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Hebrews, and accordinf; to the Eojyptians. About tlic 

 year 58, or fomewlut fooner, fays Mill, were corr.pofed, by 

 iome of tlie faithful, evangelical narrations, or (hort hillories 

 of Chrirt. The writers were not onr evangelifts Matthew 

 and Mark ; but fonie of the firft Chriftians, who, before 

 Luke, and alfo before Matthi^w and Mark, wrote hiilories 

 of the things done by Chrill, and received from apoilo- 

 lical tradition, not with a bad or heretical defign, but with 

 the lame deiign with onr evangelifts ; but their hillories, as 

 we may inft r from St. Luke's account, were inaccurate 

 and imperfect, and they contained fome things not certain, 

 or well attelled, and poffibly fome millakes. Dr. Lardner, 

 who upon the whole approves the preceding ftatemeut, can- 

 not allow the gofpel according to the twelve, or according 

 to the Hebrews, to have been one of the memoirs or narra- 

 tions to which St. Luke refers ; for thefe were fhort hifto- 

 ries, whereas that uas a full gofpel, fuppofed to have been 

 •cither St. Matthew's original Hebrew gofpel with additions, 

 or his original Greek gofpel, tranfl.ifed into Hebrew with 

 additions. Moreover, the gdfpel according to the Egyp- 

 tians conid not have been one of tlieie memoir,?, bccaufe it 

 was an heretical gofpel, probably compofed m the'fecand 

 century by iome Encratites, who were enemies of marriage. 

 Whatever the memoirs or narrations were, none of them 

 now remain, nor even fo much as any fragments, nor quo- 

 tations of them occurring in any Chnllian v/ritings now ex- 

 tant. Marciop, a heretic who lived in the firft half of t))e 

 lecond rentury, rejetled all the gofpels, except that of 

 St. Luke, and this he mutilated and altered, and interpo- 

 lated in a great variety of places. He would not allow it 

 to be called the gofpel of St. Luke, erafing the name of 

 that evangelift from the beginning of his copy. Some of 

 his followers confidered it as written partly by Chrift him- 

 felf, and partly by the apollle Paul. Marcion retrenched 

 the firft and iecond chapters entirely, and begun his gofpel 

 at the firft verte of the third chapter, and even read this in 

 a manner ditTerent from our copies, viz. In the 15th year 

 ■oi Tiberius Caefar, God delcended into Cajiernaum, a city 

 of Galilee. Some late Chriilian writers have concurred in 

 Marcion's retrenchment ; but without fufficiciit authority. 

 Lardner. 



St. Luke, fays a modern writer, is pure, copious, and 

 flowing in his language, and has a wonderful and entertain- 

 ing variety of feleft circumftances in his narration of our 

 Saviour's divine aftions. He acquaints us with numerous 

 paffages of the evangelical hiftory, not related by any other 

 evangehft : both in this gofpel and Apoftolical Afts, he is 

 accurate and neat, clear and flowing, with a natural and cafy 

 grace ; his ftyle is admirably accommodated to the defign 

 of hiftory ; it had a very canfiderable refemblance to tliat 

 of his great matler St. Paul ; and, like hiin, he had a 

 learned and liberal education, and appears to have been very 

 ■converfant with the beft claffics ; for many of his words 

 and expreflions are exaftly parallel to theirs. Blackwall's 

 Sacred ClalTics. 



Luke's Day, St., is a feftival obferved on the i8th of 

 Oaober. 



Luice',s Hoffital, St. See Hosi'itai. 



Luke',s Keys, in Geography, two Imall iflands near the 

 «oaft of Honduras. N. lat. 15'^ 50'. W. long. 86' 35^. 



LUKIN, a town of Poland, x\\ Volhynia ; y6 miles N. 

 of Zytomiers. 



LUKINJA, a town of Samogitia ; 24. miles N. of 

 Miedniki. 



