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shire; 8* miles north-by-east by Skipton.—21. Thorpe, 
Sacheville, a township of England, in Leicestershire; 51- 
miles south-by-west of Melton Mowbray. — 22. Thorpe, 
Salvin, a parish of England, West-Riding of Yorkshire; 
13 miles south-west of Bawtry. — 23. Thorpe-le-Soken, 
a parish of England, in the county of Essex. Population 
1033; 8 miles south-east-by-east of Manningtree.—24. 
Thorpe-in-the-Steeet, a township of England, East- 
Riding of Yorkshire; 2 miles north-west-by-west of Market 
Weigliton. — 25. Thorpe, Thewles, a township of England, 
in Durham; 6 miles north-west of Stockton-upon-Tees.— 
26. Thorpe, Tinley, a township of England, in Lincoln¬ 
shire ; 7 miles north-north-east of Sleaford. — 27. Thorpe, 
Underwood, a hamlet of England, in Northamptonshire ; 5 
miles west-norih-west of Kettering.—28. Thorpe-under- 
Woods, a township of England, West-Riding of Yorkshire; 
Gj miles south-east of Aldborough. — 29. Thorpe-by-Wa¬ 
ter, a township of England, in Rutlandshire; 5 miles south- 
east-by-south of Uppingham. — 30. Thorpe, Watervi/le, a 
township of England, in Northamptonshire; 2f miles north¬ 
east of Thrapston.—31. Thorpe, West, a parish of Eng¬ 
land, in Lincolnshire; 84 miles north-west-by-north of Lin¬ 
coln.—32. Thorpe, Willoughby, a township of England, 
West-Riding of Yorkshire; 24 miles west-south-west of 
Selby. 
THORR1NGTON, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 3 
miles south-east of Halesworth. 
THORRINGTON, a parish of England, in Essex; 8 miles 
squth-east-by-east of Colchester. 
THORSHAVEN, a petty town of the Faroe Islands, in 
Stromoe, the largest of the group. It is built on a tongue of 
land, the water on each side of which affords anchorage for 
vessels, by the aid of large iron ranges fixed in the rocks. 
The inhabitants, only 600 in number, obtain their subsist¬ 
ence by fishing. Their houses are of wood, roofed with 
birch bark and turf, and arranged in no regular plan. 
THORVERTON, a parish of England, in Devonshire ; 
5y miles east-by-north of Crediton. Population 1248. 
THOSE, pronoun. The plural of that. 
Make all our trumpets speak, give them all breath, 
Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death. 
Shakspeare. 
Those refers to the former, these to the latter noun. 
Neither their sighs nor tears are true. 
Those idly blow, these idly fall. 
Nothing like to ours at all. 
But sighs and tears have sexes too. Cowley. 
THOU, pron. [<5u, Saxon; du, Dutch; in the oblique 
cases singular thee, Se, Saxon ; in the plural ye, ( ye, Saxon; 
in the oblique cases plural you, eoJ>, Saxon.] You is now 
commonly used for the nominative plural_The second pro¬ 
noun personal. 
Is this a dagger which I see before me, 
The handle tow’rd my hand ? Come let me clutch thee. 
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. 
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible 
To feeling as to sight ? Shakspeare. 
It is used only in very familiar or very solemn language. 
When we speak to equals or superiors, we say you ; but in 
solemn language, and in addresses of worship, we say thou. 
[Familiar:]—Here’s to thee Dick. Cowley. —[Solemn] :— 
For though in dreadful whirls we hung 
High on the broken wave, 
I know thou wert not slow to hear. 
Not impotent to save. Addison. 
To THOU, v. a. To treat with familiarity; to address in 
a kind of contempt. 
Avaunt, catyfe, dost thou thou me ? 
I am come of good kynne. Old Morality. 
THOU, James Augustus de, (Thuanus,) an eminent ma¬ 
gistrate and historian, was the son of Christopher de Thou, 
president of the parliament of Paris, distinguished for 
Voi.. XXIII. No. 1620. 
integrity and patriotism, and born at Paris in the year 1553. 
