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doftrines, tenets, and pradlices of the church of England. 

 His perfon, as well as enunciation, were well fitted for pul- 

 pit oratory : his voice, in particular, was fonorous ; his anima- 

 tion produced a lively intereft in the hearts of his auditors, 

 while a certain dignity of manner commanded their implicit 

 attention." — " As a writer, he poffeired all the necelTary re- 

 quilites to gain the approbation of intelligent critics ; he was 

 indefatigably induftrious ; addifted to refearch ; and learned 

 in no common degree. While his literary labours evinced 

 his intimate acquaintance with the ancients, his fermons were 

 admirably adapted to the abilities and underilandings of an 

 ordinary audience. In both capacities his language was 

 challe ; his compofition elegant: in fliort, he continually 

 reflefted the images of a mind, richly imbued with learning, 

 both human and divine." 



" As a controvcrfial writer, he fometimes bordered on 

 afperity, and this, too, in refpeft of minor points ; while 

 with certain perfons, from whom he differed in effentials, he 

 exhibited no common (liare of moderation and liberality. 

 Accordingly he did full juftice to the talents of a Tooke, 

 a Porfon, and a Gibbon." 



" As a fchool-mailer, he mud be allowed to have 

 had a number of diftinguilhed pupils," among whom we 

 may reckon the late and prefent dukes of Bedford, fir 

 Francis Buixlett, and his fuccelFor, as head-mafter. Dr. Carey ; 

 and in this capacity he is faid to have been the acute, able, 

 indefatigable, and llrenuous affertor of the ancient difci- 

 pline. Annual Biography and Obituary, for 1817, vol. i. 

 Gent. Mag. 



Vincent, Thomas, a celebrated performer on the liant- 

 bois, was a fcholar of the admirable San Martini ; and, 

 after his mafter had ceafed to perform in public, and had 

 furnifhed him with concertos, was an unrivalled favourite on 

 his inftrumcnt, till the arrival of Fifcher. 



In 1765 he became joint imprefario of the Opera with 

 Gordon. 



Vincent, after tlie deceafe of San Martini, had been in 

 great favour with liis royal highnefs Frederic, prince of 

 Wales, father to his prefent majefty ; had acquired a con- 

 fiderable fum of money in his profeffion, which he aug- 

 mented by marriage. However, the ambition of being at 

 the head of fo froward a family as an opera vocal and inftru- 

 mental band, turnnl his head and his purfe infidc out ; in 

 fliort, he foon became a bankrupt, and his colleagues, 

 though they efcaped utter ruin, were not enriched by the 

 connedtion. He ended his days in the evening of life, of 

 which the morning had been fo brilliant, in poverty and ob- 

 fcurity, and paid dear for his ambition and imprudence, 



Vincent, Riciiahd, who performed the firft hautbois 

 at Vauxhall Gardi-ns from the beginning of mufical per- 

 formances there, and at Covent-Gardcn theatre more than 

 thirty years. He was the father of the young mufician who 

 married the celebrated Mifs Birchell, poirened with one of 

 the fined treble voices that was ever heard in pubhc. After 

 performing at Vauxhall with great and conftant applaufc, 

 on the death of licr hufband fhe went to the Ea(l Indies, 

 where (he was ilill more applauded than in England, and 

 where flie was married a fecond time to .John Mills, cfq., a 

 gentleman of fortune and confidcration, with whom (he re- 

 turned to her native country, and lived happily in a fplendid 

 manner. She was buried in St. Pancras church-yard, 

 where there is an honourable and affeftionate epitaph in- 

 fcribcd on a tablet dedicated to her memory, by her fiir- 

 viving hufband. 



Vincent nf Bcauvnis, a Dominican monk of the 13th 

 century, was appointed by St. Lewis, king of France, 

 infpertor of the education of his children. About the 



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year 1244, he compiled a kind of encyclopjedia, entitled 

 " Speculum Majus," which confided of four parts, viz. 

 " Speculum Naturale, Doftrinale, Morale, et Hiftoriale.'" 

