Old age,

*This fimilitude is not borrowed of the larder house, quainted probably

with the direction of his Atudies, but out of the school house. Ascham.-Flesh is ill they appointed him to preach on the proof of the kept in a room that is not cool; whereas in a Credibility of the Gospel History. This he difcuffed cool and wet larder it will keep longer. Bacon, in two sermons; and prosecuting the subject which So have I seen in larder dark,

he had taken up in these discourses, in Feb. 1727, Of veal a lucid loin.

Dorfet. he published, in two volumes 8vo. the Firf Part

of " The Credibility of the Gospel Hiftory, or the Morose, perverse in humour, diffident,

Facts OCCASIONALLY mentioned in the New TesThe more he still abounds, the less content: tament, confirmed by Passages of ancient Authors, His larder and his kitchen too observes, who were contemporary with our Saviour or his And now, left he should want hereafter starves. Apostles, or lived near their time." An Appendix

King. was subjoined, relating to the time of Herod's * LARDERER. 1. f. [from larder.] One who death. Thys Mr Lardner commenced author, and bas the charge of the larder.

began his literary career with singular reputation. LARDNER, Nathaniel, an eminent English " It is scarcely necessary to say (obferves Dr Kipdissenting divine, born at Hawkhurst in Kent, pis), how well this work was received by the leara. June 6, 1684. After a grammatical education, to ed world. Not only was it highly approved by the which great attention must have been given, and Protestant Diffenters, with whom the author was in which a no less rapid progress must have been more immediately connected, but by the clergy made, he was sent first to a diffenting academy in in general of the established church; and its repuLondon, which was under the care of the Rev.Dr tation gradually extended into foreign countries. Joshua Oldfield; and thence, in his 16th year, to It is indeed an invaluable performance, and hath prosecute his studies at Utrecht, under the cele- rendered the most effential service to the cause of brate: professors, D'Uries, Grævius, and Burman. Christianity. Whoever peruses this work will Here he remained above three years, and then re. find it replete with admirable inftru&ion, found moved for a short space to Leyden. In 1703, he learning, and just and candid criticism." These returned to England, continuing at his father's two, with the subsequent 15, volumes o&avo, and house to employ himself by close and diligent pre- the four thin quartos entitled, Jewish and Heatben paration for the sacred profession which he had in Testimonies, occupied bim, with the interruption view. Qualified as he was, it was not till 1709 arising from some smaller productions, during the that he preached his first lermon, from Romans í. space of forty-three gears. Dr Kippis gives a par. 16.-"a text (his biographer remarks) than which ticular account of the time when each volume was abere could not have been a more proper one, for published, and of the subjects discuffed in each. a man who was deftined in the order of Divine The following useful information, which the DocProvidence, to be one of the ableft advocates for tor introduces, in speaking of the “ Supplement to the authenticity and truth of the Christian revela- the Credibility,” deserves well to be quoted. “I tion that ever existed.” A few years after this, cannot avoid Atrongly recommending this work he was received into Lady Treby's family, as do- (says he) to the attention of all young divines. Inmestic chaplain and tutor to her son, and continu. deed, I think that it ought to be read by every theed in this comfortable situation till her ladyship's ological student before he quits the university or death in 1721. This event threw him into cir- academy in which he is educated. There are three cumstances of some perplexity, having preached other works which will be found of eminent ad. to several congregations during his residence with vantage to those who are intended for, or beginLady Treby, without the approbation or choice ning to engage in, the Christian miniftry. These of any one congregation. Here we are told, are, Butler's Analogy; Bp. Law's Confederaticas “ that it reflects no honour on the Diffenters, on the Theory of Religion, and Dr Taylor's Key to that a man of such merit should so long have been Apoftolical Writings, prefixed to his Paraphrase neglected.". But it has been observed upon this, on the Epistle to the Romans. Without agreeing that the pulpit was not the place in which Mr with every circumstance advanced in these works, Lardner was calculated either to convey improve. it may be said of them with the greatest truth, that ment or acquire reputation. Dr Kippis afterwards they tend to open and enlarge the mind; that informs us, that his mode of elocution was very they give important views of the evidence, nature unpleasant; that from his early and extreme deaf- and design of revelation; and that they display a nefs he could have no such command of his voice vein of reasoning and inquiry, which may be ex. as to give it a due modulation; and that he great- tended to other objects besides those immediately jy dropped his words.” It cannot then, as his confidered in the books themselves.-It must not biographer adds, be matter of surprise that he was be forgotten, that the Supplement to the Credibinot popular; Aor, it may be added, can it be lity has a place in the excellent collection of trea. any reflection on the congregations to which he tiles in divinity, which has lately been published by occasionally preached, that they did not choose Dr Watson bishop of Landaff