LUKOIENOV, a town of Ruffia, in the government 

 of Niiinei-Novgorod ; 80 miles S. of Ni^nei-Novgorod. 

 N. lat. ijj} 58'. E. lung. 54'= 20'.- 



LUKOMLA, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Polotfk ; 60 miles S.S.E. of Polotdc. 



LUK0W, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Lub- 

 lin ; 40 miles N. of Lublin. 



LUKOWA, a town of Pol.tnd, in the palatinate of 

 Bclcz ; 44 miles W.S.W. of Belcz. 



LUKOWO, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 

 Brzefc ; 80 miles E. of Pinfk. 



LULANIS, in Botany, a name given by fome of the 

 arxient Greeks to a plant, ufed very frequently for a yel- 

 low colour in dyeing, and by the ladies for tinging their hair 

 yellow, the favourite colour of thofe times. Neophytns 

 explaining this word, fays, that it fignified the fame with 

 ifati^, glaftum, or woad ; and feveral others have bien of 

 that opinion, though very abfurdly, fmce the glaftum or 

 woad dies a blue colour, not a yellow ; and by no means 

 anfwers the defcription of the lulanis, which is the fame 

 with the lutum, or iutea herba of the Romans, and with 

 the geniftella tiniSoria, or d3^er8*-weed of thefe times. 



LULEA, or LuLA, in Geography, a lea-port of Swe- 

 den, in Weft Bothnia, on the N. I:de of the river Lulea, at 

 the N.W. extremity of the gulf of Bothnia, with a good 

 harbour; 68 miles W. of Tornea. N. lat. 65 38'. E. long. 

 22 ' 4'. 



LULES, Lo.s, a town of South America, in the pro- 

 vince of Tucuman ; 50 miles N. of St. Miguel de Tu- 

 cunian. 



LULLI, John Baptist de, in Biography, fecretary to 

 Louis XIV., and fuperintendunt of his mufic, was born at 

 Florence in 16:53, having a miller for his fire. A Cordelier 

 gave him his firft leffous in muilc upon the guitar, though 

 he afterwards applied to the violin. He was only thirteen 

 when the Chevalier de Guife, being on his travels in Italy, 

 propoled to liis parents to take him into France, and engage 

 Mademoifelle de Guife, liis fifter, to take him among the 

 officers of her kitchen. 



This princefs having accidentally heard him play on the 

 violin, hud him taught, and he became in a fiiort time au 

 excellent performer. 



Louis XIV. being dcfiro'.'.s to hear him, was fo pleafed 

 with his performance, tliat in 1652, he appointed him in- 

 fpetlar-general of his violins, and foon after created a uew 

 band, which was called les pct'its v'lalons. Thefe new mufi- 

 cians formed by LuUi foon became the firft in Europe, 

 which is not faying much for them, as fuch was -the igno- 

 rance of the generality of inftriimental performers at this 

 time, that they could execute nothing which they did not 

 know by heart. 



The genius, therefore, of LuUi was obliged to contradl it- 

 felf to the abilities of his orcheftra, and it is fuppofed that 

 he would have written as well as his fucceflbrs, if he had 

 lived a hundred years later. 



Before the ellahlKhmeiit of the opera in France, the king 

 every year gave to his court magnificent Jpetlaclcs called 

 ballets, in which there was a great number of fymphonies, 

 mixed with recitatives. Lulii firft began by only compofing 

 the raulic to the dances in thefe ballets ; but the king be- 

 came fo fund of Ills cumpofitions, that he would hear no 

 other. 



In 1672, Perrin, to whom the patent for an opera was 

 firft granted, rcfigned it to I.,u11t, whofe genius began 

 to expand, and he may be regarded as the creator of this 

 kind of miiiic, which (according to M. Laborde) has not 

 been fo much improved (ia France, he (hould have faid) a9 

 fome imagine, and in many particulars has, perhaps, loft 

 more than it has gained. 



It is true, that he was affifted by the immortal Quinatilt, 

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