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he rendered flourifhing by the arts of civilifttion, and 
by a regular fylteni of laws. Tliefe were in general 
founded upon the pB inciples of equity, and difplay con- 
fider-ble fagacity in preventing all caufes of difpute; 
yet tliey enjoin the barbarifm of judicial combats, 
which the legillator juftificd as an inference from the 
admitted dodtiine of the interference of a particular 
providence in liuman allairs. The Bui'gundian code, 
called La Loi Gombettc, has beesi publilhed in feveral col- 
ledlions of a.ncient laws. Gondebaud died in 516; and 
two of liis, letters, upon theological topics, to Avitus 
bilho]) of VieiBiie, ai'e extant. 
GON'DELAY, f. Ufed by Spenfer for Gondola, which 
fee. 
GON'DET, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrict of Le Puy-en-Velay : ten miles fouth of Le Puy. 
GON'LT (John Francis Paul), cardinal de Retz, 
fon of PJiilip Ernaniiel de Gondi, count de Joigny, 
born in 1613. From a dodtor of the Sorbonne, he be¬ 
came coadjutor to his uncle John Francis de Gondi, 
whom he fucceeded in 1654 as archbilhop of Paris; and 
Was finally made a cardinal. At the age of 23, he was ~ 
at the head of a confpiracy againfl the life of cardinal 
Richelieu ; Jte precipitated the parliament into cabals, 
and‘the people into ledition; and is faid to have been 
the firlf biiTtop who carried on a civil way without the 
malk of religion. However, his intrigues and fchemes 
turned out fo ill, that he was obliged to quit France ; 
and he lived tl;e life of an exile for fix years, till the 
death of his enemy cardinal Mazarin, wlien he returned 
on certain dipulated conditions. After affifting in the 
conclave at Rome, he retired from the world, and ended 
bis life like a philofopher in 1679; which made Vol¬ 
taire fay, that in his youth he lived like Catiline, and 
in his old age like Atticus. He wrote his Memoirs in 
his retirement; the bell edition of which is that of 
Amfterdam, 4 vols. 121110. 1719. 
GON'DOLA, f. [Italian; gondole, Fr._ Du Cange 
derives it from y.ovLlthcc^, a bark ; Lancelot, from yoi/Jv, 
a term in Athenaeus for a fort of vafe.J A boat, very 
long and narrow, chiefly ufed at Venice to row on the 
canals. The middle-lized gondolas arc about thirty 
feet long and four broad ; they always terminate at each 
end in a very fliarp point, which is raifed perpendicu¬ 
larly to the full height of a man. The addrefs of the 
Venetians, in palling along their narrow canals, is very 
remarkable : there are ufually two men to each gon¬ 
dola, and they row by pulhing before them. Gondola is 
alio the name of a palfage-boat of lix or eight oars, 
ufed in other parts of the coall of Italy. 
GONDOLI'ER, J. A boatman ; one that rows a 
gondola: 
Your fair daughter, 
Tranfported with no worfe nor better guard, 
But with a knave of hire, a gondolier. 
To the grofs clafps of a lalcivious moqr. Shakefpeare. 
GON'DON, a town of France, in the department of 
llie Upper Pyrenees : leven miles fouth-ealt of Tarbes. 
GON'DORF, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Lower Riiin; , and archbilliopric of Treves ; four 
miles eall-north-ealf of Munfter Mainfeld. 
GON'DRAIN, a town of France, in the department 
of the Gers, and chief place of a canton, in the diliridt 
of Condom : two leagues and a half fouth-well of Con. 
dom, and lix and three-quarters north-well of Audi. 
Lat. 44. 53. N. Ion. 17.53. E. Ferro. 
GON'DRECOURT, a town of France, and feat of 
tribunal, in the department of the Meufe: feven leagues 
fouth-fouth-eall of Bar-le-Duc, and three fouth-well of 
Vaucouleurs. 
GON'DREVILLE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Meure, on the Mofelle : one league north- 
call of Toul. 
GONDVFA'NAH, or Konduankah, mountains of 
Hindoollan, lituatcd in the louth-eall part of the coun¬ 
try of Mahva, extending from Hufllngabad to Mundel- 
lah, alsout one hundred and feventy miles in length. 
