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snatic poets. Voltaire fays of the firft, that, although 
unequal, and too declamatory, it is fuperior to the Medea 
of Peter Corneille. He wrote other tragedies in the fame 
ftyle, which had the merit of not enfeebling the grand 
and terrible by the intermixture of infipid love-fcenes ; 
but at the fame time they too clofely imitated the prolix 
common-place and the naked plots of the Greek theatre, 
without emulating its beauty of didiion. Longepierre 
died at Paris in 1721. Moreri. 
LONGE'RI, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Loango, where the kings are generally interred. 
LON'GETERRE, a fmall ifland near the weft coaft of 
France : two miles weft of Bourg Neuf. Lat. 47. 1. 
LON'GEVILLE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Mofelle : four miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Boulay, and 
three weft of St. Avoid. 
LON'GEVILLE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Upper Marne: fifteen miles fouth-fouth-welt of 
St. Dizier. 
LONGEVITY, f [ longavus , Lat.] Length of life.— 
The inftnnces of longevity are chiefly amongft the ahfte- 
tnious. Arbuthnct on Aliments ..—See the article Life, vol. 
xii. p. 634. 
LONGE'VOUS, aclj. [from the L3t. longus, long, and 
tevum, an age.] Living long, long-lived. 
LONG'FIELD, a village in Buckinghamfhire, near 
Fenny Stratford. 
LONG'FIELD, a village in Kent, between Dartford 
anil Cobham. 
LONG'FLEET, Dorfet, at the bottom of Poole-har- 
bour; a member of Great Lanford. 
LONG'FORD, a county of Ireland, in the province of 
Leinfter, bounded on the north-weft by the county of 
Leitrim, on the north-eaft by Cavan, on the fouth and 
fouth-eaft by Weftmeath, and on the weft by Rofcommon, 
about 21 miles in length, and 14 in its general breadth. 
I-t contains 23 parifhes, about 10,000 houfes, and rather 
more than 50,000 inhabitants. Towards the north it is 
mountainous, but the other part is in general flat, in 
fome places fubjedi to be overflowed by the Shannon, 
which bounds it on the weft, and the Inny, which erodes 
it on the fouth. A confiderable quantity of linen is ma¬ 
nufactured in the county, and great quantities of flax are 
fent to other parts. It is intended that the Royal Canal 
fhould crofs this county, and join the Shannon at Tar- 
Kionbury ; a meafure which cannot fail of leading to much 
improvement, if it fhould be ever completed. The towns 
are fmall. For Longford, the county-town, fee the next 
article; and for Granard and Lanefborough, thofe names 
in their alphabetical order. 
Edgeworthftown, though not of importance enough to 
form a feparate article in this work, is remarkable for the 
refidence of a family diftinguiflied for literary and fcien tific 
attainments. The name of Maria Edgeworth is too well 
known, and her talents as a pleafing and ufeful author too 
generally acknowledged, to need our praife. The fame 
may be faid of her lively, ingenious, and patriotic, father, 
Richard Lovell Edgeworth ; and there is reafon to expedl 
that fome of the younger branches of this family will add 
to a celebrity already very great. We might inftance the 
reports of the bog-commiflioners, the eighth of which con¬ 
tains many proofs of the ingenuity of Mr. William Edge- 
worth Mr. Edgeworth’s houfe and the adjoining church 
contain many proofs of his mechanical tkill.—The whole 
of the county of Longford was formerly called Annaly, 
and was a principality fo late as the fifteenth century. 
It is now only reprefented in parliament by two knights 
of the (hire ; though it had, before the union, no lefs than 
four boroughs, which fent two members each. 
LONG'FORD, a town of Ireland, in the county of 
that name, on the river Cammin. Here was formerly a 
Dominican convent, founded in 1400, by O’Farrel bifhop 
of Ardagh. In 1641, this town was taken by the Iriflt 
rebels, and the garrifon in the caftle murdered after a 
promile of quarter. It has a charter-fchool for fixty boys. 
LON 
It is forty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Sligo, and fifty-eight 
weft-north-weft of Dublin. Lat. 52.42. N. Ion. 7. 45. W. 
