The virtue and force of every of these three is shrewdly allayed. Hammond's Fundamentals. Now Pharaoh must need see how impotent a devil he served, that could not make that vermin which every-day rises voluntarily out of corruption.

Bp. Hall's Contemplations. Every man is not a proper champion for truth, not fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity. Sir T. Browne. Aristotle has long since observed, how unreasonable it is to expect the same kind of proof for every thing,

which we have for some things.

Tillotson.

Ah, not like her who, half afraid, half bold, Proud of new slaves, yet loath to lose the old, When cruel fortune gathers round her throne Whom singly she had seemed to love alone, Must anxious manage every look and speech, And deal the cautious tenderness to each.

Dr. T. Brown. EVES-DROPPER, more properly written AVES-DROPPER, which see.

What makes you listen there? Get farther off; reach not to thee, thou wicked evesdropper.

Dryden's Spanish Fryar. Do but think how becoming your function it is to disguised like a slave, and an evesdropper, under e women's windows.

Id. Don Sebast.

EVESHAM, or EVESHOLM, commonly called sam, a borough of Worcestershire, seated on a ntle ascent from the river Avon, over which ere is a stone bridge of seven arches. It sends o members to parliament, and had formerly an bey, which was one of the largest in the kingm, whose abbot sat in parliament as a spiual lord. It was founded in 709 by prince gwin, who retired thither after he had been justly dispossessed of the bishopric of Worster by the pope. The principal fragment of s building, now remaining, is a large, ellipal arch, or gateway, seventeen feet high. King mes I. gave this town a charter for a mayor, ven aldermen, twelve burgesses, a recorder and amberlain, who are all of the common council, th twenty-four assistants. The mayor and ir of the aldermen are justices of the peace, d of oyer and terminer, &c., for all offences in corporation, except high treason; and the rporation has power to try and execute felons thin the borough. It has three churches, but ebells of two of them have been removed to a autiful old tower, which was one of the gates VOL. VIII.

of the abbey. It has a weekly market and four fairs; and lies fourteen miles south-east of Worcester, and 100 north-west by west of London.

EVESHAM, VALE OF, a spacious valley in Worcestershire, on the banks of the Avon, celebrated for its fertility and beauty. Besides the usual objects of agriculture, great quantities of garden stuff are cultivated, and sent to the towns around to a considerable distance. In this vale, Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, was defeated and slain by prince Edward in 1265, the very year in which, by his usurped authority, the house of commons first received its existence. See ENGLAND. This vale, communicating with the more extensive and spacious one on both sides of the Severn, gives to it, for no assignable reason, the same general name of the Vale of Evesham. See SEVERN.

EUGANO, or the EUGANEAN MOUNTAINS, a chain of hills in Upper Italy, between Este and Padua, and sometimes considered as a branch of the Noric Alps. They furnish many petrifactions of shell-fish. The highest point, Mount Venda, is about 1800 feet above the level of the

sea.

EUGENE (Francis), prince of Savoy, descended from Carignan, one of the three branches of the house of Savoy, and son of Eugene Maurice, general of the Swiss and Grisons, governor of Champagne, and earl of Soissons, was born in 1663. Louis XIV. thought him so much addicted to pleasure, that he refused him preferment both in church and state. Prince Eugene, in disgust, quitted France; and, returning to Vienna, devoted himself to the imperial service. In 1691 he was sent into Piedmont, where he relieved Coni, which the French had besieged, and took Carmagnioia. But the war between the emperor Leopold I. and the Turks afforded more ample opportunity of exerting his military talents; and every campaign proved a new step to his advancement to the highest offices in the army. Having attained to the chief command in 1697, he that year gave the Turks a memo:able defeat at Zenta. Upon the death of Charles II. of Spain, the emperor laid claim to the throne, which occasioned a new war; and prince Eugene was sent into Italy, where he defeated the celebrated French general Catinat, and obliged him to retreat. Marshal Villeroy succeeded Catinat, but he was still less successful against the prince, who foiled him in every engagement; and while the marshal lay at Cremona, secure, as he supposed, the prince entered the place by stratagem, and took him prisoner. Not long after this, the prince returned to Vienna, where he was made president of the council, and associated with the great duke of Marlborough in the command of the allied army. History scarcely affords a parallel to this association; they were two of the greatest generals of the age, equal in their merit and fame, as well for their courage and conduct in military exploits, as their prudence in council. From their first meeting, at Helibron, their esteem grew into friendship and confidence, and contributed to the glorious successes which attended the arms of the allies during the war. Prince Eugene had a principal share in the famous

