him for the expenses of his trial. On the 4th of May, 1786, he was excommunicated by the archbishop of Canterbury, for not appearing in court as a witness in a cause. In February and June, 1787, he was tried before the court of King's Bench, for publishing libels on the queen of France, the French ambassador, and the empress of Russia; and also for a seditious pamphlet entitled, A petition to Lord G. Gordon from the Prisoners in Newgate, praying that he would secure their liberties, by preventing them from being sent to Botany Bay; which petition, upon trial, was proved to have been written by himself. Being convicted of these charges, he, on the 25th June, went over to Holland, where he turned Jew, and was circumcised; but, returning to England in August, he was apprehended on the 7th December, at Birmingham; and on the 28th January, 1788, was sentenced to imprisonment for five years, and to continue in jail till he should find bail for his good behaviour, in £10,000. Not being able to find bail at the end of that period to the extent required, this operated as a sentence of imprisonment for life. In July, 1789, he presented a petition to the National Assembly of France, and was visited by several eminent revolutionists. He died 1st November, 1793, of a fever, attended with delirium, in the forty-third year of his age. As an author, his publications, political and miscellaneous, abounded with humor, and were not destitute of argument; as a public speaker, his language was animated, and his diction classical. Of his eccentricities we shall say nothing; but his conversion from Christianity-from one of the strictest sects of Presbyterian seceders, to Judaism, was so very strange a measure, that (if indeed it was real), it can be accounted for only upon one supposition.

GORDON (Thomas), a Scotch author, born at Kirkcudbright, famous for his translations and political writings. He came young to London; where he supported himself by teaching languages, until he procured employment under the earl of Oxford in queen Anne's time. He first distinguished himself in the defence of Dr. Hoadley in the Bangorian controversy; which recommended him to Mr. Trenchard, in conjunction with whom he wrote the well known