LONG'FORD, a village in Derbylhire, weft of Derby. 
—A village in Gloucefterfhire, near Gloucefter.—A vil¬ 
lage in Middlefex, fouth-eaft of Colnbrook.—A village 
in Shropfliire, near Drayton. 
LONG'FORD’s BUR'LEY, a hamlet in the parifh of 
Hampton, Gloucefterfhire. 
LONG'HAM, a village in Dorfetfhire, eaft of Winburn- 
minfter ; with a bridge, built in 1740. 
LONG'HAM, a village in Norfolk, north-weft of Eaft 
Dereham.—A village in Somerfetfhire, north-weft of So- 
merton. 
LONpHA'VEN, a bay of Scotland, on the coaft of 
Aberdeenfhire : four miles fouth of Peterhead. 
LONG'HOLM. See Langholm, vol. xii. p. 150. 
LONG'HOPE, a village and parifh in Gloucefterfhire ; 
three miles north-eaft of Mitchel-Dean, and nine north- 
weft of Gloucefter. Part of Yartleton-hill lies in this 
parifh. Annually on the firft of May, there is a cuflom 
of aflembling in bodies on the top of that hill, from the 
feveral parifhes, to fight for the poffeflion of it, upon 
which account it is fometimes called May-hill. What 
gave rife to this cuflom is the ancient Campus Martins, 
which was an annual afiembly of the people upon May- 
day, when they confederated together to defend the king¬ 
dom againft ail foreigners and enemies, as mentioned in 
the laws of Edward the Confeflbr. The church is a large 
building in form of a crofs ; and has a fpire with five bells 
at the weft end. The chancel was rebuilt, and the church 
repaired, in the year 1771. 
LONG'HURST, a village in Northumberlandfhire, 
north-eaft of Morpeth. 
LONGIA'NO, a town of Italy, in the department of 
the Rubicon : twelve miles north-weft of Rimino. 
LONGILO'QUY, f. [from the Lat. longus, long, and 
loquor, to fpeak.] A long difcourfe. Bailey. 
LONGIMA'NOUS, adj. \Jongimaniis, Lat.] Long¬ 
handed ; having long hands.—The villainy of this Chrif- 
tian exceeded the perfecution of heathens, whole malice 
was never fo longimanous as to reach the foul of their ene¬ 
mies, or to extend unto the exile of their elyfiums. Brown. 
LONGIM'ANUS, a furname of Artaxerxes from liis 
having one hand longer than the other. The Greeks 
called him Macrochir, which fignifies the fame. 
LONGIM'ETRY, f. \_longus, and The art or 
practice of meafuring diltances.—Our two eyes are like 
two different (tations in longimetry, by the alii (tan ce of 
which the diftance between two objedis is meafured. 
Cheyne's Phil. Pr. 
LONG'ING,yi [from To long. ] Earned ; defire; con¬ 
tinual wifh.—W 1 • 1 within fhort time I came to the de¬ 
gree of uncertain wifhes, and that thofe fifties grew to 
unquiet longings, when I would fix my thoughts upon no¬ 
thing, but that within little varying they fhould end with 
Philociea. Sidney. 
I have a woman’s longing. 
An appetite that I am fick withal. 
To fee great Hedtor in the weeds of peace. Shaie/peare. 
Sometimes with after.—- The will is left to the purfuit of 
nearer fatisfadiions, and to the removal of thofe uneafi- 
nefies which it then feels in its want of, and longings after , 
them. Locke. 
Whence then this pleafing hope, this fond defire. 
This longing after immortality. Addifon's Cate. 
Longing in pregnant women, an inordinate defile for 
fome particular kind of food, which, if not procured for 
them, was fuppofed to occafion wafting, and fometimes 
hyfteric affedtions, in the woman ; and on the child, be- 
lides impairing its health, to imprefs the figure of the ob¬ 
ject longed for. This affeftion, which heretofore occa- 
fioned in families much anxiety and uneafinefs, feems 
wearing away, juft in proportion as the belief in witches, 
■ghofts, 