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battle at Blenheim in 1704; and though he next year suffered a repulse from Vendome, in Cassano, he quickly retrieved this reverse by a bloody action near Turin, which was then besieged by the French, whose trenches he forced, and gained a complete victory. In 1707 he entered France, and laid siege to Toulon, but was not able to reduce it. The next year he commanded the imperial army in Flanders, and contributed to the victory at Oudenarde. In 1709 he had a considerable share in the hard won victory at Malplaquet, where he received a slight wound in the head In 1712 he came over to England, in order, if possible, to prevent the English ministry from making a separate peace, but his arguments were ineffectual, and he was left to finish the war alone. This defection soon obliged him to enter into a negociation with marshal Villars, which produced the peace of Rastadt in 1714. This peace was scarcely concluded, when a war broke out between the emperor and the Turks, on which the prince was again entrusted with the command in Hungary, where, in 1716, he defeated the grand vizier at Peterwaradin, which he followed up by capturing Belgrade. After the peace of 1718 he retired to a private life; but in 1733, when the election for the crown of Poland was disputed, he was again employed. His service, however, was short, and unproductive of remarkable action. He died at Vienna in 1736, and was as remarkable for his modesty and liberality, as for his abilities in the cabinet and

the field.

any

EUGENIA, the yamboo, a genus of the monogynia order and icosandria class of plants; natural order nineteenth, hesperideæ: CAL. quadripartite, superior; the petals four, the fruit a monospermous quadrangular plum. There are two species, natives of the hot parts of Asia. They rise from twenty to thirty feet high, and bear plum-shaped fruit, enclosing one nut. They are too tender to live in this country, unless they are constantly kept in a stove. EUGH, or Saxon, p; Welsh, iw, or Ew, n. s. yewn; Tartar, iay; Teut. eib; EUGHEN, adj. Belg. iven, Fr. if. The original mode of spelling the word now written YEW, which see. Eughen is, made of yew.

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And eke the names how the trees highte, As oke, fir, birch, ashe, alder, holm, poplere, Maple, thorn, beche, hasel, ew, whipultre, How they were feld, shall not be told for me.

His stiff arms to stretch with eughen bow, And many legs still passing to and fro.

Chaucer.

Hubbard's Tale. The shooter eugh, the broad-leaved sycamore, The barren plantane, and the walnut sound; The myrrhe, that her foul sin doth still deplore; Alder, the owner of all waterish ground. Fairfax. At the first stretch of both his hands he drew, And almost joined the horns of the tough eugh. Dryden's Æneid. EVICT, v. a. Fr. evincer; Lat. evincere, EVICTION, n. s. evictus; from e and vinco, to conquer. To take from or dispossess by force of law; and, in an obsolete sense, to prove, evince.

If any of the parties be laid asleep under prem of arbitreirent, and the other party doth cantius the start at common law, yet the pretorian set back all things, and no respect had to ends; dispossession.

His lands were evicted from him.

The law of England would speedily re of their possession, and therefore they held a Daries en Ita

policy to cast off the yoke of English law.

A plurality of voices carries the question. our debates, but rather as an expedient for pent an eviction of the right. L'Ec.

This nervous fluid has never been discov

live animals by the senses, however assisted, & necessity evicted by any cogent experiment. G EVIDENCE, n, s. & v. a.) Fr. EV'IDENT, adj. EVIDENTIAL, EV'IDENTLY, adv.

Italian,

Latin, m evidens, r

deo, Ionic dew, and the digamma be fixed Fiew, to see. Certainty, or certain tes proof: hence witness, and one who gives proof. As a verb, to evidence means to make clear or apparent. Evidential, af proof. Evident and evidently mean, ci vious; plainly; obviously

I had delivered the evidence of the purc Baruch.

Lytel Lowys my sonne, I perceive weli b evidences, thine abylyte to lerne scyences.

