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embanking the lower extremity of the valley through which the Shaw's Water flowed, to the height of fifty-six feet, by which a reservoir covering 315 acres of ground, and capable of containing 250,000,000 cubical feet of water, was formed. Less reservoirs were also made, increasing the quantity to 300,000,000, and the whole was computed to be adequate to the entire consumption, for four months, of a stream whose power should be equal to that of 100 horses; for other four months of the year the current natural supply was calculated to meet the demand; and the floods of the winter months were estimated not merely to do so, but likewise to replenish the exhausted reservoirs. In the execution, this leading part of the plan proved eminently successful, the supply of water being most abundant. From the reservoir the aqueduct was formed by cutting an embankment along the chain of hills already noticed: including the numerous curvatures, it measures nearly seven miles in length, and where it first branches off into two distinct streams, each possessing a moving power of fifty horses, with a thirty feet fall, it holds an elevation of 512 feet above the level of the Clyde. Thus a power is supplied, which, by successively acting on machinery placed at given distances, yields an equivalent to the power of 8234 horses, working eight hours per diem; and as the value of a horse's power, where steam is employed, is estimated at £30 per annum, these works in their present state give an equivalent power of the value of £117,930 yearly; yet the entire undertaking did not cost more than £20,000, and at an inconsiderable expense this prodigious power is capable of being doubled in amount. Many ingenious yet simple contrivances are resorted to for regulating the supply of water, which cannot be here pointed out: they are all self-acting, and contrived to work with admirable precision. This novel undertaking was completed early in the summer of 1827. But for the convulsion of 1826 in the mercantile world, the means thus afforded of obtaining a moving power, which is let by the Shaw's Water Company at about oneeighth the expense of that derived from steam, would have induced many manufactories to be set down here; and there cannot be a doubt that in a few years this will be the case. Grain-mills have already been erected on one of the sites, and several manufactories new to the district, but for which it is peculiarly eligible by the possession of this economical power, and the proximity of an extensive shipping port, will be successively established. Nor can there be any question, that, where similar local facilities can be found, the plans of Mr. Thom will be speedily embraced, as their importance and successful operation become known, to the exclusion of the far more expensive agency of steam. The population of Greenock, by the census taken in 1811, was then 19,042; in 1821, 22,594; and in 1827 has probably increased to 25,000. The town is divided into three parishes; and besides three established churches, and two chapels of ease, possesses dissenting chapels of various denominations; an episcopal, and a Roman Catholic chapel. There are several excellent

charitable institutions in the town. There are two local banking companies, both of which issue notes, but no branch establishments in town. A newspaper is published in it twice a week. Fairs are held twice a year, in July and November. It is distant from Glasgow about twenty-three miles west.

GREENVILLE, a post town of North Carolina, the capital of Pitt country; twenty-three miles from Washington, fifty-three south-west of Edenton, 444 of Philadelphia. Long. 2° 19′ W. of that city, lat, 35° 35′ N. GREENWICH, a market town of Kent, pleasantly situated on the banks of the Thames five miles east of London. It had formerly a royal palace, built by Humphry duke of Gloucester, enlarged by Henry VII. and completed by Henry VIII. The latter often chose this town for his place of residence; as did also the queens Mary and Elizabeth, who were both born in it. Duke Humphry began a tower on the top of the steep hill in the park which was finished by Henry VII. but afterwards demolished, and a royal observatory erected in its place by Charles II. furnished with mathematical instruments for astronomical observations, and a deep dry well for observing the stars in the day-time. The palace having fallen into decay, king Charles II. pulled it down and began another, of which he lived to see the first wing magnificently finished. But king William III. in 1694, granted it, with nine acres of ground, to be converted into a royal hospital for old and disabled seamen, the widows and children of those who lost their lives in the service, and for the encouragement of navigation. The wing, which cost king Charles £35,000, is now the first wing of the hospital towards London. The front to the Thames consists of two ranges of stone buildings, with the ranger's house in the centre of the area, but detached from any part of the hospital. These buildings correspond with each other, and have their tops crowned with strong balustrades. The buildings which face the area correspond with them, though in a finer and more elegant style; and have domes at their ends, which are 120 feet high, supported on coupled columns. Under one of these is the hall, which is finely painted by Sir James Thornhill, and contains many royal portraits; and under the other the chapel. A fire broke out in the hospital on the 2d of January 1779, and totally consumed the dome at the south-east quarter of the building, with the chapel, which was the most elegant in the world, the great dining-hall, and eight wards, containing the lodgings of nearly 600 pensioners. The dome was rebuilt about 1785. On the sides of the gate which opens to these buildings from the park, are placed a large terrestrial and celestial globe, in which the stars are gilt; and in the centre of the area is a statue of George II. About 3000 cld disabled seamen are maintained in this hospital. Besides private benefactions, to the amount of nearly £60,000 the British parliament, in 1732, settled upon it the earl of Derwentwater's estate, to the value of £6000 per annum. As well as the seamen and widows above mentioned, about 100 boys, the sons of seamen, are bred up for the service of the royal navy; but there are no out-pensioners as

