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the defaced copy of the creation, to reprint God's image 
upon the foul, and to fet forth nature in a fecond and a 
fairer edition. South. 
ED'ITOR, f. [Lat.] Publifher; he that revifes or 
prepares any work for publication.—When a different 
reading gives us a different fenfe, or a new elegance in an 
author, the editor does very well in taking notice of it. 
Addifon. 
ED'MER, or Eadmer, a learned Englifli Benediftine 
monk, of the congregation of Cluni, belonging to the 
order at Canterbury, flourifhed in the latter end of the 
eleventh, and the beginning of the twelfth, century. He 
was made abbot of the monaftery of St. Alban’s, and af¬ 
terwards raifed to the fee of St. Andrew in Scotland. 
He was the author of a Treatife on the Liberty of the 
Church, intended to vindicate Anfelm, archbifhop of 
Canterbury, in his contefts with king William Rufus. 
He alfo wrote feveral other works, which the learned of 
modern times have thought worthy to be refcued from 
oblivion. Among thefe is his Hiforia Novorum, or hif- 
tory of his own times, from the year io66 to the year 
2122, which the celebrated Selden publifhed with notes, 
in folio, 1623, and which lord Lyttleton, in his Life of 
Henry II. pronounces to be not inelegantly written. In 
the fecond volume of Wharton’s Anglia Sacra are alfo 
preferved, by the fame author, 1. The Life of St. An- 
lelm, Archbifhop of Canterbury. 2. The Life of St. 
Ofwald, Archbifhop of York. 3. The Life of St. Dun- 
flan, Archbifhop of Canterbury, with a Letter to the 
Monks of Glaftonbury. 4. The Life of the blefled Bregwin, 
Archbifhop of Canterbury. 5. An Epiflle to the Monks 
of Worcefter, concerning the Eleflion of a Bilhop. 6. 
The Life of St. Odo, Archbifhop of Canterbury. 
ED'MONTON, [q. d. Edmund’s Town, probably of king 
Edmund.] A village feven miles north from London. 
ED'MUND, [eat, Sax. blelfednefs, and munb, peace; 
q. d. blefled peace.] A king of the Eaft Englifh, mar¬ 
tyred by the Danes. A man’s name. 
ED'MUNDSBURY, [of St. Edmund, and. bujtg, Sax.] 
A pleafant town in Suffolk, fixty miles north-north-eaft 
from London ; fo called from St. Edmund, who there 
iuffered martyrdom under the Danes. 
ED'NA, the name of a woman. Toh. vii. 2. 
EDO'AR, a town of United America, in the ftate of 
Maflfachufetts, fituated on the ifland of Martha’s Vine¬ 
yard. 
EDO'LO, a town of Italy, in the BrefTan : fifteen miles 
north-north-weft of Breno. 
E'DOM, or Idume'a, the territory of the Edomites, 
the defcendants of Efau, eldeft fou of the'patriarch Ifaac. 
It was fituated in Arabia Petraea, and was furrounded by 
Paleftine, the land of Moab, the Sandy Defert, the Red 
Sea, and the land of the Philiftines. Previous to the 
eftablifhment of the offspring of Efau, it was denominated 
Mount Seir, and was inhabited by a people called Ho- 
rims or Horites, who were difpoflTelfed by them. Deut. ii. 
There were kings of Edom as early as the days of Mofes; 
and, from this period, to the lateft account we have of 
the Edomites as a nation, it appears they were uniformly 
the avowed enemies of the Ifraelites; and, in this in- 
flance, moft certainly affords a very Angular difplay of 
the influence of hereditary prejudice ; witnefs their un¬ 
generous treatment to them in their journey through the 
wildernefs, in refuting them a paflage through their ter¬ 
ritory ; and the readinefs evinced upon all occafions to 
conjoin with 1 heir common enemy. King David, it feems, 
conquered this country and added it to his kingdom, efta- 
blifhed garrifons throughout the country, and left the 
Ifraelitilh army, with Joab at their head, to ravage the 
country for fix months, with the intent to deftroy every 
male they could find ; but one of the king’s Ions, named 
Hadad, efcaped to Egypt, and remained there until the reign 
of Solomon, when he appeared as his enemy, in confe- 
quence of Solomon’s defection from the worfhip of God. 
i Kings, xi. Neverthelefs Edom remained fubjedt to the 
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kingdom of Judah until the reign of king Joram, when 
they threw off their yoke, chofe a new king, and remained 
independent until the time of Hircanus the high prieft, 
who, having taken moft of their cities, compelled them 
to be circumcifed ; and, from this period, it is fuppofed 
they mingled with the Jews, and were ever after con- 
fidered as fuch. 
