FRE 
if. they be’not ofganizing even wae ° ger let England 
liberally beware ; for among the men of talent ear the 
revohution has fpared, Berthaud, , Denon 
Ber rvic 
per- i 
haps others of whom future Cyclopedias fhall fpeak, remain 
SILK. 
ENCH Geography, a town of America, in 
Cecil ppt Maryland, on the E. fide of Elk river; 1 mile 
Ss. £ Elkro on, from which it is feparated by Elk creek. 
Elk. ferry is 6 miles below this. 
Frencu 7 erfions of the Bible. See Brsie. 
Frexcu Weights. See Weicuts. 
, FRENCHMAN. See cet aaah - ENGLECERY. 
ay one s Ba merica, 
wh n 
-of Maine, and is form ae by oe Defert ifland on the 
weit, and the principal ef Goldfborough townfhip in the 
eaft. It has an imland communication round Defert 
ee with Blue-hill bay.—Alfo, a bay on the S. coaft of the 
ifland of Jamaica between Great Pedro bay and Starvegut 
ay. 
- Frencuman’s Creek, a creek.of Upp 
eounty of Lincoln, which difcharges itfelf into the river 
Niagara, in the townfhip of Bertie, a few miles below Fort 
rie. 
FrencuMan’s Key, a {mall ifland on the Spanifh Main. 
N. at 12° 16’. W. long. 82° 51' 
on 
e 
colleGtion of’ ea 
pa 
D ESS ARD, in 
‘mathematician, the nena Friend of Des Car 
and other learned men his contemporaries, flourifhed in Paris 
in the 17th century. was an expert m mathematician, 
and was chofen member of the Trench academy of {ciences 
in 1666. ‘The memoirs of that = ned ae 7 furnifhed 
with a number of fcientific pie ong thefe is one 
entitled. «* A method - rfoling ee ee by agawen 
and alfo “A treatife of right mangled trian ae in num- 
bers:’’ “ A fhort treatife on com binetions)s erik Tables = 
fome of Frenicle’s letters. 95 
- FRENTANA Regio, in Ane ncient Greerapl,, Tides 
Abruzzo, a country of Italy, bounded by the Tifconus 
en one fide, and by the Aternus on the ot hills 
FRENTANI, a: people of Italy, N.E. of Samnium, 
along the cheat gulf ; their principal towns were Auxi- 
num ee arin 
RE UM, or or Fran. See Fre 
ZANO, in Geography, a town a Til in the de- 
gta of the Mela; 8 miles W.S.W. of Brefcia 
ENZY, and eae. PHRENZY, and PuReE- 
pe 
:  FRERE, oS in ie Se ie a cape on the E. coaft of 
the ifland of Mart 
FRE > REREN, a al “a aoe in the 
Biograph 7, WS 
in 1668 ; he was educated ee the profeffion of the law, and 
‘mn compliance with the wifhes of his friends, he entered upon 
the duties of an advocate, but without intending to devote 
his talents. to the bufinefs.. His favourite ftudies- were 
hiftory and chronology, which he purfued 
ardour aa fuccefs, that he obtained admiffion into the 
Academy of Inferiptions at the ae age of twenty-five, 
and jiseniiiiaiaits fignalized himfelf by a “ Difcourfe on the 
er Canada, in the. lifh 
s born at Paris rife t 
FRE 
_ This difcourfe. was too bold for 
origin of the oe ad 
ith fome 
the times in whic 
prifoned in ile he was a 
conftant a of "Bayle, imbibed all his a a Mater hi 
an commit itted his \ wo orks to mem oe er hig 
preface, notes, an 
omance entitled *“ Via the White.”” He died im 
1740. 
ee nee CATHERINE, was born at Quimper 
in 1719. He e ered ae y one among the Jefuits, with: 
1739 he quitted 
a Co Semele,” - oe in which he fat 
with freedom the eae reputation of fome contemporary 
had fufficient influence to procure the fup- 
It re-appeared in a few years under a 
ues Ecrits de ce 
Tems,'"’ and w 
Thine volumes hea publifhed, it was dropped, a and a 
n, entitled « T.’Ann e Litteraire,” 
ie couciued till his death. Freron - d the misfortune of 
uniting a ea him fome of the principal writers of the day,. 
amon m was Voltaire. Freren had long carried on a 
warfare oan this popular a without provoking a 
Sada eafure. = = vere ines upon his comedy of “ 
ne qui on,” ted ke wail of the eae 
cade — ae thi did ne oat an opportunity of throwing: 
odi ton Freron and his works. 
willing eee Fa do homage to his talents and oi his taite 
asawriter. He died in 1776. anges his sale anes — 
he publifhed “ Opufcules,”’ in three vo olu on- 
7 ing. of dP ge in profe an as He oe “Tikewile, 
*¢ Les vraies Plaifirs, ou les Anas de Venus et Adonis,’” 
tranfated pe - Italian. He began a tranflation of Lu- 
Freron was pleafant and eafy in his manners, fond 
oe panes and pee to diffipation. 
: CAPE DEL» in ae phy, a cape on the W. 
coaft of See aa lat. 39 Rohe 28! 
FRE See Pras 
that Hi di 18: + perform b 
grou _ u 
fre ce 
itfelf. "The fn frefco, as applied to painting, is faid to 
have been adopted becaufe the practice of it is ufed in the 
open air ; “ Andare al Frefco,”’ fignifying “to take the 
air,’ or “ walk in the air :’’ but it feems more pro- 
bable that another meaning of the word frefco has given 
n ew or fr 
Vitruvius (1 vii. cap. 4.) calls it “ U 
orio. 
, having been practifed in the carlieft ages of 
“very ancien 
Greece and on me. 
The theory of the art of painting extends its ‘principles 
fan all modes of mae! bec: aufe theoretic rules are 
wn‘from nature, which is & of all imitation, and 
ae ne meer of the a rie ed in air: ce 
