DEM : 
nerial a and teaching that they make themfelves vi- 
{ible to fome favoured mortals, and enable them to predic 
face even 
The ey doftrine of Democritus, like that of Epicurus, 
makes the enjoyment of a tranquil flate of mind, “euSupis, 
the great end of life, and confequently ie moderatiun as 
the firft law of wifdom. Moreover, he maintained that there 
is pe naturally becoming or bafe in human aétions, but 
that e diflinGtion of this nature arifes from cuftom o 
civil sairatiniiss and that laws are framed to sie ae na- 
tural propenfity of mankind to injure one a 
latter refpe& his opinion i have soineded on ce 
more modern doétrine of 
We cannot forbear, ae clofiag this article, to fubjoin 
fome valuable spenie of practical judgment and condud, 
afcribed to Demo 
- © He who Tubdunes oe paffions is more heroic than he who 
vanqu ufhes an enemy; yet there are men who, whillt they com- 
mand nations, are flaves to pleafure. It is criminal,.not only 
to do mifchief, but to wifh it. He who enjoys what he has, 
without regretting the want of what he has not, isa happy man, 
The {weeteit things become the moft bitter by excels. 
nothing fhameful Bas zh you are get ; revere yourfelf more 
than all other me mut either be good or feem to 
be fo. Tvery coat is ae aie man, for he is a 
citizen of the world. It is better i fools to be governed 
than to govern. Rulers are chofen; not to do ill, but good. 
By defiring little, a poor man makes himfelf rich. A cheer- 
ful man is happy, though he poffeffes little ; a fretful man is 
unhappy in the midft of affluence. One great difference he- 
tween a wife man and a fool is, that the former only withes 
for what he may poffibly obtain, the latter defires impoffibi- 
lities. It is the office of prudence, where it is poffible, to pre- 
vent injuries ; but where this cannot be done, a wife re gar 
to our own tranquillity will a us from aden a 
aert. l,i. ix. Stob. Serm. Sui Sex 
Brucker 8 Hit. “Phil. — 
ry 
n 
orer ie 
ofophy. 
riter on aie of which no- 
thing remains butt 
DOCUS, an cc. Greek bard; whofe cha- 
raGter Homer, asa poet, in the 7th a of the Odyffey, 
exalts to the fummit of peasy n ex Ais 
DEMOGO 
Ywy import 
reprefents him as a flovenly 
pale, and disfigured, who had his dwelling 
us ae His com were and aos: 
ae : 
air, enco 
aving pedaly P 
ched from thence the burning matter, w 
e world, and thus formed the 
ct 
‘ =. 
g 
gon is reported to have feveral children, of whom the firft 
was ‘ jarring Difcord,” fevered from the bowels of Chaos, 
and raifed from the bottom of the earth to dwell upon the 
Pan, his fecond fon, and the three Parce, viz. 
ae 
_ aN ght, Tartarus, Pharca, nage, aa Anteus. Then 
of Demogorgon’s children was Erebus, who had a numerous 
ay ee Thefe fables are apes to allude in a myfe- 
DEM 
rious manner to the creation of the world, the hiesicia of 
which had been acquired from fome imperfect tradition 
The Arcadians, as Bauier fuggetts, (vdnios. &e. v 
P- 550.), feeing that the earth of itfclf produced rae 
and fruits, fountains, ftreams, and rivers, that it frequently 
emitted fire and flames, and that it was Hable to convuifions, 
sive auch ees fhe was animated, and gave the name of De- 
o the divinity that prefided over a The phi- 
isa, : is probable, meant no more this divinity 
than that vegetative Cou as gives life to the plants, 
defcribed by Virgil, (Geo ii.) 
‘* Spiritus intus ari came infufa per artus 
ens agitat m 
The vulgar fancied fee was a real god, who refided in the 
bowels of the earth, to whom they offered facrifices, efpe- 
cially in Arcadia. Some authors, however, have imagined, 
that reel lee had been a magician, fo fkilful in his art, 
that ad ghofts and aerial fpirits under his command, 
whom he abfolutely st tae to = will, feverely punifhing 
fuch as did not execute his o 
DEMOISELLE, the dated in aL a 
long-legged and long-necked bird of the Ardea kin as 
tive midia. It is remarkable for it ts jumpi r oe “lane 
ane in its ae It has the fame kind of plication in the wind- 
pipe with the common crane. It is the Arne Virgo of 
Gmelin, the Numidian crane of Albinus, the demoifelle of 
Numidia of Edwards, and the demoifelle of Latham. Ir 
inhabits the eaflern and weftern fhores of Africa, Egypt, 
Numidia, Tripoli, about the Cafpian and Black feas, and 
the lake Baikal. 
Its bill is yellowifh, greenifh at the bafe, and ted at the 
vertex 3 the irides are red, the crown cinereous, the reft 
black, as are alfo the neck, throat, breaft, legs, and wings ; 
the geld besa of Oe breaft are pendulous, the creft white 
a ing backwards ; 3 the back, vent, tail, abdomen, 
bly 
DEMON. “See Demon. 
MONA, Valley of, in Geograph ys a diftri& of the 
ifland of § cily, lying to the north-eaft part of the ifland, 
neareft to wae about 100 — long, pee 20 © broad. 
d 
uy ra imitator of Diogenes, 
abits he was, in fome re 
and hence he obtained ar g the Cynics, though 
he never profeffed himfelf " i a an ae &. From them all 
he fele&ted what was excellent, and moft fav aueele to moral 
wifdom ; and like Socrates he: cede soured to make ee 
phy not a — {cience, but the rule of life and m: 
ners. virtuous without oftentation, and was able 7 
reprove vice lod acrimony, and with the happieft effe 
So high was his reputation, that the greateft deference was 
paid to his opinion in the aflemblies of the Athenian people. 
After his death, which was not till he had attained the age 
of 100, he was honoured with a public funeral, attended 
with a numerous train of philofophers, and others who la- 
mented the lofs of fo eftimable a character. Moreri. Bruck- 
er’s Hill. Phil. by Enfield. 
DEMO . See Dvameniac. 
DEMONIACAL Posszssion. 
Poffeffion. 
DEMOIVRE, Asrauam, in Biegraphy, a celebrated 
3E2 athematician, 
See DzMONIACAL 
