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ther party.—In the change of religion, men of ordinary 
underftandings don’t fo much conlider tlie principles as 
the pradtice of thofe to whom they go over. Addifon. 
To Go out. To go upon any expedition.—You need 
not have pricked me: tliere are other men fitter to 
out than I. SItaliefpeare. —To be extinguifiled.—Spirit of 
wine burned till it go out of itfelf, will burn no more. 
Bacon. 
Think’fi: thou the fiery fever will go out, 
With titles blown from adulation ! Shakejpeare. 
To Go through. To perform thoroughly ; to execute. 
—The powers in Germany are borrowing our money, in 
order to go through their part of the expence. Addifon. 
—To fuffer ; to undergo.—I tell thee that it is abfo- 
lutely necelFary for the common good that thou fhouldefi: 
go through this operation. Arbuthnot. 
To'Go upon. To take as a principle.—-This fuppofi- 
tion I have gone upon through thofe papers. Addifon. 
The fenfes of this word are very indiftindf : its general 
notion is motion or progreflion. It commonly exprelfes 
paffage from a place, in oppofition to come. This is 
often obfervable even in figurative exprefiions. We 
fay. The words that ^obefore and that come after; To-day 
goes away and to-morrow comes. Johnfon. 
GO TO, inter]. Come, come, take the right courfe. 
A fcornful exhortation.— Goto, goto, thou art a foolifli 
fellow, Shakefpeare. 
My favour is not bought with words like thefe : 
Go to ; you’ll teach your tongue another tale. Rozue. 
GO'-BY, /. Delufion; artifice; circumvention; over¬ 
reach.—Except an apprentice is inflriuSted how to adul¬ 
terate and varnifh, and give you the go-by upon occa- 
fion, his mafler may be charged with negledl. Collier. 
GO'-CART,y. A machine in which children are in- 
clofed to teach them to walk, and which they pufli for¬ 
ward without danger of falling : 
Young children, who are try’d in 
Go-carts, to keep their fleps from Hiding, 
When members knit, and legs grow ftronger, 
Make ufe of fuch machine no longer. Prior. 
GO'A, an ifland in the Indian Sea, near the weft coaft 
of Hindooftan, feparated from the continent by a river 
called Mandova, which foon after runs into the fea; 
about eiglit leagues in circumference. The foil is fer¬ 
tile, efpecially in the valleys; the trees are always co¬ 
vered with leaves, flowers, and fruit; and abundance of 
fprings iffue from the mountains. The rainy feafon con¬ 
tinues here from June till September or Oftober; and the 
land floods bringdown fuch quantities of mud and fand, 
as ftop up the haven and impede the navigation. During 
tliis time the weather is very hot after fun-rife, when 
the rains ceafe ; yet before the rains begin, that is, in 
the months of April and May, the weather is ftill more 
fultry, but from Oftober to March it is very moderate. 
