The General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 12 Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time

Excerpt from The General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 12: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time Lewis XV. Published at the Louvre an edition of his father's works, in 4_vols. 4to. Destouches had not the gaiety eff Begnard, nor the strong warm colouringof Moliere; but he is always polite, tender, and natural, and has been thciught worthy oi ranking next to these authors. _he de serves more praise by surpassing them in, the morality and decorum of his pieces, and hehad also the art of attaining the pathetic without losirig the viscomica, which is the essential character of this speciescf composition. In the v'arizius connections of domestic life, he maintained a truly respectable character, and in earlylife he gave evidence of his filial duty, by sending 40,000'livres out of his savings to his father, whowas burthenedwith a large family.1 devari'us (matthew), a learned Greek scholar of the sixteenth century, 'was born in the island of Cerfou, of a catholic family. At the age of eight he was taken to Home by John Lascaris, and placed with other eastern youths in the Creek college, which had been just es tablished, Having made great progress in this language, cardinal Rodolphi gave him the care of his library, which odice he held for fifteen years, and in that time he cgm piled an index tustathius's' commentary on Homer, for which pope Paul III. Gave him a pension; and Pahl IV. Who continued this pension, made him correctbr'of the Greek mss. In the Vatican. 'on the death of, cardinal Rodolphi, marc-antony Colonna, Who was afterwards cardinal, became scholar, to Devarius for three years in the. Greek la'nguage. He was afterwards patronized by the cardinal F arnese; and died in his service, about the end ofuthe sixteenth century, in. The seventieth year of his age. B order of pope_pius V. Hetranslated the cate chism oi the council of Trent into Greek; but the work fpi' which he is best known is entitled De Particulis Greecae linguae liber particularis, of which there have been many editions, the first published by his nephew, Peter Devarius, at Rome, in 1558, 4to, and reprinted at London, 1657, 12mo Amsterdam, 1700 and 1718, &c. Devaux (john), an eminent.surgeon of Paris, in' which city he was born January 27, 1649, was the son of John Devaux, a man of eminence in the same profession. He became promst and warden of the surgeons' company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.