GRO 
his Shale M. Laborde, was fo partial to his talents, 
that we find the following fplendid eloge in the third volume 
of Effais fur la Mufique, p. 511. 
“ Jofeph le Gros, an excellent mufician, a good compofer, 
and the firft finger in the ferious opera ever fince the year 
1764, began his vocal career by the part of Tithonus, in 
which he “had the moft brilliant fuccefs, and ever fince that 
time he has continued to merit new favour. 
“ He is the fon of a country fchoolmatter, and wa 
17 739 Having difcovered sae in his life a aifpofition 
, he was received as & chorifter in the cathedral of 
aye was there that he laid the foundation for becom- 
pet = its edigns was neceflary to confole the public 
= the lofs cf the inimitable Jeliotte 
ele Gros was fo well inffraéted in the firft principles 
om anit by the maitre de chapelle at Laon, that he has 
fometimes attempted compofition ; and has even produced 
in partnerfhip with M. Deformery, an a& of an opera which 
had fome fuccefs. We know other works of his that would 
merit {till more praife. 
“Tn 777 he undertook the direé@ion ae the Concert Spit 
tuel, and his efforts to render that eflablithment intereiting 
and” worthy of the patronage of the as has hitherto 
been it ace crowned with: fuccefs 5 3; as he ne trou- 
nor expence in eng -ahisetan in Europe of 
re kind to-exhibit their talents at thefe concerts. 
© His pe abilities, profefiional pun€tuality in the per- 
forimatice of f his ‘parts, his: paffion for his art, and his worth 
ers 
inal ‘beloved bythe public, a) 
~ All this may be very true, Se his. ale of finging remains 
offenfve to all but the natives of Fran 
~ Gros; a foreign Honey, in divers countries, anfwering to 
nos a French weight, of the old fyftem, = 3° deiters 
or French f = 72 French ‘grains = 87.7562 
if Ret ek sat Bi the new metrical 
m == .012587 pounds avoirdupoi 
TCROSBURG, in re Sod a town of Silefia, i in the 
‘Breflaw; 1g miles S. of Breflan. 
"GROSCA, a ‘patent sei as in the ‘Bhhck fea. N. lat. a 19) 
: E. long. 2 29° 17. ‘ a + 
one of the 
~ GROSE, Francts, in Biography, was born « 
ar I73t; ‘his father Was a jewel Richmond, who, at 
his death, in the year 1769, left dhe’ “ale of this are 
an independent fortune, which he foon 
His wants awakened in’ him a defire't to em 
Rese See iat Fle had received an-excellent education, 
fled befides a tafte for aes. gee Bad 
to ciate is oe of sere nen and 
Wales.” This wor k, which w 
profit, completed § 
GRO ) a 
tioned, as “ A T'reatife on Ancient Armour and Weapons; ” 
«oA Clafti cal Dictionary of the vulgar Tongue ;” * Mili- 
tary Antiquities, being a Hiftory of the Englith Army from 
the Conquett to the prefent Time,’ &c. &c. 
ROSEN, in Geography, a town of the duchy of 
Courland ;_ 28 miles S. of Goldingen. 
GROS- A, Fr. certain old mutic, confifting of breves, 
femibreves, and minims, was formerly fo called in Francé, 
See ALLA-BREVE. : 
GROSIO, in Geography, a town of the Valteline; 12 
miles S. W. of Bor 
GROS 
vilits to the capital, where he was received in the beft focie~ 
ties. He prefented to his native city feveral marble buits 
of minent men born there. 
an oe account of thefe friends ‘es Pierre Ob 
s fur l’Italie,”” 
4 ‘ls: 1zmo. ; “* Londres,”’ in three eelamiek: the refult of a 
obfervations made in his vifits to England, which are faid to 
be deferving of much notice, though mixed with the mif- 
bonis of a foreigner. “ Eflais Hiftoriques fur Ta Cham- 
? « Ephemerides ‘Troyennes.”’ e hada i > 
the # te Memire Academ. de T'royes,’’ and the laft tranflae 4 
tion of Dav 2 
GROSS, Wei ak LE, a learnéd French prietly 4 
at Rheims in the year 1675. Here he received — 
the ceioereay) parts of a learned’ education, and at the. 3 
univerfity he diltinguifhed himfelf by his proficiency im 
the learning of the ‘times, particularly i in rhetoric and phi- 
lofophy. In 1694 he was appointed claffical tutor in the — 
college of the univerfity: the duties of this office he pet= 
formed with great pciligence; which, however, did not pree 
vent him from pur rfuing with atdour and avidity his theo- 
lo —— fhe to which he was zealoufly attached. | He: 
as elected re€tor and afterwards prior of the ee 
it the year. 1700 he was ordained prieft, and created a ¢ 
ey 
' tthe 
ti “ Ne Je =, ‘. 18 4 iet 
nd ae 1. a a a4 iputant cr steed ‘ares into the a it 
cuflion relative to. the bul bull “ Unigenitus,”” to which he was 
ee ee pponent. His zeal in this coat QT 
x é : 
ev “In Le he 
and was ina fhort time afterwar 
tis, where he delivered | 
- i ee by” very crowded auditories. _ 
20 HE wad pevieevted by ‘he Telit end 
Seog of Bs vat fr Fah ee 
