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defence of the new method of phllofophifing; and, 
making his former treatife the ground-work of his plan, 
he omitted the exceptionable parts, introduced new 
matter, and rendered the whole more methodical and 
better digefted. His treatife was publifhed in un¬ 
der the title of Sce/i/is Scientifica ; or, Contcired igno¬ 
rance the Vv^ay to Science; in an Eflay on the Vanity 
of Dogmatifing and Confident Opinion, 4to. To this 
he added a defence of his former book againll Mr. White, 
a boalfed champion of the church of Rome, and of the 
Ariftotelian philofophy ; together with a well-written 
and learned difcotirle concerning Arifiotle, in the form 
of a letter to a friend. This work was dedicated to the 
royal Ibciety, which was the means of admitting him 
among its members, about the time when the Scepjis 
made its appearance. 
The credit Mr. Glanvill had acquired by his various 
writings, encouraged him, in 1666, to deliver liis (enti- 
ments upon the Tubjedl: of witchcraft, the poffibility 
and exiftence of which he endeavoured to defend. His 
treatife was originally entitled. Some Phiiol'ophica! Con- 
liderations touching the Being of Witches and Witch¬ 
craft, 4to. but it underwent frequent alterations in fub- 
fequent editions. This performance, which in the pre- 
fent age will be confidered as rellecling little credit on 
the author’s judgment, engaged him in a controverfy 
which lafled as long as his life, and was conduCled with 
great warmth and acrimony. Soon after the firlt ap¬ 
pearance of this work, he was prefcnted to the redtory 
of the abbey church at Bath, in which city from that 
time he fixed his refidence. His next work was an en¬ 
tertaining and inftrudlive account of modern improve¬ 
ments, entitled. Plus Ultra-, or. The Progrefs and Ad¬ 
vancement of Knowledge fince the Days of Arifiotle, 
1668, 4to. Mr. Glanvill’s reputation was now fo firmly 
eftablilhed, that he was frequently called upon to preach 
on public occafions ; and among others at a vilitation 
of the diocele, where he delivered a difcourfe which 
met with general approbation, and was repeatedly 
printed. It was entitled AOrOT 0PH2KEIA: or, A 
feafonable Recommendation of Reafon in the Affairs of 
Religion, againfi Infidelity, Scepticifm, and Fanaticifm 
of all Sorts, 1760, 4to. The fuccefs which this dif¬ 
courfe met with encouraged him to attempt removing 
the prejudices of fome learned and good men againfi: 
the new methods propofed for the advancement of ufe- 
ful knowledge, by explaining the correfpondcnce be¬ 
tween religion and the new philofopliy. This he did 
in a piece entitled, Philofophia pia or, A Difcourfe of 
the religious Temper and Tendency of the experimental 
Philofophy which is profelfed by the Royal Society, 
1671, 8vo. While he was entitling himfelf to the par¬ 
ticular acknowledgments of the members of that body, 
by defending the ufeful tendency of their purfuits, he 
alfo contributed to their colledtion of infiruitive and 
entertaining papers, fome obfervations on the mines in 
the Mendip hills, and on the natural hifiory and fprings 
of Bath, which were well received, and inferred in the 
Philofophical Tranfadtions. In 1672 Mr. Glanvill ex¬ 
changed his redfory of Frome for that of Streat, in the 
fame county, with tlie chapel of Walton annexed ; and 
about the lame time was made chaplain in ordinary to 
Charles II. His next publication was a volume of Ef- 
lays on feveral important Subjedts in Philofophy and 
Religion, 1676, 4to. confifiing of the princi})al of his 
former pieces already noticed, revifed and improved, 
together with a treatife, called. Antifanatic Theology 
and free Philofophy ; which is a kind of fupplement 
to the philofophical romance of the celebrated lord 
Bacon. In 1678 he publifiied An Elfay concerning 
Preaching, written for the Diredtion of a young Divine, 
nmo. His lafi work was entitled, d'he zealous and im¬ 
partial Protefiant, 1680, 4to. The printing of this per¬ 
formance was fcarcely finifiied before Mr. Glanvill was 
attacked by a fever, which proved fatal to him when 
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only .about the age of forty-four. Soon after his death. 
