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?m*e taken place in the great monarchies of Affyria, 
Perlia, Greece, and Rome, that they conllitute tome of 
the mod weighty teftimonies in favour of the truth of 
revelation. His prophecies concerning the Meffiah, in 
particular, are of the firth importance in edablifiling the 
divine pretenfions of Chridian'ity. And what he fays re- 
fpe&ing the latter times of the fourth monarchy is all'o 
highly interefting. Porphyry among the ancients, and, 
after his example, Collins among the moderns, have 
made ufe of much labour and art in attempting to dif- 
prove the antiquity and genuinenefs of thefe prophefies. 
A very excellent abdraft of St. Jerome’s anfwer to the 
former, with additional obfervations, may be feen in 
Lardner’s Collection of ancient Jewidi and Heathen 
Tedimonies to the Truth of the Chridian Religion, vol. , 
iii. ch. 37. The book of Daniel is written partly in He¬ 
brew, and partly in Chaldee. The latter language is 
ufed in'defending the events concerning the Babylonian 
empire ; mod probably for the greater convenience of 
the people more immediately intereded in them. The 
lated and bed Englidi verfion of this prophet, with an 
excellent preliminary diflertation, and notes critical, hif- 
torical, and explanatory, was publiflied by the reverend 
Thomas Wintle, in 1792. 
DA'NIEL (Arnold), a provencal poet, of Tarrafcon, 
lived in the twelfth century, under Alphonfo I. count 
of Provence. His poems have been imitated by Pe¬ 
trarch, who had a high edeem for him ; and, in his Tri- 
onfo d’Amore, names Daniel as the mod worthy of his 
nation. Dante likewife (peaks favourably of him. Among 
his works the mod confiderable is that which he com- 
pofed againd the errors of paganifm, under the title of 
. Las Pkantauviafias del Paganijmo. He dedicated a moral 
piece to king Philip Augufttis. He died about 1189. 
DA'NIEL (Gabriel), a French hidorian, born at Rouen 
in 1649. He entered among the Jefuits in 1667, and taught 
in their colleges. He redded leveral years at Rouen, and 
thence was called to Paris to take the office of librarian 
in-the houfe of that order. After a life of alliduous dudy, 
he died at Paris, in 1728. Of his numerous publications, 
the principal are the following : 1 . Lc Voyage au Monde dc 
Dcjcartes , 1690, 1701 : this is a refutation of the fydem 
of that author, introduced by an ingenious fiCtion ; it has 
been trandated into Latin, Italian, and Englilh. 2. Dif- 
fertatio dejudiciis criticorum, €3 nuperi interprets Gallici,Juper 
loco Sanffi Chryjojlomi, &c. 1691: the purpofe of this .work is 
to defend Chryfodom from the charge of Nedorianifm. 3. 
F.ntrcticns de Clcanthc & d’EudoxeJ'ur les Lettrcs Provinciates, 
1694: this is an elaborate defence of the fociety of Je¬ 
fuits, againd the famous work of Pafchal. 4. Hifloire de 
France depuis PEJlabliJJ'cment de la Monarchic Fran;o([e : this 
is a celebrious work; it has palled through feveral edi¬ 
tions, of which the mod complete was publiflied by P. 
Griffet, in 17 vols. 4to. 1736. Thishidory of France by 
Daniel, is the rival of that of Mezerai. 5. Hijloire de la 
Milice Franfoife, 2 vols. 4to. 1721 : a curious detail of the 
fuccefdve changes in the French military eflablifliment 
from the earlied periods to the end of the reign of Louis 
XIV. A great number of temporary publications, on the 
difputes prevalent in his time between the Jefuits and 
Jatifenids, proceeded from his fertile pen. Moll of them 
are contained in the collection of his Philofophical, Theo¬ 
logical, Apologctical, and Critical, Works, 3 vols. 4to. 
1724. 
DA'NIEL (Samuel), an Englidi poet and hidorian, 
foil of a mufic-mader, born near Taunton in 1562. He 
was admitted a commoner of Magdalen-hall, Oxford, in 
1579, and continued at the univerlity about three years. 
