FOR: 
been obferved that the “ Young daa is. the 
obly -one wholly, of his own compofiti tio Séé Bio 
grap 2 Dramatica, and Cooke’s Mémoire of Samuel 
Foot 
FOP, “pro robably ‘derived from the: ‘pappa of ‘Horace, ap- 
plied in the firft fatire of a fir book to the wild and ex- 
travagant Nevius, is ufe ong us to denote a perfon who’ 
éultivates 4 regard to ‘ldvemtitious ornament aad beauty to 
excels. 
FOPPENS, Joun ote Is, in Biography, a learned 
Flemifh divine, v was born about? “the'year 1689. his 
count nS e s author of 
<< Bibliotheca Belvica,”’ in two vols. gto. 1 ie. He pub- 
lifhed a new edition of Mirus’ s * Opera ears et Die: 
miuitica,’? with votes and tables in two volumes id. e 
was likewife author of «* Hiftoria Epifcopaty ay ren 
fis 2°? «© Hitloria ey aay s Sylvaducencis ;”’and ‘ Chro- 
nologia ee ogee ifco rum Belgii \ anno 1561, ad aanum 
176£,7? 12mo. a ie in verfe with hiftorical notes. ‘He 
didi in ars in le feventy-fecond year of his age. 
een wane hy, a apd of pee which’ runs 
in’ #0 the A'dtia A - i ong. 
RAB ( amo, in Diog ee a painter, 
wh practifed the: art hott | in hiftory a portraiture, but 
ptincipally the latter, and that _ ae erg fuccefs, 
He ‘Born at Venice about t ee ut the pre- 
e of his exertions 
wis Venice, w 
ferved ; parca portraits of the ay Contarini, painted 
in'16§-5;and of the Doge Pefaro in His moft juft cha- 
racteritties aré natural and ‘brilliant oe and = edom 
of exetution. “The perio iod of his death is alike unknown 
with that of his birth. 
FORADADA, in Reale, a {mall ifland in the Me- 
diterranean, near dee nd of Majorca, where the fon of the 
king of Ar azo merly ere€ted a college for t! e pu: pofé 
ofi iftrugting foe r r eocileen monks in bai Arabic language, 
for converting t 
FORAGE. “see Ter 
FORAMEN, in An ae. ahole. The term is em- 
ployed modtly in the fkeleton, a is applied to the open- 
ings which penetrate a bon is ee pana mott 
‘comimonly in the head, as the e apertures a numerous 
here. A-complete lift of the foramina of the head is fub- 
joined to the ace CRANIUM. 
ForaAMEN ga Aha and pof: TiUs, are two open- 
ings” in the bra 
“For AMEN Epiplecum, an epening snd aes inte the ca- 
vity- “of the great omentu 
ame mite = a 1 flitsike paflage 
lea: ee from the — ventricle through the foramen com- 
mune anterius to thir bebe - the brain ; which 
Dr. Monro did io; difcorér IN. 
‘Foramen Ovale, of the he. a ‘paflage ge 
cation’ 
ae 
of communi- 
‘in the feet, between the’ two auricles. See 
Foramen, in Natur sy ede Lage term applied tothe an 
eee ce ee ble in eae {pe ee iftin o 
uth‘and vent: in the compet ‘dor Cat echini they are 
often large pervious holes, formed by the local pace 
of the oppofite fides of the fh], and are- = from two to fix 
in number. 
FORAMINULENTUS, Trac 
Anatomy, a part of the external- Surfaee of se ee oe 
means - promoting | the interefts of 3 
FOR 
forated by very ‘numerous -{mall as Sa for’ tranfimitting. 
the-tilaments of the auditory nerve. AR. 
FORBACH, in Geography, a town. ‘of France 
départment. of ‘the Mélelie, and chief place 
the diftri@: of peels acear a ; 7 mile 
place sip pe 5, a 
on a terr id of 2 
FO 
ce, inthe 
of a canten in 
: N.W. ef it. The 
the pee 0:4.92 inhabitants, 
24 kliomete os, tin 25 communes, 
os in Biography s born: in th 
year 1% “He e was one of the Secich, ‘nobility, under ng 
title of lord of Corfe, and baron of O*Neil in the county of’ 
erdeen. ewa — partly at Abe deen, and part- 
y at St. Andrew’s e was able to take an active 
partin the bufinefs or life, oe affairs of the church of Scot- 
land were in a ftate of great corfufion, and he foon made 
himfelf confpicuous by the craueer ed which he held 
out to able and pious minifters, and by the inftructions 
which, iasaieetenr g his sel a layman, he perfonally: 
elivered to eople alfo well knowa wees the: 
conferences att he held i ae couverfion oi t 
who would hear nothing from the pulpit. 
behalf of the proteftan fine were not unnoticed or for- 
charged the ian ‘uate with great acceptability se 
applaufe. ti was nominated by the king to 
ee of Aberdeen, which he sed he anor it is faid, with 
much real and unaffeGted reluGtan His ze 
to the difchar ge of the mo 
duty, but he did not well underftand the principles of tole- 
ration, which are alfo the principles of pure Chriftianity. 
He oe his brethren in infringing on the rights of thofe 
w : ached to particular oni joini 
conform e was not, however, a perfecutor, and {corned 
o make ufe of vigorous meafurés to carry his point. Some 
time after his promotion to the pric he was elected 
chancellor of the univerfity of Aberdeen, and under his fu- 
erable diftinétion; he repaired and ornamented the 
ee increafed the library: of the 
rfhi 
univerfity, revived 
the feveral profeffo s of divinity, canon law, and phyfic; 
and a red, ey his influence, profeffo pies of es 
a The good 
wort O were € neat d there. He died 
n 1635, being in a feventy-tirft year, leaving os him. a 
es Cane ry on the Revelations,”? whic $s printed ia 
1613: and a work eerie ee Exercitationes de verbo Dei 
et Differtationes de verfionibus verraculis.”? In his condu& 
meé; he erred inthe means of bn go 
no on a a and ne 18 wie by bifhop ne . have 
‘ greatly aflayed, and 4 conquered, not e dif- 
ne a jjudgroonts, ‘but: i perve ae and. tobalent “hus 
mours-of diveré “ptrfens in. his dioce 
in the choice of clergymen; and was anx on -proz 
eee ‘for: pee Eu and - “that of thee face. He 
as vigilant a n examining candi orders, 
frit. i s for 
cad fre requeatly* ‘vifited histiocefe to. enquire ae the‘co ndué 
of thofe who exercifed.the important office of; miniflers of 
religion, 
as careful , 
been’ unifor mly influenced . - 
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