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the edge of a fwcid, over which the people are to pafs, after 

 their trial on the day of judgment. 



To add to the difficidty of the pifrage, Mahomet afTerls, 

 that the ahirat, narrow as it is, is befet with briars and 

 thorns ; none of wliich, however, will be any impediment to 

 the good, who fl-uill fiy over it like the wind ; Mahomet 

 and liis Miiflulmen lend the way ; whereas the wickid, by 

 the narrownefs of the path, the entangling of the thorns, 

 and extinclion of the liglit, which direcled the former to 

 paradife, will foon mifs their footing, and tumble headlong 

 into hell, which is gaping beneath to receive them. See 

 Sale's Prelim. Difc' to Koran, fee. iv. p. 90. See M.iho- 



METANS. 



ALSITZ, in Geography, a river of the Netherlands, 

 which pafTcs by the city of Luxemburg, and runs into the 

 Sour near Dicrich. 



ALSIUM, in /Indent Geoj^mpby, a city of It;dy in 

 Etruria, occupying, according to Cluverius, the fpot wiiere 

 Palo now Hands. If it was built by the Aborigines long 

 before the Tyrfenians invaded Italy, as we are informed by 

 Dionyfius Halicarn. it mull have been founded not lonn- after 

 the difperiion in the days of Pelcg. Silius Italicus (lib. viii. 

 v. 475.) refers its origin to the Trojan times, and fays, tliat 

 it was built by Alel'us, the friend of Agamemnon ; but 

 fome have conjeftured, that Alefus or Alifa, its founder, 

 was Elilha, the fon of Java, mentioned in Scripture. Vi-l- 

 leius Paterculus (lib. i. c. 14.) relates, that it became a Ro- 

 man colony, towards the end of the firft Punic war. It was 

 Ctuated 18 miles from Portus Auguili, and fouth-eall of 

 Caere. 



ALSLEBEN, in Geography, a town of Germany, in the 

 circle of Upper Saxony and the principality of Anlnlt-Dcf- 

 fau, and in the bailiwick of Great Alfleben, which has a 

 princely palace built in 1666; nine miles fouth fouth-well 

 of Bernburg. N. lat. 51° 38'. W. long. 11° 29'. 



Alslebf.n is alio a fmall town of Germany, in the circle 

 of Lower Saxony and principahty of Magdeburg, and in 

 the bailiwick of Alfleben, fituate on the Saale, and eonillling 

 of 108 houfes. The revenues of the collegiate church have 

 been transferred to the cathedral of Magdeburg. The old 

 village of Alfleben lies fo near the town walls as to feem to 

 be a iuburb of it. It is 22 miles fouth of Magdeburg. 



ALSO-S AJO, a town of Hungary, in the Gefpaniehaft 

 of Gomor, fituate on the banks of the Sajo. A quantity 

 of cinnabar is dug in its neighbourhood. 



ALSO-DANY, a fmall town of Hungary-, in the dif- 

 trict of Ofzlan and Rewilchtye jurifdiction, to which be- 

 longs a mineral water. 



ALSOP, Anthony, in Biography, an Enghlh poet 

 and divine, viias educated at Weftminfter fchool, and from 

 thence elefted to Chrift-church college, Oxford. He was 

 foon after his admifiion to the univerfity diftinguifhed t)y 

 Dean Aldrich, and pubhihed " Fabularum yLfopica- 

 rum delectus," Oxon. 1698, Svo. with a preface, in which 

 he took part with Mr. Boyle in the dilpute between him 

 and Dr. Bentley. He palled through the gradation of of- 

 fices to that of cenior at the college with reputation, and 

 had the care of feveral of the principal noblemen and gen- 

 tlemen of the fociety ; and in this fituation he continued, 

 till Sir Jonathan Trelawny, bilhop of Winchelter, appointed 

 him his chaplain ; and foDn after gave him a prebend in his 

 own cathedral, together with the redoi7 of Briglitwell in 

 Berks, from .vhich no folicitations to a higher ilation could 

 iaduee him to remove. In lyiyhewas call in an action 

 for the breach of a contraft of marriage, with 2000 1. 

