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rel nummarise antique quod literatorum reipublicre pro- 
ponit Andreas Morellius, Helvetus.” Soon after this 
Spccimeti had appeared, M. Rainfant, who was employed 
in arranging the royal cabinet of antiques, obtained the 
affiftance of Morel in deligning all the ancient medals 
which it contained. The king, Louis XIV. who wit- 
neffed his application to this talk, and was informed by 
him of his intended work, ordered him to infert in it 
all the medals of the royal cabinet. This he performed j 
and, finding that they were in no hafte to reward him 
for his pains, he applied to the minifter Louvois, who 
gave him an unfatisfa&ory anfwer. Of this treatment 
he complained with a liberty that caufed him to be com¬ 
mitted to the Baftile in July, 168S. He was well enter¬ 
tained there, and buffered to receive the viiits of his 
friends, and continue his medallic refearches. On the 
death of Rainfant in June 1689, M. de Villacerf went 
to Morel in the Baftile, and offered him the vacant 
place on condition of his conforming to the catholic 
religion. As he rejected the propofal, his imprifonment 
(according to the tyrannical maxims of converfion then 
prevalent at the French court) was rendered more rigo¬ 
rous. Villacerf, however, by repeated folicitations, ob¬ 
tained his liberty in the Auguft following ; but for fome 
new offence he was again fent to the Baftile in April 
1690, and was not liberated till November 1691, at the 
intercefiion of the grand council of Berne. Although 
the king gave him a gracious reception, and made him 
feveral prefents, he wifely quitted this land of flavery 
in 1692, and returned to Berne. He was afterwards in¬ 
vited by the count of Schwartzemberg, who had a fine 
cabinet of medals at his feat of Arnftadt. With him he 
refided till he w’as introduced by Spanheim to M. Danc- 
kelman, prime minifter of the ele&or of Brandenburg, 
who obtained for him a promife of the eleClor’s patronage 
in publifhing his great work. In 1695 he reprinted at 
Leiplic his Specimen, reviled and augmented. The 
dil'grace of Danckelman, and a paralytic attack which 
he himfeif underwent, retarded the printing of his work, 
which was not completed when he died at Arnftadt in 
1703. It was not till 1734 that it was given to the pub¬ 
lic by Sigebert Havercamp at Amfterdam, in 2 vols. folio, 
under the title of “ Thefaurus Moreliianus, five Familia- 
rum Romanarum Numil'mata omnia.” Though not fo 
complete as the author intended to have made it, it 
contains the fulleft account yet publillied of the Roman 
families, and is much efteemed by the learned. The 
engraved medals, executed with great beauty by Morel 
himfeif, are 3539 in number. Morel was a modeft man, 
and did not place too high a value on the fcience in 
which he was fo great a proficient. Medals, he laid, 
were monuments of the vanity of the ancients, which, 
though ufeful for the elucidation of hiftory, did not con¬ 
tain hiltory. He left one fon, who was a minifter in the 
church of Berne. Moreri. 
MOREL' (Robert), a French monk and author of 
much-elteemed devotional and afcetic treatifes, was de¬ 
fended from an honourable family, and born at Chaife- 
Dieu in Auvergne, in the year 1653. His inclination 
leading him to embrace the religious life, at the age of 
eighteen he took the monaftic habit among the Bene¬ 
dictines of the congregation of St. Maur, in the abbey 
of St. Faron at Meaux. Afterwards he was removed to 
the abbey of St. Gerriiain-des-Pres, where he diftinguifhed 
himfeif by his proficiency in his ftudies, and in 1680 was 
made librarian of that houfe. His merits railed him 
to different honourable polls in his order; but in 1699, 
he obtained permillion to decline all engagements of 
bufinefs, and to retire to St. Dennis, where he fpent the 
reft of his life, employed on the compofition of various 
pious and p radii cal treatifes. He died in 1731, in the 
feventy-ninth year of his age, with a high character for 
piety, integrity, charity, fimplicity, modefty, and fanClity 
of manners. The greater part of his works are written 
in a highly-devotional ftrain, and abound in Icripture- 
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language, and expreffions borrowed from the afcetic 
writings of the fathers. Hence they became exceedingly 
popular, and excited againll the author a number of en¬ 
vious enemies, who infinuated that he was a Janfenift; 
and he is defcribed as fuch, in the Bidlionary of the 
Books of Janfenills. Thefe works are, 1. Effufions of 
the Heart, on each Verfe of the Pfalms, and the Hymns 
of the Church, 1716, in 4 vols. 121110. 2. Spiritual Con- 
verfations, in the Form of Prayers, on the Gofpels for 
Sundays, and throughout the whole Year, 1720, 4 vols. 
tamo. 3. Spiritual Converfations, in the Form of Pray¬ 
ers, intended as a Preparation for Death, 1721, nmo. 
