GEN 
penealogy as was generally allowed to be authority ; 
it fufliciently proved the defcent of Jefus spannle 
difference between the two pase a chew of 
who were all defeendants 
th 
and 
The 
thew might either 
be in the record ‘copied by him, or it might have been occa- 
me early tranfcriber. Allowing the former to 
which makes the eeu 
to 
harmonies and-comments, hav 
Genealogical tables are of great ufe for exhibiting at one 
wa and in a compendious manner, the defcent of fami- 
“Phe moft natural order of thefe tables feems to be to place 
on ftock at the head of the table, _ the feveral 
rer line ap- 
e order of pele to 
proceed from the left hand to the right, as is done by fo 
done in fom 
nae 
"There is a variety of other relations, befides mere natur ia 
eful to: have a clear idea, 
c. by whi 
ih is spl wd different kinds of lines, joining the names fo 
ected, how. remote foever, in the table of generation, to 
ut a8 
charaGers, and o “fub} oin to each name ount, 
words, of allits other connections, per eee re ek fon 
oa 2 eae by mars contrived for that purpofe. This 
d Rapin has taken in the excellent genealogical tables 
in ie “6 Hiftor y of England.” 
Some valuable tables of genealogy may be feen at the end 
ology ;’’ but the largeft and moft come 
y of hiftory, ancient 
mo odern. Prieftley’ 8 i-duao iftory . XVile 
GENEBRARD, Cua, in Biooraphy, was born at 
Riom, in Auvergne, about the year 1537. “4t a very early 
tier, and ies under Claude de Sainte 
came diftinguifhed for his great learning, @ ors I 
admitted to the ie of doctor of divinity by the ‘college 3 
of Navarre, and of 
the Hebrew language. He was 3 nominated: to ie im- 
ortant offices i in the church, but being: difappointed in his 
zealous advoc The numerous wr aes aie he pub- 
lifhed set ec who Cipparted the meafures of the court 
“crated i 
GEN 
nie i ae ‘eels Were uncommonly bitter and fu- 
y had however fufficient_ aa to obtain for 
hind ie cheat e es Aix, to which fee he wes confe- 
in the year 1593. Here hie cen to thew. his 
hoftility to the court, and went fo far as to declaim a aint 
the king, in his fermons, even when his own as was hope- 
defs. The League being broken up, ce 
d throughout the 
omane Reintegrationem,”’ in which he difplayed fo much 
violence againft kings and princes, that = was biases 
and fentenced to perpetual banifhment. » however, 
permitted to retire to his add at Seman, but heen seamed 
dered tobe burnt by the hands of the commonexecutionet. He 
died in 1 597 eee ele more than fixty years of age. His 
orks a and many fhew that he poffeiled 
very cease ao and that He was as induftrious 
in the invefligation of the fubje&s on which he — as he 
was learned, His principal pieces were “ A facr 
a é 
aes ae Lange without Points,’ 
againft the Eternity of the World.’’ di 
Ori rigen’s Works,” and a tranflation of works of Jofe- 
phus into the French language: Morer1 
GENENNE, Et, in Geography, a town of Egypt; 6c 
miles S. of Girgé. 
RA, in Ancient Greek Mufic, implied, euinad 
7 Euclid, the different divifions and difpofitions of the te 
ord or fo phe as to the intervals of the four peern "of 
Sisieh it Is com 
Plutarch (de Mufica) fays, ral it is sas — for a- 
i ufic e fet to any 
is ~~ id likewife aoe ie to write it 
all en 
tural {cale, co is hing 
anes tic. e mann 
tones and femitones of = melody is compofed. 
When no more than two femitones occur in the courfe of 
an octave, the melody ue properly be ftyled genuine’ dia- 
tonic. 
ufe of in harmony and melody can be referre ny on 
key, the diatonic: genus is fuppofed to be preferved :. it is. 
only a regular fucceffion of two or more a veenies afeend- - 
ing or dclece ae that conftitutes moderne ¢ ati 
Thefe n 
fis, conftituted the difference of the three genera 
_ The fourth being the conftant boundary, of founds i in the 
mufic of the ancients, as the o pat is m3 that of. the mo- 
derns, its extremes, or hi gheft founds, were 
antes, immobiles, or fixed. c 
admits of no change, but is cine as perfeet as poffible, fee 