at Chelsea. The park is well stocked with deer, and affords as much variety, in proportion to its size, as any in the kingdom; but the views from the observatory and the one-tree hill are beautiful beyond imagination, particularly the former. The projection of these hills is so bold, that one does not look down upon a gradually falling slope or flat enclosures, but at once upon the tops of branching trees, which grow in knots and clumps out of deep hollows and dells. The cattle which feed on the lawns, which appear in breaks among them, seem moving in a region of fairy-land. This is the foreground of the landscape: a little farther, the eye falls on that noble structure, the hospital, in the midst of an amphitheatre of wood, then the two reaches of the river make that beautiful serpentine which forms the Isle of Dogs, and present the floating treasures of the Thames. To the left appears a fine tract of country leading to the capital, which there finishes the prospect. The parish church of Greenwich, rebuilt by the commissioners for erecting the fifty new churches, is a very handsome structure, dedicated to St. Alphage, archbishop of Canterbury, who is said to have been slain by the Danes in 1012, on the spot where the church now stands. There is a college at the end of the town, fronting the Thames, for the maintenance of twenty decayed old housekeepers, twelve out of Greenwich, and eight alternately chosen from Snottisham and CastleThis is called the duke Rising in Norfolk. of Norfolk's college, though it was founded and endowed in 1613 by Henry earl of Northampton, the duke of Norfolk's brother, and by him committed to the care of the Mercers' Company. To this college belongs a chapel, in which the earl's body is laid; which, as well as his monument, was removed hither several years ago from the chapel of Dover Castle. The pensioners, besides meat, drink, and lodgings, are allowed 18d. a week, with a gown every year, linen once in two years, and hats once in four. In 1560 Mr. Lambard, author of the Perambulation of Kent, also built an hospital, called Queen Elizabeth's College, said to be the first erected by an English Protestant. There are likewise two charity schools in this parish. The Thames is here very broad, and the channel deep; and at very high tides the water is salt. This is the chief harbour for the king's yachts. A market on Wednesday and Saturday was instituted in 1737; the direction of which is in the governors of the royal hospital, to which the profits arising from it were to be appropriated. The English astronomers reckon their longitude from Greenwich.

GREENWICH, a post town of Fairfield county, on Long Island Sound, in the south-west corner of the state; fourteen miles W. S. W. of Norwalk, forty-five W. S. W. of New-Haven, west

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GREENWICH, a post town of Washington county, New York, eight miles west of Salem, thirty-seven north of Albany, 391 west. contains two houses of public worship, one for congregationalists, and one for baptists; an academy, a distillery, and extensive cotton and woollen manufactories.

GREET, v. a. & v. n.
GREETER, n. s.

GREETING, n. s.

Sax. gneran; Belg. greetan; Lat. grutor, To address in any

manner, but especially with kindness, compli-
ments, or congratulations; to meet.

When Alla saw his wif, faire he hire grette;
And wept, that it wos routhe for to see;
For at the firste look he on hire sette,
He knew wel veraily that it wos she.

Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale.
His lady, seeing all that channel from far,
Approacht in haste to greet his victorie. Spenser.
My noble partner

You greet with present grace, and great prediction;
To me you speak not. Shakspeare. Macbeth.

The king's a-bed,

Id.

And sent great largess to your officers; This diamond he greets your wife withal, By the name of most kind hostess. Now Thomas Mowbray, do I turn to thee, And mark my greeting well; for what I speak, Id. Richard II. My body shall make good.

I from him Give you all greetings, that a king, as friend, Id. Winter's Tale. Can send his brother.

My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet

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There greet in silence, as the dead are wont,
Shakspeare.
And sleep in peace.

