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force and fplendoiir, yet fimplicity, of tlie diclion ; the 
happy mixture of animated fentimeiit with glowing de- 
feription ; are calculated to pleafc equally the refined and 
the uncultivated talle. 'I'he moral and philol'ophical 
views of focicty they exhibit, may in fome refpefls 
be objeetion.ihle; yet upon the whole they exert a 
favourable influence over the heart. In addition to 
thele capital works, Ids plea/ing ballad of The Hermit, 
and fume lliort humorous and mifcellancous pieces, 
complete the catalo^ne of his peiformances in verfe. 
As a prole writer he deh-rves high praife for Ityle, which 
he adapts with great felicity to his fubjei^t; and which, 
whether elevated or plain, is always clear, pure, and 
iinaffedfed. Many of his compilations hav'e ail the me¬ 
rit that can be required in works of that kind ; and his 
hifiorical abridgments have proved very iifefnl in the 
education of youth. Dr. Johnlbn’s encomium in his epi¬ 
taph may be admitted as juft fummary of his literary 
character; Qui nullum jere Jcribntdi gams non tdigit, nullum 
quod tetigit non ornavitu ; “ Who left fcarcely any kind of 
w-riting untouclted, and adorned all he touched.” An 
edition of Goldfmith’s Mifcelhmeous Works complete, 
with an Account of his Life, was publiftied in 1806, in 
5 vols. 121110. 
GOLD'WIRE. See the aiticle Wire. 
GOLES'Z, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of San- 
doiiiirz : fixty miles fiuiih-foutli-weft Sandoinirz. 
GOLET'TA, or GouLET'i'A, a fortrefs of Africa, 
tituated on a canal, in the kingdom of Tunis, feizeti by 
Barbarolfa in 1535. Charles V. becanie niafter of it in 
153'), and it continued in the poirellion of th.e Spaniards 
till 1574, when it was taken from them by Selim 11 . 
twenty-five miles north of Tunis. 
GOL'GOM, a town of the iftand of Ceylon ; forty, 
eight miles north-weft of Candi. 
"GOLGO THA, [i. e. tlie place of a Ikiil!.] The 
name of the place where Jelus Chrift was crucified. 
Matth. xxvii. 33. See C.aLVARV. 
GOLI'ATH, [Heb. a lieap.] A man’s name, a giant. 
GO'LICH, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Irkutfch, on the Lena: two miles foiith of Orlenga. 
Gi>'LIUS (James), born at the Hague in 1596. Hedif- 
tinguiftied himl'elf at the univerfity of Leyden by the ar¬ 
dour with which he purlued the ftudy of the languages, 
of antiquities, _philofopliy, medicine, and mathematics. 
Ke particularly attached himlelf to the celebrated Er- 
penius, the Arabic profeftbr, under whom he acquired 
an accurate knowledge of the oriental tongues. In 
1622 he accoiiipanied an ambailadorof tlie United States 
to Morocco, where he prefented to the emperor, Muley 
Zeidan, a requeft written in Arabic, which excited great 
admiration, as being the work of a Chriftian. The em¬ 
peror defiled to fee him, and converfed with him in his 
own language; while Golius replied in Spanilli, not be¬ 
ing able to pronounce tiie Arabic. After his return, 
he fucceeded to the Arabic profelforftiip on the death of 
Erpeniiis in 1624. He obtained permiilion in 1625 to 
travel in the Levant, and palled more than a year at 
Aleppo, whence he made excurlions into Arabia and 
Alelopotamia. Thence he travelled by land to Coiu 
llantinople, at which capital lie made friends who pro¬ 
cured him accefs to feveral libraries. During his ab- 
fence he was appointed profellbr of mathematics ; and 
he returned to Leyden in 1629, and applied to the duties 
of his double office. He died in 1667, after having with 
great credit lil led iiis laborious ftation nearly forty years, 
and palfed through all the academical honours. He 
publifhed the Saracen Hiltory of Elmaciii, the verlion 
of whicli was begun by Erpeniiis, and completed by 
himlelf; alfo, a Life of Tamerlane, 1636, written by an 
eminent Aiabian author ; 'I'he Aftronoinical Elements 
of Allergan, with a new verfion and learned commenta¬ 
ries ; an Arabic Lexicon, 1659; anda Perlian Dictionary, 
printed in London. I.ate in life he ftudied the Chinele, 
and became able to read books in that difficult language. 
GO'LIUS (Peter), elder brother of the preceding, 
Vo I.. Vi II. No. 334. 
