DES 
place but alfo led him se it; as appears from the prologue 
to the Peenulus of Plautu 
ary of the fame nature were the agonotheta of the 
eeks. 
DESIGNING, the art of delineating, or drawing the 
appearance of natural objeéts, by lines on a plain. 
o defign, according to the rules of mathematics, makes 
the se o perfpeCiive. 
o n by the camera obfcura, fee Camera ob/cura, 
and Deane. 
DESION 
Athenian month Anthefterion NTHESTERION« 
DE'/SIRADE 
Welt ina eee the French, in the neighbourhood 
of Antigua, fituated in N. lat. 16° 40! ong. 61° 207; 
18 miles N. E. of Guadaloupe, and 21 N. of Mariegalante. 
It is about 12 miles long and fix broad. 
At what time this {mall ifland received its firft inhabi- 
tants is not knewn, but although it was difcovered by Co- 
lumbus, it is yet a very moderna colony. 
Inthe year 1788, La Defirade contained a ae of 
213 white, 33 mulattoes, or free negroes, and 61 ro 
flaves. There isno regular town. The foil is fandy ad not 
very fruitful; it yields fome coffee and cotton. The ifland is 
howev ome confequence to the French in time of war, 
as it gives fhelter toa number of privateers which annoy the 
Englith Weft India trade. 
DESIRE is defined by Mr. Locke to be the oagie a 
_ finds in himfelf upon the quince of any thin 
18 7 ter or lefs, as that mere is more or lefs aes 
he uneafinefs i defi ed on fome abfent good, is that, 
according to riter, which eee the will, from 
im ! does even the 
oluntary actio or 
greater good, though hee eel har pie and ac ae owledged to be 
fuch, determine the will, uxtil our defire, proportionably ex- 
cited, makes us uneafy in the want of it. If it be enquired, 
what it is that moves defire? He replies, happinefs, and that 
alone. ‘This author has very properly diftinguifhed between 
will and defire; though many later writers have overlooked 
this ie and have reprefented defire as a pipgaesica 
of the Defire and will agree in this, that both muf 
have an eee ° which we have fome conception; and, 
therefore, both muft be accompanied with fome degree of 
underftanding. Neverhelcn they differ in feveral things. 
The objec of defire may be any thing, which appetite, 
eallion, or affection leads us to purfue ; it may be any event 
whieh we think good for us, or for thofe to whom we are 
well affeGted. 
nguage between defire and will. 
tindion is, that what we will muftbe an action, and our own 
bond 
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eee 
as defire is often unaccompanied by will, t 
overlook the diftin@ion ae them. Reid’s Eller on 
the Active Powers of Man, Be 
ESIRE, Port, in Case, a harbour on the coaft of 
Patagonia, S. of cape Blanco, aad about 3 inne from 
,in eae ee the Macedonian name of the 
DES | . 
Penguin ifland, having a remarkable rock, een from the 
its e 
Tt amas with guanicoes, ae our deer, but much 
very {wift, and an ifland within the harbour is covered with 
feals, many of which are larger than-a bullock. Birds ° are 
alfo very plentiful. 
SISE, a town of France, in the department of the 
pean and Loire, and ditri€&t of Autun; 15 miles E. of 
DESMAISEAUX, ie in meee was born at 
Auvergne in the year 1666 e came at an early age into- 
this country, and acquired a very caine know ledge of its 
language and literature. aay s elected a fellow of the’ 
oyal Society, and is _ now 
works of Bayle and 
memoirs o ioe in which are given 
te. 
t many curious 
tenant of literary hiftory and anecto 
He v wrote the 
other diftinguifhed writers. He died in London in 1745.. 
oreri. 
DESMARETS, Henry, one of the meft able French- 
muficians in the reign of Louis XIV., who having married a- 
young lady with her own confent, and that of her mother, 
was profecuted by her father, and condemned to death by: 
the chatlet, and had only time to fave himfelf from an igno- 
minious death by flight to Bruxelles, where he was ap-- 
pointed maettro di ai to Philip V. king of Spain; and 
after remaining 14 years in Spain, quitting that country on 
account of the heat of hee imate injuriog his wife’s health, 
8 obssined the place of fupernten ant of the mufic of the 
of Lorraine. obliged 
to remain a fugitive 
s chief part of his life, n never having been able to obtain- 
a pardon during the remainder of his inexorable father-in- 
law’s days. However, in the year 1722, during the regency 
of the duke of Orleans, his featence was rever hoa and his> 
marriage declared valid, He died in 1741, at the 
having compofed feven or eight operas, hieily aoe 
which were ae admired in their day. 
RS, Nicuoras, phyfician to the town of Bou- - 
logne, was author of fen ufeful publications on botany, 
mineralogy, and medicine, publifhed about the middle of- 
the laft century. “ Obfervations d’hiftoire naturelle faites aux : 
environs du Beauvais,” 1749, treating of the air, water, plants - 
and minerals found in the neighbourhood of the town, and - 
of the difeafes peculiar to the place, an 
ater and foil, The wor 
ng t 
epidemic among 3. In 1767, 
publifhed a eeanletion from the Greek, of the earep a 
sald pale with notes and illuftrations, 12mo., which is- 
ed, and has manifeftly a reference to be firft 
or Haller Bib. Botan. 
D, in Geography, the nameof an ancient diftr ic 
of Ireland, which contained part of the prefent — ofs 
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