I think if men, which in these places live,
Durst look in themselves, and themselves retrieve,
They would like strangers greet themselves. Donne.

Now the herald lark

Left his ground net, high towering to descry
The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

Milton.

id.

Once had the early matrons run
To greet her of a lovely son.
The sea's our own, and now all nations greet,
With bending sails, each vessel of our fleet. Waller.
Thus pale they meet, their eyes with fury burn:
None greets; for none the greeting will return;
But in dumb surliness, each armed with care,
His foe profest, as brother of the war.

I would gladly go,

Dryden.

To greet my. Pallas with such news below. Such was that face on which I dwelt with joy, Ere Greece assembled stemm'd the tides to Troy. But parting then for that detested shore, Our eyes, unhappy! never greeted more.

Id.

Pope.

With annual joy the redd'ning shoots to greet, Or see the stretching branches long to meet.

Thus as the stream and ocean greet, With waves that madden as they meetThus join the bands from mutual wrong, And fate and fury drive along. GREEZE, n. s.

Id.

Byron. Otherwise written greece. See GREECE, or GRIEZE, or GRICE; from deA flight of steps; a step. grees. GREGAL, adj. Lat.grer. Belonging GREGARIOUS, adj. Sto a flock; going in flock or herds like sheep or partridges. No birds of prey are gregarious.

Ray on the Creation. GREGORIAN CALENDAR, that which shows the new and ful! moon, with the time of Easter and the moveable feasts depending thereon, by means of epacts disposed through the several

months of the Gregorian year. See CHRONOLOGY and KALENDAR.

GREGORIAN STYLE, or new style, the style now used, which succeeded the Julian Style, in Britain in 1752.

GREGORIAN YEAR. See CHRONOLOGY. GREGORIO (St.), an island in the province of Quarnaro, three miles long, and half a mile broad. The natives deal chiefly in sheep, of which there are 2500 on the island.

GREGORY, the name of fifteen popes of Rome. See ITALY. Of these we shall here only mention three of the most eminent, viz.

GREGORY I. surnamed the Great, pope of Rome, was born at Rome, of a patrician family, A. D. 544. He discovered such abilities in the exercise of the senatorial employments, that the emperor Justin the younger appointed him prefect of Rome. Pope Pelagius II. sent him nuncio to Constantinople, to demand succours against the Lombards. When he thought of enjoying a solitary life he was elected pope by the clergy, the senate, and the people of Rome, A. D. 590. Besides his learning and diligence in instructing the church, both by writing and preaching, he by his talents procured the acknowledgment of several princes of his temporal as well as spiritual right over their kingdoms. He undertook the conversion of the English, and sent over some monks of his order, under the direction of Augustin their abbot. With respect to the chastity of churchmen, he was very rigid; and he likewise exerted himself against such as were found guilty of calumny. He, however, flattered and favored the emperor Phocas, while his hands were yet reeking with the blood of Mauritius, and of his three children, who had been butchered in his sight. He is accused of destroying the noble monuments of ancient Roman magnificence, that those who visited the city might not attend more to the triumphal arches than to religion; and he burnt a multitude of the works of the ancients, among which were several manuscripts of Livy, lest the attention to heathen literature should supersede the monkish and ecclesiastical studies of the age. He died in 605. His Dialogues, principally an account of Roman Catholic miracles, and three of his Letters to Phocas, are extant.

GREGORY XIII. was a native of Bologna, and succeeded Pius V. in 1572. He was the most deeply versed in the canon and civil law of any in his time. He ornamented Rome with many fine buildings and several fountains. He corrected Gratian's Decretals, and wrote learned notes on them. But his chief merit lies in his alteration of the Kalendar, which was effected under his orders by Lewis Lilio, a Roman physician. See CHRONOLOGY. A short time before he died he received ambassadors from Japan, acknowledging the authority of the holy see. He died in 1585, aged eighty-three.

GREGORY XV. was also a native of Bologna, and descended of an ancient family. His name was Alexander Ludovisio. He was elected pope in 1621, and was author of several works, particularly one entitled Epistola ad Regem Persarum, Schah Abbas; published cum notis Hegalsoni, in 1627, 8vo.

