T II O 



T H O 



About tin* ti 

 render tl> 

 brgnn to 



,!.. I' 

 ron: 



Pell 



time. Jli- 

 crow tied in 



17''l. In IT' 

 HI w-ts assign, d. In these eotn- 



it more matter, more 



tlation in 



The connection with the I)uc> (It 1 Praslin was less ;i.1\ mi- 

 Thomas than it promised to ! 

 tuke procured for him th- appoint in. 



uterpreter to tli> ' !llt ;l v 



nay, this minister, \vlio 

 personal quarrel w-jth Marmontel, soiiffht to obtain it 



liaii tlio masrnanimi';. 



the appointment, nrginirthe superior claims of Marmontt -I. 

 This art of ho- him the lavoiir of tin- D 



;' office winch was op- 



to him. The admission to the Academy was not ho 

 lonir deferred. lie delivcreil his inaugural address to 

 that body on the 'J2nd of January. !7<i7. 



Hot ween 17IU and I7fi7 h> d ' Ho.- 



finllv.' crowned in 17G3 : ' Elosre <!, 

 in 17(>f>: in 17(J(i. ' Kloire de l.ouis. Dauphin de I-'i 

 composed and published at the request of the Cointe 

 iviller: and his inaugural discourse. In October, 

 17.7. his opera of Amplr. Touirht out, but with- 



i by a pro- 



nprovonient in execution. They differ also 

 from his juvenile productions in an attempt to adopt the 



.ling and antithetical style of the Encycloi 

 in the complete appropriation of their hold satirical tone 

 in respect to politics, although much of the author's juve- 

 nile respect for reliirion remained with him to the last. As 

 ot'the change. Grimm h:ul by thistime 



begun to praise Thomas, and Freron had cooled in his ad- 

 miration ot'him : Voltaire had written a complimentary lettpr 

 mi the K ut had on the othei 



remarked to hi- y ouirht. now to substitute 



the word ifii/ii/inmnx \\IT ffii/iniiithinn : Diderot continued 

 implacable. It was rumoured that the court, enra 

 the tree strain of the ' Epilre au Peuplc,' and tl i 

 - launched and the feudal 8 



in the KLij-e (hi Dauphin,' threatened the lib. 



principal publications of Thomas, from the IP 

 his admission into th Academy till his death, arc Eloge 



my in 17711. and pub- 

 lished in 177"). His reply, as director of ' ny. to 

 the i': Of Toulon-. 



in 17, et I'K.sprit 



177-. ' K.ssai sur les 

 ' de rEloquence 



d '( )u\ raL'e.' published in 177-f. in an 



lie comiii. "in on 



a tilill 



eompleted his death. The in. 



ical skill ovy itself in 



''empts 



! ima- 

 jrinat ipt to 



ll. II;- . - . on the 

 character and man- 



have swelleil his d 

 ; a bulk, i 



! them 1. - 



nder the ' 



.-. ork ; 



- but utiai. 



Ubotire i:, -v and art iatiire 



which haa all tht falsehood of oratory without the interest 



which attaches to the eloquence oV the bar or e 



from its power of producing 

 The partial'v 



th. but th. ' 



rule poems, in the manner Illonirh n -.nld- 



sinith s 'J'raveller.' They never could lm\e been made 

 parts of an . 



nas died on the 17th of Septcml 



'K-en uiulermineil by m- 

 d U supposed to Ilin > 



!.-nt which ha]))' 

 : . That he 



ble 01 'ion he showed 



when i 'ur of the Due de Praslin by 



' a x-at in the Academy to the exclusion 

 ot Mannontel. That ! jble ol sincere atted i 



d by the footing on which .M'ti Ins family 



and friends. The iiisimiat. . and 



veracity thrown out by Diderot >eem to 

 foundation than the ehamre of tone in Ins later Iron 

 earlier publications. The truth is, that, like many other in- 

 ferior littfrtiti-iirs, Thomas was a men- 

 which he was surrounded. He took his colonnn. 

 from his pi. of whom were e - : in 



after-life', from the sceptical literary conversation of the 



works, a kind of composition too inaccurate to have 

 as history, too cold and remote from the real hnsin. 



oratory. He stands however hinh anioiii: 

 writers. The hitrh finish and some of the bril- 

 liancy of the r'rench school cannot be denied him; though 

 for this he was indebted quite as much to the company In- 

 kept as to natural talent, or even his unquestionable i 

 taking. 



r/vi de M. Thomas, Paris, 1702: '7J/r;vv Post- 

 de M. Thorna-;. Paris. An \. Iso-J : -Sketch of 

 Thomas." hy Saint Sunn, in the Itinunifihi. 



THOMAS. ST. .Santo Thome , an island in the Gulf of 

 Guinea, extends from 1' to -V X. lat., and from (i u iV to 

 liM:i' K. lunu r . It is about Ml) miles west-north. 



Lope?. The is'und is nf an o\ al shape : 

 length is about 'M miles, and its greatest breadth about IK 

 miles. Its area may be estimated at about -i'JU square 

 miles. It is of basaltic formation, and mountainous: 

 the Pico ile Santa Anna de ('h,.\es is 7XHi feet hiL'h. 

 The mountains arc mostly covered with wood, and 

 are m , anls well supplied with lish. The . 



tation is abundant. The chief exports are sugar, indigo, 

 and cotton. The island i ihe PortuL'uese; and 



the inhabitants, who are chiefly comp.i-cd .'I I'oitu. 

 and of negro slaves, amount to about 1S.IXH). A number 

 of inn live iu the mountains. The chief 



town is called Santo Thome. 



IHOMAS. ST.. Island. [Ynic.lN ISLANDS.] 

 THO.MASIN.orTOMASlN.surnamedT. .ir.or 



Zerkler, a German jioet of the thirteenth century. He was a 



native ut'tiic Italian province of Knnli, and born about the 

 Hein-r thus an Italian by birth, or. n he 

 liinis. \Valich, he wrote in his earlier da\ 



Italian work, probably a didactic poem. 'On Courteous 

 Manners,' which is no longer extant. In the course of the 

 .Jlii. when he- had just reached his thirtieth year, 

 lie wrote in the space of ten moi : didactic poem 



in German, which fiom his native country he called The 

 Welsh .'1 which consists of 



ten books. This poem, of which there exist many 



niie of the most splctidl.1 



duet].. the thirteenth ecntnn, 



and, although llu-authoi i- er, the work br> 



throughout a ]. in spirit, and displays all the 



depth and intensity of German thought and leclim:. In 

 the beginning of his poem Thomasin admits that he is not 

 a pen which he used : bir 



i sliirht. tl. 



nd knowledge of the old Gem. . di- 



ncr. Kschenburi; tl" ; poses that 



ills native eonnlrv is a 



mere fiction. Hut this MIJ.J. i well as another, that 



the Welfh Gi-est ' is meicK a (iermaii lianslation of the 



itlioiit lounda- 



tion. mill contradicted bj numerous p ilie lormer 



work. The object of this poem is to show m what virtue. 



