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«jvm-cd into, 167*. This contempt he proves to be the 
improper felection of young men who are intended for 
the ministerial office, the defe&ive fyftems purfued in 
their education, and the wrong motives which determine 
many parents to educate their children for the-church. 
He blended his ferious remarks with So much wit and hu¬ 
mour, that his treatife drew very general attention, and 
paffed through many editions. In 1671, he publilhed 
Mr. Hobbes’s State of Nature considered, in a Dialogue 
between Philautusand Timothy, See. and foon afterwards 
he publilhed fome farther remarks on the writings of 
Mr. Hobbes, in A Second Dialogue between Philautus 
and Timothy. In thefe dialogues he did Rot attempt to 
confute the Philofopher of MalnreSbui^ by ferious argu¬ 
mentation, but endeavoured to-expofe his fyStem to ridi¬ 
cule by keen raillery, and lively Tallies of humour. In 
5675, Mr. Eachard was chofen matter pf Catharme-hall; 
and in the year following was created dodtor of divinity 
by foyal mandamus. It does not appear that he after¬ 
wards produced any literary work. He died in 1697. 
The mott complete edition of his works was published 
in 1774, in 3 vob. umo. 
EAD, \_<ed, ed,~] in compound, and eadig in fimple 
names, denotes happinefs, or bleffednefs. Thus End-ward 
is a happy preferver ; Eadulpk, happy aSliStance ; Eadgur, 
happy power; Eadzoin, happy conqueror; which Maca¬ 
rius Eupolemus, Favjia, Fortunatus, Felicianas, See. do in fome 
meafure refemble. Ead may alfo in fome cafes be de¬ 
rived from the Saxon eath, which fignifies eafy, gentle, 
mild. Gibfon'i Camden. 
EA'GER, adj. [eajojt, Sax. aigre, Fr.] Struck with 
defire ; ardently wifhing ; keenly defuous ; vehement'in 
defire ; hotly longing : 
With joy th’ ambitious youth his mother heard, 
And, eager , for the journey foon prepar’d ; * 
He longs the world beneath him to furvey, 
To guide the chariot, and to give the day. Dry den. 
Jt is ufed Sometimes with of, fometimes with for, fome- 
times with on or after before the thing fought. Hot of 
difpofition; vehement; ardent; impetuous.—A. man, 
charged with a crime of which he thinks himfelf inno¬ 
cent, is apt to be too eager in his own defence. Drydcn. —■ 
Qmck ; bufy 5 eafily put in adlion : 
His Mumidian genius 
is well difpos’d to mifehief, were he prompt 
And eager on it, but he muft be fpurr’d. Addifon. 
"Sharp ; four ; acid ; 
With a bidden vigour it doth poflet 
And curd, like eager droppings into milk, 
The thin and wholeSome blood.' Shakefpeare. 
Keen; fevere; biting.—The fleSh Shrinketh, but the 
~bone reSifteth, whereby the cold becometh more eager. 
Bacon. —Brittle; inflexible; not dudtile. A cant word 
of artificers.—Gold will be fometimes fo eager, as artifls 
call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glals 
jtfelf. Locke. 
EA'GERLY, adv. With great ardour of defire ; with 
impetuosity of inclination.—To the holy war how faSt 
and eagerly did men go, when the prieSt perfuaded them 
that whofoever died in that expedition was a martyr. South. 
How eagerly he flew, when Europe’s fate 
Did for the feed of future adtions wait. Stepney. 
Ardently ; hotly : 
Brutus gave the word too early, 
Who having fome advantage on Odlavius, 
Took it too eagerly-, his Soldiers fell to Spoil, 
Whilst we by Antony were all enclos’d. Shakefpeare. 
Keenly ; Sharply.—Abundance of rain froze fo eagerly as 
it fell, that it feemed the depth of winter had of a ludden 
been come in. Knolles. 
EA'GERNESS, f. Keennefs of defire; ardour of in¬ 
clination : 
Vol. VI. No. 340. 
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She knew her distance and did angle for mc,^ 
Madding my eagernefs with her restraint. Shakefpeare. 