GREGORY (Theodore), surnamed Thaumaturgus on account of his miracles, was the scholar of Origen; and was elected bishop of Neocæsarea, his birth-place, about A. D. 240, during his absence. He assisted at the council of Antioch in 255, against Paulus Samosatenus; and died in 270. He had the satisfaction of leaving only seventeen idolaters in his diocese, where there were but seventeen Christians when he was ordained. Of his works there are still extant, A Gratulatory Oration to Origen: a Canonical Epistle; and some other pieces.

GREGORY, bishop of Nyssa, one of the fathers of the church, and author of the Nicene creed, was born in Cappadocia, about A. D. 331. He was chosen bishop of Nyssa in 372, and banished by the emperor Valens for adhering to the council of Nice. He was afterwards, however, employed by the bishops in several important affairs, and died in 396. He wrote, Commentaries on the Scriptures; Sermons on the Myste ries; Moral Discourses; Dogmatical Treatises; Panegyrics on the Saints; Letters on Church Discipline; and other works. His style is very allegorical.

GREGORY (George Florentius), bishop of Tours, one of the most illustrious bishops and writers of the sixth century, was descended from a noble family in Auvergne. He was educated by his uncle Gallus, bishop of Clermont; and distinguished himself so much by his learning, that in 573 he was chosen bishop of Tours. He afterwards went to Rome to visit the tombs of the apostles, where he contracted a friendship with Gregory the Great, and died in 595. He was extremely credulous with regard to miracles. He wrote, 1. The History of France; 2. The Lives of the Saints; and other works. The best edition is that published by F. Rumart, in 1699.

GREGORY, surnamed Nazianzen, from Nazianzum, a town of Cappadocia, of which his father was bishop, was born, A. D. 324, at Azianzum, a village near it, and was one of the most illustrious ornaments of the Greek church in the fourth century. He was made bishop of Constantinople in 379; but finding his election contested by Timotheus, archbishop of Alexandria, he voluntarily resigned his dignity about 382, in the general council of Constantinople. His works are extant, in 2 vols., printed at Paris in 1609. His style is said to be equal to that of the most celebrated orators of ancient Greece.

GREGORY (David), F. R.S., Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford. He was born at Aberdeen in 1661, and received the earlier parts of his education in that city. He completed his studies at Edinburgh; and, in the twenty-third year of his age, was elected professor of mathematics in the university of that city; and published, in the same year, Exercitatio Geometrica de Dimensione Figurarum, sive Specimen Methodi Generalis Dimetiendi Quasvis Figuras, Edinburgh; 1684. 4to. He saw very early the excellence of the Newtonian philosophy; and had the merit of being the first who introduced it into the schools by his public lectures at Edinburgi. 'He had,' says Mr. Whiston, already caused several of his scholars to keep acts, as we call them, upor

several branches of the Newtonian philosophy; whilst we at Cambridge, poor wretches, were ignominiously studying the fictiticus hypothesis of the Cartesians.' In 1691, on the report of Dr. Bernard's intention of resigning the Savilian professorship of astronomy at Oxford, David Gregory went to London; and being patronised by Sir Isaac Newton, and warmly befriended by Mr. Flamstead, he obtained the vacant professorship, for which Dr. Halley was a competitor. This rivalship, however, instead of animosity, laid the foundation of friendship between these eminent men; and Halley soon after became the colleague of Gregory, by obtaining the professorship of geometry in the same university. Soon after his arrival in London, Mr. Gregory had been elected F.R. S.; and, previously to his election into the Savilian professorship, had the degree of M. D. conferred on him by the university of Oxford. In 1693 he published in the Philosophical Transactions a resolution of the Florentine problem de Testudine Veliformi quadribili; and he continued to communicate to the public, from time to time, many ingenious mathematical papers by the same channel. In 1695 he printed at Oxford Catoptrica et Dioptrica Sphærice Elementa; a work which contains the substance of some of his public lectures at Edinburgh. This valuable treatise was republished first with additions by Dr. William Brown, with the recommendation of Mr. Jones and Dr. Desaguliers; and afterwards by the latter, with an appendix containing an account of the Gregorian and Newtoniar. telescopes, together with Mr. Hadley's tables for the construction of both these instruments. In 1702 our author published at Oxford, Astronomia Physicæ et Geometrica Elementa; a work which is accounted his master-piece. It is founded on the Newtonian doctrines, and was esteemed by Sir Isaac Newton himself as a most excellent explanation and defence of his philosophy. In 1703 he published a folio edition of Euclid in Greek and Latin. Dr. Gregory engaged, soon after, with his colleague Halley, in the publication of Apollonius's Conics, but he had not proceeded far in this undertaking before he died, in the forty-ninth year of his age, at Maidenhead in Berkshire. To the genius and abilities of David Gregory, the most celebrated mathematicians of the age, Sir Isaac Newton, Dr. Halley, and Dr. Keill, have given ample testimonies. Besides those works published in his lifetime, he left in MS. A Short Treatise of the Nature and Arithmetic of Logarithms, which is printed at the end of Dr. Keill's translation of Commandine's Euclid; and a Treatise of Practical Geometry, which was afterwards translated, and published in 1745, by Mr Maclaurin.

