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something else.—They did not need a succedaneum to that 
inward conscious persuasion. Warburton. 
To SUCCE'ED, v. n. [succeder, Fr.; succedo, Lat.] 
To follow in order.—Those of all ages to succeed —will curse 
my head. Milton. —To come into the place of one who has 
quitted or died. 
Enjoy till I return 
Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed. Milton. 
To obtain one’s wish; to terminate an undertaking in the 
desired effect.—’Tis almost impossible for poets to succeed 
without ambition : imagination must be raised by a desire of 
fame to a desire of pleasing. Dry den.— To terminate ac¬ 
cording to wish; to have a good effect.—This was impos¬ 
sible for Virgil to imitate, because of the severity of the Ro¬ 
man language: Spenser endeavoured it in Shepherd’s 
Kalendar; but neither will it succeed in English. Dryden. 
—To go under cover. Unused. 
Please that silvan scene to take, 
Where whistling winds uncertain shadows make; 
Or will you to the cooler cave succeed. 
Whose mouth the curling vines have overspread. Dryden. 
To SUCCEED, v. a. To follow; to be subsequent or 
consequent to.—In that place no creature was hurtful unto 
man, and those destructive effects they now discover suc¬ 
ceeded the curse, and came in with thorns and briars. 
Brown. —To prosper; to make successful. 
Succeed my wish, and second my design, 
The fairest Deiopea shall be thine, 
And make thee father of a happy line. Dryden. 
SUCCE'EDER, s. One who follows; one who comes 
into the place of another.—Nature has so far imprinted it in 
us, that should the envy of predecessors deny the secret to 
succeeders, they yet would find it out. Suckling. 
SUCCE'SS, s. The termination of any affair happy or 
unhappy. Success without any epithet is commonly taken 
for good success. 
Perplex’d and troubled at his bad success 
The tempter stood. Milton. 
Succession. Obsolete. 
All the sons of these five brethren reigned 
By due success, and all their nephews late. 
Even thrice eleven descents, the crown retained. Spenser. 
SUCCESS, a township of the United States, in Coos 
county. New Hampshire, east of the Androscoggen; 23 
miles east of Lancaster. 
SUCCESS BAY, or Goon Success Bay, a bay on the 
south-east coast of Terra del Fuego, in the straits of Le Maire. 
On the mountains inland of this bay, Mr. Banks and Dr. 
Solander found many new Alpine plants, unknown in 
Europe; but the cold was so intense, that the latter had well 
nigh fallen a sacrifice to its severity in the midst of summer. 
Dr. Solander, who had more than once crossed the moun¬ 
tains which divide Sweden from Norway, well knew that 
extreme cold, especially when joined with fatigue, produces 
a torpor and sleepiness that are almost irresistible; he there¬ 
fore conjured the company to keep moving, whatever pain it 
might cost them, and whatever relief they might be pro¬ 
mised by an inclination to rest. Whoever sits down, says 
he, will sleep; and whosoever sleeps will wake no more. 
Dr. Solander himself was the first who found the inclination, 
against which he had warned others, irresistible; and insisted 
upon being suffered to he down. Mr. Banks intreated and 
remonstrated in vain; down he lay upon the ground, though 
it was covered with snow, and it was with great difficulty 
that his friend kept him from sleeping. Richmond also, one 
of the black servants, began to linger, having suffered from 
the cold in the same manner as the doctor. Mr. Banks there¬ 
fore, sent five of the company, among whom was Mr. Bu¬ 
chan, forward to get a fire ready at the first convenient place 
they could find, and himself and four others remained with 
the doctor and Richmond, whom, partly by persuasion and 
intreaty, and partly by force, they brought on, till they 
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both declared they could go no farther. Mr. Banks had re¬ 
course to intreaty and expostulation, but they produced no 
effect. When Richmond was told that if he did not go now 
he would in a short time be frozen to death, he answered, 
that he desired nothing but to lie down and die. The doctor 
did not so explicitly renounce his life; he said he was willing 
to go on, but. that he must first take some sleep, though he 
had before told the company that to sleep was to perish. 
Mr. Banks and the rest found it impossible to carry them, and 
there being no remedy, they were suffered to sit down, being 
partly supported by the bushes, and in a few minutes they 
fell into a profound sleep. Soon after, some of the people 
who had been sent forward returned with the welcome news 
that a fire was kindled about a quarter of a mile farther on 
the way. Mr. Banks then endeavoured to wake Dr. Solan¬ 
der, and happily succeeded; but though he had not slept five 
minutes, he had almost lost the use of his limbs, and the 
muscles were so shrunk that his shoes fell from his feet; he 
consented to go forward, with such assistance as could be given 
him, but no attempts to relieve poor Richmond were success¬ 
ful. Richmond, and a seaman sent to his relief, died. Lat. 
54. 50. S. long. 65. 27. W. 
SUCCESS Cape, or Cape Good Success, a cape on 
the south coast of Terra del Fuego, which forms the south¬ 
west entrance of the straits of Le Maire. Lat. 54. 58. S. 
long. 66. 14. W. 
SUCCESSFUL, adj. Prosperous; happy; fortunate. 
He observ’d the illustrious throng, 
Their names, their fates, their conduct and their care 
In peaceful senates and successful war. Dryden. 
The early hunter 
Blesses Diana’s hand, who leads him safe 
O’er hanging cliffs; who spreads his net successful. 
And guides the arrow through the panther’s heart. Prior. 
SUCCESSFULLY, ado. Prosperously; luckily; fortu¬ 
nately.—He is too young, yet he looks successfully. 
Shakspeare. 
SUCCESSFULNESS, s. Happy conclusion; desired 
event; series of good fortune.—An opinion of the success¬ 
fulness of the work is as necessary to found a purpose of un¬ 
dertaking it, as the authority of commands, or the persuasive¬ 
ness of promises. Hammond. 
SUCCESSION, s. [successio, Lat.] Consecution; se¬ 
ries of one thing or person following another.—Reflection 
on appearances of several ideas, one after another, in our 
minds, furnishes us with the idea of succession. Locke. — 
A series of tilings or persons following one another.—These 
decays in Spain have been occasioned by so long a war with 
Holland; but most by two successions of inactive princes. 
Bacon. —A lineage; an order of descendants. 
Cassibelan 
And his succession, granted Rome a tribute. Shakspeare. 
The power or right of coming to the inheritance of ances¬ 
tors. 
What people is so void of common sense, 
To vote succession from a native prince ? Dryden. 
SUCCESSIVE, adj. [ successif, Fr.] Following in 
order; continuing a course or consecution uninterrupted. 
God hath set 
Labour and rest, as day and night to men 
Successive. Milton. 
Inherited by succession. Not in use. 
Countrymen, 
Plead my successive title with your swords. Titus. 
SUCCESSIVELY, ado. [successivement, Fr.] In un¬ 
interrupted order ; one after another. 
Three sons he left. 
All which successively by turns did reign. Spenser. 
SUCCESSIVENESS, s. The state of being successive.— 
All the notion we have of duration is partly by the succes¬ 
siveness, of its own operations, and partly by those external 
measures that it finds in motion. Hale. 
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