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falved by llie liiifljaiid'n re-deliveriiig the wife into any per- 



loii's liiiiids ajjrccd upon between llitni. 



REMAND, Fi-., 7>y, in Military Language, to fend back ; 



as when a foldier, who ha; been brought out of prifoii, or the 



guard-houfe, for the purpofe of being examined or tried, is 



ient back, witliout any thing final occurring relative to his 



cafe. 



■ JlEMANSO, i;i Geography, a town of South America, 



in tht province of Cordova ; 170 miles N. of Cordova. 

 RE-MARRYING, the repeating of a marriage ; or the 



going tiirough tlie folemnities of a fecond marriage. 



Clandeltine and uncanonical marriages are deemed null ; 



and tlie parties are to be re-married in form ; at lealt, it had 

 always better be fo to avoid difputes. 



It was anciently exprcfsly forbid to re-marry in the firft 

 year of viduity. M. Bayle obferves, that a perfon who 

 does not re-marry, is anfwerable to the public for all the 



time Inil in his viduity, or widowhood. 



REMBANG, in Geography, a town on the N. coaft of 

 the ifland of .Tava, where the IDutch had a refident merchant. 

 It yields fait and timber, and was the place where the fmall 

 veflels of the company were built ; 45 miles N.E. of Sa- 

 niaraiig. 



REMBERTUS, in Biography, the difeiple, friend, and 

 fellow labourer of Anfgarius, ilyled the apoftle of the 

 north, was a native of Thurliolt, in Flanders, in the monaf- 

 tery of which, as well as in that of Corbey in AVellphalia, 

 he ofRciated as fchool-mafter. He was one of the firft pro- 

 moters of Chriltianity in Denmark, and in or about the year 

 860 he became bifhop of Ribc. After the death of Anf- 

 garius, in 865, he was appointed to the archbifhopric of 

 Hamburgh, which office he held till his death, in 8S8. He 

 wrote, in conjnntlion with a friend, the life of Anfgarius, 

 which is inferted in the firlt volume of Langebeck's " Scrip- 

 tores Rerum Danicarum." In this work Rembertus relates 

 various fafts, not elfewhere to be found, with regard to the 

 itiite of Denmark at that period, but intermixed with fables. 

 He collected extrafts from Gregorius Magnus, whofe works 

 no longer exift, and he wrote many letters, one of which 

 only is to be found in the fecond volume of Langebeck's 

 coUedlion. An account of Rembert's life and miracles is 

 given in the fame work. A Danifh writer, quoted in the 

 General Biography, to which we are indebted for this article, 

 in fpeaking of Rembert's labours, fays ; " here we have not 

 fo much the commencement of Danifh literature, as the feeds 

 of it. They were fown by the exertions of Ebbo, Wille- 

 had, Anfgarius, and Rembert, but remained a long time, as 

 it were, trodden down by the fevere perfecutions to which the 

 Chrillians were expofed from Gormo the old, and other 

 kings ; and retarded in tlieir growth by the rudenefs and 

 barbarifm which formed the principal features in the charac- 

 ter of a people, who were fonder of roving about on the 

 feas to rob and m.urder, and of feafting and drinkmg, than 

 of reading and writing books. At length, however, the 

 feeds which he had fcattcrcd took root, fprung up in the 

 1 Ith century, and in the 12th and 13th produced abundance 

 of fruit." Gen. Biog. 



REMBERVILLERS, in Geography. See Ramber- 



VILLEKS. 



REMBRANDT, Van Rvn, in Biography, was born 

 at a village near Leyden, in 1605. The real name of his 

 family wa.s Gerretfz ; but he acquired that of Van Ryn, 

 from having refided in early life at a village upon the banks 

 of the Rhine. 



