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The evangelift a fuppofed to be the writer of ins 
Aas, as. well as of the gofpel that bears his name, has bee 
one e advocate o 
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eography, or ill-will to 
Chriftianity ; and he recommends othe writer to recolle& 
for the future, that Bethany was ae the name of a 
town, but alfo of a diftri& of mount Olivet adjoining to the 
town, 
OLIVET, JosepH THouLLIER pn’, in Biography, a 
eftimable man of letters, was born in 1682 at Saline, in in 
Franche Compté. as educated by his father, who 
and at an early age he entered among the Jefuits, in which 
Dat, e joa an uncle diftinguifhed for his learning 
ri é uance among the Jefuits, he frequently 
vifited | Boileau, ond his admiration of the poet caufed him 
to ibe hi inciples oe literature fte which 
he acquired was rather m and a 
and in order to form his tafte for oratory on the b 
AAfturias in Spain, which he declined, preferring the eafe 
and independence of a private ftation to a brilliant fervitude. 
t the age of thirty-three he quitted the fociety of the 
Jefuits, and set a devoted himfelf to the life ofa 
n of letters at Paris, and in 1x 
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is he a ubliihed the Tafeulan suelo. 
and the orations againit Ca Catiline: and, at a fubfequent period, 
he coile&ted from the works of Cicero thofe paflages which he 
thought belt calculated, as well to 
of this work was publifhed at Geneva in £758,.-which is in 
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nd Gruter ae 
s Commentaries. Of . edition, by this editor, the 
eae da fays, * it ts the character that it performs more 
than it promifes. Bcfides a very co:rett text, it contaiusa 
very aca colleGion of notes by the beft comme ntators, 
with a learned and well-written preface of his own.’ 
the Geneva edition, the errors that had efcaped M. Olivet 
are carefully corre&ted. 
Olivet was a diligent ftudent of the grammar of hit ow 
language, and publifhed a treatife on « French Bis eit 
in which he attempted to prove that almoft all irenc 
fyllables have a determinate cape ure, and are as tleootbls 
and Latin. ‘This was tue- 
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the 18th cen pull is valua r 
interefting anecdotes preferved in it. 
publithed « Opufeales s fur la Langue Frangoile,’”? to which 
he added the abbe Choifi’s « Journal of Difcuffions,’’ 
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OGober 1768, he was attacked with a fit of apatleey: 
which terminated his life at the age of 86. 
As a tranflator, Olivet is faithful and elegant: to his 
verfion of the treatife «‘ De Natura Deorum,”’ he annexed: 
a traét of his own relative to ancient philofophy, which he 
entitled «¢ Theologie des Philofophes,’’ to which theology, 
according to D; nay his philofophical oe was 
in a great meafure limite a abbé d’Olivet was ever: 
r his literary brethren, and 
ns many ae ine eligible and re- 
dinal Fleury, the. fter, and the bifho of Mirepoix, 
the diftributor of ecelefia flical beefs who gould not but 
fons of eminence, and though igh in his approbation of 
modern produétions, he ap to have been frees from 
envy and jealoufy. In his Poe of living he was moderate 
and economical ; and he facrificed the greateft part of his- 
patrimony to the advantageous fettling of his nephews. 
Gen. Bio 
Ouiver, in Geography, a town of France, in the depart. 
ment of the Loiret, acd chief: place of a oe in: the 
diftrit of Orleans, fituated on Be S. fide of the» Loire 3. 
3 miles S. of Orleans, The place contains ae a the. 
canton ieee inhabitants, on a ees of 185 kilometres; 
in 7 communes. 
OLIVETAN, Rozert, in Biography, the oo 
who publithed a verfion of the {criptures in ec ‘French dans 
guage, trom the original Hebrew and 
for the ufe of the iene - Valais. 
nothing is known, except 
Calvin, and he is 2 in to i ae peilone at Rome 
year 1536. ation was printed at Neufehatel uw 
1535, and was the foundation of the Geneva verfion in com- 
mon ag after it - ee through various revifions by- 
» Beza, an Th acter of Olivetan’ 3” 
imprefiion is Cathie he is faid to have aaacaaaccr and 
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