Dr. Anthony Horneck publifhed feveral of his fermons, 
and other pieces, with the title of, Some Difeourfes, 
Sermons, and Remains, &c. 1681, 4to. with an account 
of the author’s life. 
7 b GL.VRE, v.n. {_glaren, Dut.] To fhine fo as to 
dazzle the eyes.—After great light, if you come fud- 
denly into the dark, or, contrariwife, out of tlie dark 
into a glaring light, the eye is dazzled for a time, and 
the light confufed. Bacon. 
Alas, thy dazzled eye 
Beholds this man in a falfe glaring light. 
Which conqueli and fuccefs have thrown upon him. 
Addijon. 
To look with fierce piercing eyes.—Look, how pale he 
glares I Shakefpeare. 
Now friends no more, nor walking hand in hand 5 
But when they met they made a furly fiand. 
And glar'd, like angry lions, as they pafs’d. 
And wifli’d that ev’ry look might be their lafi. Dryden. 
To fiiine ofientatiouily, or witli too much laboured 
luftre.—Thtymofi glaring palfages are none of thefiiiefi, 
or mofi correft. Fdton on the Clajfics. 
To GLARE, v.a. To fiioot Inch fplendour as the eye 
cannot bear : 
One fpirit in tliem rul’d, and every eye 
Glar'd lightning, and fiiot forth pernicious fire 
Among th’ accurfi, that wither’d ail their firengtli. Milt. 
GLARE, /. Overpowering lufire ; fplendour, fucli 
as dazzles the eye.—1 have gripved to fee a perfon af 
quality gliding by me in her chair at two o’clock in tlie 
morning, and looking like a fpectre amidfi a glare of 
flambeaux. Addijon. —A fierce piercing look: 
About them round 
A lion now he fialks with fiery glare. Milton. 
GLAREO'LA, f. [from glarea, Lat. gravel; be- 
caufe it inhabits the gravelly Ihores. ] In ornithologya 
the Pratincole; a genus of birds belonging to the 
order of gralla; ; the charatters of whicli are tliefe : 
bill firong, fliort, firaight, hooked at the tip ; nofirils 
at the bafe of the bill, linear, oblique ; feet lour-toed ; 
the toes long, flender, connedted to each other at the 
bafe by a membrane ; tail forked, with twelve quills. 
There are only three fpecies at prefent known ; and 
three varieties ; viz. 
1. Glareola Aufiriaca, the Aufirian pratincole : fize 
of a blackbird ; length nine inches and a quarter; bill 
ten lines and a half long, curved at the tip ; the bafe 
of it red, the refi black ; upper parts of the bird grey- 
ifh-brown ; chin and throat white, furrounded with a 
black line, which begins at the hinder angle of the eye, 
and bounds tlie wh.ole of the white parts all round ; 
the under parts are rufous grey, growing paler towards 
the vent; the upper tail-coverts are alfo of this colour ; 
quills dulky ; tail much forked, and tipped with grey 
OH the inner web ; the outer web of the exterior leather 
white the whole of its length ; the legs and cere above 
the knees are blood-red. This Ipecies inhabits Ger¬ 
many, particularly the borders of the Rhine, near 
Stralburgh, and lives on worms and aquatic infects. It 
is alfo feen at times in fome parts ol France, but is in 
the greatefi plenty in the defects towards tlie Calpiaa 
Sea, frequenting the dry fandy plains in great flocks* 
It is common alfo throughout the whole defect of the, 
independent Tartars, as far as the rivers Kamyfchlofska 
and Irtilh, but not farther into Siberia, the plains 
adapted to it being there at an end ; and in general it 
is not obferved beyond fifty-three degrees to the north¬ 
ward. 
The collared pratincole is only a variety of the pre¬ 
ceding. Bill dulky ; plumage on the upper parts grey 
brown ; on each fide of the head a white fpot near the 
eyes j 
