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he Tent into the world a fimilar colleclion of all the texts 
from the Old Teftament, with their illultrations, which 
occur in the publications of Thomas Aquinas, with the 
title of S. Thom# Aquinatis Biblia, in 3 vols. 410. and in 
1680, he publithed A general Hilt pry of all Ages, in 3 
vols. umo, which he extended to 6 vols. in 1684. This 
is a curious and lingular, though fuperficial, production, 
exhibiting a kind of chronological (ketch of the molt re¬ 
markable events, both in the church and the world, for 
every day in the year, from the birth of Chrift to the date 
of its appearance. 
L’ENFA'NT (James), a learned and eloquent French 
proteftant divine, was born at Bazoche en Beauce, in the 
year 1661. lie commenced his theological Itudies atSau- 
raur, under the learned Louis Cappel, profefior of He¬ 
brew ; and continued them afterwards at Geneva. He 
removed from Geneva to Heidelberg in 1683, where he 
was admitted to the miniftry in the following year, and 
ordained paftor of the French church in that place. His 
pulpit-talents were much admired, and recommended him 
to the dowager eledtrefs-palatine, who appointed him her 
chaplain. In i6S8, the invafion of the Palatinate by the 
French rendering it unfafe for him to remain at Heidel¬ 
berg, he removed to Berlin, where Frederic eleftor of 
Brandenburgh appointed him paltorof one of the chorches. 
Not long afterwards, Charlotte-Sophia, queen of Prullia, 
nominated him her preacher; and, upon the death of 
this princefs, he was made chaplain to the king her Ion. 
Fie was alio appointed a counfellor of the fuperior confif- 
tory, and elected a member of the Academy of Sciences 
at Berlin. In the year 1707, he paid a vifit to England, 
where he preached before queen Anne, who was fo much 
pleafed with him that (lie offered him the poll of one of 
her chaplains ; but his attachment to Berlin induced him 
to decline this honour. His grand objeft in this jour¬ 
ney was, to collect or confult fcarce books and manu- 
fcripts, in order to procure materials for the iiiftorical 
■works which are mentioned below. With this view, in 
the fame year, he vifited Holland ; and at fubfequent pe¬ 
riods, Heimltadt, Leipfic, and Breflaw. He died of a pa¬ 
ralytic attack in 1728, about the age of fixty-feven. 
In perfon he was middle-iized, with an open pleating 
countenance; his manners were fimple and engaging; 
snd his difpofition truly amiable. His publications were 
•very numerous in the departments of divinity, ecclefiafti- 
cal hiltory, criticifm, polite and mifcellaneous literature. 
The moft" important of them are, 1. Hiltory of the Coun¬ 
cil of Pifa, 2 vols. 4to. 1724. 2. Hiltory of the Council 
of Conftance, 2 vols. 4to. 1727. 3. Hiltory of the Coun¬ 
cil of Bal'd, 2 vols. 4to. 1731. Thel'e hiltories are writ¬ 
ten with great ability and impartiality, and abound in in¬ 
teresting faffs. 4. (conjointly with M. Beaufobre,) The 
New Teftament, tranllated from the original Greek into 
French, 2 vols. 4to. 1728, with Notes, and a general pre¬ 
face, or introduction to the reading of the Scriptures. 
5. Diftertations on the New Teftament, being a continua¬ 
tion of Saurin’s Diftertations on the Bible ; 1 vol. folio, 
3 vols. 8vo. 6. De Inquirenda Veritate, 4to. 1691, which 
is a Latin tranflation of Malebranche’s Search after Truth; 
7. The Hiltory of Pope Joan, taken from the Latin Dif- 
fertation of M. Spanheim, 12100. 1694. 8. Poggiana, or 
the Life, Character, Opinions, and Bon Mots, of Poggio 
the Florentine, with his Hiftory of the Republic of Flo¬ 
rence, 2 vols. i2nio. 1720.. 9. Sermons, 2 vols, i2mo. 
LEN'GA de BAZA'SA, a province on the coaft of 
Caramania. Lat. 36. 33. N. 1011.34- n.E. 
LEN'GEFELD, a town of Saxony, in Erzgeburg: 
twelve miles fouth-eaft of Chemnitz, and thirty fouth- 
weft of Drelden. Lat. 50.40. N. Ion. 13. 7. E. 