Lat. 22. 40. to 23. N. Ion. 78. to 81. E. Gieenwich. 
To GONE, V. n. [the old word for] To go : 
Down from the hill defcended moll and leall. 
And to the Chrillian duke by heaps they Fairfax. 
GONE, part, preter. [from go. See To Go.] Ad¬ 
vanced ; forward in progi'efs.—I have known flieep 
mired of the rot, when they have not been Lir gone with 
it, only by being put into broomlarids. Morlime 'r. —Ruin¬ 
ed ; undone.—He mull know ’tis none of your daughter, 
nor my filler ; W’e are elfe. Shakefpeare. —The parti¬ 
cular accidents gone by. Shakefpeare. —Loll; departed. 
When her mailers faw that the hope of their gains w’as 
gone, they caught Paul and Silas. A61s. kv\. 19.—Speech 
is dbnfined to the living, and imparted to only thofethat 
are in prefence, and is trunlient and gone. Holder. —Dead ; 
departed from life.—I mourn Adonis dead and eone, 
Oldham. 
GONET' (John-Baptill), a French'ecclefiallic, born 
at Beziers in 1616. In 1640 he was admitted to the de¬ 
gree of do(5lor by the univerfity of Bourdeaux. From 
that time he filled the chair of profcllbr of theology in 
that univerfity until 1671, when he was appointed pro¬ 
vincial of his order. He died at his native place in 1681, 
aged fixty-five. He was the author of a fvllem of divi¬ 
nity, entitled Clypxus Theologia Thomifiicee, contra novos ejus 
Impugnatores, firlt publillied at Bourdeaux in 1666, in 18 
vols. i2mo. and afterwards at Paris in 1669, in 5 vols. 
folio. M. Gonet was alfo the author of a Manuale Tho- 
mifarum, feu brevis Theologiee Curfus, which has palfed 
through different editions, the bell of which was pub¬ 
lilhed at Lyons in 1681, in folio ; and Dijfertatio Theologica 
de Probabilitate, 1664, i2mo. 
GON'FALON, or Gon'fanon, f. \_gonfanon, Fr. 
Iflandic, from gunn, a battle, and fani, a flag.] An 
enlign ; a llandard : 
Ten thoufand thoufand enfigns high advanc’d. 
Standards and ’twixt van and rear. 
Stream in the air. Milton, 
GONFALONI'ER, yi The pope’s llandard-bearer. 
GON'FEDE, a town of Africa, near the river Grande. 
GON'GA, a town of European Turkey, in Romania, 
fitiiated near the Sea of Marmora : thirty-lix miles north- 
eall of Gallipoli. 
GON'GA, or Bain Gonga, a river of Hindoofian, 
which riles near the circar of Gurry-Mundella, and joins 
the Godavery, thirty-five miles north of Rajamundry. 
GON'GORA (Louis), a celebrated Spanilli poet, 
born of a noble family at Coidova in 1562. He lludied 
at Salamanca, and, being brought up to the church, was 
made chaplain to the king, and a,prebendary of the ca¬ 
thedral of Cordova, where he died in 1627. Gongora 
obtained high reputation by his poems, of which a vo¬ 
lume in quarto was publillied under the title of 
de Dom. Louis de Gongora-y-Argore. They confifl of a va¬ 
riety of compofitions, cliiefly of the Ihorter kind, efpe- 
cially lyrical, in vyhich llyle he fo much excelled, as to 
be termed by his countrymen “ the prince of lyric 
poets.” He is applaucled for having enriched the lan¬ 
guage by the introdudlion of a number of Latin words, 
happily employed. 
GO'NI, a town of China, in the province of Se-tchuen ; 
fifty-feven miles well of Oumong. 
GO'NIA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Natolia : lixteen miles well of Aphiom KarahilTar. 
GO'NINS, a town of Poland,* in the palatinate of 
Biellk ; forty-eight miles north-well of Biellk. 
GONIOMET'RICAL Lines, are lines ufed for mea- 
furing or determining the quantity of angles: Inch as 
fines, tangents, fecants, veiled fines, &c. 
^ ^ GONIO'METRY, 
