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FRTSEUR', / [French.] Hair-drefler—Let yonrman 
learn of the belt frifeur to do your hair well, for that is a 
very material part of your drefs. Chejlerjidd. 
FRISCH'LIN (Nicodemus), a learned German, born 
jn 1547, at Balingen in the duchy of Wirtemberg. His 
father, who was a minifter, educated him with great care ; 
and fuch was his early progrefs at the univerfity of Tu- 
biiii'en, that he became a verfifier in Greek and Latin at 
the°age of thirteen. He taught tlie belles-lettres at that 
feminary, and employed a new method of inftrufhing h.is 
fcholars in grammar. Not content with this, he declared 
war againft all former grammarians, in a work entitled 
StrigiL Gramniatica, which involved him in fome angry 
controverfy with others of the profeHion. In a commen¬ 
tary which he publifliedon the Bucolics and Georgies of 
Virgil, he indulged fuch an acrimony of ftyle in declaim¬ 
ing upon the comparifon between the innocence of a 
country life, and the corrupt manners of the great, tltat 
he was compelled to quit his native country, alid wander 
through the towns of Germany. He pofl'efl'ed a wonder¬ 
ful facility in poetical compofition, and there are number- 
V ed among his works fixteen books of elegies, feven co¬ 
medies, two tragedies, odes, anagrams, and heroic verfes 
in abundance. That this facility was accompani' d with 
mediocrity, may be fafely concluded ; his comedy of Re¬ 
becca, however, obtained for him the golden laurel and 
the. U\\e oi crozortedpoet from tlie hands of the emperor 
Rodolph. He was lefs fortunate in pleafiiig his fovereign, 
the duke of Wirtemberg, though he wrote feven books 
of Iieroics on his marriage. For having, from his retreat 
at Mentz, made a fruitlefs applicatioti for a pecuniary re¬ 
mittance, he wrote back a remonftrance fo full of abufe, 
that he was arrefted, and carried to the prifon of Aurach, 
in the duchy. Attempting fo efcape thence by cutting 
his iheets into (lips, and letting himfelf down from a^win- 
dow, his weight broke the fupport, and he was killed in 
the fall. This melancholy cataftrophe happened in No¬ 
vember, 1590, when he was forty-three years of age. 
Belides the works above-mentioned, he left Commenta¬ 
ries upon the EpKtles of Horace and the Satires of Perli- 
11 s', and tranflations of Oppian, Arifiophanes, Callima¬ 
chus, and Heliodorus. 
FRISCH'MUTH (John), a learned German, born at 
Wertheim, in Franconia, in 1619. He became rector, 
and afterwards profelfor of languages in the univerfity of 
Jena, where he died in 1687. He was the author of 11 - 
luftrations of many difficult padages in the facred writ¬ 
ings, which are frequently (uccefsful and valuable ; and 
of more than feventy Dillertations, philological and theo¬ 
logical, on curious and interefting fubjedls, which abound 
in erudition. 
FRIS'II, or F rtso'nes, in ancient geography, a people 
of Germany, fo called either from their ardent love of 
freedom, or from the frelh and unbroken lands they occu¬ 
pied, contradiftinguilhed from the old lands. Tacitus 
divides tliem, from their extent of power and territory, 
into the Majores, (ituated on the coaft between the Rhine 
and the Ems; and into the Minores, occupying the parts 
about the lakes lying between the cliannels of the Rhine. 
FRl'SIUS (John), a learned Swifs divine in the (ix- 
teenth century, born at GryfFenlee, in the canton of Zu¬ 
rich, in 1505. After he had gone through a proper 
courfe of (hidy, he was admitted to the profeffion, of the 
miniliry, and was invited to take that office upon him in 
the city of Zurich, In 1545 he went into Italy, where he 
embraced the opportunity of making himlelf mailer of 
the Hebrew language, under the inftrudlions of the learn¬ 
ed Jews w ho then refided at Venice. On his return home 
he proved fuccelsful, conjointly with his brother-in-law 
Pellicanus, in introducing a tafte for Oriental learning 
among the (Indents at Zurich. For twenty-feven years he 
prefided over the college in that city, with eminent re¬ 
putation and fuccels, and in requital for the Cervices 
which he rendered to liis country, and to the interefts of 
literature, he was made a burgher of the city. He uan- 
flated feveral books of the facred writings from Hebrew in¬ 
to German, and alfo publiffieda Latin and German Dic¬ 
tionary. He^died in 1665. He left two fons : Johu- 
James, who was profeliiir of philofophy and theology 
from 1576 till about 1G10, and wrote many works in phi¬ 
lofophy, philology, and theology ; and John, who was 
admitted to the degree of M. A. at Marpurg, and proved 
the learned and worthy fuccellbr of his father in his pro. 
feffional labours at Zurich. This John died of the 
plague in 1611. 