G O L 6G) 
born at Leyden, but in what year is uncertain, He en¬ 
tered ivhen young among the barefooted Carmelites of 
the relormed order of St. Thcrefa, when lie toolc the 
name ot Celeftine de Sainte Liduviiie. Like Ids bro¬ 
ther, he excelled in a knowledge of tlic Arabic lan- 
g'liage, and taught it in the feminary belonging to his 
order at Rome, wliere thofe monk.-- were cdiicaicd who 
were intended to be lent on millions into the Kail. By 
the choice ot his Aiperiors, Peter Giilius wa.s deftiiied to 
that fervice ; and, after vifiting every part of Syria and 
Paleftinc, he founded a monaftcry of Ids order on mount 
Libamis, ever which he prelided until he was recalled 
to Rome. In that city lie was employed as one of tlie 
principal afiiftant^ of Sergius Rifius, a Maronire, and 
archbifliop of Daniafcus, in preparing his edition of the 
Arabic Bible, wliicii, after the death of that prelate, 
was pnblifliod in 1.671, by the direction of the college 
Dc Propaganda ; and lie had the. principal Ih ire in cor¬ 
recting tlie proof flieei.s of that work. Soon after it was 
completed, he was appointed by the general of the or¬ 
der, vifiior oi the miilions in the Euli Indies. He died 
while tiilfilling with great zeal the duties of that ap¬ 
pointment, at Surat, about the year 1673. He was the 
author oi tranflations imo Arabic of d'he Imitatiim of 
Jelus Chrift, by Thomas a Kempis, 1663 ; Sermons 
upon the Evangelifts ; an Idftoric Difeourfe of St. Gre¬ 
gory of Decapolis ; feveral final! devotional pieces; 
and a tranftaticn from the Arabic into Latin of A CoU 
lefition ot Parables and Proverbs, taken from dilFereiit 
Arabic writers. 
GOLL, yi [corrupted, as Skinner thinks, from pal or 
pol, whence pealban, to handle or manage.] Hands; 
paws; claws. Ufed in conttmJ,t .—They fet hands, and 
Mopfa put her goldenamong them; and blind for¬ 
tune, that law not the colour of them, gave her the pre¬ 
eminence. Sidney. 
GOL'LACH, a river of Germany, in the circle of 
Franconia, which runs into the Tauber : five miles 
fouth-weft of Aub. 
GOL'LERSDORF, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria : four miles foutli-l'outli-eaft of Soii- 
neberg. 
GOI.t.I, or Colli, a tow n of Africa, near tlie river 
Grande, whole inliabitants trade in Haves, ivory, and 
cotton. 
GOL'LING, a town of Germany, in the circle of Ba¬ 
varia, and archbilhopric of Saltzburg : tsventy-two 
miles north-nortli-weft of Radftadt, and fourteen louth- 
foutli-eaft of Saltzburg. 
GOL'NITZ, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and duchy of Anhalt Zerbft : feven nfiles 
north-weft of Zerbft. 
GOL'NITZ, a town of Hungary, on a river of the 
fame name: fourteen miles loutli-caft of Kapl'dorft'. 
GOL'NIZ, a town of Germany, in the dimny of C'a- 
rinthia : three miles louthof St. Andre. 
GOL'NOW, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, in Anterior Pomerania, (ituaied on the Ihna, 
Itirroundcd with walls in 1190, but niucJi injured by 
fires and war : twelve miles north ofStargard, and thir¬ 
teen north-eaft of Old,Stettin. Lat. 33. 31. N. 100.32. 
33. E. Ferro. 
GO'LO, a department of France, one of the two formed 
of the illand of Corlica. It is hounded on the north, 
and eaft by the Mediterranean; oathefoiith, by the de¬ 
partment of Lianione; and on the v-eft, by the Mediter¬ 
ranean. Its fuperficies is about 1,017,472 I’quare acres, 
or 319,301 hectares; its popuhition is about 137,874 in¬ 
dividuals. It is divided into three communal diltriefs. 
GO TO, a river of tite iiland of Corlica, whith riles 
nearly in the centre of the illand, and taking a north-eaft 
courle, runs into the fea, iw’clve miles foutli-fouth-eaft 
of Ballia, and ten noriii-north-weft of St. Fellegriua. ’ 
GOLOGRIZ'ZA, a town of Aultrian Ifttia ; fix miles 
fouth of Pedena. 
GOL'PHINGTON, the chief town of the American 
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