GRE 
en as a mutica artic; 
att 
° 
this 1 ingenious man’s 
, pee’ and an eigen and pleasing writer, has transformed 
himfelf near the en evolution, cme o 
a bad philofopher, and author ea more offenfive 
‘pious a 
produced, entitled « De la Verité; ce que nous byte ‘ce 
que nous fommes, ce que nous devons étre may we 
not venture to afk citizen Gretry, what demon had infpired 
_ him with more knowledge on thefe mattees than the greateft 
theologians, metaphylicians, or atheifts, of ancient and mo- 
lern times 
GRETZER, James, a learned German Jefuit, was born 
at aoa in the year 1560. _ He entered into the order 
at the age of feventeen, and applying himfelf with great 
ardour to Is ftudies, he pects a proficient in ancient and 
modern Pacis 
He was author, likewife, ofa great 
ifes in profane and ecclefiattical antiquities, 
of which the moft celebrated is stated “6 De Cruce,’’ in 
three volumes quarto. Accor Ipin the works 
of Gretzer, though not of the fstt rank in liars merit, 
will furnifh very good materials to thofe who would write 
He was w ell verfed i in the Greek 
printed at Ingok 
number of | 
w vores amounting in number to one orci rE fifty-three, 
collected and Beg a at Ratifbon in 1739, in 17 vols. 
Moreri.. Dupin 
EVE EREFA, among our Ancient Writers, is a de- 
nomination of power and authority ; gtk ing as much as 
See Count and Viscovu ; 
ed from the An ng ae rith, peace. 
f 
‘Thus Hoveden: « Greve dicitur, ideo quod jure Re oe grith, 
PERS 
CR 
i.e. pacem ex illis: facere, qui patrize inferunt ve, i, ¢. mi-- 
iam rel rare 
_ Lambar pare greve the fame with reve. 
Hence, alfo, the words /brieve, porigreve, &e. which 
were anciently written beg ae portgerefay 
_ Greve, in Geogr a town of Etruria ; 3 34 ’ §. of Flo. J 
~Cneve au Lanchat, a bay! on the N. W. coaft of the 
ifland of Jerfey. 
. Greve de Lecq, a bay on the N. coatt of the ifland of 
EVEN, a town of the bifhopric of Munfter ; eight 
Muntter. 
Roer ; 
of Brilon. 
“born at Becuctenip’s “Court, in 
He rec his education, ‘pay 
at Oxford, but chiefly at 
From college he went on sora pos 
mind ; which, aa an admirable - I 
° 
and good Chriiltians, than Philofo phifm, till then, ever ° 
ca, es ae pailayes ex 
times w 
es N. of Seeds two, slip, co 
"GREVENBROICH, a Ea are in the depart- or 
ment of the of Juhiers, 
MGREVENSTEIN, 3 a a town of Soest ; 16 miles Ww. 
GRE 
abroad, on which his mind was fully bent. He procured 
ae and vast of one a his ey on ee 
« 
arte lor 
much upon precedent 
The times ato val re good or bad: 1 » pre- 
cedents will do n o harm : if bad, power will sei a way 
where it finds none.’ n the acceffion of king James he 
was created a ay of he Bath, and foon after 
grant of the caflle of Warwick, on which he expeided on 
neceffary repairs twenty r-thoufand pounds. In 1614 he was 
made under- treafurer, and chancellor of the exchequer, and 
admitted into the privy-council, and in 1620 he was raifed 
to the dignity of a peerage, by the title of lord Brooke of 
. Beauchamp’s-Court. He was {tabbed by a domeftic whom 
ie had reprimanded for infolence. He was diftin guifhed as.a 
patron of letters, and in 1627, the year before 1 cet he 
founded at Cambridge a profeflorfhip of hiftory and- 
fome falary. As an author few of his pate bs were Gade 
public till (ee his as ad In 1632 feveral poetical works 
appeared under his na Of his profe writings the moft 
interefting is the life oe fir Philip Sidney, Bs peu 
ut there 
rofe his 
s affeéted and involved, yet difplaying a full mind and 
a ee e ere with various learning.  Biog. Bri 
G LLEA, in Botany, named by Mr. 
wn, Im 
eens! ihe late right honourable Charles Francis Greville, 
S. a vice prelident of the Royal Society, in fae 
arden at Paddington the rareft and moit curious 
rom various Pee were cultivated with ae cel 
and always devoted to the real advancem 
Since his death in ess. the collection bas anal 
See Ord. Beate, arity 
‘Gen. Ch. Ca/. none. Cor, Petals four, ehicctng by their 
t len ngth revolute 5 
apse part into a tube, linear, oblique, a 
tamens. Stam. 
heir fuminits rei concave, earin 
ie iP ° 
aed 
geet itigma oblique or lateral, deprefled, or fomewhat 
convex. - Peric. Follicle ftalked, half-ovate, coriaceous, 
imes woody, crowned with the aye, of one Central celt. 
mpre: very fhort margin 
hich they are attached” to the tdp of the 
Stic e. 
Eff. Ch. Petals me oblique. Stamens funk in the cavi- 
ties of the limb. A. lateral rland at the bafe of ad fall 
9 one. Best rE ion © ~ 
