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freedom, if he would fly with her and make her his 

 \\ifc. In vain did lie plead to her, that he hada wife 

 ami children at home. The princess, used only to 

 the customs of her own country, saw no obstacle in 

 that. They escaped, and arrived by sea at Venice. 

 The count here learned that his wife and children 

 were yet living, and anxiously awaiting his return. 

 He hastened to Rome, and, after his sultana was 

 baptized, he obtained permission from the pope to 

 keep both his wives, with whom he lived thenceforth 

 in happiness ; and his first wife had the generosity 

 to divide her husband's love with her, without whose 

 help she would never again have seen his face. The 

 count's monument, upon which lie was represented 

 with both his wives, was formerly to be seen in the 

 !lenedictine church upon the Petersberg at Erfurt, 

 in id is now at Gotha. 



GLEIM, JOHN UILLAM Louis, born at Ennsleben, 

 a small town in the principality of Halberstadt, April 

 2, 1719, died February 18, 1803, at Halberstadt, 

 where he was secretary to the cathedral chapter, and 

 at the same time canon of the chapter of Waldeck. 

 He lost his father when young, his poem on the death 

 of whom shows the early developement of his poeti- 

 cal talent. In 1738, he went to the university of 

 Halle, after having been maintained up to that time 

 by charitable persons. Uz was one of his fellow 

 students and friends ; both took the Roman and 

 Greek poets as their models. In 1740, Gleim left 

 the university, and, after some time, became secre- 

 tary to prince William, son.of the margrave of Bran- 

 denburg-Schwedt. At this period, he made the 

 acquaintance of Kleist, another German poet, and 

 became his intimate friend ; the two poets are men- 

 tioned in German literature like two brothers. With 

 Sulzer, Ramler, Graun, &c., they joined the party of 

 Bosmer against that of Gottsched. The second 

 Silesian war, in 1744, separated the two friends; and 

 Gleim, after many vicissitudes of fortune, was appoint- 

 ed secretary of the cathedral chapter of Halberstadt, 

 in 1747. Gleim's element was friendship. He 

 corresponded with all the principal wits in Germany, 

 and enjoyed the affection of all. His correspondence 

 is, therefore, very interesting. Gleim was never 

 married. His niece, Sophia Dorothea Gleim, whom 

 he has frequently sung, under the name of Gleminde, 

 kept his house. He acquired the greatest reputation 

 by his martial songs, which appeared under the name 

 and in the cliaracter of an old grenadier, at the time 

 when Frederic the Great filled all Europe with the 

 fame of his achievements. Two years before his 

 death, he became blind. Klopstock wrote an ode 

 to his memory. He was buried in his garden, in 

 Halberstadt, and, according to his last will, some 

 simple*urns, with the names of his friends who died 

 before him, are arranged around his own. His works 

 have been published ; Gleim's Sammtliche JVerke, 

 erste Originalausgabe aus des Dichters Handschriften 

 durch W. Korte; 7 small vols. (Halberstadt, 1811 

 13). Korte has also written his life. 



GLENDOWER, OWEN, who has been sometimes 

 called the Wallace of Wales. The precise date of 

 his birth, is uncertain, some fixing it in 1349, others 

 in 1354. The place of his nativity was Trefgarn, in 

 Pembrokeshire, where he was born of Ellen, a lineal 

 descendent from Catharine, daughter and heiress to 

 Llewellyn, last prince of Wales. At at early age, 

 he was sent to London for education, and, entering 

 himself at one of the inns of court, studied for the 

 English bar, but relinquished-the profession on being 

 appointed scutiger to Richard II. JoloGoch, a con- 

 temporary bard, gives a splendid description of his 

 family mansion, or rather palace ; and, indeed, he 

 appears at this time to have exercised considerable 

 feudal influence, carrying on, with great spirit, a con 



test of some duration with Reginald, lord Grey de 

 Ruthyn, respecting an estate called Croesau, in 

 which he was, for a time, successful ; but, on the 

 deposition of his royal patron, by Henry of Boling- 

 broke, his old antagonist took advantage of the un- 

 settled state of the country to renew his usurpation. 

 Nor did his evil practices end here ; for drey, being 

 charged with the delivery of a summons to Owen. 

 from the new king, to attend him on his Scottish ex 

 pedition, purposely neglected to deliver it. Glrn 

 dower was, in consequence, outlawed for disaffection, 

 his enemy seized upon all his lands, and the parlia- 

 ment treated his remonstrances with neglect. Glen- 

 dower forcibly dispossessed Grey of his lands, and. 

 having succeeded in raising a considerable force, 

 caused himself to be proclaimed prince of Wales, 

 September 20, 1400. To this measure he is said to 

 have been incited by some traditionary prophecies ot 

 Merlin ; and certain it is, tliat many of his coun- 

 trymen of consideration were induced, by the same 

 motives, to join his standard. He defeated the king's 

 troops under Sir Edward Mortimer, and Henry put 

 in motion against him three grand divisions of his 

 army ; but Owen, retiring to the mountains, foiled 

 all attempts to bring him to action ; and, the rebel- 

 lion of the Percys breaking out, he joined the coali- 

 tion, causing himself, at the same time, to be form- 

 ally crowned, at Machynlaeth, in Montgomeryshire, 

 sovereign of Wales." The rashness of Henry Percy 

 brought on the fatal battle of Shrewsbury, before all 

 his Welsh auxiliaries had come up. Their prince, 

 however, is said to have been so near as to have re- 

 connoitred the action from the top of a lofty tree ; 

 but, seeing all was lost, directly retreated, and con- 

 tinued his marauding warfare. This he kept up with 

 various success, occasionally assisted by Charles VI. 

 of France, with whom a treaty of his is yet extant, 

 dated 1404, in which he is styled "Owenus, Dei 

 Gratia, Princeps Walliae." Finding it impossible to 

 subdue him, Henry, in 1415, condescended to treat 

 witli him ; but Owen died during the negotiation, 

 which was, however, continued and ratified by his son, 

 Meredyd ap Owen, February 24, 1416. 



GLOBE, in geometry; a round, solid body, which 

 may be conceived to be generated by the revolution 

 of a semicircle about its diameter. (See Sphere.) 

 Globe, or Artificial Globe, in geography and astro- 

 nomy, is more particularly used to denote a globe of 

 metal, plaster, paper, pasteboard, &c., on the sur- 

 face of which is drawn a map, or representation of 

 either the heavens or the earth, with the several 

 circles which are conceived upon them ; the former 

 being called the terrestrial globe, and the latter the 

 celestial globe. The Celestial Globe is an inverted 

 representation of the heavens, on which the stars are 

 marked according to their several situations. The 

 diurnal motion of this globe is from east to west, to 

 represent the apparent diurnal motion of the sun anil 

 stars. The eye is supposed to be placed in the centre 

 of this globe, but, in fact, it is beyond the stars. 

 The Terrestrial Globe is an artificial representation 

 of the earth, exhibiting its great divisions. The 

 diurnal motion of this globe is from west to east. 



The axis of the earth is an imaginary line passing- 

 through its centre ; and the wire on which the arti- 

 ficial globe turns, represents this line. The poles of 

 the earth are the extremities of this axis ; that on 

 the north is called the arctic, that on the south, the ant- 

 arctic pole. The celestial poles are imaginary points 

 in the heavens, exactly above the terrestrial poles. 

 The brazen meridian is the circle in which the artifi- 

 cial globe turns, divided into 360 degrees. Every 

 circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, 

 called degrees, each degree into sixty equal parts 

 called minutes, each minute into sixty equal parts, 



