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V o s 



Uirned to Flanders. His celebrity accompanied him, and 

 procured him feveral commifiions to paint pictures for 

 churches at Antwerp, and at other places in the Nether- 

 lands. In portraiture alfo he was much employed, and he 

 certainly advanced beyond his contemporaries, in the nature 

 and truth wiiich he gave to his produftions. His principal 

 works in the cathedral of Antwerp, are the Marriage of 

 Cana ; the Incredulity of Thomas ; the Miracle of the 

 Loaves ; and the RefurreAion ; and a fine picture of his of 

 the Laft Supper is in the church of St. James. He became a 

 member of the academy at Antwerp in 1559, and died, at 

 tiie age of 84, in 1604. He had a biother, Peter de Vos, 

 who alfo painted hiftory, but wliofe works are not much 

 known ; a nephew alfo of his was a painter, William de 

 Vos, who had confiderable talents, and gained much em- 

 ployment and leputation. 



Vos, Paui, de, another painter of that name, but of a 

 different family, was born at Aloft in 1600. His works of 

 animals and birds are very much in the ilyle of Snyders, and 

 are defervedly eileemed. There are many of them in tiie 

 royal colleftion in Spain. 



Vos, S.MON UE, born at Antwerp in 1643, was a pupil 

 of Rubens, and became eminent as a painter both of hiftory 

 and portraits. Some of his paintings in the churches of 

 Antwerp liave been miftaken for the produftion of his 

 great mafter. Sir Jofhua Reynolds fpeaks highly of his 

 picture of St. Norbert receiving the Sacrament, in the 

 church of St. Michel, in which he fays, " a great number 

 of portraits arc introduced extremely well painted," and 

 afterwards commends him as a portrait-painter ; pai-ticu- 

 larly ipeaking of his own portrait in the poorhoufe of Ant- 

 werp, painted by himfelf in black, leaning on the back of 

 a chair, with a fcroll of blue paper in his hand, fo highly 

 finished in the broad manner of Corregio, that nothing can 

 exceed it. S. de Vos was living in 1662. 



VOSAVIA, in Anchtit Geography, a place of Belgic 

 Gaul, upon the route from Antunaacum to Mayence, be- 

 tween Bontobrice and Bingium, according to the table of 

 Peutinger. 



VOSGES, in Geography, a large chain of mountains, 

 which formerly occupied the S.E. part of Lorrain, and 

 now gives name to a dei)arlment of France. It was for- 

 merly covered with wood, and harboured abundance of 

 game and wild beafts, and has long been famous for mines of 

 filver, copper, and lead. 



VosGEs, one of the ten departments of the N.E. region 

 of France, formerly the S. part of Lorrain, wed of Upper 

 Rliine, in N. !at. 48^ 15'; bounded on the N. by the de- 

 partments of tlie Meufe, the Meurte, and the Lower Rhine, 

 on the E. by the department of the Upper and Lower 

 Rhine, on the S. by the department of the Upper Saone, 

 and on the W. by the department of tiie Upper Marne, 

 containing 65225 kiliometres, or 3296 leagues, and 308,052 

 inhabitants. It comprehends 5 dillricls, 30 cantons, and 

 550 communes. Its circles are Neufchateau, containing 

 55,247 inhabitants; Mirecourt, GCt,(\\i) ; Epinal, the ca- 

 pital, 62,592 ; St. Die, 75,298 ; and Ramiremont, 48,270. 

 According to Haffenfralz, this department is 26 French 

 leagues long, and 16 broad, and is divided into nine circles 

 and communes, and contains 289,054 inhabitants. The 

 contributions in the 1 Ith year of tiie French era amounted 

 to 1,839,254 fr., and tiie expences of adniiiiiftration, of 

 juftice, and ot public iiillrudtioii, were 242,372 fr. 



VOSKRESENSK, a town of Rullia, in the govern- 

 ment of Mofcow ; 32 miles N.W. of Mofcow. N. lat. 

 56^ E. long. 36^44'. 



