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There are ftill fome remains of this as ia {k& in he returned to his native country, and acquired confiderable 
Holftein, Fricfland, and other countries, whofe temper and fame by his dkill and fuccefs in practice, which he continued 
condu@ feem to diféredit the ya libeeae sour which to the year 1609, when he died. left no profeffional 
fome writers have given of thei ein f under. He $ pr roba- work, but he is faid to have occafionally printed feme poems, 
bly a deluded fanatic and m which have not furvived ; and a work on the Italian and 
VIDOVA, in hae sre, a lake of Ruffia, in the Englih lenguage. Elov Dia. Hit. 
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government of Tobo'fk, 2z es N.N.E. oo Davies, Joun, a learned Welfh divine, was born in 
—Alfo, a town of °Relen heh on the Lena, in the Denbighhire, and educated by William Morgan, a ana 
government "Of Irkutfch ; 24 miles N.N.W., of Vercholentle, bifkep of St. Afaph. He finifhed his ftedies, and took the 
—Alfo, a town of Ruffian Siberia, in the government of degree in arts at Jefus college. In 1616 he took ie de- 
Irkutfch, on the Kirenga: 60 miles S. of Kirenfk. gree of do&or in n divinity, and was made canon of St. Afa aph. 
| DAVID’S-HYTTAN, a fmall town of Sweden the His chara¢ter was held in high eee for his deep an 
province of Halaid or Dalecarlia, remarkable for a a vtry accurate knowledge in the Greek and Hebrew lan. 
guages, and for his na rs with ancient peta and 
DAVIDSO, or Davo, an ifland of Sweden in the pro- cu: ious and rare authors. His principal works are, * Anti-« 
vince of Weftmannland, which derives tts name from St. que ingue Britannica nunc communiter “die Cambro- 
avid, the firft preacher of the gofpel in Weftmannland, Bit tannicee, a fuis Cymrece, vel Cambrice, ab aliis Wale 
who came from a about the year 1060, and feunded hice rudimenta,” &c. 1621, 8vo, “Didionarium Britannico- 
a saya in this place atinum.”? 1632, folio. Among the MSS. in the Bodleian 
D N, a county of America, in Mero diftri@, Library is preferved a piece of Dr. Davies, entitled ** Ada» 
Tene a . by the ftate a Kentucky, E. by Sum-  giorum Britannicorum Specimen.’”? The do@or effifted ope 
ner, and e Indian territory. The chief town, wife bie Iam Morgan and Richard eet fucceffive bi 
Nathville, lea on me great bend of Cumberland river, of Landaff, in making the verfion of the Welth bible, oh 
and is alfo watered by the Harpith and Stones rivers. It was publifhed in the year 1620. Gen, Big 
contains 9620 amerar at of whom 2936 are flaves, and Davis, Sir Joun, an ee perfon, as a poet, lawyer 
furnithes- uery ee tim _ ard political writer, was bor hifgrove, Wil tthire, i in 
AMES, in i Bicgroply a native of Barre, in 1570. He fiudied at Queen’s 8 a Oxford, and afters 
ormandy, w here he was born Aug. 11, 1696, ftudied fur- wards removed tothe ie in purfuit of the law. He was 
‘gery, under his uncle at Rouen, and bane eee his called to the bar in 1595, but on account of fome mifcondu 
apprenticefhip, he was fent to the Hotel Dieu at a e 
plague petiag out in 1719, at Marfeilles, he, aa — al from that fociety. He feems to have been fully aware of 
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“du&t, with the view of enabling them to efcape the infeGion, his time to the mufes. Ina poem entitled * Nofce Teip 
and of giving fuch affillance as art could afford to the af- fum,” he acknowledges his ee to afflictioa in aiding 
flied with the difeafe. Daviel, who had the good fortune the reforination of his temper 
to efcape being jnfe&ted, had acquired fo much credit for 
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the intrepidity and humanity of his condudt, that, foon ai This miftrefs lately plu k d me by the ear, 
. many a golden leffon hath me taught ; 
the fubfidence of the plague, he ppoinied reader made my fenfes quick, and reafon cl 
anatomy, 2 he continued to fill for twenty year ave : 4 abe car 
7 iP ee eu Se Beton d my will and reGtified my thought. 
Jar manner, the objects of his attention, he acquired fo much y this piece he eftablifhed his ie a asa poet, a 
reputation for his {kill in performing the operation for the as a folid judicious thinker. I, avies pi 
catara&t, that perfons came to confult him from all parts of laudably made fuch fubmiffion for his pait conduat as res 
the kingdom eat prefled, or couched the cata- {tored him to his chambers inthe Temple. In the fame yeat 
raG, but not being able to fucceed in that way, in one of he was chofen member of parliament for Corfe Caftle, and 
his aan, he ater cn cry {talline humour, and cffeéted took a {pirited part in the debates refpedting monopolies. 
a complete cure. This was in the year 1747. The fame On the acceflion of king James, he was particularly noticed 
year he removed to Paris, where his fame having preceded by his alae as the author of * Nofce lsat 37? and 
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pity fuconeded vey one hundred and eighty two of the and in 1607, th ot ghtho 
a on after made affociare of the academy him. In Ireland he was extremely inftrumental in convey- 
a nee at Toa. of the inftitution of Boulogne, and ing the benefits of equal laws to thofe parts of the ifland 
of the royal academy of furgery at Paris. Daviel continued which had hitherto been ftrangers to them, n his retura 
increafing in reputation, until, by the failure of his health, to res he laid before his fovereign an account of a 
he was incapable of attending a duties of his pro effion. that h d been done towards the civilization of Ireland, an 
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ftrength dec ma and in Sept. 1762, a return of the para- on going back moft affiduoufly. In 1612 he publifhed 
lytic affection mo an end to his life. Haller Bib. Surg. “ A Difcovery of the true Caufes why Ireland was never en« 
Eloy . Hit tirely fubdued and brought und or Obedience of the Crown 
DAVIES, Joun, born at Lanvaethley, in the ifland of of England, until the Demiie of his Majefty’s happy 
Anglefey, i in 1534, received education at Oxford, where Reign.’ his work was deemed extremely valuable, and 
He now attended di eeu to the 0 ee and general reprefentation ; and in this, Catholics as wellas Pro- 
having taken the degree of doctor in at faculty, at Sienna, teftants fat, in almoft equal numbers Sir John Davies was 
elefted 
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