FUL. 
forcetimes, 28 in Viper'’s a they are bulbous or 
vealen at the hafe, 
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or ean of 
*“RAGARIA. 
in Mechanics. See — and 
was  difbanded. which happeed in in a few months, he made 
tour through various par Germany, and in 1749, com- 
pleted his itu at oe ‘His firft literary tice 
tion was a cree “dillertation on the principal diale@s of the 
Germ: rman language, which was crowned by the Royal So- 
eae and the fa¢ts and Sail of which 
lome years after, in his * Diionary of the 
After this i blithe d ane work, 
entitled an « fer itd into per He did not con- 
gfburg in 3. In early life 
med to render different objects of kno aledee 
eafier to be aed in the memory by graphic reprefenta- 
tions ; and when he was farther advanced he exhibited, in a 
fort of genealogical tree, the connection of all the fciences, 
profeffions, arts, and handicrafts. He reprefented, in a 
fimilar manner, in 1787, the organs of {fpeech, with the 
origin of human language. Fulda died at Einzigen, 1 
December 1788. ough evoted his intelleétual en- 
dowments to the cultivat of language, and t 1 
velligation of its principles ond philofophy, yet he was con- 
verfant with all the fciences 3 and was an excellent practical 
mechanic; made his own houfehold furniture ; alfo imple- 
ments for aaa : hea worked them himfelf with great 
luccefs 
FULDA, in Ga phy, a besa and principality ss 
Germany, in the circle of the Uppe ine, bounde 
the.N fle 
fome falt and medicinal Ca From oe a cloifter o 
, ‘Benedictine monks, ereted in 744, this bifhopric was 
formed in 1752 by pope Benedict XIV. In 1802 this 
ifhopric was given to the prince of Naffau Dillenberg, late 
Stadtholder, as an indemnity for this office, and his domi- 
nions: in « oe nd. 
LDA, - 
Brice dilhopric, fituated on the river Fulda. 
made.a town inthe year 11623 and became the refidence of 
- the bifhop. : Befides ee cathedral, it va a collegiate church, 
an aeeti ird founded in the year 1734, a college, an acade- 
a“ a convent of. BenediGines. iti is aed: nearly in 
‘It was 
f Germany, and capital of the above- on 
FUL 
the centre of the diocefe s the chapter of which is compofed 
of thirteen canons. ‘The library. contains a number of an- 
cient and rare manufcripts. It is diftant 63 miles E. N. YL, 
ars _ tz. NN. lat. 50° 33' 57”. E. long. 9° ts 
river of Germany, in the circ er 
Rhine, which pafies by the town of Fulda, and oe the 
Werra at des, here confluence forms the V 
FULFUL, in are Geography, a town vst Italy, in 
the country of the bee mi 
Te A, Fouient, or Fonrayo, 
in Geography, a roe of Italy, in Ombria. 
FULGE NTIUS, in Biography, an African prelate in 
the fixth century, was a defcendant from an illu ftrious family ly 
orn at Lepte, in the province of 
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zacena, abo t 
while he wos a ae h Homer, 
an n converfe in th anguage with purity and 
fluency. t.a proper age he was recommended to a pol 
under government, which, however, not being agreeable to 
his mind, he relinquifhed, in order that he might retire from 
the world and embrace a religious life. Fulgentius pea 
a monattery under the dhcintine Fauftus, and when this 
community was difperfe by per _ he entere 
another, where the high opinion mais ned. of his tanaity 
zeal occafioned his being appointed lage with Felix’, 
ie fuperior of that imititution he Moors, in a fhort 
time, {cattered in all dire€tions the religious of this monal- 
tery, and Felix and Fulgentius were fubjeGted to much cruel 
perfecution and perfonal fufferings, reat Ss eaten 
embarked for Egypt, but la touched at e he 
was perfuaded to abandon a of proceeding on his 
age. e went to ee in ie year 500 having of- 
ered his devotions at the pretended feouclaes of the apor 
tles, returned t o Africa, where he oo lifhed a new monaftery 
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among his brethren, he was called. upon, from the known 
fuperiority of his talents, to exercife his pen in the vindica- 
on of themfelves and their depreffe n the y 
s pod 
- He died in the year 533, leaving behind him 
erous treatifes in theological controverfy tius 
s been praifed for the correétnefs and clearnefs of his creed, 
ee f 
and influence, the fpirit of monkery was 
ae ifferainated among the chriftians in Africa. 
FULGO, 
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