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treatSer-beaten vefTel in a peaceful and (lill liar!)Our ; where, 

 partly through a full conviclion, that all polfibility of fuc- 

 ccfs in any farther ftrugglings againll his adverfary was cut 

 olF, and chiefly out of a religioufly affeftionate regard for 

 liis entirely beloved brother who flood refponfible for him, 

 he pafTed the remainder of his days in perfecl tranquillity, 

 equally undillurbcd by, and undifturbing his triumphant 

 competitor " Jolni Lilburne now lettlcd at Elthani, in 

 Kent, joined the fociety of quakers, and even preached at 

 their meetings in Woolwich, and other adjacent places, till 

 his death in 1657, at the early a^e of thirty-nine. He had a 

 wife, who pofltrlled the fame undaunted fpirit with that of her 

 hulband, and was his faithful and affectionate helpmate in 

 all his fuiferlngs. By Anthony Wood, Lilburne is flyled, " a 

 great trouble-world in all the variety of government :" by 

 other hillorians and biographers he has been reprefcnted to 

 have been of fo factious and quarrelfome a temper, that 

 " if there were none living but him, John would be againlt 

 Lilburne, and Lilburne againll John." Such charges were 

 brought againll him by his contemporaries, and in his 

 " Legal and Fundamental Liberties of the People of Eng- 

 land," he has taken pains to rebut the calumnies of his 

 adverfaries, and to fhew that his hand was never lifted up 

 but againll tyranny and tyrants : and at the clofe of that 

 work he fubfcribes himfelf " An honeft and true bred free 

 Englilliman, that never in his life feared a tyrant, nor loved 

 an opprelTor." If it were Lilbunie's misfortune to be a 

 trouble to the exilHng governments under which he hved ; 

 it mull be remembered that he vindicated the caufe of his 

 country in oppofition to the arbitrary meafures of Charles L 

 and the ufurpatiors of Oliver Cromwell ; and however he 

 might be regarded by his contemporaries, and mifreprefented 

 by partv writers, poilerity mull look to him with refpeft, 

 and (hould be thankful that fuch a man exilled, in times of 

 peculiar difficulty, when the will of the few had well nigh 

 fuperfeded the authority of the law, and when every thuig 

 holy and excellent in our coiillitution mull have been for 

 ever loll, but for the exertions of fuch patriots as Lilburne. 

 His efforts ill the public caufe were not more zealous than 

 they were pure and dilinterefted. What he conceived to be 

 jullice and the public good, he purfued againll all parties 

 with an invincible fpirit, and through a life of perfeeution. 

 He was, at the fame time, a firm fupporter of the laws of 

 his country, whicii, in return, often fupportcd him, and 

 proved effeitual barriers againll arbitrary violence. Biog. 

 Brit. Hume. Lilburne's Trial by Varax ; and his Legal 

 Fundamental Liberties of the People of England, revived, 

 afferted, and vindicated. 



LILEN, in Geography, a town of South America, in 

 the province of Popayan ; 15 miles S.W. of Call. 



LILESWARA, .in Hindoo I\Iylhology, a name of Siva, 

 the regenerative power of the deity. (See SiVA.) It 

 means Ifwara (or the lord) who gives delight, and was 

 alfumed with manhood, in one of the numerous metamifr- 

 pholes detailed in the Puranas,' by this deity, who in this 

 form became re-united to his fpoufe Parvati, giving delight 

 to her in her terrellrial manifelfation, under the name of 

 Lilefwari. (See P.vrvati.) The Puranas abound in this 

 delcription of incarnation of their male and female deities, 

 which, thus veiled in allegory, are fuppofed to conceal hil- 

 torical and philofophical fafts. (See PCK.\.\.v.) Mr. Wil- 

 ford, in feveral of the volumes of the Aliaiic Refearches, 

 has purfued this allegorical maze with great iudullry. See 

 more particularly vol. iii. vi. and viii. See alfo Hindu 

 Pantheon, p. 3^(9. 



LILl, the name of one of the favourite remedies of Para- 



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celfus, the bafis of which is antimony ; but he has not given 

 us the proccfs for preparing it. 



