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A? a genealogift, under which char.-iacr he was diftinguiflieJ, 

 he publiflied in l 590, " Exegefis Genealogica Arboris Gen- 

 tilitiit Henrici IV., Gullorum Regis," enlarged in 1598, with 

 the addition of iIk- princefs ot Condc's abjuration. In 

 token of tlie indignation he felt at the feizure of his country 

 by Philip, he affirmed, as it is faid, in one of his fermons, 

 that " we were bound to love all men, of whatever religion, 

 fed or nation, even if they were Caftilians." Bayle. 



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TEXEL, or Tessel, in Geography, an ifland ot Hol- 

 land, about 1 1 miles in length, and fix in its grcatell breadth ; 

 fituated at the mouth of the Zuyder See, with a capacious 

 and good harbour, and a fort, which commands the en- 

 trance ; befides a town of the fame name, it contains iix vil- 

 lages : the land is fertile in pafture, and the whole well fe- 

 cured with dikes of prodigious ftrength and height. Near 

 this iflaiid was the celebrated fea-fight, between the fleet of 

 Holland, under admiral Martin Harpertz Tromp, and that of 

 England, under admiral Blake, in the year 1653, in which 

 Tromp was killed. In the year 1673 a battle was fought 

 between the fleet of Holland and the united fleets of Eng- 

 land and France, in which the viftory was doubtful. N. 

 lat. 53°5'. E. long. 4° 40'. 



TEXEUIT, or Tevent, a town of Morocco; 100 

 miles W.N.W. of Morocco. 



TEXT, a relative term, contradiftinguilhed to glofs or 

 commentary ; and fignifying an original difcourfe, exclufive 

 of any note or interpretation. 



Infinite pains have been taken by the critics, to reftore, 

 reconcile, fettle, explain, &c. the text of the bible, and 

 that of the claffics. See Bible. 



Mr. Whifton accounts for all thofc mifundcrftandings 

 between the Old and New Teftament, particularly as to the 

 prophecies in the Old, cited as fulfilled in the New, from the 

 corruption of the text of the Old Teftament ; and to obviate 

 objeftions made againft; Chriftianity on that head, has pub- 

 lilhed an " Effay towards reftoring the true Text of the 

 Old Teftament." See Prophecy. 



This reftoration he attempts to effeft from the Samaritan 

 Pentateuch, the Roman Pfalter, the Apoftolical Conftitu- 

 tions, &c. 



It fufficiently appears from the learned and acceptable la- 

 bours of the late Dr. Kennicott, in collating the Hebrew 

 manufcripts of the Old Teftament, that the alterations in- 

 troduced into the text, &c. are moftly of a trivial na- 

 ture, and by no means affedl the authority of the facred 

 writings. 



Text is particularly ufed for a certain paffage of fcrip- 

 ture chofen by a preacher, to be the fubjeft of his fermon. 



A coileftion of texts appropriate to different fubjefts, 

 and judicioufly arranged, has been publifhed by Dr. En- 

 field for the ufe of preachers in the compofition of their dif- 

 courfes, and alfo of bibhcal readers and ftudents. 



Anciently, the lawyers began all their pleadings with like 

 texts of fcripture. 



A text-book, in feveral univerfities, is a claflic author 

 written very wide, by the ftudents, to give room for an inter- 

 pretation diftated by the mafter or regent, to be inferted in 

 the interlines. 



In this fenfe, the French fay, proverbially, Glqffe cPOr- 

 hans plus obfcure que !e texte. 



The Spaniards gave the name text to a kind of little 

 poem, or fet of verfes placed at the head of a glofs, and 

 making the fubjeft of it : each verfe being explained, one 

 after another, in the courfe of the glofs. 



Text, in Ancient Law Authors, is appropriated to the 



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book of the Four Gofpcls, by way of eminence. Thefe 

 were written in gold letters, and carefully preferved in the 

 churches. 



" Codex aurato confeptus grammate fcriptus. 

 Auftus evangelicum conTervat corpore textum." 



TEXTUARIES, TEXTUARri, a name given to the feft. 

 of the Caraitcs, among the Jews. 



Hillel Ihone among the traditionaries, and Schammai 

 among the textuaries. 



The civil and canon lawyers fometimes alfo call a book 

 containing the bare text, without any glofs or commentary, 

 a textuary, textuarium. 



TEXTURE, Textura, formed of texo, / weave, prs- 

 perly denotes the arrangement and cohefion of feveral flen- 

 der bodies or threads interwoven or entangled among each 

 other : as in the webs of fpiders, or in cloths, ftuffs, &c. 



Texture is alfo ufed in fpeaking of any union or cohe- 

 fion of the conftituent particles of a concrete body ; whether 

 by weaving, hooking, knitting, tying, chaining, indenting, 

 intruding, comprefTiiig, attrafting, or any other way. 



In this fenfe, we lay a clofe, compaft texture,; a lax, 

 porous texture ; a regular or irregular texture, &c. 



A great deal depends on the texture of the component 

 parts of a body : hence moft of its particular properties, its 

 fpecific gravity, colour, &c. 



TEXTUS RoFFENSio, ie an ancient manufcript, con- 

 taining the rights, cuftoms, tenures, &c. of the church of 

 Rochefter, granted by the laws of Ethelbert, Hhollhere, 

 Eadred, and Withred, kings of Kent, coUefted by Er- 

 nulf, the venerable biftiop of Rochefter, about the year 

 1 100. 



TEYA, in Geography, a river of Autlria, which rifes 

 about three miles N. from Germs, pafles through a part 

 of Moravia, and runs into the Marfch, 1 1 miles N.E. of 

 Zifterfdorf. 



TEYN, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Boleflau ; 

 12 miles W.N.W. of Jung Buntzel. 



TE-YUEN, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of Corca ; 

 93 miles N.E. of King-ki-tao. 



TEZA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Fez, with 

 a caftle. It was once a populous city, but is now much 

 decayed, yet is ftill the refidence of a governor and a gar- 

 rifon ; 20 leagues N.N.E. of Fez. 



TEZCUCO, or Tetzcoco, a lake of Spanilh Ame- 

 rica, in the province of Mexico. The conjuntl lakes of 

 Tezcuco and Chalco are found to be about 30 Briiifh miles 

 in length, and the former is about 15 miles in breadth ; but 

 as the latter is partly drained, fo as to be at the diftance of a 

 league from the city, it is probably about twelve miles in 

 breadth. This lake is celebrated in hiftory, as originally 

 containing the city of Mexico, and alfo as remarkable for 

 the qualities of the water, partly frefli, and partly falinc. 

 The Chalco, or frefli-water lake in thefouth, appears to flow 

 by a narrow channel into the fait lake of Tezcuco. See 

 Mexico, fubftituting for Tezeuco, Tez,cuco. 



TEZELA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Al- 

 giers ; 5 leagues S.W. of Gran. 



TEZERGBE, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 

 Fez ; 100 miles E.S.E. of Teza. 



TEZOUT, or Tessot, a town of Africa, in the king- 

 dom of Fez ; 35 miles S. of Melilla. 



TFENI, a town of Egypt, on the Nile ; 10 miles S.E. 

 of Rofetta. 



TFUOI, in the Chlnefe Manufaflory of Porcelain, a word 



ufed to exprcfs a particular fort of varnilh for that ware, 



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