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From beneath; 
My worthy wife ourr.riTvs miflaid, 
And from beneath my head my f word convey’d. Dryden, 
From beyond .—There followed him great multitudes 
of peoplefrom Galilee, and fronibeyond\Qxitd.n. Mat. iv. 25. 
F ROM forth: 
Young Aretus, from forth his bridal pow’r, 
Hrought the full laver o’er their hands to pour. Pope, 
From of .—The fea being condrained to withdraw 
from off certain tratls of lands, which lay till then at the 
bottom of it. IVoodward, 
Knights, unhora’d, may rife from off the plain. 
And right on foot, iheir honour to regain. Dryden. 
From out-. 
Strong god of iron, whofe iron feeptre fways 
The freezing north and h.yperborean leas, 
'1 error is thine, and wild amazement, flung 
Prom out thy chariot, withers ev’n the Itrong. Dryden, 
P'ko'sxoutof .—Whatfoever fuch principle there is, it 
was at the tirll found out by difeourfe, and drawn from 
out oj tire very bowels of heaven and earth. Hooker. 
From underi 
He, though blind of fight, 
Defpis’d and tiiought exiinguilh’d quite. 
With iirward eyes illuminated. 
His fiery virtue rous’d 
From under dihis into l udden flame. Milton's Agonijlcs, 
From within-. 
From within 
The broken bowels and the bloated fkin, 
A buzzing noile of bees his ears alarms. Dryden. 
FROMA'GE (Peter), a French Jefuit, born at Laon, 
in 1678. He commenced his noviciate at Nancy in 1693; 
and on account of his proficiency was I'eletted by his lu- 
periorsto prefide over the claflical ftudies of their younger 
pupils. When he had completed his courfe of theology, 
he offered his fervices as a millionary to the Levant; and 
being approved of, was firft fent into Egypt, where he 
fpent fume years in acquiring a knowledge of the Arabic 
tongue, and in different employments to which he was 
appointed. Afterwards he was fent into Syria, where 
lie fpent the remainder of his life. He there formed the 
plan, whicii, by his perfeverance, was carried into execu¬ 
tion, of eftabhfiling a printing-prefs tor the Arabic Ian- 
guage, in the monaflery of St. John the Baptiii near An- 
tura, a village in the chain of mountains diltinguiiiied by 
the name of Antilibanus. Having procured the proper 
types from Rome, and the neceifary workmen, he printed 
in Arabic a great number of theological and devotional 
pieces, which were difperfed, with contiderable benefit, 
among the inhabitants of the country. Fromage w'as 
prefent at a fyaod of the Maronites held in 1736, and 
pronounced a difeourfe at its opening, which is publifhed, 
tOijether wdth his account of the proceedings of the fy- 
nod, in tlie eighth volume of the New Memoirs of the 
Millions of the Society of Jefus in the Levant, 121110. 
1745. He died in 1740, in his fixty-third year. 
FROMAGEAU' (Germain), a French ecclefiaflic., 
born at Paris, and admitted into the houfe and fociety of 
the Sorbonne in j66i. He has the'charadler of a learned 
and able divine, and particularly famous for his know¬ 
ledge of cufuilHcal divinity. On this account he was 
looked up to as the proper fucceflbr of M. Delamet, for 
refolving difficult cafes of confcieiice ; and to his deter¬ 
mination the clergy frequently had recourfe on nice points 
lelative to ecclefiaftical difeipline. He was repeatedly 
olfered dignities in the churcli ; but he conftantly refofed 
them, as he had inherited from his father a fortune equal 
to his utmoft wilhes. His benevolence "and humanity 
«ot only ftone forth in numerous efts of charity, but in 
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fubmitting, for fom.e years, to the painful office of vilit- 
ing, and preparing for their lafl: moments, perfons wlia 
were convidfed of capital crimes. He died at the Sor¬ 
bonne in 1705. He left behind him refolutions of nume¬ 
rous cafes of confcience, fome of which were publifhed 
in the fame volume with thofe of M. Delamet, which 
appeared in 1714, and the reft in the iucceeding volumes 
of the fame colledlion. 
