G O )M 



loiiipait earth of a dull greyidi %vhite, foft aiid fi-iable, and 

 adheres firmly to the tongue, and makes no cffervefcence 

 with acids'. 



GOLTIAVINA, in Ccosraphy, a town of Ruffia, in 

 the government of Tobolfc ; 1 88 miles E. of Enifcik. N. 

 Iat.5S-'2o'. E.long.98-'i4'.' 



GOLTPACH, a town of Pruflla, in the palatinate of 

 Culm; 8 miles N.E. of Thorii. 



GOLTVA, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Kiev ; 112 miles S.E. of Kiev. N. lat. 49^ 15'. E. long. 



GOLTZEN, a town of Lower Lufatia ; 10 miles W. 

 of Lubbcn. N. lat. 51'^ 58'. E-Jong. 13= 30'. 



GGLTZIUS, HuBEiiT, in Biography, a painter, who 

 was born at Venlo in 1520, and ftvidi-d mider Lambert 

 Lonibard. Becoming enamoured of tl j antique by havmg 

 copied feveral works of that clafs, he r-folved to cultivate 

 his talle byvifiting the more unportant Greek works pre- 

 ferved at Rome ; and therefore travelled to that city, where 

 he relided fome time, and thence drew an ample ftoek of 

 materials for his future progrefs in the art he profefled. 



He lived priiicipSlly at Antwerp, where he painted the 

 hillory of Jafon ; but as he was engaged in a variety of flu- 

 dies, his pidures are rare. Among other things he invefti- 

 gated coins and medals, and publifhjda colleftion of them 

 with critical annotations. He died at the age of G^. 



GoLXZlus, Hesry, an artiit: of confiderable talent, who 

 praclifed both painting and engraving. As a painter, he 

 drew his refources from the ftudy of the antique, of Ra- 

 phael, Polidoro, and Michael Angelo ; the laft of whom 

 appears to have been his favoured Apollo' in the art, but 

 whofe faults he exaggerated in an outrageous manner, fel- 

 dom attaining any of his beauties. Hence his ilyle of de- 

 fign is inflated and caricature ; and his exprefilons participate 

 of the fame taiie ; but his fenfe of hue in colour is rich, vi- 

 gorous, and tranf])arent. He died in 1617, aged ^'g. 



GOLUB, \n Geography, a town of Pruifia, in the territo- 

 ry of Culm ; 24 miles S.E. of Culm. 



GOLUBENSKA, a town of Rufria, in the country of 



the Cofl'aeks, on the Don ; 200 miles E.N.E. of Azoph. 



GOMAHNY,a town of Hindoollan, in the circar of Mo- 



hurgunge ; 45 miles N.W. of Harriopour. — Alfo, a town 



of Bengal; 8 miles S.S.E. of Goragot. 



GOMAR, Fkanxls, in Biography, celebrated as the 

 great opponent of Armini\is, and from wliom the Calvinillic 

 party in Holland received the name of " Gomarills,'' was 

 born about the year 1563 at Bruges. His parents had been 

 brought up in the Roman Ca'tholic religion, but having em- 

 braced the Proteftant dotlvmes, they retired into the palati'- 

 nate in 1578, for the fake of profefliPig their principles in 

 peace and fecurity. Their fon Francis was fent to Straf- 

 burgfor his education, and purfued his ftudics there under 

 the celebrated John Sturm, after which he went to New- 

 iladt, whither the profefTors of Heidelberg had been obliged 

 to retire by the elector Lewis, becaiife they were the o;)po- 

 nents of the Lutheran faith. In 1582 he took a journey to 

 England, and attended the divinity leftures at the univerli- 

 ties of Oxford and Cambridge He was admitted to the 

 decree of B.D. in the year 1584. By great afliduity he 

 became very deeply learned in the Greek and Hebrew lan- 

 guacres, and in 1587 he fettled with a Dutch congregation 

 at Frankfort, and continued to difcharge his minillerial 

 fanftions. in that conneftion, until the year 1593, when his 

 flock was entirely difperfed by perfecution. In the follow- 

 ino- year he was invited to accept the theological profclTor- 

 (hip at Leyden, and having taken his degree of D.D. he 

 entered upon the duties of his new ftation. In 1603 Armi- 



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nius was appointed his colleague, and openly and zealonfiy 