4. Chriftian Meditations on the Gofpels for the whole 
Year, 7726, 2 vols. nmo, 5. Of Chriftian Hope and 
Confidence in the Mercy of God, 1728, nrao. 6. Eft’u- 
fions of the Heart on the Song of Songs, 1730, 121110. 
and other pieces, which are enumerated by Moreri. Gen. 
Hiog\ 
MO'RELAND, f. [from mop, Sax. a mountain.] A 
mountainous or hilly country : a tradl of Staftbrdftiire 
is called the Morelands, from being hilly. 
MO'RELAND, the name of two townftiips of Penn- 
fylvania ; one in Philadelphia county, the other in that 
of Montgomery. 
MOR'ELET (Abbe), a man of letters, contemporary 
and companion with all the firft men of genius and ta¬ 
lents in France during the latter part of the 17th cen¬ 
tury. He was in England, and a gueft at the earl of 
Shelbourne’s (marquis of Lanldown), during the Ameri¬ 
can war; and intimate with Garrick, whom he had known 
in France. He had much tafte and paftion for all the 
fine arts, but chiefly for mufic, which he had ftudied, 
and upon which he feemed much to have meditated. 
In 1759, he publifhed a fmall pamphlet “ On Mufical 
Exprefiion and Imitation,” which is full of ingenious 
ideas, and well written. We ftiall only quote the fol¬ 
lowing admirable fimile: “ A beautiful and pathetic 
air is the collection of a multitude of accents efcaped 
from fouls of fenlibility, as the features of Venus have 
each exifted feparately, but never together. The fculptor 
and the mufician unite thefe difperfed features, and give 
us pleafures wdiich truth and nature never gave.” 
MORELL' (N.), a painter of flowers and fruits, born 
at Antwerp about 1664, and a difciple of Verendaal. 
When he had obtained by his abilities a confiderable 
reputation, he went to refide at Bruffels, where the court 
refided, and there loon became known to, and employed 
by, thofe of the higheft rank. The compofitions of his 
pictures are in very good ftyie, and are executed with 
freedom, and a rich tone of colouring, fuitable to the 
fubjeCts he ufually reprefented. He lived to an advanced 
age, extremely relpeCled and efteemed. 
MORELL' (Thomas, D. D. F.R. & A. SS.), a learned 
Englilh divine and lexicographer, was born in 1701, and 
died Feb. 19, 1784. He publilhed valuable editions of 
Ainfw'orth’s Latin Dictionary, and Hedericus’s Greek 
Lexicon ; and was the author of Annotations on Locke’s 
Effay : he alfo aflifted Hogarth in writing his Analyfis 
of Beauty, and leleCted the paflages of Scripture for 
Handel’s Oratorios. Fie was one of the earlieft contri¬ 
butors to the Gentleman’s Magazine. Anccd. of Bowj/er. 
MOREL'LA, a towm of Spain, in Valencia, with a caltle : 
twenty-fix miles weft-fiouth-well of Tortola, and fifty 
north-north-eaft of Segorbe. 
MOREL'LA, f. in botany; [named by Loureiro from 
the circumltance of its fruit refembling a little mulberry.] 
A genus of the clafs monoecia, order monandria, natural 
order holeracece, Linn, (atriplices, Juff'.) Generic cha¬ 
racters—I. Male. Calyx: the fmall flelhy triangular fcale 
of a ftenderllraight imbricated catkin; perianthium none. 
Corolla: none. Stamina: filament none; anther one, 
nearly ovate, at the bafe of the fcale of the catkin. II. 
Female flowers towards the top of the fame catkin. Ca- 
ljx: like the male. Piftillum : germen luperior, round- 
iih 5 ftyie none 3 ftigmas two, awl-lhaped, lpreading. 
Pericarpium; 
