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fell, by allegi ng, that this had been the ancient ufe of 
Rome; eed’ at it had been brought from Conftantinople 
at the time ae Gs word hallelujah was firfl introdued un- 
der: hak Dama 
lujah hs er fet to mufic by all the great matters 
of ecclefialtical harmony ; but by nene with that {pirit and 
~ sg of Handel, in many of bis Se) a) Pe ora- 
d fill with greater fublimity in the Meffi 
HAL! JENBERG, in Geogr ae : ibe of ‘Welty 
30 miles W. S. W. of C a os 2 E. lon 
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HatieNcourt, a town of France, in the depart- 
ment of the Somme, and chief place of a canton, ia the 
i of Abbeville ; g nviles S. of it. The place contains: 
aud the canton 9580 inhabitants, on a territory of 
- kiliometres, in 18 communes. 
ALLER, Axsenr, in Biography, one of the moft 
ily a characters of his age in literature and feience, was 
18th of October, 
oP The accounts 
is Ely 4 Avene in his very infancy, are as ex- 
‘aordinary a years | 
ey whe was igeeiitoned to 
born a 
id 
record. Before five 
write down ail the new words 
He afterwards formed, 
be: iy, containing more aes two eeouteat fn extracted 
on ayle and Moreri. At the age of ten, he wrote a 
bats int verfe againft his tutor, a pedant of great 
$ an y- wee thirteen he Toft his father, 
efore ee a 
k the tt which was ees of him only in tates: 
23, he F pent fome time at Bienne with a phyfician, for 
ud te Nec Sains he was taught the fyftem o of 
ret 
suid oundin 
ag his des reef elGeaiie ‘the ici 
f iatere without referve. “Trowards the end of the 
ro to ——— noe = diffeéted on 
nee a for abetter philofophy in that of Del 
sate hough but 3 in. his fixteenth y 
' excite 
mce aoe on yas fame tine he was indetati 
Saale of {cience, he obtained the friendthip ne 
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farthe? purfued at Leyden, in 1727. In this year he vifited? 
England, where he was much noticed by fir Hans Sloane, 
Douglas, ogee and sensi ; and thence went to Paris, 
and diffeé red u 
fdlerable seg into the ftudy of mathematics, under John 
Bernouilli; and alfo imbibed a defire to ftudy botany, to 
which he had ieaaihoe conceived an averfion: his ardour was 
ys, by the —_ oF the place, where the 
Bauhins had rolided, and Stahalin lived ; sds what evinces’ 
the enthufiafm of his mind, ‘as foon as egun to col- 
le& plants, he projected the plan of his wt work on the 
botany of Switzerland, (which was not completed till many 
years. afterwards,) at a time agin he declares, he fearcely 
knew the moft common plants.’ Between the years 1728 
and 1736 he made feveral potable excurfions, traverfing 
the Alps of t he Valais, Savoy, and Berne. But he did not 
furvey thefe fcenes with the eye of a naturalift only ; they 
awakened all his poetical enthutiafm ; and his « Peas on the 
Alps,’’ compofed in his twen ty-firft year, which was f 
lowed by various ethic epiftles, and other pieces, pier his 
name high among the votaries of the German mufe, In- 
deed, he is confidered as the firft who gave fublimity, rich- 
nefs, and harmony to the poetical language of G 4 
and twenty-two fucceflive editions of his poems in the ori- 
' ginal, w ranflations into other languages, gern 
ently — the ioe eee with eles ch me 
rece ived 
<'chi dren. 
ante and Botany 
abroad ; c and in 1736, he ieeived an invitation | 
king of Great Britain, George II., to undertake the pro- 
fefforfhip of eit eta ae — in the univerfity 
which he had rece 
nt his” oe the meft ind 
whom he encoura te take fome fingle “of ani- 
= Picea and | to devote themfelves 
it, in which od gave his 
le, during 
ars. which = {pent at Gittingen, ithe 
fimilar 5 having conftantly in view 
: ie te 
pies Pe wad epee 
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