Without following any particular profeffion, he engaged 
in literary purfuits, and appears to have redded fonie 
time in the family of the earl of Pembroke. He was tu¬ 
tor to Anne Clifford., afterwards the celebrated countefs 
Pembroke, Dorfet, and Montgomery. Upon the death 
vf Spenfer, he was .appointed poet laureat to queen Eli- 
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zabeth. In the reign of James I. he was made groom 
of the privy-cliamber to the queen confort Anne of Den¬ 
mark. Towards the clofe of his life he retired to a farm 
which he poffeffed at Beckington, near Philip’s Norton, 
Somerfetlhire, where he died in 1619. He was married, 
but left no ilfue. His poetical works confidof Epiflles, 
Padorals, Tragedies, Mifcellaneous Pieces, and an Heroic 
Poem, in eight books, on the civil wars between the 
houfes of York and Lancader. He wrote two parts of 
a Hidory of England, 1613, 1618, coming down to the 
end of the reign of Edward III. John Truffel, an aider- 
man of Wincheder, continued it to the end of Richard III. 
but with inferior execution. 
DA'NIEL, a frnall illand in the river Meufe, a little 
below Stockem, in the bidiopric of Liege. 
DA'NIEL, a port on the northern fide of Chaleur bay, 
with a commodious harbour for veflels of a confiderable 
draught of water. It affords a cod-filhery, and is fituate 
about nine leagues from Plato, wed-north-weft of Cape 
Defpair. 
DA'NILOV, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Jarollaval : twenty-eight miles ead-nortfl-eaft of Javolla- 
val, and 360 ead-fouth-ead of Peterlburg. 
DANILOWIC'ZE, a town of Lithuania, in the pala 
tinate of Wilna : forty-four miles foiith of Brallaw. 
DA'NISM, f. [from the Greek ufury, but net 
uj'edf The aCt of lending money on ufury. * 
DA'NIST,/. A ufurer. 
DANIS'TIC, adj. Belonging to ufury. Cole. 
DANK, adj. [from tuncken, Germ. Skinner .] Damp; 
humid ; moid ; wet: 
Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire,' 
Where fliall we fometimes meet, and by the fire 
Help wade a fullen day ? Milton. 
DAN'KALI, or Dancali, a kingdom of Abylfinia, 
lying along the coaft of the Red Sea: the foil is unpro¬ 
ductive, and the chief riches are fait and honey. It is 
governed by a prince, nominally tributary to the Negus, 
or emperor of Abyllinia, Baylur is the principal town. 
DANK'ISH, adj. Somewhat dank : 
They bound me, bore me thence. 
And in a dark and dankifi vault at home 
There left me. Skakefpearet 
DANMO'NII, an ancient Britifii nation, fuppofed t® 
have inhabited that trad of country which is now called 
Cornwall and Devonfliire, bounded on the fouth by the 
Britifii ocean, on the wed by St. George’s channel, on 
the north by the Severn fea, and on the eaft by the coun¬ 
try of the Durotriges. Some other tribes were alfo feated 
within thefe limits ; as the Coflini and Oftidamnii, which 
were probably particular clans of the Danmonii ; and, 
according to Mr. Baxter, they were the keepers of their 
flocks and herds. As the feveral tribes of theDanmoniifub- 
mitted without much refidance to the Romans, and never 
joined in any revolt againd them, that people were un¬ 
der no necellity of building many forts, or keeping many 
garrifons in their country. This is the rtalon why 16 
few Roman antiquities have been found in that country, 
and fo little mention is made of it and its ancient inhabi¬ 
tants by Roman writers. Ptolemy names a few places, 
both on the fea-coads and in the inland parts of this coun¬ 
try, which were known to, and frequented by, the Ro¬ 
mans. The mod confiderable of thele places are the two 
famous promotories of Bolcrium and Ocrinum, now the 
Landfend and the Lizard ; and the towns of Ifca Dan- 
moniarum and Tamare, now Exeter and Saltalli, In the 
mod perfect date of the Roman government in Britain,, 
the country of the Danmonii made a part of the province 
called Flava Casfarienfis, and was governed by the pre- 
lident of that province. After the departure of the 
Romans, kingly government was immediately revived 
amongd the Danmonii in the perfon of Vortigern, who was, 
perhaps, defeended from the race of their ancient princes. 