FRl'SIUS (Henry), a defeendant of the preceding, 
who fpent ten years in foreign countries, to improve him- 
felf in fcience and literature. Upon his return to his na¬ 
tive country, the firft appointment which he obtained was 
that of catechid, in 1676 ; after which he was created 
profelibr of eloquence in 1681, and profe'for of the lan¬ 
guages in the lower college at Zurich in 1684. He died 
in 1718. He was the autlior of feveral ingenious and 
learned treatifes; fuch as i.De Sede Anima rationalis. 
2. De Communione SanBorvm. 3. De Unione SanBorum. 4. Ex- 
plicatio Articulidtfacra Cana. 5. 0 ratio de QiiietiJ'mo, &c. 
FRI'SOIT, a town of Germany, in the circle of Wed- 
phaiia, and bi(hopric of Miinder : fourteen miles fouth- 
wed of Oldenburg, and feventy north of Munder. Lati 
55. r. N. Ion. 25. 4. E. Ferro. 
FRIT, or pRiTTiyi in the glafs manufaiflure, is the 
matter or ingredients whereof glafs is made, when they 
have been calcined or baked in a furnace. A (alt drawn 
from the allies of kali, fern, or other plants, mixed with 
fand or flint, and baked together, makes an opaque mafs 
called by glafs-men frit-, probably from the Italian frit, 
tare, tQ fry; or becaiife the frit, when melted, runs into 
lumps, like fritters, called by the Italians fritelli. By 
the ancients, frit was called ainmonilrum, of fand, 
and nTco>, nitre; under which name it is deferibed by 
Pliny thus : “ Fine fand from the Volturnian fea, mixed 
with three times the quantity of nitre, and melted, makes 
a mafs called ammonitrim-, whicli being rebaked makes 
pure glafs.” Neri oblerves, that frit is only the calx of 
the materials which make glafs; which, though they 
might be melted, and glafs be made, witlicut thus cal¬ 
cining them, yet it would take up much more time. The 
calcining, or making of frit, lerves to mix and incorpo- 
r.ite the materials t; gether, and to evaporate all tlie fu- 
pcifluous liiimidiiy. The frit, once made, is readily 
fufed, and turned into glafs. There are three kinds of 
frits. The firfl, for cryftal glafs, is made with fait of 
pulverineand fund. The fecond, or ordinary frit, is made 
of the bare afhes- of piilverine or barilla, without ex¬ 
tracting the fait from them : this makes the common 
crown glafs. The third is frit for green glalfes, made of 
common aflies, without any preparation. The materials 
in each are to be finely powdered, wadied, and fearced ; 
then equally mixed, and frequently Ilirred together in the 
melting pot. See the article Glass. 
FRITH (John), one of the earlieiF Engliffi martyrs to 
the principles of the reformation, the fon of an innkeeper 
at Sevenoaks in Kent, born at that place towards the be¬ 
ginning of the fixteenth century. After he had been 
qualified by a preparatory-fehool education, he was lent 
to King’s college in the univerfity of Cambridge. In 
that feminary he diftinguifhed himlelf by his application 
and proficiency ; and when he was admitted to the degree 
of bachelor of arts, had the reputation of being a firft- 
rate linguift, and well-informed general fcholar. On this 
account he was put down in the ^ilt of thofe whom car¬ 
dinal Wclley brought from Cambridge, to his new infti- 
tution of Cardinal (now Chrift-ch.nrch) college, in the 
univerfity of Oxford, of which he was made one of the 
junior canons. In 1525 he was incorperated at Oxford 
in the fame degree wliich he had taken at Cambridge. 
Before this, however, he had become acquainted with 
William Tyndale, a zealous Lutheran, w'ith whom he 
held frequent conferences on religious fubjefts ; the re- 
fult of which was his conviftion of the corruptions and 
errors 
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