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t mulous; full of competition.—I could not, without ex- 
t reme reluctance, refign the theme of your beauty to ano- 
•her hand: give me leave to acquaint the world that I am 
Jealous of this fubjeft. Dryden. —Zealoufly cautious again!!: 
difhonour.—I have been very jealous for the Lord God of 
hofts. i Kings. —Sulpicioully vigilant.—I am jealous over 
you with godly jealoufy. 2 Cor. ii. a.—Sufpicioully care¬ 
ful.—Although he were a prince in military virtue ap¬ 
proved, and jealous of the honour of the Englilh nation, 
yet his cruelties and parricides weighed down his virtues. 
Bacon. —Sufpicioully fearful.—While the people are fo jea¬ 
lous of the clergy’s ambition, I do not fee any other me¬ 
thod left for them to reform the world, than by Tiling all 
honed arts to make themfelves acceptable to the laity. 
Swift. 
’Tis doing wrong creates fuch doubts as thefe; 
Renders us jealous, and dedroys your peace. Waller. 
. JEAL'OUSLY, adv Sufpicioully ; emuloufly; with fuf- 
picious fear,' vigilance, or caution. 
JEAL'OUSNESS, f. The date of being jealous; rival¬ 
ry ; lufpicion ; fufpicious vigilance.—Nor is it hard for 
thee to preferve me amidd the unjuft hatred and jealoufnefs 
ot too many, which thou haft buffered to prevail upon me. 
King Charles. 
JEAL'OUSY,yi \_jaloufe, Fr.] Sufpicion in love : 
Small jealoufies, ’tis true, inflame defire ; 
Too great, not fan, but quite, blow out, the fire. Dryden. 
Sufpicious fear.—The obftinacy of Effex, in refufing to 
treat with the king, proceeded only from his jealoufy, that 
when the king had got him into his hands he would take 
revenge upon him. Clarendon. —Sufpicious caution, vigi¬ 
lance, or rivalry.— Jealoufy is the fear or appreheniion of 
fuperiority. Shenjlone. 
O how haft thou with jealoufy infected 
The fweetnefs of affiance l Shahefpeare. 
JEAN, a woman’s name. 
JEAN DE BAR'RE, an iftand of Africa, in the king¬ 
dom of Senegal, about five leagues in circumference. 
JEAN RABEL', a town on the north-weft part of the 
north peninfula of the iftand of Domingo, in lat. 19. 55. N. 
and in Ion. 75. 42. W. from Paris. It is four leagues eaft 
of the Mole, and thirty-two weft of Cape Francois. Jean 
Rabel Point forms the anchorage of that name, which is 
good, fafe, and eafy to fetch. The landing-place is a 
very good one, even if there Ihould be a fwell ; it is un¬ 
der the fort, which is exceedingly well placed, and makes 
it a very good retreat from an enemy. 
JEANNIN' (Peter), a very able and honeft minifter of 
ftate, born in 1540, was brought up to the law, and firft 
afied in quality of an advocate in the parliament of Bur¬ 
gundy, where he boon diftinguilhed himfelf by his elo¬ 
quence and force of argument. The ftates of Burgundy 
appointed him agent for the affairs of the province. In 
this fituation he difplayed his worth and humanity by re- 
fifting, with all his power, the order for perpetrating at 
Dijon the fame horrid maffacre of the proteftants on St. 
Bartholomew’s-day, which took place at Paris and in other 
cities, protefting that it was impoffible that the king could 
perfift in fuch a cruel purpofe; and a courier arrived a 
few days after to revoke it. This was the more meritori¬ 
ous in him, as he was a zealous catholic; infomuch that 
he was induced, by the zeal which the leaguers affeCted 
for religion and the good of the ftate, to join their party. 