VOSKRESENSKOI, a town of RuJIia, in the govern- 



ment of Pfkov, on the Lovat ; 20 miles N. of Cholm.— 

 Alfo, a town of Ruflia, in the government of Peterfburg, 

 on the E. coaft of lake Ladoga ; 80 miles N.E. of Peterf- 

 burg. — Alfo, a town of Ruflia, in the government of Upha ; 

 80 miles S. of Upha — Alfo, a town of Ruflia, in the pro- 

 vince of Uftiug, on the river Vitchegda ; 28 miles S.VV. of 

 Yareni]<:. 



V OSPOR, a town of Ruflia, in the province of Taurus; 

 1 12 miles E.S.E. of Perekop. N. lat. 41:' 20'. E. Ions'. 

 36° 26'. r -tj 6 



VOSPRESENSKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the govern- 

 ment of Vologda ; 44 miles E. of Tolma. 



VOSSIUS, Gekard John, in Biography, was born near 

 Heidelberg in 1577, and perfefted himfelf in the clallks, 

 mathematics, philofophy, and theology, at Leyden. Availing 

 himfelf of a copious library left iiim by his father, he became 

 direftor of the college at Dordrecht, where he married twice, 

 and had a numerous family. In 1614, he was appointed 

 direftor of the college of Leyden, and afterwards profeflbr 

 of eloquence and chronology in the uiiiverfity. By avowing 

 himfelf favourable to the fentiments of the Remonftrants, he 

 became obnoxious to the Gomarifts, and at the fynod in Ter- 

 gou, in 1620, he was deprived of his profeffbilliip ; but i.i con- 

 fequence of the prevalence of Arminianifm in England, he 

 obtained the office of prebend in the church of Canterbury. 

 After his return to Holland, he accepted the chair of liiilory 

 in the fcliola illuftris of Amfterdam in 1633, which he oc- 

 cupied till his death in 1649, ^^ ^he age of 72. The moil 

 ufeful of his writings are two books in Greek and Latin 

 poetry. Among liis other works are " De Origine Idola- 

 trisE ;" " De Scientiis Mathematicis ;" " De quatuor 

 Artibus popularibus ;" " Hilloria Pelagiana ;" " Inftitu- 

 tiones Rhetoricae, Grammaticap, Poetica: ;" " Etymologi- 

 con Linguae Latinx ;" " De Vitiis Sermonis ;" " De Phi- 

 lofophorum Seftis." A colleftion of thefe were printed at 

 Amfterdam, in 6 vols. fol. 1695. — 1701. Moreri. 



This learned and laborious author, in his " Theolo- 

 gia Gentili," and other works, frequently fpeaks of mufic 

 and has a diftlnft chapter on the fubjedl in his trcatife 

 on the four popular arts, grammar, gymnaftics, mufic, 

 and painting. Yet he tells us little concerning ancient or 

 modern mufic after the time of Guido ; contenting himfelf 

 with giving defimtions of the terms ufed in the ancient 

 mufic of the Greeks. He heaps quotation on quotation, 

 telling us how highly the Greeks cftimated mufic ; but 

 attempts not to explain any of their dodriues. Like Mr. 

 Bryant, he tries to fliake our faith in wliat antiquity firmly 

 believed. In writing " De Art. Poet. Nat." cap. xiii. he 

 doubts whether Orpheus, Mufxus, or Linus ever exilled ; 

 and rather thinks that thefe ideal names are derived from the 

 Phoenician language ufed by Cadmus and his defcendants. 



Vossius, Isaac, younger fon of the preceding, was born 

 at Leyden in 1618, and in confequence of his natural talents, 

 and the advantage of education under his father, acquired 

 early reputation among the learned. Queen Cliriftina, pre- 

 pofleflid by report in his favour, invited him to her court, 

 and acquired under his iiiftrudf ion a knowledge of tiie Greek 

 language. On the death of his father in 1649, he quitted 

 the court of Chriftina, and employed himfelf in the coni- 

 pofition of various learned works. In 1670 he vifited Eng. 

 land, and received the degree of LL.D. at Oxford ; and 

 in 1673, ''^" "'ss prcfented by Ciiarles II. witli a canonry of 

 Windfor, and in tliis fituation he paH'ed the refidue of his 

 days. Hit. credulity led king Charles to fay of iiim, " that 

 he would believe any thing but the Bible." When he was 

 on his death-bed, he was vifited l)y Dr. Ilafeard, dean of 

 Windfor, who urged him to receive the facramcuts, if not 



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