. For a collection for their minifler a man, who, notwithstanding which cannot fail of being eminently conducive to his great learning and amiable virtues, was so de- the inftruction and improvement of younger cler. ficient as a public speaker, that it was impossible gymen, and for the noble, manly, and truly evanto hear him with any pleasure, and scarcely with. gelical preface by which it is preceded, this great out pain. Though Mr Lardner had no church at prelate is entitled to the gratitude of the Chriftian which he officiated as minifter, he was engaged world." The Supplement to the credibility was with some of his diffenting brethren in preaching some years ago published separately, under the 2 Tuesday evening lecture at the Old Jewry. Ac- Litle of The History of the Gospels and Epifles. Ap

plauded

That no intruding guefts ufurp a fhare. Dryd. Irus's condition will not admit of largeles. Addifon.

prietors of the eftates of Largo, Lundin, Wemyss, and Balfour, with the minifter, are patrons.

(3) LARGO BAY, a large bay on the N. coaft of the Frith of Forth, which affords a fafe road for veffels of all fizes; 9 miles S. of Cupar.

Pirano.
(4.) LARGO GULF, a bay of Maritime Auftria,
on the coaft of Iftria, between the Cape Salvon and

(5.) LARGO LAW, a large hill of Fifefhire, in the above parish (N° 1.), one mile N. of the town (N° 2.); 800 feet above the fea level. It is feen at a

the Largo family, for 12 old men of the name of Wood, who, with their wives, are accommodated with a room and clofet, and an annuity of (2) LARGESS. See LARGITIO. LOO Scots each. A large garden fupplies them LARGILLIERE, Nicholas DE, a French pain- with vegetables. The funds arife from an adjacent ter, born at Paris, in 1656. He lived for fome years farm, and the intereft of money funk. The proin England, and was employed by Charles H. Lewis XIV. alfo patronifed him, and he became director of the French academy. His capital work is a picture of the crucifixion. He alfo painted portraits admirably. He died in 1746, aged LARGITIO, in Roman antiquity, was, &c. to a diftribution of corn, provifion, clothes, money, the people. Gracchus, when tribune, to make himself popular, paffed a law for fupplying the Roman citizens with corn at a very low rate, out of the publie grandries. Claudius, another tribune, with the fame views to popular applaufe, procured it to be diftributed gratis. Cato, to win the common people from Cæfar, perfuaded the fenate to do the fame, and 300,000 citizens fhared in the diftribution. after his triumph, extended his bounty to 150,000, giving them each a mina. The Roman emperors enlarged ftill further the lift of thofe who were to partake of their diftributions. Largitio is frequently taken in a bad fenfe, to fignify a marked bribery; whereby candidates purchafed votes, when they flood for places of honour or truft in the state. The diftribution of money was called congiarium, and the diftributors divifores and fequeftres.

LARGITION. n. J. largitio, Lat.] The act of giving. Dia.

