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guflcd w ith thofe who wer: the affociates of his youth, and 

 to hasc completely abandoned the party. He fpeculated 

 freely on religious fubjeCts, and at length adopted the lylleni 

 of outward compliance with cflablilhcd formj. At on? 

 time he appeared to be ready to join the quakers, but fomc- 

 thiiig occurred which prevented liim trom making an out- 

 ward profelTion of their principles. His eircumltances were 

 very narroAv, but he was fortunate euough to obtqiu a place 

 of fome truil in the Cullom houfe. He died at the age of 

 forty-one, in the year 1735. His difpoiition was remark- 

 ably mild, and his converlation abounded with wit. He 

 w.is fubjecl to low fpirits: as a cure tor this, he compofed 

 ■the work by which, as an autlior, he is principallly known, 

 •" The Spleen.'' This poem prefents a picture of his mind 

 and manners, which iuiplies a practical philofophv of the 

 fober and rational Epicurean call. The other works of 

 Mr. Green confill of " The Grotto ;'' " Verfcs on Bar- 

 clay's Apology;" " The Seeker;" and fome fmaller pieces. 

 " In manner and fubjeft," fays the critic, " they are lomc 

 of the moil original pieces in the language : they rank 

 among the eafy and familiar, but are replete with uncommon 

 thoughts, new and (Iriking images of remote ideas by forae 

 unexpected fimilitude, in which wit principally conClls. 

 Few poems will bear more repeated peruials ; and with 

 thofe who can fully enter into them, they do not fail to be- 

 come favourites." Gen. Biog. 



GliKi:N-, one of tlie original colours of the rays c)f light. 

 Grafs and herbs, and even nil vegetables in places expofed 

 to tlie open air, are green ; and thole in lubternuieous 

 places, or places inaccefilble to the air, white and yellow. 

 Thus when wheat or the like germinates under-ground it 

 is wiiite or yellow ; and whwi it is in the open air, green ; 

 tbungh this too is yellow before it be green. 



Gkekn'.s, t'lrujidal, are very rarely finiple colours, but 

 .produi ed by mi.xture of yellow and blue. 



Two powders, the one blue, and the other ye'luw, well 

 isi>;ed, appear perfectly green; thougli, when viewed 

 with a microfcope, we obterve a chequer of blue and 

 yellow. 



Ti;e tinclnre of red rofes with oil of tartar per deliquium, 

 or witli fpirit of fal ammoniac, produces green. The tii;e- 

 ture of many red flowers is changed into green by an al- 

 kali. The tincture of red rofes, and the yellow tincture 

 of crocus, or the blue tinclure of cyanus, and tlie white 

 f])irit of ial ammoniac, produce green. The folution of 

 .%,1-di^ris becomes colourlefs by the affufion of the fpirit 

 of nitre, and by the affufion of the oil of tartar it becomes 

 j,reen again. 



As no vegetable has yet been difcovered, which is capable 

 'f)f giving to cloth of any kind a pernument green colour, 

 the dye for this purpole is a compound colour, formed in 

 dye-vats either by putting a yellow on a blue grounJ, or a 

 "tilue on the yellow ground, or by mixing the blue and yel- 

 low materials, arid dyenig with them as with a funple colour. 

 The common and moll i)ermanent green is given to woolh n 

 rloth in the f illowing manner. Tiie cloth, being lirlL ilyeJ 

 I'lu.- ill tin- indigo vat (fee IndIco), is then well feomtd, 

 anil afterwards dyed in a bath of weld or auv other vellow 

 dye with alum and tartar, as in the mode of dveing of limjile 

 vellovv.-i, except that the yellow materials are ufed in greater 

 I'uautity than the yellow alone of equal body would require. 

