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His infant foftnefs pleads a milder doom, 
And fpeaks with all the eloquence of tears. ' Heigh. 
Elegant language uttered with fluency: 
Fit words attended on his weighty fenfe. 
And mild perfuafion flow’d in eloquence. Pope. 
EL’OQUENT, adj. [cloquens, Lat.] Having the power 
oforatory; having the power of fluent and elegant fpeech, 
—The Lord of hofts doth take away the captain of fifty, 
and the honourable man, and the counfellor, and the cun¬ 
ning artificer, and the eloquent orator. Ifaiah , iii. 3. 
O death ! all eloquent, you only prove 
What dull we dote on, when ! tis man we love. Pope. 
ELO'R A, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of An- 
rungabad ; celebrated for its pagodas, cut out of the na¬ 
tural rock : thirteen miles north of Aurungabad. Thefe 
pagodas extend to within a very fmall diflance of Dow r - 
latabad, and refemble the fubterraneous work at Ele- 
phanta; but are infinitely fuperior in magnitude. Theve- 
not, who vilited them, fays, that they reached above two 
leagues, a matchlefs aflemblage of temples, choultries, 
and chapels, fupported by columns, and covered with 
ftatues of cololfal fize, but of bad fculpture, being of 
great antiquity, and the work of the early Hindoos : but 
more probably of colonies from Egypt. 
E'LOTH. See Elath. 
E'LOTZ, a town of Ruffia, in the government of Or¬ 
lov : 112 miles, eaft-north-eaft of Orel. Lat.53.20. N. 
Ion. 57. E. Ferro. 
ELOV'KA, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Tcbolflc : fixteen miles weft-north-weft of Tomfk. 
ELO'YES, a town of France, in the department of 
Vofges, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of Re- 
miremont: two leagues and a half fouth-eaft of Epinal. 
ELPE'NOR, one of the companions of Ulyfles, changed' 
into a hog by Circe’s potions, and afterwards reflored to 
his former fliape. He fell from the top of a houfe where 
he was deeping, and was killed. Homer. 
EL'PHIN, a town of Ireland, in the county of Rof- 
Common ; the fee of a bifliop, faid to have been founded 
by St. Patrick, in the fifth century ; the cathedral is the 
parifli church, neither large nor elegant ; the bifhop’s pa¬ 
lace is near the town : eight miles north of Boyle, and 
fixteen north of Rofcommon. 
EL'PHINSTON (William), an eminent Scotch pre¬ 
late, born at Glafgow in 1431. He was educated in the 
univerfity of that place, and afterwards went to France 
to ftudy civil and canon law in the univerfity of Paris, 
where he became a profeffor of that faculty, and conti¬ 
nued to deliver lectures with confiderable reputation for 
the fpace of fix years. He then returned to his native 
country, where he entered into orders, and was at firft 
promoted to be official of Glafgow, and afterwards of St. 
Andrew’s. He was alfo admitted a member of the king’s 
council. A mifunderftanding having taken place between 
James III. of Scotland, and Louis XI. of France, he was 
nominated joint commiffioner with the bifhop of Dun- 
keld and the earl of Buchan, who repaired to the court 
of Verfailles, and fucceeded in terminating the differences 
which had occafioned their appointment. For the pru¬ 
dence and eloquence which Elphinfton difplayed on this 
occafion, he was, on his return, promoted to the bifhopric 
of Rofs ; whence, about the year 1484, he was tranflated 
to the fee of Aberdeen, and at the fame time made chan¬ 
cellor of the kingdom. On the acceflion of James IV. 