GREGORY (James), F. R. S., one of the most eminent mathematicians of the seventeenth century, was born at Aberdeen in 1638. He received his education in the languages at Aberdeen, and went through the usual course of academical studies in the Marischal College. At the age of twenty-four he published his treatise, entitled Optica Promota, seu abdita radiorum reflexorum et refractorum mysteria geometrice enucleata; cui subnectitur appendix subtilissi

morum Astronomiæ Problematon Resolutionem Exhibens; London, 1663; in which work he first published an account of an invention of his own, and one of the most valuable of modern discoveries, viz. the reflecting telescope. This discovery attracted the attention of the mathematicians, who were soon convinced of its great importance to the sciences of optics and astronomy. The manner of placing the two specula upon the same axis appearing to Sir Isaac Newton to be attended with the disadvantage of losing the central rays of the larger speculum, he proposed an improvement on the instrument, by giving an oblique position to the smaller speculum, and placing the eye-glass in the side of the tube. But the Newtonian construction of that instrument has been long abandoned for the original or Gregorian, which is now universally employed where the instrument is of a moderate size; though Herschel preferred the Newtonian form for the construction of those immense telescopes, which he so successfully employed in observing the heavens. The university of Padua being then in high reputation for mathematical studies, James Gregory went thither soon after the publication of his first work; and fixing his residence there for some years, he published in 1667 Vera Circuli et Hyperboles quadratura: in which he propounded another discovery of his own, the invention of an infinitely converging series for the areas of the circle and hyperbole. To this treatise, when republished in 1668, he added a new work, entitled Geometriæ pars universalis, inserviens quantitatum curvarum transmutationi et mensuræ; in which he is allowed to have shown, for the first time, a method for the transmutation of curves. These works attracted the notice and the correspondence of the greatest mathematicians of the age, among whom were Newton, Iluygens, and Wallis; and their author, being soon after chosen F.R.S. of London, contributed to enrich the Philosophical Transactions by many valuable papers. Through this channel he commenced a

controversy with Huygens, occasioned by his treatise on the quadratures of the circle and hyperbole, to which that able mathematician had started some objections. In 1668 Mr. Gregory published at London his Exercitationes Geometrica, which contributed still to extend his reputation. About this time he was elected professor of mathematics in the university of St. Andrews; an office which he held for six years. In 1674 he was called to fill the mathematical chair in the university of Edinburgh. This place he had held for little more than a year, when, in October, 1675, being employed in showing the satellites of Jupiter through a telescope to some of his pupils, he was suddenly seized with total blindness, and died a few days after, at the early age of thirty-seven. He was a man of an acute and penetrating genius.

GREGORY (John), M.D., professor of medicine in the university of Edinburgh, was born at Aberdeen, in 1724. Losing his father, in the seventh year of his age, the care of his education devolved on his grandfather, Principal Chalmers, and on his elder brother, Dr. James Gregory, who, upon the resignation of his father a