Eventually this circumftance was highly ferviceable to the 
kingdom ; for, being deputed by the duke of Mayenne to 
negociate with Philip II. of Spain, the declared protedlor 
of the league, he foon difcovered that the real defign of 
that prince in fupporting the civil war in France was to 
gain poffeffion of fome of its belt provinces. He tha-efore, 
on his return, exerted his influence with the duke to de* 
faQh him from the Spaniards, and diipole him to acknovv- 
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ledge Ills lawful fovereign.. After Mayenne had returned 
to his duty, Henry IV. was defirous to engage Jeannin in 
his lervice ; and, when the latter honeftly objected that it 
was not fit that his majefty ffiould prefer an old leaguer 
to fo many perfons of undeviating fidelity,' Henry replied 
“that lie who had been faithful to a duke would never 
be otlierwife to a king.” From that time he was one of 
Henry’s principal advifers and confidents, and was chofen 
for the management of the mod delicate negociations. He 
had a great lhare in effecting an agreement between the 
king of Spain and the United Provinces, and obtained the 
applaufe of both parties for his conduft. Henry, having 
once difcovered that a fecret of ftate had been revealed, 
complained of it at the council-board, faying, at the fame 
time, while he took the prefident Jeannin by the hand, 
“ I anfwer for this good man ; the reft of you muft exa¬ 
mine one another.” After the death of that great king, 
Jeannin was entrufted by the queen-mother with the ma¬ 
nagement qf the greateft affairs, efpecially the adminiftra- 
tion of the finances ; and the moderate fortune he left was 
a proof of his integrity in this department. He poffeffed 
an elevated mind, and knew his own value. When once 
alked, by a prince who meant to difconcert him, whofe 
fon he was ; he replied, “ The fon of my virtues.” This 
refpe&able minifter, who had witheffed the fucceffion of 
feven kings to the throne of France, died in 1622, at the 
age of eighty-two. His Memoirs and Negociations were 
publiffied in 1659, folio, Paris; and in 1695, fourvolumes 
nmo. They are accounted excellent guides for the ma¬ 
nagement of important and difficult concerns, and were 
much ltudied by cardinal Richelieu. 
JEAR, or Geer, /. in the fea-language, an afferablage 
of tackles, by which the lower yards of a Ihip are hoifted 
along the malt to their ufual llation, or lowered from 
thence as occafion requires ; the former of which opera¬ 
tions is called fwaying, and the latter firiking. 
JE'AR-BLOCK,yi A fea term ; a block faftened at the 
malt head, a block laffied to the yard. 
JE'AR-ROPE, f. A fea term; the rope, by which the 
jear-blocks are laflred. 
JEATERA'I, [Hebrew. J The name of a man. 
JEBB (Samuel, M. D.) a man of learning, and editor 
of feveral works, was a native of Nottingham. He be¬ 
came a member of Peter-houle, Cambridge, and, imbibing 
the fentiments of the' non-jurors, accepted tile office of 
librarian to Jeremy Collier. While at Peter-houfe he 
printed a tranflation of Martin’s Anfwers to Emlyn, 17185 
and in the following year published an edition of Juftin 
Martyr. On leaving the univerfity, he married the daugh¬ 
ter of an eminent apothecary in London, from whom he 
took inftruftions in pharmacy. He however, continued 
his literary purfuits; and was the editor, in 1722, of a pe¬ 
riodical work, entitled, Bibliotheca Literaria, which only 
reached ten numbers, though enriched with the contri¬ 
butions of feveral eminent icholars. Mr. Jebb, at ■what 
period we do not learn, took the degree of M. D. and fet¬ 
tled at Stratford, Eflex, where he continued to praCtife 
till late in life. He finally retired with a moderate fortune 
into Derbyffiire, where he died in 1772. One of his fons 
was fir Richard Jebb, M. D. mentioned in the following 
article. 
JEBB (John), an eminent fcholar, divine, and phyfi- 
cian, was the eldeft fon of the Rev. John Jebb, dean of 
Calhell, of a Nottinghamffiire family. He was born at 
London in 1736, and received his early education in va¬ 
rious fchools in Ireland and England. In 1753 he was 
entered a penfioner of Trinity college, Dublin, which he 
quitted the next year for St. Peter’s college, Cambridge. 
He took there the degree of B. A. in 1757, and immedi¬ 
ately engaged in the office of ? private tutor, which, with 
his other Itudies, he purfued with Angular diligence and 
aftiduity. In 1760 he was admitted probationer-fellow of 
St. Peter’s college, and in the enfuing year he proceeded 
to the degree of M. A. and was confirmed fellow. In 