PROME, a river of England, in the county of So. 
merfet, which joins the Avon about five miles fouth-eaft 
of Bath. 
FROME, a river of England, which runs into the 
Lug, near Hereford. 
FROME, a river of England, in the county of Dorfety 
which paifes by Dorchefter, &c. and runs into the fea in 
Poole harbour, a little below Wareham. 
FROME, a river of England, in the county of Glou- 
cefter, which joins the Avon at Briftol. 
FROME, a river of England, which runs into the 
Severn, near Berkeley, in Gloncefterftiire. 
FROME, or Frome-Selwood, a large, rich, and po¬ 
pulous, market-town, (ituated in the ancient foreft of Sel. 
wood, in Soinerletftiire ; diftant 106 miles from London, 
fifteen from 'Wells, and thirteen from Bath. The fitiia- 
tion of Frome is extremely pleafant ; the rurrounding 
country being agreeably diverfified with hills, valleys, 
large inclofures, and fine woods; and having the feats of 
many of the nobility and gentry. Tlie ftreetsare narrow 
and irregular; the houfes arc built of (lone, and covered 
with ftone tile, dug on the f^ot. Here is a large hand- 
fome clnirch, 150 teet long, and fifiy.fonr broad ; coni- 
prifing a nave, chancel, nortii and fouth aides, four cha¬ 
pels, and a veflry-room ; it has a very hand fome altar- 
piece ; alfo a fquare embattled tower, and odlagonal 
fpire 120 feet high. The river Frome paifes through 
the lower part of the town, under a ftone bridge of five 
arches; near which Hands a free-fehool for cloihino- and 
educating twenty boys, and an almfhoulc for widows, a 
large hand fome building erefted by fubfeription about 
the year 1720. A large market is held here on Wednef. 
days for cattle, pigs, corn, Sec. Fairs, St. Matthias’s 
and St. Catharine’s days, for cattle, cheefe, toys. Sec. 
Frome is a place of confiderable antiquity.—Aldlielm, 
a monk of Maltnlbiiry, and bifliop of Slierborne, built 
here a monaftery in honour of St. John the Baptift, about 
the beginning of the eighth century. Here were alfo a- 
priory, a nunnery, a cell, and an hermitage. It was for¬ 
merly a royal demefne, but never obtained a charter of 
incorporation. Tlie civil police of the town is main¬ 
tained by the neighbouring magiftrates, and by conftables 
annually cliofen at the courts leet of the marquis of 
Bath and the earl of Cork and Orrery, lords of the feve. 
ral manors here. It was governed formerly by a bailiff. 
The inhabitants, after having fliewn their zeal for the 
revolution, endeavoured in the reign of king William to 
obtain a charter of incorporatioii, but in vam. 
Frome has for many years been famous for workin;’’ 
Spanilli and Englifh wool into broad-cloths and kerfey- 
meres ; in 1789, 348,000 pounds weight of wool were 
wrought here into 160,000 yards of broad-cloth and ker- 
feymerc, of which quantity the former article compofed 
about four-fifths; a bufinefs that-employed 233 ferib- 
blers, and 223 (hearmen. The quantity of wool manu. 
faftured hgre is fince confiderably increafed, but the 
number of people employed is diminifhed, the introduc¬ 
tion of machines having lefTened, in a prodigious pro¬ 
portion, tlie call for manual labour. At prefent there 
are^in the town of Frome twenty-feven manufafturers of 
cloth, who make of broad, narrow, and kerfeyinere, 
about two hundred pieces weekly, of twenty-eight yards 
each; or, calculating by a different meafnre, about 160 
miles of cloth, in length, every year. The following 
Iketch will (liew the procefs purfiied in this branch o.f 
Britifli manufactories, and, at the fame time, give an idea 
of the number of people to whom we are obliged for 
every. 