 Vi ry deep greens are made to acquire a (light brown or kind 

 of burnilh bv adding to the bath (mall (juantitles of log- 

 wood :)nd iulphat of iron. /Vs tor fdks, they are iiril 

 ilrijngly alumed, then dyed yellow with weld, and after- 

 Vards linilhedin the indigo vat. Silk, cotton, and linen are 

 dyed jjreea in the fame general mode, but with .conliderabk 



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rariations in the different proccffes. The moft beautiful 

 green hitherto known, and which perfeftly well refills the 

 artion of light and air, is given by tlic combination of 

 Pruliiaii blue and ye-llow, but this colour is dcl'roved by 

 ioap and alkalies. To cotton this colour is given, by firil 

 dyeing it oli\e with weld, or any other yellow dye, and a 

 compound mtirdant (^f alum and iron, and then railing the 

 green by prufliat of potalh. (Sec PnuiSlAN blue.) Bcr- 

 thollec obferves, that in the procefs for tliis purpofe there 

 teems to be a mutual dillilbulion of the mordants and co- 

 lours, the PriilTiaii cohiur taking llic iron and becoming 

 blue, whilll the ahim and weld leniaining in the olive forin 

 a fall yellow, and unite with the blue into a fine grecti. 

 Tiie only fmiple green in common ufe is that of the carbo- 

 nated oxyd ot cBppcr precipitated from verdigris by an al- 

 kali, /i folution of verdigris is made in vinegar, and a few 

 hours before dyeing a folution of as much pejrladi us verdi- 

 gris is added to it, the mixture is heated, and tiie cotton, 

 previoufiy alumed, is palled through this bath. Tlie colour 

 then given i,-; a foft ap)de-gieen. Aikin's Did. 



The dyers make divers fliades, or calls of green, as light 

 green, yrllo-.u green, pnfs green, laurtl green, fea green. 

 I'.arh green, liurrot green, and ulaihn green. 



Gkekn, Lninfiviil:, is a pigment ufed by fome of the 

 German artills, which they prepare by adding to the fatu- 

 rated folution of one part of muriatcd amn:onia in cold 

 water, ihree parts of cojqier clippings ; and by covering 

 tlie glafs veliel that contains it with gaiife fo as to keep out 

 the dull, and [ilacing it in a warm lltuation, fo that the 

 moilUire may evaporate, which ]Jurpofe will be cffedcd in a 

 few days. The muriat ot ammonia foon begins to be de- 

 compoled by the copper, which is corroded and converted 

 into a green oxyd. When the whole is c/aporated to dry- 

 nefs, let it be digelled in two or three fuccellive portions of 

 Ipirit of wine, as long as any green oxyd is taken up ; then 

 add the folutions together and expel t!ie liquor bv a gentle 

 heat, tiie rcUdue is a pure dark green fub-rr.ur^at of copper, 

 known in the Ihops by tlie name of re!jiied Brunfwick 

 green. 



Gkekv, Mountfiin. or Hungary gt\rn, is a fort of grcenilh 

 powder found in little grains, like fand, among the moun- 

 tains of Kernaufent in Hungary, and thofe of Moldavia. 

 Though lome liold, that tlii.s mountain green is faftitiocs, 

 and the fame with tli.it tiie ancients called Jlos urij, p.'c- 

 pared by calling water, or rather wine, on copjier red-hot 

 from the fiiriKici', and catching the fumes thereof on copper 

 plates laid over tor that purpole: or by diiiolvitig copjitr- 

 jJates in wme, much as in making verdigris. The painters 

 make ute ot this colour for jr.;/} green. It is I'ometimes 

 counterfeiled by grinding verdigris witii cerufs. 



GiiEE.N-, dAiniii, and i.'f.,?;//.^/ gv.'.'fl. S-.-e VEllDinni.-;. 



GiiKK.s, Prti/fian. See the procei's for making Piir.^ii.AN 

 IJur. 



GnEux, SjJ). See cohurs fron I'.Hi;iT.';, Bvckthokn, 

 and SAV-^rcii:. 



(rtiJiEN, Suxon, an extremely beautiful ^rccn colour, fo 

 called bceaiife tlie blue part is given bv the Saxon blue or 

 fiilphat of indigo ; the proci'fs of dyeing which istliis ; thc- 

 cloth or lilk is lirll to be dyed a Saxon blue, in the follow- 

 ing nianni r. Having ground nine pans of iiidig») with 

 twenty of red arlenic into a line powder, add forty-ei'dir 

 jiarts of llrong fpirit o( vUriol; which mixture I'welU, 

 grows hot, and em.ils a I'ulphureous fmell. After ilnadirg 

 in a moderare warmth of twenty-four hours, poiir off the 

 liquid paTt, which will be of an extremely deep blue. A 

 fniall quantity of this liquor, dropt into hot water, ir.llantly 

 l"j>readii, t-iiigTi it of a tine light blue, and fits it for dyeing 

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