The little which this extraordinary artift owed to tuition 

 was derived firit from Zwanenburg, then from Peter Laft- 

 man, ?nd afterwards from Jacob Pinas, from whofe manner 



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fome are induced to think that Rembrandt drew his own in- 

 clination for powerful oppofitions (if light and fllade ; but 

 whatever hints he may have obtained from oliiers at the out- 

 fet of his praftice, they were loon loft in the effulgence of 

 his brilliant career, and abforbed in tlie lullrc of iiis own 

 over-powering abilities. 



He was firft brought into notice by having taken a pic- 

 ture to the Hague, and oflered it for lale to an able connoif- 

 feur ; who, confcious of Ins merit, treated liim with kind- 

 nefs, and gave hiin a hundred florins for it. By this incident 

 both hinifelf and the public were made acquainted with his 

 wortli ; and hence arofe the reputation and fucccfs he after- 

 wards enjoyed. Inceliant occupation foon crowded upon 

 him, and many pupils applied for admiihcn into his fchool, 

 with each of whom he received 1 00 florins a-year ; and 

 whofe copies of his piftures he not unfrequently lold as ori- 

 ginals, after bellowing a (hort time upon them himlelf. By 

 thele means, aided by incedant indullry, and the fale of 

 etchings, which he produced with great facility and fl<ill, he 

 accumulated confiderable wealth : his income, according to 

 Sandrart, being, for a length of time, at leall 2500 florins 

 yearly. 



His place of refidence, during this fuccefsful difplay of 

 his talents, was Amfterdam, where his peculiarities proeured 

 him the charafter of a humorift, whilft his abilities afto- 

 niflied and delighted his contemporaries, and he produced 

 thofe works which itiU gratify fuccetding ages. 



The peculiarities of his mind are as much obfervable in the 

 manner of producing his effedts, as in th^ choice of the ma- 

 terials. The execution of his earlier works was in a ftylc 

 highly laboured, with great neatnefs, and patient comple- 

 tion of the figures ; fuch is that of the picture of the wo- 

 man taken in adultery at Mr. Angerftein's. As he advanced 

 in art, he took liberties with the pencil, wrought with all 

 the broad fulnefs of the brufli, and left the touch undif- 

 turbed : he even employed the ftick, the pallet -knife, or his 

 fingers, accordingly as they were moft capable of producing 

 the effeft he defired, when fcen at a proper diftance, difre- 

 garding the appearance of the work upon a clofer infpec- 

 tion. 



In his piftures is exhibited a total inattention to the tafte 

 of the antique ; he is even faid to have made it a fubjeift of 

 ridicule, and to have jocofely denominated a coUedlion of 

 old armour and rich drelles, which he had coUetled and em- 

 ployed to ftudy and paint from, " his antiques." Thefe he 

 evidently ufed as his models, though frequently in moft he- 

 terogeneous combination ; but by an innate power of feizing 

 the moll ftriking effefls produced by light and lliade, fuper- 

 added to the moft perfeCl maftery over the materials of the 

 pallet, he always excited an intereft, either by originality or 

 beauty. 



It is not, however, the approval of his power in the tech- 

 nical part of the art, which can or ought to fatisfy the ob- 

 ferver of the works of Rembrandt. Entering with the 

 warmth of a poet into the nature of his fubjefts, he pro- 

 duced piftures which terrify with their fublimity, delight 

 with their fuavity, or gratify us with the moft perfeft tran- 

 fcripts of Nature, in her moft varied afpefts. Being himfelf 

 polielied of the full force of his fubjeft, he imprefles it 

 ftrongly, and notwithftanding the frequent vulgarity, and 

 even deformity of the agents he exhibits, he extorts from 

 us praife before we hare time to confider the means by 

 which we are ftimulated to bellow it. To him every time 

 and feafon was alike eafy of reprefentation ; and all degrees 

 of illumination, in form or quantity, he managed with the 

 greateft perfeftion ; no matter whether the fcene arofe from 

 tJie breadth of the noon-day blaze, the dimiiefs of twilight, 



the 