E'DOM, or Esau, the fon of Ifaac and brother of Ja¬ 
cob. The name of Edom, which fignifies red, was given 
him, either becaufe he fold his birth-right to Jacob, or 
by reafon of the colour of his hair and complexion. Idu¬ 
mea derives its name from Edom, and is often called in 
fcripture the land of Edom. 
ED'OMITE,/] A defcendant of Edom, an inhabitant 
of Edom. 
EDRE'I, [Heb. a huge mafs.] A city of Paleftine, 
fituated in the half tribe of Manaffeh, in Balkan, eaft of 
Jordan. This city was the capital of Balkan previous to 
its conqueft by the Ifraelites. Jofh. xiii. 31. Alfo the 
name of another city of Paleftine fituated in the tribe of 
Naptliali. Jofh. xix. 37. 
ED'S AN, a river of Rullia, which runs into the Lena: 
twenty miles fouth-eaft of Ziganlk. 
EDS'WOL, a town of Norway : eighteen miles fouth- 
weft of Berga. 
To E'DUCATE, v. a. [duco , Lat.] To breed ; to bring 
up ; to inftruft youth : 
Their young fucceftion all their cares employ ; 
They breed, they brood, inftru'dt and educate , 
And make provilion for the future ftate. Dryden. 
EDUCA'TION, f. Formation of manners in youth; 
the manner of breeding youth; nurture; inftruflion.—. 
All nations have agreed in the neceflity of a ftrid educa¬ 
tion. Swift. 
“Train up a child in the way he (liould go, and when 
he is old he will not depart from it,”—is a fentiment 
which fell from the pen of Solomon, full of wifdoin and 
of truth. From this fcriptural precept it is. obvious, 
that the firlt bulinefs of education fhould be to ftimulate 
and direct the defire of knowledge, which feems to be 
naturally created by the affinity of external objedls, and 
the fenfes affeffted by them. The general occupation of 
infancy (liould therefore be to enquire ; the bulinefs of in- 
ftruftors to dircEl curiolity to proper lubjetfs, and to 
provide for its full and various gratification. This is 
the apprenticefiiip of wifdom : for by it youth may ac¬ 
quire the art of referring appearances to caufes; of fort- 
ing ideas ; and of diftinguilhing truth: it early aw'akens 
the mind to an expanlion of its faculties, and directs 
the powers of thought to every judicious inveftigation. 
The multitude of writers on the lubjeCt of education,, 
not only evinces its importance, but (hews the neceflity 
likewife of regulating its mode, from real obfervation and 
experience. The names of Milton, Locke, Roufleau, 
and many others, Hand high as tkeorifts in this important 
duty of human life. Their fyftems are plaufible, and 
their obfervations truly ingenious. But they have fallen 
into the common error of thole who attend to fpecula- 
tion more than to practice ; and have thence proved, 
that viiionary writers on education are often admired, 
though their diredlions can feldom be purfued. It will 
be the objedl of this treatife therefore, to recommend 
thofe genuine principles of dofjical education, on which 
not only the tafte, but the religion, the virtue, and the 
liberties, of every free country will in a great meaftire 
conftantly depend. True patriotilin and true valour ori¬ 
ginate from that enlargement of mind, which the well- 
regulated ftudy of philqfophy, poetry, and hiftory, tends 
to produce. He who is converfant with the belt Greek 
and Roman writers, muft imbibe, if he is not deficient 
in the powers of intellect,, fentiments and opinions no lefs 
liberal and enlarged, than elegant and ingenious. 
The polfellion of an enlarged and philofophical mind, 
is greatly fuperior to the polfellion of a great fortune ; 
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