 oppofed the gloomy dottrines- maintained by John Calvin, 

 and made many converts in the univerfity. This roufedtiie 

 attention of Gomar, who declared himfelf his opponent, dif- 

 putedwith him in the fchools of Leyden, and publiihed 

 treatifes to excite the orthodox to make a firm ftand againlt 

 his doclrines, which he reprefenled to be profane and im- 

 pious ; he went much farther, and endeavoured to provoke 

 againlt him the indignation of the States of Holland, be- 

 fore whom the two combatants difputcd twice in the year 

 1608. On one occafion, when Barnevelt exclaimed that he 

 was grateful to God that their controverfies did not affect 

 the fiind-cimental articles of the Chriftian religion, Gomar 

 protefted " that he could not appear before the throne of God 

 with Arminius's errors," thus vainly letting limits to the 

 mercy of the mod high and moil merciful God. In 1611, 

 feeing that his opponents increafed in numbers and in ftrength, 

 Gomar refigned liis office, and retired to Middleburg. Al- 

 ter this, he accepted the profefTorlhip of divinity, firft at 

 the academy of Saumur, and then at the univerfity of Gi'O- 

 ningen, and at the latter place he was employed as the He- 

 brew profeflbr, in addition to that of theology. He was 

 prefent at the fynod of Dort, and took an aftive part in 

 procuring the infamous decrees by which the Arminians 

 were condemned and profcribed as corrupters of the true 

 faith, and enemies to their country. He died at Groningen 

 in 1641. leaving a dillinguifhed charafter for found learn- 

 ing, particularly in the Oriental languages, but it cannot, 

 and it ought not to be concealed, that he difgraced the cha- 

 rafter of a Chriftian minifter by his bigotry and intolerance. 

 As an author, he publiihed many treatifes, but chiefly on 

 controverfial fubiefts, which were colle6led and printed at 

 Amllerdam in the year 1645. He was alfo concerned in re- 

 vifing ihetrandationof the Old Teftament, printed at Ley- 

 den with notes in the year 1637. Moreri. Bayle. 



GOMASTAHPOUR, in Geography, a town of Bengal, 

 42 miles N.W. of Nattore. 



GOMAUN, or Kemaoon, the name of mountains of 

 Afia, called alfo thofe of Sewalic ; an extenfive ridge, 

 which fecms to form the exterior barrier of the Thibetian 

 Alps in Sirinagur, S:c. 



GOMBAULD, John Ogier De, in Biography, ' a 

 French poet of the feventeenth century, was the younger 

 fon of a gentleman of the Proteftant religion, to which' he 

 adhered. He was educated at Bourdeaux, and came to 

 Paris about the time of the death of Henry IV., and fre- 

 quented the court of Mary de Medicis, Of her he obtain- 

 ed a penfion of 1200 crowns, which was but ill-paid, and 

 wiiich was foon reduced nominally to one-third of that fum, 

 fo that, nut\\'ithftanding his high patrons, he pafied much 

 of his life in a ftate little above indigence. He was eledted 

 one of the firft members of the French Academy, and was 

 fo extremely zealous for its great obieft, the purity of the 

 language, that he once propofed to the academicians that 

 they Ihould bind themfelves by oath to ufe no words 

 but fuch as were approved by the majority of the fociety. 

 He lived to a good old age, aiid died in 1666. He was au- 

 thor ot many tragedies, tragi-coniedies, paftorals and ro- 

 mances, fonnets, epigrams, &c. He alfo engaged in theolo- 

 gical controvcrfy, and wrote " Treatiles and Letters con- 

 cerning Religion," in favour of the Protellants. Gom- 

 bauld was very ready at repartee, and his wit did not leave 

 him even in old age, for his latell publication was a collec- 

 tion of epigrams. Moreri. Bavle. 



GOMBERT, Nicolas, a difcijjle of Jufquin, who 

 publiflied two books of motets for many voices in 1552. 

 He fet to mufic a Latin epitaph on his mailer Juf- 

 quin; 



