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to prefcribe to God in what inilances \w fiiall rxcrt his power ; 

 and as we are not to rufh upou danger without a call, in i-x- 

 peftatiou of aii extraordinary delivoranco ; fo iicitlier ;u-i; we 

 to diiftate to divine wifdom vviiat miracles (hall be wrought 

 for men's conviftion." As this trial luire reference to his fu- 

 ture miniitry, we find that in exemplifyiujr the principle now 

 manifefted, he never needlefsly and unwarrantably cxpofcd 

 himfelf to danger, and then relied on a miraculous interpo- 

 fition of divine power for his refcue ; but he was cautious in 

 declining hazards ; avoiding what might exafpcrate his ene- 

 mies ; and even enjoining fdence with regard to his miracles, 

 when the publication of them was likely to excite envy or popu- 

 lar commotion, and to inflame their minds againft him. In dif- 

 playing the evidences of his divine miflion, he ftill aftcd upou 

 the fame maxim, opening his commiflion, not at Jerufalem, 

 but in Galilee. In order to avoid oftentation and offence, he 

 kept himfelf as private as the objeft of his commiflion would 

 allow; andinfteadof courting the favour of the opulent and 

 powerful, he converfed freely with all forts of people. In 

 many other inftances which an attentive perufal of his hif- 

 tory will furnifh, his miniftry will correfpond to his pro- 

 phetic vifion, in which he was tempted to a public and ollen- 

 tatious difplay of his miraculous powers. In the third fcenc, 

 the propolal was inftantaneoufly rejefted, and not without 

 a mixture of juft indignation. Belides this trial of his tem- 

 per, the fcene before us' pre-fignified the temptation to 

 which he would be ex,pofed in the courfe of his future mi- 

 niftry, during which he was called upon to proftitute himfelf, 

 with all his miraculous endowments, to the fervice of Satan, 

 for the fake of worldly honours, or for gratifying the mif- 

 taken expcftations of the Jewifh people. For a farther 

 illuflration of tliis fubjeft, we mud refer to the work already 

 cited. See alfo archbifliop Seeker's, Dr. Clarke's, Dr. 

 Chandler's, Mr. Mafon's Sermons, on this fubjcft. Ben- 

 fon's Hiftory of the Life of Chrift. Macknight's Truth 

 of the Gofpel Hiflory. 



Temptation, Tentatia, in our Ancient Lauu-books, is 

 ufed for a trial, proof, or afiay. " Tentatio panis fiat bis 

 in anno." Chart. Edw. I. See Assay, Sec. 



TEMROOK, in Geography, a famous Ration in the 

 Crimea, fituated at the foot of a iniall mountain, near 

 the northern embouchure of the Kuban, it is now a fingle 

 hut, for the purpofe of fupplying poll-horfes. In Mo- 

 traye's time, who travelled this way in December 171 1, it 

 was a place of greater importance. He delcribes it as con- 

 fiderable for its commerce in hides, caviaie, honey, Circaf- 

 fian flaves, and horfes. He fuppoled that its caille flood 

 where the ancients placed their " Petrous ;" and two emi- 

 nences, he fays, which are named " the point of the ifland," 

 may have been their " Achilleum Fromontorium." This, it 

 is fuppofed, was the fituation of Cimmerium. Pallas con- 

 ieftures, that Temrook may probably have been the " Cim- 

 bricus" of Strabo. 



TEMS, Fr., time, in Mufe; as a contre tons, againft 

 time. 



TEMSEMA, mGeograjihi, a provinceof Morocco, fituated 

 on the coaft of tlie Atlantic, to the S. of Sallee. This pro- 

 vince is rich and fertile, and abounds in excellent provifions, 

 of various kinds. Its name feems intended to fignify its fa- 

 lubrity, and tl;e purity of the climate. Temfena appears to 

 be derived from the two Arabic words Taniain Satm, only a 

 year ; as if they fhould fay, that to refide here only a year 

 would be fufficient to infure the fickly the return of their 

 health, and fuch, in faft, is the firm belief of the natives. 

 Corn is very plentiful in this province ; it is of a very excel- 

 lent kind, and the cars frequently bear 70 grains, or more. 