GO'A, a city, and capital of the Portuguefe fettle- 
ments in India, the feat of a viceroy, and fee of an arch- 
bifhop, taken by the Portuguefe general Albuquerque, 
in 1510. The port of Goa is reprel'ented as one of the 
belt in the Indies, and for this charadler it ftands in 
fome meafure obliged to nature ; but the, Portuguefe 
have fpared no pains to heighten and improve thofe ad¬ 
vantages, as well as to fortify it with many caftles and 
towers, furnifhed with abundance of good cannon. Be¬ 
yond thefe caftles the channel becomes narrower, fome- 
times to one, fometimes to two, miles; and its banks 
are planted with the beft fruits and fineft trees India 
affords. Eight miles up is the town of Goa. Half way 
upon the right fide, is a palace, called Pajfo de Dangi, 
whepe formerly the viceroys refided, but at prefent it 
ferves as a barrack for the garrifon : there begins a ftrong 
broad wall, two miles in length, for a foot-path when 
the country is overflowed, and a great deal of fait is 
GOA 
gathered round it. This channel, that makes fo noble 
a port, runs many miles up the country, dividing it into 
feveral fruitful illands and peninfuhis, which plentifully 
furnifli the city with nccelfaries. Adjoining to this port 
is the haven of Murmugon, formed by the other chan¬ 
nel, that runs between the ifland of Goa and peninfula 
of Salfete, and fupplies a fife retreat to the fliips that 
come from Portugal, and other parts, when they are 
fluit out of the port by the fands which the river Man¬ 
dova brings dowm, when fwollen by tlie firft rains of 
June; the paffage not being open fill October. This 
port of Murmugon is defended by the caftle of the 
lame name, feated in the ifland of Salfete, in which 
there is a good garrifon, and the fortifications are well 
fupplied with cannon. At the fouth entrance into the 
channel, a little beyond the forts on the right hand, are 
the remains of Old Goa, and from thence to the new 
city there is a commodious road, elegantly adorned with 
trees for fruit and fliade. Yet what is ftyled the new 
city, carries evident marks of decay ; for, though the 
walls are kept in good repair, and are every where well 
fupplied with cannon, (ince they occupy a fpace of 
twelve miles, they ferve to ftiew what the city once 
was, in comparifon of what it now is. In the time of 
its profperity, there was nothing could be compared 
with it in the Indies ; and very few cities in Europe 
were either larger or better built. The public ftruc- 
tures ftill remain, and bear inconteftible evidence of its 
former grandeur. , 
Among its other eftablifliments, it had a famous fpi- 
ritual inquifition for the punifliment of heretics, where 
the molt unlieard-of cruelties were long exercil'ed over 
thoufands of the poor ignorant unfulpedting inh:ibi- 
tants, on the fcore of religion ; but for the interefts of 
humanity, and the honour of the Chriftian name, the 
tribunal of the inquifition of Goa was abollfhed by a 
royal decree in Portugal, under the adminiftration of 
the marquis de Pombal, prime minifter to king Don 
Jofeph, who died in February 1777. The building ftill 
remains, and by its black outlide appears a fit emblem 
of the cruel and bloody tranfadtions that palfed within 
its walls ! 
Here are feveral beautiful churches of modern con- 
ftriuSlion ; and in that dedicated to Bon Jefus, is the 
chapel of St. Francifco de Xaviere, whole tomb it con¬ 
tains : this chapel is a moft luperb and magnificent 
ftrufture : the tomb of'the faint is entirely of marble, 
brought from Lilbon ; on the four fides of it the prin¬ 
cipal adlions of the life of the faint are moft elegantly 
carved in balfo relievo ; thefe reprefent his converting 
the dift'erent nations to the catholic faith : the fculpture 
is moft admirably executed : it extends to the top in a 
pyramidical form, which terminates with a coronet of 
mother-of-pearl. On the fides of this chapel are excel¬ 
lent paintings, done by Italian mafters ; the fubjefts 
from fcripture. 
The number of inhabitants is now faid to be about 
twenty tlioufand; of thefe the native Portuguefe 
amount to a very fmall number ; the hleftiiios are more 
numerous ; the Canarins, or natives, are as black as jet, 
but have long black hair, and many of them fine fea¬ 
tures ; multitudes of negro Haves, and pagans of dif¬ 
ferent nations, make up the reft of the people. It is 
generally agreed, that the' men are for the moft part 
proud, indolent, jealous, revengeful, and indigent ; 
the women, lazy, lafeivious, and as well (killed in poi- 
foning as any in the world. Two hundred and fifteen 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Bombay. Lat. ij. 28. N. 
Ion. 73. 46. E, Greenwich. 
GO'A, a town of the ifland of Celebes, near the fouth 
coaft. Lat. 5.12. S. Ion. 120. 30. E. Greenwicli. 
GOAD, f. [gab, Saxon.] A pointed inftrument 
with which oxen are driven forw'ard.—Oft in his har¬ 
den’d hand a goad he bears. Pope. 
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