The eagernefs and Strong bent of the mind after know* 
ledge, if not warily regulated, is often an hindrance to it, 
Locke . 
Juba lives to catch 
That dear embrace, and to return it too, 
With mutual warmth and eagernefs of love, Addifon „ 
Impetuofity; vehemence ; violence: 
I’ll kill thee with fuch eagernefs of haSte, 
As fiends, let loofe, would lay all nature wafte. Dryden. 
EA’GLE, f. \_aigle, Fr. aquila, Lat. taller, Erfe.] A 
well-known bird of prey, for the natural hiStory of which 
fee the article Falco. The eagle, from being considered, 
in the heraldic .fcience, as an emblem of royalty or ma- 
jeSty, has been borne as an enfign or Standard by Several 
nations. According to Dr. Bryant it was one of the in¬ 
signia of Egypt; and it was alfoaSTumed by tlve Perlians. 
It was adopted by the Romans in the fecond year of the 
confulate of C. Marius. ConSlantine is laid to have fir ft 
introduced the eagle with two heads, to intimate, that 
though the empire feemed divided, it was yet only one 
body." Others fay, that it ♦as Charlemagne whoafiumed 
the eagle as the Roman enfign, and added to it a Second 
head; but that opinion is destroyed, by an eagle with 
two heads, noted by Lipfius, on the Antonine column; 
as alfo bv the eagle’s-only having one head on the feal of 
the golden bull of the emperor Charles IV. The con¬ 
jecture, therefore, of F. Meneftrier appears more proba¬ 
ble, who maintains, that as the emperors of the eaft, when 
there were two on the throne at the fame time, Struck 
their coins with the impreflion of a crofs, with a double 
traverfe, which each of them held in one hand, as being 
the fymbol of the Christians ; the like they did with the 
eagle in their enfigns; and inftead of doubling their 
eagles, they joined them together, and represented them 
with two heads. The eagle on medals, according to M. 
Spanheim, is a fymbol of divinity and providence; and, 
according to all other antiquities, of empire. The princes 
on whofe medals it is molt ufually found, are the Ptole¬ 
mies and the Seleucides of Syria. See Heraldry. 
EA'GLE, f in afironomy ; a constellation of the 
northern hemilpj^re, having its right wing contiguous 
to the equinoctial. See Aquila, vol. i. p. 841. There 
are alSo three Stars, called by the Arabian astronomers, 
nafr, i.e. eagle. The firft, nafr fohail, the eagle of cano- 
pus, called alfo fitareh jemen, the (tar of Arabia Felix, 
over which the Arabians fuppefe it to preside ; the Se¬ 
cond, nafr althair, the flying eagle; and the third, nafr 
alvake, the resting eagle. 
White Eagle, a PoliSh order of knighthood, instituted 
in 1325, by UladiSlaus V. on marrying his Son Cafimire 
with a daughter of the duke of Lithuania. The knights, 
of this order were distinguished by a gold chain, to which 
was appended a Silver eagle crowned. 
Black Eagle, an order of knighthood instituted in 1701, 
by the eledtor of Brandenburgh, on his being crowned 
king of Pruflia. The knights of this order wear an 
orange-coloured ribbon, to which is fufpended a black 
eagle. 
EA'GLE-EYF.D, adj. Sharp-Sighted as an eagle.— 
As he was quick and perfpicacious, fo was he inwardly 
eagle-eyed, and verfed inthe humoursof hisfubjedts. Howet. 
Every one is eagle-cy’d to fee 
Another’s faults and his deformity. Dryden. 
EA'GLE-FLOWER, /. See BalsAMine. 
EA'GLE-ISLAND, an island in the Atlantic, near 
the western coaSt of Ireland, and county of Mayo. Lat. 
54. 17. N. Ion. 9. 54. W. Greenwich. 
EA'GLE-ISLAND, an ifland en the north-eaSt coaSt 
of New Holland ; low, Tandy, and covered with trees. 
Lat. 14. 32. S. 
EA'GLE-SIGHTED, adj. Witha fight like an eagle’s: 
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