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elevation of their country. Each party, animated by the 
same principles of action, feared from the other the stroke of 
death, and therefore hastened to anticipate it. Near the time 
of Robespierre’s death every man in power was compelled to 
kill lest he should himself be killed; and to this personal 
fear even the atrocities of Robespierre himself must be partly 
attributed. 
The above reflexions have been suggested to us by a 
recent perusal of Mignet’s History of the French Revolution. 
As to the facts of that event, we find nothing material to 
add to what we have said under the article France, to 
which we refer our readers. 
REVOLUTIONARY, adj. Originating in a revolution. 
—The form of that monster in politics, of which, as the very 
notion involves a contradiction of ideas, the name cannot be 
expressed without a contradiction in terms, “ a rcvolu- 
tionary government!” Lord Mornington. 
REVOLUTIONIST, s. A favourer of revolutions: 
of the same origin and character as r evolution ary. —If all 
revolutionists were not proof against all caution, I should 
recommend it to their consideration, that no persons were 
ever known in history, either sacred or profane, to vex the 
sepulchre. Burke. 
To REVO'MIT, v. a. [revomir , Fr.] To vomit; to 
vomit again.—They might cast it up, and take more, vo- 
mitting and revomitting what they drink. Hakewill. 
REVU'LSION, s. [revulsus, Lat.] The act of revelling 
or drawing humours from a remote part of the body.—I had 
heard of some strange cures of frenzies, by casual appli¬ 
cations of fire to the lower parts, which seems reasonable 
enough, by the violent revulsion it may make of humours 
from the head. Temple. —The act of withholding or drawing 
back.—There is no excuse to forget what every thing prompts 
unto us.—To run on in despite of the revulsions and pullbacks 
of such remoras, aggravates our transgressions. Brown. 
REVUL'SIVE, ~s. Revulsion, in its medical sense.—His 
flux of blood breaking forth again with greater violence than 
it had done before, was not to be stopped by outward appli¬ 
cations, nor the revulsives of any kind, not of its own, the 
opening of a vein, first in the arm, and after in the foot. Fell. 
—That which has the power of subducting or withdrawing. 
—In his sicknesses, he never intermitted study, but rather 
reinforced it then as the most appropriate revulsive and di¬ 
version of pain. Fell. 
REVULSIVE, adj. Having the power of revulsion. 
REUS, a considerable town of Spain, in Catalonia, 
situated in a fertile plain, about six miles from the sea. Its 
harbour is at a village called Salon, and is joined to the 
town by a canal, and business is carried on here with an 
activity very seldom exemplified in Spain. In the middle of 
the 18th century. Reus was little more than a village, where 
the merchants of the chief towns of Catalonia had agents to 
purchase the wine, brandy, and fruit of the adjaceut country; 
but manufactures of silk, cottons, leather, hats, as well as of 
brandy and liquors, have been progressively established; 
and the population, having continued in a course of augmen¬ 
tation, now exceeds 20 , 000 , who are in general marked by 
the characteristic perseverance of the Catalans, and very 
different from the Spaniards of the south , 8 miles west from 
Tarragona. 
REUSE, a small river in the west of Switzerland, which 
flows into the lake of Neufchatel. 
REUSS, a principality of the interior of Germany, in 
Upper Saxony, divided into two parts, of which the one 
adjoins the Prussian, the other the Bavarian territories. The 
area of the whole is about 600 square miles; the population 
85,000. The surface is in general hilly, and better adapted 
for pasture than tillage. The hills contain extensive planta¬ 
tions, with productive mines of copper and lead ; also a few 
of iron, silver, alum, and vitriol. The more extensive manu 
factures are of woollen and linen; the smaller of leather, 
cottons, and hardware. The chief town is Gera. The 
north-east corner of the principality is watered by the Elster, 
the south-west by the Saale. 
Vox. XXII. No. 1482. 
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The princes of Reuss are of a very old family, repeatedly 
divided and subdivided into lesser branches. At present it 
consists of two principal lines, the elder and the younger. 
The younger has an income of £40,000 sterling, the elder of 
only £ 13,000. They participate in the votes of the diet of 
the Germanic confederation ; and even in this petty princi¬ 
pality there exists a deliberative body, under the name, and 
on the old plan of states. The prevailing religion is the 
Lutheran. 
REUSS, one of the largest rivers of Switzerland, which 
issues from the small lake Luzendro, in Mount St. Gothard, 
flows through the lake called the Waldstadtersee, passes by 
Lucerne, and falls into the Aar, near Bruck. Flowing 
through a very mountainous country, it has a great number 
of waterfalls, and receives mountain streams in rapid succes¬ 
sion. On this river, below the valley of Urseren, is the 
Devil’s bridge, consisting of a single arch, of 80 feet span, 
at a spot where the river has a fall of 100 feet. It abounds 
in salmon, some of which are of great size. . It becomes 
navigable at Lucerne. 
REUTLINGEN, a town of Germany, in Wirtemberg, on 
the small river Echetz ; 19 miles south-by-east of Stutgard. 
It is a place of antiquity, and, after being long a free town, 
was incorporated with the dominions of Wirtemberg. Its 
population, amounting to 8300, are Lutherans, and carry on 
manufactures on a small scale, but of great variety, viz. 
woollen, linen, cotton, and leather; also hardware, soap, 
hats, and paper. The chief public buildings are a church 
in the Gothic style, and the town-house, which is also of 
old date. Here is likewise a lyceum or high school, and a 
well endowed hospital. Though no longer a place of 
strength, it .is surrounded with a mound and ditch. 
REVUCRA, a town of the north of Hungary; 13 miles 
north of Neusohl. Population 1300. 
REW,s. [paapa, Sax. reihe, German, rank, order, series.] 
The old word lor row. A rew of trees. Barret. —“ A veto 
or rank.” Sherwood.—Rew is also the Cornish word. 
Wicliffe, Gower, and Chaucer, use it. 
The goddesse with her crew,— 
Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew. Spenser.- 
REWAH, a town of Hindostan, province of Allahabad, 
district of Bogilcund. It is situated on the banks of the Bija 
river, is of considerable extent, and is the residence of a 
Hindoo chief, now tributary to the British. It contains a 
good citadel, built of stone, and the country in the vicinity is 
well cultivated. Lat. 24. 27. N. Long. 81. 25. E. 
To REWA'RD, v. a. [From the ancient French rewer- 
don, i. e. reguerdon ; rewerdonement, recompense.” Roque¬ 
fort. ] To give in return.—Thou hast rewarded me good, 
whereas I have rewarded thee evil. 1 Sam. xxiv. 17 — 
To repay; to recompense for something good. 
To judge the unfaithful dead, but to reward 
His faithful, and receive them into bliss. Milton. 
REWA'RD, s. Recompense given for good performed. 
To myself I owe this due regard. 
Not to make love my gift, but my reward. Dry den. 
It is sometimes used with a mixture of irony, for punish¬ 
ment or recompense of evil.—What reward shall be given 
or done unto thee, thou false tongue ? even mighty and 
sharp arrows, with hot burning coals. Ps. cxx. 3. 
REWA'RDABLE, adj. Worthy of reward.—The action 
that is but indifferent, and without reward, if done only 
upon our own choice, is an act of religon, and rewardable 
by God, if done in obedience to our superiors. Bp. 
Taylor. 
REWA'RDABLENESS, s. Worthiness of reward.— 
What can be the praise or rewardableness of doing that 
which a man cannot chuse but do ? Goodman. 
REWA'RDER, s. One that rewards; one that recom¬ 
penses.—A liberal rewarder of his friends. Shakspeare. 
K REWARY, 
