208 C O H 
COR'NA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, ;n the Arabian 
Irak, on the Euphrates ; fix miles north-weft of Ba'flbra. 
CORN'AGE,/. [from cornu, Lat.] in law, an ancient 
tenure in grand ferjeanty, the fervice of which was to 
blow a horn when any invafion of the Scots was perceived; 
and by this tenure many perfons held their lands north¬ 
ward, about the wall commonly called the Pills Wall. 
This old fervice of horn-blowing was-afterwards paid in 
money, and the fiierift’s accounted for it under the title 
ol cornagium. Sir Edward Coke, in his firft Inftitute, lays 
cornage is alfo called in the old books horngeld ; but they 
feem to differ much. 
COR'NAMUTE,/ See Cornemuse. 
COR'NARISTS, f. in ecclefiaftical hiftory, the dif- 
ciples of Theodore Cornhert, an enthufiaftic of Holland. 
He wrote againft the Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinifts. 
He maintained that every religious communion needed 
reformation ; but, he added, that no perfon had a right 
to engage in accomplilhing it, without a million fupported 
by miracles. 
CORNA'RIUS, or Haguenbot, (John), a celebrated 
German phyfician, born at Zwickow in Saxony. His pre¬ 
ceptor made him change his name of Haguenbot to that 
of Cornarius, under which he is mod known. At twenty 
years of age he taught grammar, and explained the Greek 
and Latin poets and orators to his fcholars ; and at twen¬ 
ty-three was licentiate in medicine. He expofed the in- 
iufficiency of moft of the remedies provided by the apo¬ 
thecaries ; and obferving that the phyficians taught their 
pupils .only what is found in Avicenna, Rafis, and the 
other Arabian dodtors, he carefully fought for the writ¬ 
ings of the beft phyficians of Greece, and employed about 
fifteen years in tranllating them into Latin, efpecially the 
works' of Hippocrates, TKtius, Eginetes, and Galen. Mean¬ 
while he praciifed phyfic with great reputation at Zwic- 
l;ow, Frankfort, Marpurg, Nordhaulen, and Gena, where 
he died of an apoplexy in 1558, aged fifty-eight. He 
itlfo wrote force medicinal treadles ; publifhed feveral 
poems of the ancients on medicine and botany; and 
tranftated fome of the works of the fathers, particularly 
thofe of Bafil and Epiphanius. 
CORNA'RO (Louis), a Venetian of noble extraction, 
memorable for having lived adtive and healthy to above 
one hundred years of age, by a rigid courfe of tempe¬ 
rance. By the ill conduit of fome of his relations, he 
was depri ved of the dignity of a noble Venetian ; and fee¬ 
ing himlelf excluded from all employments under the 
republic, he fettled at Padua. In his youth he was of a 
weak conftitution ; and by irregular indulgence reduced 
himfelf, at about forty years of age, to the brink of the 
grave, under a complication of diforders ; at which ex¬ 
tremity he was told that he had no other chance for his 
life, but by living fober and temperate. Being wife 
enough to adopt this vvholefome counfel, he reduced 
himfelf to a regimen of which there are very few. exam¬ 
ples. He allowed himfelf no more than twelve ounces 
of food and fourteen ounces of liquor each day; which 
became fo habitual to him, that when he was above 
feventy years of age, the experiment of adding two 
ounces to each by the advice of his friends, had nearly 
proved fatal to him. At eighty-three he wrote a trea- 
tifc,'which has been tranftated into Englifh, and often 
printed, intit led. Sure and certain Methods of attaining 
a Long and Healthful Life ; in which he relates his own 
cafe, and extols temperance to a degree of enthufiafm. 
At length the yolk of an egg became iufficient for a meal, 
and fometimes for two, until he died with much cafe and 
compofure in 1566. The writer of the Spectator, No. 
.195. confirms the fa£t from the authority of the Venetian 
■ambaftador at that time, who was a defcendaat of the 
Cornaro family. 
CORNAU'., a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and county of Diepholz : fix miles north of 
Diepholz. 