his talents as a ftatefman were again called into a£tion, 
and he was appointed ambaflador to the emperor Maxi¬ 
milian, to endeavour to bring about a marriage-treaty 
between his daughter and the king of Scotland ; but he 
found that the princefs was already promifed elfewhere, 
and returned home, not without rendering beneficial fer- 
vice to his country, by the negociations which he carried 
on for terminating an enmity of long ftanding between 
the Dutch and Scotch. By his influence the bull was ob¬ 
tained from the pope for eftablifhing an univerfity at 
Aberdeen; and to his perfonal exertions and fuperin- 
ELS 
tendence was it chiefly owing that the building of King’s 
college was undertaken and completed. To that foun¬ 
dation he proved himfelf a munificent benefactor, and 
bequeathed large fums of money for its fupport. He 
died in 1514, about eighty-three years of age. He was 
the author of a hiftory of his native country, of which 
the belt, if not the only entire copy, is among fir Thomas 
Fairfax’s manufcripts, in the Bodleian library at Oxford. 
ELPINI'CE, a daughter of Miltiades, who married a 
man that promifed to releafe from confinement her bro¬ 
ther and hufband, whom the laws of Athens had made 
refponfible for the fine impofed on his father. C. Nepos. 
EL'RICH, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and county of Klettenburg; formerly the capi¬ 
tal of the county. Here are fome confiderable manufac¬ 
tures : fix miles north-weft: of Nordhaufen. 
ELS, a town of Moravia, in the circle of Brunn : 
thirty-two miles weft of Olmutz, and twenty-four north- 
north-weft of Brunn. 
EL'SA, a river of Tufcany, which runs into the Arno, 
about a mile weft from Empoli. 
ELS'DON, a fmall town in the county of Northumber¬ 
land, diftant 300 miles from London, and twenty-eight 
from Newcaftle. It has no market, and oi.ly one fair, 
Auguft 26. An imperfeft altar was dug up here fome 
time ago, with the bones of beads, burnt afhes, and 
broken urns. Near Elfdon was the field of battle between 
the Englifti and Scots in 1388, wherein Henry Percy, 
called Hotfpur, was taken prifoner; and Douglas, the 
Scots general, was killed. On this battle was founded 
the ancient hiftorical ballad of Chevy-chace, the field of 
battle being fituated near the river Rhead, on the fouth 
fide of the Cheviot-hills. The entrenchments are ft ill 
vifible, and a number of tumuli fcattered over the adja¬ 
cent ground, mark to future ages the daughter of that 
famous conteft. 
ELSE, pron. [ellep, Sax.] Other; one befides; it 
is applied both to perlons and things.—To ftand ftained 
with travel, and fweating with defire to fee him; think¬ 
ing of nothing el/e, putting all affairs c/e in oblivion, as 
if there were nothing elje to be done but to fee him. 
Shake/peare. 
Fie fays, ’twas then with him, as now with you ; 
He did it when he had nothing elfe to do. Denham. 
ELSE, aiv. Otherwife.—What ways are there where¬ 
by we fhould be aflured, but either by an internal im- 
preffion of the notion of a God upon our minds, or elfe by 
fuch external and vifible effeCts as our reafon tells 11s 
rruift be attributed to fome caufe? Tillot/on. —Befidej ex¬ 
cept that mentioned: 
Pleafures which no where elfe were to be found. 
And all Elyfium in a fpot of ground. Dryden . 
It has fometimes or before it fuperfluoufly: 
Be more abftemious, 
Or elfe good night your vow. Shake/peare . 
Elfewhere: 
But if thee lift to fee thy courfer ronne, 
Or prove thyfelfe, this fad encounter fttonne, 
And feek els without hazard of thy hede. Spenfer, 
ELSE, a river of Silefia, which runs into the Oder, 
near Oderberg. 
EL'SEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft, 
phalia, and bifhopric of Paderborn: two miles weft- 
north-weft of Paderborn. 
EL'SEWHERE, adv. In any other place.—Although 
feafoned bodies may and do live near as long in London 
as elfewhere, yet new comers and children do not. Graunt's 
Bills of Mortality .—In other places; in fome other place; 
Let us no more contend, nor blame 
Each other, blam’d enough elfewhere. Milton. 
ELS'FLETH, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and county of Oldenburg; at the conflux of 
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