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eredit, for one of two vacant profefforfhips at that place in 
but was unfuccefsfuls He afterwards had the offer 
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ob the £ Dr. Marcot, who was called to court ; but 
rth of September, 1746, in the 46th year of his age: 
left three works, viz. <* Queefti 
decim pro Cathedra regia vacante,” Montpel. 
1741. ~. Diet. 
‘GUISCARD, Rover, duke of Apulia and Calabria, 
the feventh fon: of ‘Tancred, a gentleman of Lower Nor- 
mandy, was born towards the commencement of the 11th 
century, and was diftinguifhed amidft a family of warriors 
pert, OE and enterprifing fpirit in the exercifes of the 
camp. His elder brothers had all pafled into Italy, and by 
their merit had attained the dignity of-chiefs. obert, as 
defirous of fame as any one of them, followed their fteps, 
- eroffed the Alps as a pilgrim, and raifed a band of foldiers 
from the adventurers of Italy. His early fuccefles againit 
- and natives of Calabria, caufed a number of 
' and all the lands in Italy and Sicily, whitch he 
could conquet from the Greeks or Saracens. - About this 
period, Robert affumed the title of duke of Apulia, Calabria, 
amd afterwards. of Sicily. He employed great vigour and 
iz 
activity in 
the Greeks, and at length ma 
that. i 
mond, who commanded the naval force, was defeated by a 
setian ‘fleet ifficultie - emperor 
Venetian 
gement, Robert’s wife, Gaita, daughter-of the: prince 
The empe fenry IV 
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im the caftle of St. Angelo. Robert, confider- 
a vaflal of the holy Roman fee, marched, in 1084, 
‘ Ty, 
five editions in France and Ho 
reducing the maritime cities which held out for” 
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biographers his ambition was but little tempered either with . 
humanity or a fenfe of juftice : he purfued his own aggran- 
izement with fteady fteps. He was affable, and courteous 
to his companions in arms, plain in his drefs and manners, 
rapacious in acquiring wealth, and liberal in beitowing it. 
Guiscarp, in Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 
ment of the Oife, and clef place of a canton, in the diftrict of 
Compiegne; 5 miles N. of Noyon. The place contains 
1287, and the canton 9436 inhabitants, on a territory of 
1874 kiliometres, in26 communes. 
GUISCHARD, Cuartrs Gorriirs, in Biography, — 
called Quintus Icilius, was born at Magdeburg, where his 
father was a chief magiftrate. Having completed the ele- 
mentary parts of his education, he itudied at the univerfities 
of Halle, Marpurg, and Leyden, where he applied to the claf- 
fics, theology, and the oriental languages. By the inte.’ 
reft of the itadtholder, he was appomted enfign in a regi 
ment in the fervice of the United Provinces, and in 1751 ° 
time, the ftadtholder died, and with a view of obtaining / 
his’ the favour of his fucceffor William V., he dedicated his me- 
‘They were publithed in two volumes quarto, | 
yolunteer in the allied army, acquired the efteem of Ferdi-_ 
nand of Brunfwick, and was recommended to the notice of 
Frederic IT. of Pruffia, who fent for him to Silefia, kept 
him near his perfon, and often converfed with him on the 
art of war, as practifed by the ancient Greeks and Romans. 
On account of his great knowledge on this tubject, he was 
ed out of heat | : 
war. Guifchard greatly diltinguifhed himfelf, and continued. | 
till the end of the war to difcharge, ami 
the arduous tafks nitenss him A 
king retained him at ot{dam, and he was. one 
perfans whom his majefty admitted into his convivial parties 
and to whom he gave the freeft accefs to his library and 
coins, which latter Guifchard increafed fo much, that 
lued both at the fam of a hundred thoufand dollars. FE 
former courfe of life, and the hardfhips to which he ha 
_ been expofed by his profeffion, brought on infirmities, which 
became fo painful to him, that he was accuftomed to compare- 
them to the torture of the rack, and which at length put an 
end to his exiftence. He died on the 13th of May, 1775, 
Frederic purchafed his h- 
b of his heirs for the fum of 12,000 dollars, Befides: 
IL, lieutenant-general of the 