 damages ; and on this occafion he left the kingdom. The 

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duration of Ii!» exile is not afeertaincd ; but his dt-ath. 

 which happened, June 10, 1726, was occahoncd by liit fall- 

 ing into a ditch near \m garden door. A 410. vi.lmne of 

 h;8 was publiflud in 1752 by Sir Tnuicis Bernard, under 

 the title of " Antouii Allopi, adis Chrilli ohm alumni, 

 Od-ioim libii duo." Four Englifli poemj, by Alfop, arc m 

 D(dnty's collection, one in Pcarch's, ftveral in the early 

 volumes of the Gentleman's Maga/.ine, and fome in the 

 Student. He waa a pleafant and facet iuu« companion, and 

 not rigidly rtftraincd by the foims of his prufefliun. Mr. 

 Allop is rcfpcftfullv mentioned by the facetious Dr. King 

 of the Commons, (vol. i. p. 236.) as having enriched the 

 commonwealth of learning by " Tranflationsof Fables from 

 Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic," and no lefa contempuioufly 

 by Dr. I'enlley, under the name of " Tony Alfop, a late 

 editor of the itfopcan Fables." Biog. Did. 



ALSOP, ViNCtsT, an Englilh nonconformift divine, 

 was born in Northamptonftiire, and educated at St. John's 

 college, Cambridge, where he took the degree of mailer of 

 arts. Having taken deacon's (,rdcrs, he fettled at Oakliam in 

 Rutlauddiire, as aflillant in the fret-fchool. Having imbib- 

 ed the principles of nonconformity, he was ordained among 

 the prelbytcrians, and exerciftd his minillry at Wilbee, 

 in Northamptonfliire, whence he was ejcfled in 1662. After 

 this event he preached occafionally, and was imprifoned fix 

 months for praying with a fick perfon. Being known to 

 the world by a book which he wrote in an humourous ftvlc 

 againll Dr. Sherlock, he was invited to fettle with a con- 

 gregation of prelbytcrians in Weftminfter; and in this fitua- 

 tion he fortunately efcapcd fines and imprifonment, becaufc 

 his chriilian name, wliich he lludioufly concealed, was not 

 known to the infomiers. At the commencement of the 

 reign of James II. Mr. Alfop's fon engaged in treafonable 

 praftices, and obtained the king's pardon ; and this art of 

 clemency feems to have attached the father to the royal in- 

 tereft. In the addrefs which was prefcnted to the king for 

 his genei-al indulgence, and which is fuppofcd to have been 

 written by Mr. Alfop, he intreats his Maiefty to believe, 

 " that loyalty is not entailed to a party," and he profefTo 

 for himfelf and his brethren, their gratitude and good 

 willies ; to which addrefs the king replied, that he wag 

 happy in obferving two good effects of his declaration, the 

 eafing and pleafing of his fubjerts, and reftoring to God 

 the empire over confciencc ; adding, " it has been my 

 judgment a long time, that none has, or ought to have any 

 power over the confciencc but God ;" and exprefling his 

 hope, " to live to fee the day, when you fliall as well have 

 Magna Charta for the liberty of confciencc, as you have 

 had for your properties :" clofing with this admonition : 

 " and now, gentlemen, do you fo preach to your hearers, as 

 they may be good Chriftians, and then I do not qucllion 

 but they will be good fubjefts." After the revolution-, 

 Mr. Alfop, though he retained a grateful rcfpert for the 

 memoiy of king James, became zealoufly attached to the 

 government and intercll of king William. He lived to an 

 advanced age, and died on the Sth of May 1703. It is 

 faid, that though on grave fubjefts he wrote with a becom- 

 ing ferioufnefs, yet when wit might be properly fliewn, he 

 difplayed it to great advantage. To this purpoie we are 

 referred to his " Antifozzo," in vindication of lome great 

 truths oppofed by Dr. William Sherlock," 8vo. 1675. 

 He alio wrote, " Melius Inquirendum," in anfwer to Dr. 

 " Goodman's Compaflionatc Inquir)'," 8vo. 1679 ; " The 

 Mifchief of Impofitions," in anfwer to Dr. Stillingfleet's 

 Milchicf of Separation, i68c, with feveral fiRglc femions. 

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