In the college of Burgundy, where he was placed at the age 
of ten years, his education was interrupted by a fever, which 
seemed for some time to have proved fatal to him; but upon 
his recovery he studied the civil law, first at Orleans, and 
afterwards at Valence, under the celebrated Cujacius, in which 
latter place he commenced an intimate acquaintance with 
Joseph Scaliger, which was continued through life. Upon 
his return to Paris in 1572, he witnessed the horrors of the 
massacre of St. Bartholomew, and this scene impressed him 
with an eternal detestation of bigotry and intolerance. He 
was originally destined for the church, with the prospect of 
valuable preferments, which his uncle, the bishop of Chartres, 
intended to resign to him. In the mean while he travelled 
to Italy, the Low Countries, and Germany ; but upon the 
death of his brother, his views were changed, and the law 
became his destined profession. After the death of his 
father, whose memory he held in high veneration, he was 
made master of requests in 1584; and in 1587, he married 
Marie Barbanson, a lady of a noble family. Upon the re¬ 
volt of Paris, on occasion of the league, in 1586, he repaired 
to Henry III. at Chartres, and was deputed by him to 
confirm the province of Normandy in its allegiance. On 
the assassination of the duke of Guise, his family at Paris re¬ 
ceived public insults, which made it necessary for his wife 
to make her escape in disguise, and he went to the king at 
Blois, who was almost deserted, and induced him to form 
a coalition with Henry, king of Navarre. Being at Venice, 
he was informed of the assassination of Henry III., after 
which he immediately joined the legitimate successor to the 
crown, Henry IV., at Chateaudun. The king, fully ap¬ 
prized of his excellent qualities, reposed confidence in him, 
and employed him in many interesting negociations. On 
the death of Amyot, the king’s principal librarian, De 
Thou was nominated his successor; and in 1594 he suc¬ 
ceeded his uncle as “ president a mortier.” He officiated 
as one of the Catholic commissioners at the theological con¬ 
ference of Fontainebleau between Du Perron and Du Plessis 
Mornai; and in the regency of Mary de Medicis, he was 
one of the directors-general of the finances. At the con¬ 
ference of Loudun, he acquired distinguished reputation by 
his virtue and ability; and he was joined with cardinal Du 
Perron in a commission for the reform of the university of 
Paris, and the construction of the college-royal, the edifice 
of which was begun under his superintendance. The work 
which has established his permanent fame, is “The History 
of his own Times,” the first part of which appeared in 1604. 
The condemnation of this interesting work reflects indelible 
discredit on Henry IV. and his court. De Thou has annexed 
“ Commeniaries or Memoirs of his own Life.” 
Having lost his first wife in 1601, whose virtues he cele¬ 
brated in a Latin poem; and having no issue, he married, 
in 1603, a second wife, of a noble family, by whom he had 
three sons and three daughters, and she died in 1616. This 
loss, and the calamities that befel his country on the murder 
of Henry IV., are supposed to have hastened his own death, 
which happened in 1617, at the age of 64 years. His library, 
which was very valuable, and which by his will was to have 
been kept undivided in his family, was nevertheless sold 
after the death of one of his sons. The most complete edition 
of De Thou’s History is that published at London in 1733, 
by Buckley, in 7 vols. fob with memoirs of his life, and 
other pieces not before published. 
THOUARCE, small town in the west of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Maine and Loire, on the river Thouaret. Po¬ 
pulation 1500; 14 miles south of Angers. 
THOUARS, a small town in the west of France, the 
capital of an arrondissement in the department of the Two 
Sevres, on the river Thouet; 40 miles north-west of Poitiers. 
THOUGH, conjunction. [<5eah, Saxon; tho, Icel. and 
old Swed. Mr. Tooke pronounces though the imperative of 
the Sax. verb oapan, Sajrpan, to allow. Dr. Jamieson, how¬ 
ever, observes that there is not the same evidence here as 
with respect to some other conjunctions illustrated by this 
acute and ingenious writer; and that it certainly is no in- 
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