 Notwithftanding all its errors, it paffed through many edi- 

 tions ; the fird at Strafbnrg in 1476, and the lad at Douay 

 in 1624. He was alfo the writer of a " Letter to St. 

 Lewis on the Death of his elded Son," and of a " Treatife 

 on the Education of Princes;" and died in 1624. Brucker 

 by Enfield. 



Vincent Ferkif.r, or Ferrer, a Dominican, was born 

 at Valencia, in Spain, in 1357 ; and having entered into the 

 order of preachers in 1374, obtained the degree of doftor 

 in theology at Lerida in 13S4. He was the chofcn com- 

 panion of cardinal de Luna, the pope's legate to France ; 

 and on his return was fummoned to Avignon, in 1394, by 

 the fame cardinal, when he rofe to the papal chair under the 

 name of Benedift XIII. Yielding to an imagined impulfe 

 for preaching the word of God, he became a miffionary in 

 1397, and travelled through feveral countries, not excepting 

 Britain and Ireland. He alfo exerted himfelf in terminating 

 the difcord of the Romifh church with regard to the papacy, 

 and finding BenediA unrelenting, he abandoned him, and 

 aflided at the council of Conftance. In 1407 he accepted 

 the invitation of John, duke of Brittany, and fixed the feat 

 of his midion at Vannes, where he died in 1410. After 

 his death, miracles were faid to have been wrought at his 

 tomb, and he was canonized by pope Calixtus III. He 

 was the author of many devotional trads ; and iiis " Treatife 

 on the fpiritual Life, or interior Man," was frequently re- 

 printed. Dupin. Moreri. 



Vincent of Leritis, was a native of Gaul in the fifth 

 century, who abandoning the mihtary profeffion, and adopt- 

 ing a religious life, retired to the monadery of Lerins in 

 Provence, where he became a pried. He was held in high 

 edimation for his piety and learning ; and after his death, in 

 the reign of Theodofius and Valer.tinian, was canonized by 

 the Roman church, to which he was thought to be entitled 

 for his " Commonitorium adverfus Hasreticos," which was 

 neatly written, and much applauded by the Roman Ca- 

 tholics. Of this work Dr. Maclaine, deviating from the 

 article of Mofheim, fays, that he can fee nothing in it but 

 a blind veneration for ancient opinions. It has been printed 

 in the " Bibliotheca Patrum," and has been pub!i(hed fc- 

 parately, particularly at Cambridge, in 1687. Dupin. 

 Mofheim. 



Vincent de, Paul, founder of the congregation of the 

 " Pri?ds of the Miflions," (fee Mission,) waa born at Poui, 

 or Poy, in the diocefe of Acqs, in the year 1576, and ad- 

 vanced, on account of his extr.iordinary talents, and by a 

 courfe of education at Acqs and Touloufe, from the liumble 

 condition of a fhepherd to the office of pricll in 1 600. 

 Having occafion foon afterwards to vifit Marfeillcs, for the 

 purpole of receiving a fmall property whicli devolved ipon 

 him by inheritance, he was, upon his return by fea to Nar- 

 bonne, taken captive by a Barbary corfair, and fold for a 

 (lave at Tunis. Here he ferved fcvcral niadcrs, thi' l:.d of 

 whom, who was a Savoyard renegado, lie was fucccfsful in 

 reclaiming. They both determined on making their cfcape, 

 and arrived fafely in a fmall boat at Aigues Mortes, in 1607. 

 Upon his return to his native country, he was deputed by 

 Peter Montorio, vice-legate of Avignon, on bufinels of im- 

 portance to the court of Rome ; and here he was intruilod 

 by tiie miniftor of Henry IV. with a commiffion to that 

 monarch in 1608. In return for this fervice, Lewis XIII. 

 eonfernd upon him the abbey of St. Leonaid dc Chauomc. 

 Having been introduced as tutor to the family of M. dc 

 Goudy, general of the galleys, he conceived the df fign of 

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