LEN'GEFELD, or Len'genfeld, a town of Saxony, 
in the Vogtland : ten miles north-eaft of Plauen, and ten 
fouth-fouth-weft Zwickaw. Lat. 50. 27. N. Ion. 12. 22. E. 
LEN'GENWANG, a town of the bithopric of Augf- 
burg ; nine miles fouth of Gberdorf, 
L E N 
LEN'GER, a town of Perfia, in Chorafan : 162 miles 
north-north-weft of Herat. 
LEN'GER KU'RAN, a town of Perfia, in Chilan : 120 
miles north-weft of Reffid. 
LEN'GERICH, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Tecklenburg : four miles fouth of Tecklenburg. 
LtsNGT ELD, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Wertheim : nine miles north-north-weft of Wertheim. 
LENG'FELD, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg; 
three miles north-north-eaft of Wurzburg. 
LENG'FURT, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Wertheim: twelve miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Wertheim. 
LENGHI'ER, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Chorafan : feventy miles eaft of Herat. 
LEN'GIUM, a town of Sweden, in Weft Gothland : 
forty-two miles eaft of Gothenburg. 
LENGLE'T DU FRESNOY' (Nicholas), a copious 
French writer, was born at Beauvois in 1674. After he 
had palled through his initiatory ftudies at Paris, he ap¬ 
plied particularly to theology, and compofed feveral 
works in a (train of freedom which attraffed the cenfure 
of the Sorbonneand other eftabldhed bodies. He ftiowed 
liimfelf little favourable to the myftic rhapfodies of Mary 
of Agreda, and attacked the reality of alleged vifions, 
apparitions. See. Difgufted probably with the oppoikion 
he met with, he quitted divinity for politics ; and in 1705 
was fent by the minifter for foreign affiairs, Torcy, to re- 
fide at the court of the eleftor of Cologne, at Lille, in 
quality of fecretary for the Latin and French languages. 
He was alfo entrufted with the management of the foreign 
correfpondence with Bruftels and Holland, by means of 
which he became acquainted with various plots and in¬ 
trigues againft the French jntereft. A difcovery .of this 
kind rendered him inftrumental in defeating the treachery 
of an officer who had engaged to deliver one of the gates 
of Mons to the duke of Marlborough. Lenglet returned 
to France at the conclufion cf this war, and employed 
liimfelf in compofing various literary works. At the 
time of the confpirncy of the prince of Cellemare, fet on 
foot by cardinal Alberoni, he was chofen by the French 
miniftry to penetrate into this intrigue ; and his fuccefs 
was fuch, that he was rewarded with a penfion for life. 
He took a journey to Vienna in 1721, and was appointed 
by prince Eugene (who had before known and favoured 
him) his librarian ; but he ftoon loft the poft, for fome 
mifeonduft. He refufed the invitation of an opulent fif- 
ter who wiffied him to refide with her, and rather chofe 
to remain in an obfeure lodging w ith one fervant. Ris- 
mean appearance did not, however, prevent his being re¬ 
ceived in many great houfes, on account of the vivacity 
of his conversation, and the extent of his knowledge. 
Fie was much inclined to caufticity, and frequently palled 
the bounds botli of prudence and decency in his writings-; 
nor could he be prevailed upon to alter what was liable 
to objection. This freedom caufed him ten or twelve 
times to be fent to the Baftille ; and it is faid, that he 
became fo accuftomed to this puniffiment, that, upon fee¬ 
ing the ufual exempt enter his room, he would lay, “ Ah ! 
good morning, Mr. Tapin ! Here, quick (to his maid), 
my bundle of linen, fnufF, &c.” and then cheerfully 
walked away -with his conductor. In his latter years he 
was attached to chemiftry, and was thought to be in queft 
of the philofopher’s (tone. The end of this Angular man 
was tragical. Having fat down to read near the fire, he 
(lumbered over his book, and, falling upon the hearth, 
was burnt to death. He was then in his eighty-lecond 
year ; at)d, from the foundnefs of his conftitution, Teemed 
likely to laft fome years longer. The long catalogue of 
the publications of Lenglet is not now worth copying* 
A great part of them confift of editions of other writers* 
to which he added notes and illultrations, often fatirical, 
and not unfrequently licentious. His beft work is el- 
teemed to be his “ Methode pour etudier l’Hiftoire, avee 
un Catalogue des principaux Hiftoriens,” 12 vols. i2mo* 
t vols*. 