It is, and may be made evident enough. -greatest infirmities and deformities of the 22 be reformed and rectified by industry and application.

Thou on earth had'st prospered, which ty Now also evidence. Milton's Pr

It is evident, in the general frame of things most manifest unto sense have pro unto the understanding. Browne's Visi

Although the same truths be elicited and e by the contemplation of animals, yet they clearly evidenced in the contemplation of m Hale's Orig

These things the Christian religion might be evidenced from taxes.

The horses must be evidenced by good t to have been bred in Ireland.

They are incapable of making conquests neighbours, which is evident to all that ka

constitutions.

To swear he saw three inches through a 6" As Asiatick evidences swore. Dryde Children minded not what was said, whe evident to them that no attention was sufic

It being as impossible that the love of t carry my assent above the evidence there is 1it is true, as that the love of truth should make sent to any proposition, for the sake of that which it has not, that it is true; which is, 7 to love it as a truth, because it is possible a that it may not be true.

They bear evidence to a history in d Christianity, the truth of which history was tive to embrace Christianity.

Laying their eggs, they evidently prove The genial power and full effects of love. A There are books extant, which they low of as proper evidence; even the m visible nature, and the everlasting tables son.

Remember you sit in judgment upon yourself, and ve nothing to do at present but to sift the evidence, ich conscience may bring in.

Mason.

The frere with ewyll grace, Sayd, I rest the,

Come on with me,

And out he toke his mace.

Sir. T. More.

To forsake the true God of heaven, is to fall into

Johnson.

But in all cases where such accounts are entitled to dit, or supported by tolerable evidence, it will be nd that they referred to something which it con=ned men to know; the overthrow of kingdoms, the ath of great persons, the detection of atrocious mes, or the preservation of important lives.

Beattie.

Byron. Saxon, ypel; Gothic, uwel. or ubils; Teut. ubels; Belg. euvel, from

The ship was evidently settling now Fast by the head; and, all distinction gone, Some went to prayers again, and made a vow Of candles to their saints-but there were none To pay them with. EVIL, n. s., adj. & adv. E'VIL-AFFECTED, adj. E'VIL-DOER, N. s. E'VIL-EYED, adj. E'VIL-FAVORED, u negative, and EVIL-FAVOREDNESS, N. S. vel, right or well; E'VILLY, adv. or, as Minsheu EVIL-MINDED, adj. not improbably EVIL-MINDEDNESS, n. s. conjectures, from E'VIL-SPEAKING, N. §. Heb. n, vaniEʼVIL-WORKING, adj. ty; destitute of E'VIL-WORKER, n. s. good or truth.ime; falsehood; wickedness; injury; misief; calamity: as an adjective, having bad or urious qualities, moral or physical; mischievs; unhappy; miserable: as an adverb, not ll in whatever respect; not happy, or tending happiness. The compounds follow these mean

gs.

Ech man that doith yuel hatith the lyght, and he meth not to the lyght, that hise werkis be not repued. Wiclif. Jon. 3. The imagination of man's heart is evil from his uth.

m.

Gen. It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured Id. He hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin. Deut. The Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us. Id. Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord any bullock sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness. Id. The good figs very good, and the evil very evil, that Jeremiah. annot be eaten they are so evil.

The unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and aade their minds evil-affected against the brethren.

Acts.

Not in the legions

Of horrid hell can come a devil more damned
In evils to top Macbeth! Shakspeare. Macbeth.

What's the disease he means?

-Tis called the evil.

This act so evilly born, shall cool the hearts Of all his people, and freeze up their zeal.

Id

Bacon's Essays.

EVIL-MERODACH, king of Babylon, succeeded his father Nebuchadnezzar the Great, A. M. 3443. He had governed the kingdom during the lunacy of his father, who after seven years, having recovered his understanding, once more ascended the throne, and imprisoned his son Evil-Merodach. In this confinement, it is supposed, that Evil-Merodach made an acquaintance and friendship with Jeconiah, king of Judah, who had been carried to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. However, it is certain, that soon after his succession to the throne, he delivered the king of Judah out of prison, after a confinement of thirty-seven years, heaped many favors on him, and placed him above all the other kings U 2