 In the forefts is found a kind of cedar, called ha%ar, of « 



refinous fmell ; it is a hard and incorruptible wood, and the 

 Moors employ it in building their houfes. 



This and the neighbounng provinces abound in horfes 

 and lionicd cattle ; tlieir flocks are numerous, and the ca- 

 valry of Temfena is the beft appointed of the empire, ex- 

 cepting the Black troops of the emperor, called Abccd 

 Seedy Bubarric. The population of the dillrifts of Tem- 

 fena and Shavvia is eftimated at 1,160,000 pcrfons. The 

 males of Temfena and Sliawia are a ftrong, robuft race, of 

 a coj)per colour ; their women poflefs much beauty, and 

 have liighly cxpreffivc features ; and the animation of the 

 countenance is iucreafed by the ufe of cl kokol filelly, with 

 which they tinge their cye-laflics and eye-brows. In thefe 

 provinces they are fond of dyeing their hands and feet 

 with a preparation of the herb henna, which gives them a 

 beautiful orange-colour, and, in hot weather, imparts a 

 pleafing coolnefs and foftnefs to the hands, by preventing, in 

 a confiderable degree, the quicknefs of perfpiration. 



TEMUS, in Botany, a genus which Juffieu has conde- 

 fcended to adopt, by its barbarous name, from the h;u-dly 

 lefs barbarous information of Mohna. Jufl". Gen. 435.^ 

 Clafs and order, Polyavdrla Di^ynia. Nat. Ord. uncertain. 



Efl". Ch. " Calys three-clelt. Petals eighteen, hncar, 

 very long. Stamens twenty-fix, (horter than the petals. 

 Anthers globofe. Germens two. Styles two. Berry two- 

 lobed. Seeds tunicated." — Native of Chili, where it i« 

 called Temo. This it feems is an evergreen tree, with alter. 

 nate leaves, and ftalked terminal Jlowers. 



Temus, in Geography, a river of Sardinia, which ruRS 

 into the fea, 4 miles E. of Caftello Arragonefc. 



TENA, a town of South America, m the province of 

 Quito ; 15 miles S. of Archidona. 



TENABLE, formed from the French tenir, and that 

 from the Latin tenere, to hold, in the Military Art, fome- 

 thing that may be defended, kept, and held, againft 

 affailants. 



Tenable is little ufed, but with a negative : v;hea a place 

 is open on all fides, and its defences arc all beaten down, it is 

 no longer tenable. When the enemy has gained fuch an emi- 

 nence, this polt is not tenable. 



TENACIOUS BomKs. See Tenacity. 



TENACITY, in Natural Philojophy, that quality of 

 bodies by which they fuftain a confiderable preflure, or force, 

 without breaking. Mem. Acad. Berlin, 1745, P- 47' 



Tenacity is the oppofite quality to fragility, or brittle. 

 nefs. 



TENACULUM, in Surgery, an inftrumc.-it ufed in am. 

 putation, for pulhng cut bleeding veiTels that are to be tied 

 by ligatures. 



TENAGLIA, in Biography, a Roman compofer, men» 

 tioned by Pietro della Valle, as having fet the opera of 

 " Clearco," for that city, about 1634. This feems to have 

 been one of the firil mufical dramas performed at Rome in a 

 public theatre. 



TENAILLE, in Fortijuaticn, a kind of outwork, con- 

 fifting of two p.irallel fids^, with a front, in which is a re- 

 entering angle. 



In ftriftnefs, that angle, and the faces which compoff it, 

 arc the lenaillc. 



The tenaillc is of two kinds ; Jimple and double. 



Tenaille, Simple, or Single, is a large outwork, con- 

 fifting of two faces or fides, including a re-entering angle. 

 See Plate V. Fortification, Jig. 4. lit. a. 



Tenaille, DcMe, or Flanked, is a large outwork, 

 confifting of t%vo iimple tenailles, or three faliants, and two 

 re-entering ongles. Fig. zi. lit. e. 



The great defefts of tcnaiUes are, that they take up too 

 T t 2 much 