■C O RN A' VII, _/i A people of Britain, beginning in the 
C O R 
center of the ifland, and extending to Chefter : notv War¬ 
wick, Worcefter, Salop, Stafford, fliires, and Chelhire. 
Cambdcn. 
COR'NE, an ifland, ten miles long, and one wide, in 
the gulf of Mexico, near the coaft of Weft Florida. Lat. 
30. ! 1. N. lori. 88. 32. W. Greenwich. 
COR'NE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Mayne and Loire : feven miles eaft of Angers. 
CORNE'A TUNICA, J. Thefecor.dcoatofthe eye ; fo 
called from its fubftance refembling the horn of a lantern. 
This is fituated in the fore-part; and is fun oil ided by 
the fclerotica. It has a greater convexity than the reft 
of the eye, and is a portion of a fmall lphere, or father 
fpheroid, and confolidates the whole eye. See the article 
Anatomy, vol. i. p. 519. 
CORNEGLIA'NO, a town of Italy, in the Parmefan: 
twelve miles fouth-weft of Parma. 
CORNEIL'LAN, a town of France, in the department 
of the Landes: five miles fouth of Aire. 
CORNEII.'LE (La), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Orne : four leagues fouth-weft of Falaile. 
CORNEIL'LE (Peter), a celebrated French poet, born 
at Rouen, in 1601. He was brought up to the bar, which 
he attended for fome time j but formed with a genius too 
elevated fora plodding profellion, and having no turn for 
■ bulinefs, he loon deferted it. A mere affair of gallantry 
occafioned his writing his firft piece, ir.titled Melite ; 
which had prodigious fuccefs. Encouraged by the ap- 
plaufe of the public, he next brought out his Medea, 
and then the Cid ; after which followed .the other trage¬ 
dies that have immortalized his name. In his dramatic, 
works he difeovers a majefty, a ftrength and elevation of 
. genius, fcarcely to be found in any other of the French 
poets; and, like our immortal Shakefpeare, feerns better 
acquainted with nature than with the rules of the critics. 
Corneille was received into the French academy in 1647, 
and died dean of the academy in 1684, aged feventy-eight. 
Fie was the author of above thirty plays, tragedies and 
comedies ; and he wrote a tranflation in French verfe of 
the Imitation of Jefus Chrift, by Kempis, which he per¬ 
formed elegantly. Indeed the merits of this author are 
fo great, that the celebrated Bailly, a few years before 
his fatal fuftering under the guillotine, publilhed an eu. 
logium to his memory, for which he received the fecond 
prize at the academy of Rouen. In this eulogy, M. 
Bailly confiders this lublime bard as the legifiator of the 
French theatre ; and as the model which funned the tafte 
of that nation, and was imitated by fuceeeding writers in 
every department of literature. When either Shake- 
fpeare or Corneille is the fubject, critics are apt to enter 
into a comparative view of their merits : in this each na¬ 
tion generally accufes the writers of the other of par¬ 
tiality to their countryman ; and the charge is feidom 
entirely without foundation. We are forry that we can¬ 
not, in this'refpecl, acquit M. Bailly; who glances at 
Shakefpeare with an indirect contempt, which we muft 
afcrib.e to his imperfect knowledge of the writings of our 
great dramatic poet- M. Bailly has evidently founded 
his cenfure on the authority of Voltaire’s criticifms ; from 
which, in his notes to this difeourfe, he has given large 
extracts; but that, in many refpects, Voltaire either did 
not underftand, or chofe to mifreprefent, Shakefpeare, 
has often been fully proved. We mean not to enter into 
a qu.eftion, in which our judgment may be fulpeiSted of a 
fecret bias, from the national partiality which we have 
juft reprobated ; and in which, even contrary to our in¬ 
tention, we may not, perhaps, be entirely free from its 
influence; nor is there any neceflity to depreciate the 
merits of one poet, in order to do juftice to thole of an¬ 
other. There are, however, fome circumftances, which 
we would recommend to the attention'of foreigners, who 
are fo ready to degrade Shakefpeare by an inviduous 
comparifpn of his genius with that of Corneille. Let 
them remember that the former lived and wrote about 
half a century before the latter; a difference of time 
vriiichj 
