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yoot, which creeps far under the furface, and fends out 
new dalks at a great diffance from the parent plant; 
thefe (talks are firm, a little compreffed, and grow a foot 
and a half high, fendingout feveral fide branches. Leaves 
long, narrow, flefhy, oppofite, of a deep green colour ; 
thole on the lower part of the (talk are fliorterand broader 
than thofe above; the flowers come out fingly on each 
fide the (talk, fitting clofe to it; they are near an inch 
long. The flower is of a deep purple colour, and appears 
in July, but rarely produces feeds in England. Tourne- 
fort firff difeovered this plant near Corvirap in Armenia, 
not far from the foot of mount Ararat, on the 9th of 
Augult, 1700; and named it after Monf. Dodart, the 
fubjeCt of the preceding article. Linnaeus obferves, that 
the flowers are alternate, racemed, and fubfeflile ; cap- 
fule membranaceous, thin, (cored on each fide, feldom 
Opening fpontaneoufly ; feeds angular, finooth, cinereous- 
brown. 
2. Dodartia Tndica, or Indian Dodartia : leaves ovate, 
ferrate, villofe; (terns roundifli, villofe, fomewhat branch¬ 
ing. Native of India. 
Propagation and. Culture. It propagates very fad by its 
creeping roots, fo that, when it is once eftablidied in a 
garden, it will multiply fad enough ; it loves a light dry 
foil, and may be tranfplanted either in autumn when the 
dalks decay, or in the fpring before the new dalks arife. 
See Antirrhinum bellidifolium. 
DOD'BROOK, a lfnall town in the county of Devon, 
with a weekly market on Wednefdaysn fifteen miles and 
a half fouth-weff of Dartmouth, and 219 and a half weft- 
fouth-wed of London. 
DODD (William), an Engliffi divine, who for many 
years was a celebrated and popular preacher in the me¬ 
tropolis, and in his difgraceful death afforded a driking 
Ieffon of the fatal effects of extravagance and diflipation. 
He was born in 1729, at Bourne in Lincolnfliire, of which 
place his father was vicar. After receiving a claflical 
education at a private fchool, he was entered, in 1745, at 
Clare-hall, Cambridge; where he appears to have pro- 
fecuted his fiudies with diligence, and in 1750 took his 
degree of bachelor of arts with much reputation. In 1753 
lie was admitted into orders, when he fixed upon London 
for his feene of aCtion, where his impreffive pulpit talents 
foon rendered him one of the mod admired and popular 
preachers of his day. He fuccellively obtained feveral 
leCturefliips, and increafed his popularity by the publi¬ 
cation of fermons and devotional pieces, which met with 
a very favourable reception. By thefe means he came 
into the poffefiion of a handfome income, but not pro¬ 
portioned to the ftyle and manner of living in which he 
indifcreetly embarked. In 1757 he took his degree of 
maffer of arts at Cambridge. About this time he fuf- 
tained an active part in the inditution of the Magdalen 
hofpital, which owed much of its fupport to the zeal 
and ability with which he recommended it, particularly 
in his fermons as preacher to the charity, which were at¬ 
tended by very numerous and refpeCtable audiences. In 
1763, Dr. Squire, bilhop of St. David’s, who had before 
made him his chaplain, procured for him a collation to 
a prebend of Brecon; and in the fame year the earl of 
Chefferfield, at the recommendation of bifliop Squire, 
gave him the appointment of tutor to his godfon, Philip 
Stanhope, efq. who fucceeded to that title. In the fol¬ 
lowing year he was made one of his majedy’s chaplains; 
and in 1766 took the degree of doCtor of laws at Cain- 
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bridge. In 177a he fet on foot a fubferiplion, which'gave 
rife to the truly benevolent fociety for the relief of pri- 
foners confined for fmall debts ; and in the fame year was 
prefented to the reCtory of Hocklifle in Buckinghamfhire. 
His increafe of honours, however, and of lucrative fitua- 
tions, unhappily miniflered frefli food to his vanity, and 
tempted him to indulge in a dyle of living to a ruinous 
extravagance, by which he was involved in debts which 
he could not difeharge. To extricate himfelf from this 
fituation he had recourfe, in 1774, to a fcandalous expe¬ 
dient, by which he lioped to procure the rich reCtory of 
St. George’s, Hanovet-fquare, which had fallen'to the 
difpofal of the crown. With this view he caufed an 
anonymous letter to be fent to the lord-chancellor’s lady, 
making her an offer of 3000I. if, by her means, he might 
be prefented to the living. That letter was immediately 
communicated to the chancellor, and, after being traced 
to the perfon who fent it, was laid before the king, who 
ordered Dr. Dodd’s name to be ignominioufly druck out 
of the lid of his chaplains. The public difgrace and 
ffiame which followed this event, had for a flmrt time 
fuch an effeCt upon Dr. Dodd, that he withdrew from 
the kingdom, and went to Geneva, where his pupil then 
was. By him he was received with more kindnefs than 
under the circumdances in which he was placed he had 
reafon to expeCt, and, as a means of relief, was prefented 
with the living of Winge in Buckinghamfhire, which a 
difpenfation enabled him to hold in connection with that 
of Hocklifle. But the fliame and difirefs in which he 
had involved himfelf did not cure him of his follies, or 
check his habits of profufion. The confequence was, 
that his embarraffments by degrees tempted him to the 
commiflion of a criminal aCt, by which he forfeited his 
life. That was, the forgery of lord Chederfield’s name 
to a bond, on the credit of which he obtained a large fum 
of money, vainly flattering himfelf that the tranfaCtion 
would remain unknown till he fliould be in circumdances 
to redeem and dedroy the fatal pledge. Detection, how¬ 
ever, almod immediately followed the crime; and the 
wretched divine was committed to prifon, tried, con¬ 
victed, and executed at Tyburn the 27th of June 1777. 
Befides feveral (ingle fermons, lie publiflied, 1 . SynopJis 
compendaria H. Grotii de Jure Belli & Pads, S. Glarkii de Dei 
Exiftentia & Attributis, & J. Lockii de IntelleBu Human0, 8vo. 
1750. 2. An Elegy on the Death of the Prince of Wales, 
4to. 1751. 3. The Beauties of Shakefpeare feleCted, 2 
vols. nmo. 1752. 4. The Hymns of Callimachus tran- 
flated from the Greek into Engliffi Verfe, 4to. 1754. 
5. Thoughts on the glorious Epiphany of our Lord Jefus 
Chrid, 4to. 61 Sermons on the Parables and Miracles, 
4 vols. 8vo. 1758 . 7. Account of the Rife; Progrefs, &c. 
of the Magdalen Charity, 8vo. 1759. 8. Bifliop Hall’s 
Contemplations, with his Life, 2 vols. 8vo. 1761. 9. Ex¬ 
planation of the poetical Works of Milton, 121110. 1762. 
10. Reflections on Death, 121110. 1763. 1 x. Comfort for 
the AffliCted, 8vo. 12. The Vifitor, 2 vols. i2ino. 1764. 
13. Common-place Book to the Bible, 4to. 1766. 14. 
Poems, 8vo. 1767. 15. Sermons on the Duties of th§ 
Great, from the French of Maflillon, 8vo. 1769. 16. A 
Commentary on the Bible, 3 vols. folio, 1770. 17. Ser¬ 
mons to young Men, 3 vols. i2ino. 1771. 18. The Fre¬ 
quency of capital Punifliments inconfiffent with J office, 
(bund Policy, and Religion, 8vo. 1772. He alfo wrote, 
Thoughts in Prifon, &c. which were publiflied after his 
death, in ntno. 
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