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is gen counted rather a panegyric and French ; and the French king at the treaty of Bre- Eutosthene 
and in one of which the author da, retained possession of it in spite of the remonstran- ,, 
far as to of that empe- ces of his Dutch allies, As soon as the treaty, however, basen 
Trinity ; a Commentary upon the Psalms; a was signed, he restored the island of his own accord to ’ 
entary upon the Prophecies of Isaiah ; the Evan- the Dutch. The French drove the Dutch. ftom. the 
al Preparation, in fifteen books; and, the Evange- island soon after the revolution in 1688 ; but they were 
‘Demonstration, originally in twenty books, but of expelled from it in their turn by the English under Sir 
ich the last ten are lost ; two works which contain Timothy Thornhill, who left a small garrison for its de- 
the most learned defence of Christianity, both against fence. The Dutch obtained entire possession of it at 
and Pagans, that has been transmitted from an- the treaty of Ryswick. Admiral Rodney got pos- 
cient ti argument proceeds upon the opinion, ‘session of the island in 1781. The French under the 
‘that the dent & 030] had receivéd many truths, Marquis de Bouillée retook it before the close of the year, 
‘either immediately or by tradition, from divine revela- and it was finally restored to.the Dutch at the of 
tion. Among the materials col in illustration of 1783. Population 5000 whites, and 15,000 Neston 
this point, are geht ean tai The position of the road according to astronomical ob- 
h -been long lost. Of | two works, a servations, is in West Long. 63° 4’ 45’, and in North 
‘beautiful edition was printed in Greek by Robert Ste- Lat. 17° atte 
ms in 1544, in two volumes folio; which were re- EUTOST ‘ Genera, in Music, according to 
2d at Paris in 1628, in two volumes folio, with a Dr Wallis’ opinions of the various scales which the 
version of the former by Francis Vigerus, and of Greeks pretended to have in use, consisted of the fol- 
the latter by Donatus. The Evangelical or Ecclesias- lowing modes of dividing the tetrachord, or minor 
‘the e bit to the death 
elder Licinius, a period o sabes. This a accounted Chromatic XX ees 
5 
the most valuable, but the least accurate, of all the lar- a ceee es * 
get works of Eusebins yet, with all its defects, it is a Diatonic oP Poh cli 
Important production, as furnishing the prin 256 * '9* 10~% 
on we concerning the first ages Bohenmic.... 225 coe eee 
of Chris and the of scripture then received 40* 39% ig =a 
dcr etee i Of this work, the editio princeps, 
translated into Latin by Ruffinus, was printed at Utrecht Two of them involving higher primes than 5, all of 
1474; but the best edition is that of Henry Valesius, which are excluded in modern music without tempera~ 
‘who carefully revised the Greek text, and gave a 
new ment, which tothe Greeks was unknown it is believ- 
‘translation, with many learned notes, printed at Paris ed. (. 
in 1671, at Frankfort in 1672, and at Cambridge in EUXINE Sea. ‘See Brack Sra. 
1720, in three volumes folio, by William Reading, who EX. See Drvonsutne, Vol. VII. p. 686, col. 2. 
has added to the notes of Valesius several observations EXCENTRICITY. See Astronomy Index. 
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Hist. vol. ii. p. 91. Lardner’s Works, vol. iv. 
“New. Biog. Dict, Mosheim’s Eccles. Hist, vol. i. 
Brucker’s Hist. of Phil. by Enfield, vol. ii. p. 308. 
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; 
’  schisma-excessive ( 2), minor comma-excessive (€), di-- 
@ aschisma-excessive ( 
subminimis 
fixes to the names of different intervals; (¢) ; 
EXCHANGE, in commerce, has two significations, 
the one expressive of a place of public resort among 
merchants on particular days, or rather at particular 
hours of every day of business ; while an and a 
“more important méaning of the word denotes the pay- 
“ment or receipt of mioney in one country for its equi- 
Meme ther tal country, by means of 
ex r 
y - Te i Yat ting he west: 2H exchanges 
. of Amsterdam and London have long been famous 
ean eect as is the crowd collected 
‘daily the hours of two and four at the latter, 
the renga. of the Amsterdam exchange is said, in 
the days of the mercantile prosperity of the Dutch, to 
have considerably more numerous ; an assertion, 
however, which should be qualified by admitting that 
traders of an inferior description were accustomed to - 
‘Yepair thither. In bom extent of space, the new 
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