GAS 
with the ancients, allow the 4u 7 to be a concord, though, 
in coun ade the ae plea Des Car 
moft fev fays, (Com mpend. 
infeliciffima eft ‘con 
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me) 
eh) 
p 
a Xta, 
quia tam vicina e quinte, ut coram hujus ae. ae 
illius gratia evanefcat 
Organifts have long obferved that clofe intervals in the 
bafe, though confonant, are difagreeable, and never, in full 
playing, 8 eo the 3d in a common ckord with the left hand 
. omitting the 3d. thus, never thus. 
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SION, Joun ee vance, was born 
in 1627 he ferved under ion Ree de Rohan in the civil 
wars with the Calvinift party, to whom he was always 
ached. He next joi ined himfelf to Guitar rus, and was made 
eaptsin of his body guard, and fhortly af fter raifed to the 
fel and his ‘A elit Gee ce th rat he deter- 
mined . “Ainge him ee fignal recompence ; but 
the death of that great mz utzen prevented the execu- 
tion of his well meant intention. (See Gusravus.) a 
fion now 7 to France ei his regiment, and entered 
under the marfhal de m Lorn, where he per- 
formed tie eae ese and where he becaine a 
terror of the enemy. ne the fiege of Thionville he eccnal 
a dangerous wound, which he was recompenfed in 164 
with a marfhal’s ‘af, ae in - ollowing year he was ap- 
eae Sei fear e army in Flanders. He 
ow perfor 1e eon br ‘liant aoa and was entrufted 
walt cree cperaaE potts, but when he had ere 
attained to the height of his reputation, he ed a mortal 
wound at the fiege of Lens.in 1647, and was buried in the 
mo. e 
has been characterifed as a military man by a daring courage 
and fpirit of iad sia which fet at defiance all common 
obftacles. « ory,’ he faid, ‘* was good in the ie 
but boldaef and the aie ~ requifites 1 in the field.”’ 
another time he exclaimed, ave that in my head and a 
m “fide “which will overcome pretended impoffibilities.’’ 
Cardinal Richelieu had fo full a confidence in him, that whe 
urged by uncommon ee he ufed to on be They will 
be ae removed by. 
GASSO, in Gesrply, a town f Trance in the de- 
partment of the Po; five miles S. of “Chi 
GAST Hovxn. See Gaze Hounp. 
GASTALDUS, or CastTaLpus, an officer anciently 
entertained in the courts of divers princes. 
- The word is alfo written gaffaldius, gaftaldio, gaftaldatus, 
aol ee acri derives it from the Arabic chafe — 
oufe$ others from the German ga/f, and 
bab e ae on vellers 
GAS 
The gattaldus was — in n Italy and Spain is now called 
major domo, vir. and fteward of a houfehold. 
aftaldus w > or a ; which thews his 
The g 
ro) 
fi 
» we ieee es alfo bck with gaf- 
taldus in the fenfe of a cov irtier, and fometimes as an ec- 
clefiaftical officer ; fo that it is fomewhere ane d to be 
fimony to buy the ae of gaftaldus. 
GASTALDY, Jo: s Barer, in Biography, a doctor 
of the faculty of tedicine t Avignon, — phyfician in 
ordinary to the king of France, was born at Sifteron, in 
1674. He went while very young to on, and findin 
that this city TT peas him ample means of gratifying 
his tafte for itudy, 1 up a permanent refidence. He 
was an honour to An faculty, and filled the firft chair of me- 
dicine for upwards of forty years; poffeffing the rare talent 
of uniting the ufeful with the agreeable, and, by this charm,. 
attaching the ftudent to his art. Hed devoted aed of ‘his: 
time to praétice, more particularly i in the hofpitals, and his 
value was acknowledge 
racea ge is 
the following ; i “ ea yee ek Medicine, Phyfico-Anatomi- 
ce,’ 1713. al Quettions in Phyfic were pubhifhed by 
him at liiborene fines re ale og topics in phyfio- 
logy and medicine. Eloy 
ST » Fr ANCIS, ene flourithed j in t 
of the eighteenth century, was de 
ae wales and born a 
education adapted to 
a into orders, 
the pace 
feended from a family of 
Aix in Provence. Having received. 
the e pur ae he was at an 1 early age 
and officiated for fome years. as prieft 
St 
in‘ the parith church oes St Paul. e was greatly admired 
8 a preacher, and _publithed feveral theological pieces, 
among _ was «© A en at of Homilies on the 
Epi ities o the Ror ” in two volumes, 1r2m0o. Tio thi 
work is - xed an excellent Fe read of the character of 
St. Paul. On the death of his elder brother, a celebrate 
dvocate in the parliament of Provenc e, he de rm ed to. 
a 
aes ace the fame profeffion. 
o the country, io ee moft diligently to the ftudy of 
v. e ther : 
of the poor he advocated without 
717 he gained a we caufe againit the Jefuits, of ass 
he was an a¢tive oppon Not emai with pleading 
profeffionally again ea he atta them by means of 
a bit 
the prefs, and w er A entitl he Tefuits 
unmafked.”’ e sublifhed fome treatifes againft the bifhop 
of aaa ee which occafioned him t 1 the fevere ven- 
geance of that pre ay > whole inftance he was exil 
twice to “Vivie ers, ied inthe year 1731, and on ac- 
count of his sensor herefy he was denied ‘the ole of 
Chriftian burial. Mor 
STE, Sr., in a ‘ide a town of the county of 
ed 20 a es S.W. of Bolza 
a town of the ar archbithopric of Salzburg, 
Pare for | Be warm te 1s and mines of lead, iron, and 
ake 36 miles S. of Salzburg. 
GAS STEL, a river Of Wales, which runs. into the 
Conway, in the county of Carnarvon 
ASTE a; ka Anatomy, (from the Greek yasne), the. 
fromack. In ancient writers on medicine, the word is. 
aes ot to the abdomen.in general, or to the ute- 
8. ,; 
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GASTER, in Geography, a balivick of Switzerland, 
belonging to the canton of Schweitz andGlaris, to whicl. 
it was fold by the houfe of Pere in 1438. 