short time before his death, had been appointed to succeed him in the professorship of medicine in King's College. The rudiments of his classical education he received at the grammar school of Aberdeen; and, under the eye of his grandfather, he completed, in King's College, his studies in the Latin and Greek languages, and in the sciences of ethics, mathematics, and natural philosophy. His master in philosophy and in mathematics was Mr. Thomas Gordon, professor of philosophy in King's College. In 1742 Mr. Gregory went to Edinburgh, where the school of medicine was then rising to that celebrity which has since so remarkably distinguished it. The Medical Society of Edinburgh, instituted for the free discussion of all questions relative to medicine and philosophy, had begun to meet in 1737. Of this society Mr. Gregory was a member in 1742, at the time when Dr. Mark Akenside, his fellow student and intimate companion, was a member of the same institution. In 1745 our author went to Leyden, and attended the lectures of those celebrated professors Gaubius, Albinus, and Van Royen. While at this place he had the honor of receiving from the King's College of Aberdeen, an unsolicited degree of M.D. and soon after, on his return from Holland, was elected professor of philosophy in that university. In this capacity he read lectures in 1747, 1748, and 1749, on mathematics, and on experimental and moral philosophy. In the end of 1749, however, he resigned his professorship of philosophy, his views being turned chiefly to the practice of physic. Previously, however, to his settling as a physician at Aberdeen, he went for a few months to the continent. Some time after his return to Scotland, Dr. Gregory married, in 1752, Elizabeth, daughter of William lord Forbes, and with her he received a handsome addition to his fortune. Of her character it is enough to say, that her husband, in his work, entitled A Father's Legacy to his Daughters, declares, that, while he endeavours to point out what they should be, he draws but a very faint and imperfect picture of what their mother was.' The field of medical practice at Aberdeen being at that time in a great measure pre-occupied by his elder brother, Dr. James Gregory, and others, our author went to London in 1754, and in the same year was chosen F.R.S. In this city his professional talents would doubtless have procured him a very extensive practice; but the death of his brother, Dr. James Gregory, in November, 1755, occasioning a vacancy in King's College, Aberdeen, which he was solicited to fill, he returned to his native country in 1756. Here our author remained till the end of 1764, when he changed his place of residence for Edinburgh, where, in 1766, on the resignation of Dr. Rutherford, he succeeded as professor of the practice of physic; and was appointed first physician to his majesty for Scotland, on the death of Dr. Whytt. On his first establishment in the university of Edinburgh, Dr. Gregory gave lectures on the practice of physic, in 1767, 1768, and 1769. Afterwards, by an arrangement with Dr. Cullen, professor of the theory of physic, these two eminent men gave alternate courses of the theory

and the practice. The only lectures which he committed fully to writing, were those introductory discourses which he read at the beginning of his annual course, and which are published under the title of Lectures on the Duties and Qualifications of a Physician. These lectures were first published in 1770, and afterwards in an enlarged and more perfect form in 1772; when he also published Elements of the Practice of Physic, for the use of Students; a work intended solely for his own pupils, and to be used by himself as a text-book to be commented upon in his course of lectures. Dr. Gregory, soon after the death of his wife, and, as he himself says, 'for the amusement of his solitary hours,' employed himself in the composition of a tract, entitled A Father's Legacy to his Daughters; which was published after the author's death by his eldest son. These letters were evidently written under the impression of an early death, which Dr. Gregory had reason to apprehend from a constitution subject to the gout, which had begun to appear at irregular intervals even from his eighteenth year. His mother, from whom he inherited that disease, died suddenly in 1770, while sitting at table. In the beginning of 1773, in conversation with his son, Dr. James Gregory, the latter remarking, that having for the three preceding years had no return of a fit, he might expect a pretty severe attack at that season; he received the observation with some degree of vexation, as he felt himself then in his usual state of health. The prediction, however, was too true; for having gone to bed on the 9th of February, 1773, with no apparent disorder, he was found dead in the morning. His death had been instantaneous, and probably in his sleep; for there was not the smallest discomposure of limb or of feature,— a perfect Euthanasia.

GREGORY (George), an English clergyman and general writer, was descended from a Scottish family, but born in Ireland, where his father was prebendary of Ferns. He was at twelve years old removed to Liverpool, and is said to have spent some years in a counting-house at that port. He, however, studied at Edinburgh, where he applied himself chiefly to mathematics and philosophy, and, having taken orders, obtained a curacy at Liverpool in 1778. In 1782 he became curate of Cripplegate, London, but resigned his office in 1785 on being elected morning preacher: he also officiated at the asylum. At this time he made himself known by the publication of a volume of Historical Essays. This was followed in 1789 by a Translation of bishop Lowth's Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews; after which appeared the Life of Chatterton, reprinted in the Biographia Britannica; Church History, 2 vols. 8vo.; a new translation of Telemachus; and the Economy of Nature, 3 vols. 8vo. In 1804, through the interest of lord Sidmouth, he was presented to the living of Westham in Essex, having previously obtained a small prebend in St. Paul's, which he resigned, on being preferred to the rectory of Stapleford in Hertfordshire. In his retirement at Westham he superintended the publication of a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences,

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