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it does sa concern me to live long, Caachi T attainto gle- 
ry and em ence; which is a juft co arifon 
painted ; which yet, luminous.as it is, has more pow 
luftre : and the better to determine ‘he fenfe of the painting 
to this fignification, the Catftilian arta is added ; ** Mas 
-virtud que The-perfonal merit of Mary, queen of 
a was  reprefented ey a pomegranate with — words : 
** Mon ’eft pas de ma couron e talent of 
an apetcuca perfon, who became all things to fie men, by 
a sere ae with thofe words of Saint Paul, ‘* Omnibus 
mn 
Dev vifes s are ufed on coins, eae feals, fhields, triumph- 
al arches, artificial fire-works, a er folemnities. The 
are a fort of images, very pertinen nce and artfully repre- 
fenting the enterprife and intrigues of war, love, piety, 
udy, fortune 
French have diftinguifhed themfelves in this way, 
-efpecially -fince the time of cardinal Mazarin, who had 
wonderful fancy fot devifes. 
The Italians have reduced the making of devifes into an 
-on fomathiog real, ae not on hazard, or imagination,except- 
ing fome whimfical combinations eftablifhed in mythology, 
which cuftom, and the authority of the poets, have ma 
pafs for natural. 3 at the human body be never taken 
into devifes; as this would be toc compare a man wit im- 
. That there = a fort of unity in the figures which 
compas the bod e donot mean, that there muft only 
be a fimple figure ; be that, if there be feveral, they muit 
‘have arelation, and {ubordination to each other, fo that 
there be one principal figure whereon all the reft depend : 
though ftill the fewer figures 
devife, and. the lefs: tae are confufed, the more perfe& and 
elegant is the devife. 4. The motto, which is to animate 
the figure, muft agree fo acourately — as that it could 
not ferve for any other is to be named that 
appears to the eye, and. ouch ce bare infpeCion might 
notify. The motto is to have a complete fenfe of itfelf ; 
-for, being to make a compound with the oat it mu 
-only be a part, and, confequently, muft not fignify the 
If the words alone have a comp 
he fenfe, mich leaves fomewhat to guefs, is one 
a happinefs, w 
which he never dreamed of, and yet fo pertinent, that it 
‘fhould feem they had been intended for the fam 
Devise, or Divife, in Common Law, the a whereby ‘a 
_teftator gives, er bequeaths, his lands, or goods, by his lait 
-will, in writing. ey ae in Bride a devife af goods 
ba more Asa oad term 
He makes the ene is reall the devifor; and he to 
qvhom i it . aide, the devi 
d 
various ancient remains, being 
Li ilt 
pied by Roger bifhop of Sarum aurea’ the reign of Henry I.; 
_ DEV 
A devife in writing is, in conftruion of = no deed-3 
but an inftrument by which lands are conveyed. 
he words of a will the law interprets in a larger, and 
more favourable fenfe, than aed of a deed: for if land be 
devifed to aman to have to or ever, or to have to him 
and to an aceenen his mother’s belly, it 
is a a aa vals se 3 though it is otherwife by feoft 
ment, grant, or gift. For, in thofe cafes, there ought to be 
one of ability S receive prefently ; otherwife it is void. See 
Dezp, and WitL 
Devise, Fac. See Executory Devife. 
DEVIZES, in Geography, a market and borough town of 
Wiltfhire, England, is a place of remote antiquity ; an 
though it has not been proved to be a Roman ftation, yet 
been found. here. . Stukeley contends, that a town, a 
ftation, called. sleet occupied the fite of the prefent 
Devizes, and that it was furrounded by a ipa and 
ditch.”” Dr. Davie Sina work containing m 
criticifm, entitled de tar aber biel 4 
c . : 
n 
here at an pe ae . his was 
and here, in the fucceedéng reign, the bifhop, aid his 
fon, and nephews, were made prifoners within its gates. 
In the various ‘civil wars that progreflively occurred in Eng- 
land, this caftle was the fcene of repeated confliats, and its 
wi 
ral other places in Wiltfh n his que n Mar rgaret, by 
way of dower. Leland Sieber this ome in the follow. 
ing terms. “ It ftood on the fouth-weft fide of the town, 
never - or fince, fet up by any bifhop of England. The 
keep, o ungeon, ona or caft up y and, : a a of 
work of incredible e app on the gate fix 
or ee places for once: and a ane building 
was in it. It was then ruined ; part of the front of the towers 
of the. ate of the keep and chapel was carried full impro- 
fitably to build Mr. Baynton’s place at Bromham, fearce 
three miles off ; and divers goodly towers in the — - 
were going to ruin; the Principal leading into the 
was yet of great ftrength.”” The ee thus deforibed, "oa 
fince been entirely deitroyed ; and nothing remains but par 
of the vallaand mount. Th e are now enclofed within i 
PD “a a tleman’s “ ru 
liam Waller. 
favour of the royalifts. About fix hundred of the parlia- 
mentary foldiers were flain, and nine hundred more taken 
orough, Devizes - a — charters granted 
it by ie monarchs. firft of -thefe 
y the emprefs Maud, and hobs ee by her enry 
Meceedis kings either ratified, or extended the liber 
ties and immunities of the burge effe 
The — occupies an elevated fite, and is therefore de- 
prive any river; which is of fo much al alae and 
utility ‘0 places ‘of trade, and indeed to every {pot where 
perfons 
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