Lir.,I.-\, in Botany, a natural order of plant!, fo called 

 from LHlmn, the Lily, which is one of them. Touriieftirt, 

 who underllood this order in a wider fenfe than more recent 

 authors, denominated the plants which he referred to ii, 

 lUlacei ; Liuraus, and moll others, call them U/incea. 



The /l/ia conllitute the fourteenth order in Jullieu's fvf- 

 tern, and the fourth of his third c'afs. The effential cha- 

 racters of this clafs are " Cotyledon one. Stamens inferted 

 into the calyx or corolla." He gives its dillinctions at 

 length as follows. 



" Calyx of one leaf, tubular or deeply divided, fuperior 

 or inferior, fometimes naked, more generally attended by a 

 fheath containing one or many flowers, rarely by an involu- 

 crum refembling an exterior calyx. Corolla none ; for what 

 is called corolla by Tournefort, LiiuiiEus, and others, in the 

 opinion of the writer (Jullicu), is a real calyx. Stamens 

 definite in number, rarely indefinite, inferted either into the 

 lower or the upper part of the calyx, oppolite to its fr<r. 

 ments ; the filaments feparate, rarely united ; the anthers 

 feparate, of two cells. In a few inllances the gerinens are 

 feveral and fuperior ; with as many ilvles and fligmas, and 

 the fame number ot lingle-celled capfules, with one or manv 

 feeds, internally of two valves, which bear the feeds on their 

 margins. In moll cafes the germen is iingic, fuperior or 

 inferior; llyle lingle, rarely threefold, or wanting; flignia 

 fimple or divided ; fruit pulpy or capfular, of three cells, 

 with three feeds or many ; fometimes two of the cells are 

 abortive, or there is only one of the feeds perfected. Tlie 

 feeds of the berries are affixed to tlie internal angle of each 

 cell ; in the capfules, ufually of three valves, they are in- 

 ferted here and there upon the edges of an elevated recep- 

 tacle, conflituting the partition, in the middle of each valve, 

 and feparating along with it. The coreulum is fmall, in a 

 large horny albumen." 



The order of Ului is thus defined. 



Calyx inferior, coloured, in fix deep fegment?, ufually 

 equal and regular. Stamens fix, iulertcd into the bottom of 

 each legmeut. Germen fimple, fuperior; flyle one, rarely 

 wanting ; fligma in three divifions. Capfule fuperior, of 

 three cells and three valves, with many feeds, which are 

 ranged in a double row in each cell, and generally flat. 



The_y?r;n is mollly herbaceous. Radical leaves fometimes 

 fheathing ; the reft fefTile, for the moll part alternate, rarely 

 whorlcd. Floti'ers either naked, or furniflied with a fheath, 

 {fpaiha,) or accompanied by a leaf refembling fuch ; often 

 drooping, the Ityle being longer than the llamens. 



The genera are eight ; Tullpa, Erytlironltim, Gloriofa, 

 (for wliich lall JufTieu retains the name Methoulia,) Ui-u- 

 laria, Frltllhirla, Iniperlalls (the Crown Imperial, feparated 

 from Frildliiria, becaufe its nectariferous cells are round in- 

 flead of oblong), Lllhm, and Tueca. 



Ijinnxus calls his lilla the Patrician order, or Nobility of 

 the vegetable kingdom, in his fanciful dillribution of plants 

 at the head of his Sr/lenia Vegetal/Ilium. We may fuppofe 

 that he had in view, la this inttance, not only the analogies 

 of the other orders, but elpecially the text, fo often quoted, 

 " conlidcr the lilies of the field, — ihcy toil not, neither do 

 they Ipiu," ixc. in which thele gorgeous plants feem more 

 particularly indicated. The very fpecies, which our Saviour 

 had then perhaps before his eyes, is thought ta have been the 

 fplendid ylmaryllls hitea, with which the fields of PalelUne 

 are over-run at the end of autumn. Poffibly this hint may 

 be of ufe to biblical chronologills. The learned Olaus 

 Celfuis ieenii not to have adverted to this text, as alluding 



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