LARGIUS, Titus. See LARTIUS. 1(1.) LARGO, a parish of Scotland, in Fifeshire, nearly 6 miles long from SW. to NE but of very unequal breadth containing 5469 acres. The S. part of it affords a delightful view of elegant feats, thriving plantations, populous villages, fertile fields, Bills and dales, wood and water. The foil is very various, but fertile. Hufbandry is much improved, this parifh having first fhowed the example of draining, inclofing, &c. to all the neighbourhood. Wheat, as good as the best in Lothian, is raifed, as well as oats, barley, tur nips, cabbages, potatoes, &c. The population, in 1791, was 1913; the increafe, fince 1755, was 517. Coal, lime-tone, and free-ftone abound. Among the eminent natives parifh are enumerated, 1. The brave Sir Andrew Wood of Lat go, who obtained two fignal victories by fea over the English, in the reign of K. James IV. 24 Mr James Durham, brother to Sir Alexander of Lar go, celebrated both as a foldier and divine, who, m the latter capacity, having been appointed to preach before Oliver Cromwell, in the high Church of Glafgow, had the courage publicly to challenge the ufurper, for the injuftice of his invafion of Scotland: 3. Alexander Selkirk, from whom Dan. De Foe fole the authentic materials, from which he compiled his ingenious romance of Robinfon Crufoe. See DE FOE, and SELKIRK, N° 1,

(2) LARGO, a town in the above parifh, feated on the bay (No 3.), 9 miles S. of Cupar. Its chief manufactures are linens and checks. It has an hofpital, founded in 1659, by Mr John Wood, of

great, LARGS, a parish of Scotland, 9 miles long, from N. to S. in the county of Ayr, and diftrict of Cunningham, bordering on Renfrewhire; pleafantly feated along the Frith of Clyde, of which it affords a magnificent profpect.. The foil is light, fhallow, and gravellish, better adapted for pafture than cultivation. The air is fo pure, that it is, by fome, reckoned the Montpelier of Scotland. The population, in 1799, was 3139; the decrease 25, fince 1986. At the entry to this parish, at Kelly Bridge, on the fhore, along which the road lies, the land on the E. fide, which is high, ends in a natural perpendicular wall of ftone, extending a full mile at the foot of which is the road, and rifing above it, in fome places so and 60 feet; feemingly hanging over it, and prefenting the appearance of an impregnable bulwark. It is a ftriking object, efpecially in frofty weather, during funfhine, when it is covered over with icicles. It ends near Kilmorly, an ancient caffle on a height, affording a fine view of the Clydesine

(2.) LARGS,, a village on the W. coaft of Sootland, in the above parish, oppofite the island of Bute; rendered memorable by the defeat of the Norwegians, here in their laft invafion of this countryThis invafion was made in the year 1263, with a fleet of 160 fail and an array of 20,000 men, commanded by Haquin, king of Norway, whofe ravages on the coaf of Alyt, Bute, and Ar ran, reaching the Scotti court,amarmy was inmediately affembled by Alexander III. and a bloody engagement enfued at this village, when 16,000 of the invaders were flain in the battle and, flight, with sooo Scots. Haquin efcaped to the Orkneys, where he foon after died of grief. The entrench ments of the Norwegian camp may ftill be traced along the coaft of this place. The Scottifli commanders who fell in battle were buried in a rising field near the village; three or four perfons were interred in one grave, on each fide of which was a large ftone; a third was placed across the grave, fupported at the extremities by the fide stones, and in this rude manner the warriors lay entombed. Some years ago, the proprietor of the field demolifhed thefe repofitories of the dead, leaving only one (a fpecial favour!), which ferves to give an idea of the whole. The celebrated ancient poem of Hardiknute alludes to this battle.

LARGUS, an ancient Latin poet, who wrote a

poem

poem on the arrival of Antenor in Italy, where he Farsistan. The air is unwholesome, and the wa built Padua. He wrote with elegance. Ovid. de ter bad. Its chief trade is in camels. LaR is the Pont. iv. ep. 16. v. 17.

capital. LARI, a town of Italy, in Tuscany; 14 miles LARIUS, in ancient geography, an extenfive ENE. of Pifa.

lake of GALLIA CISALPINA, through which the LARICAXAS, a province of S. America, in Addua (now the ADDA) runs, in its way to the Buenos Ayres, about 240 miles long from E. to Po, above Cremona. It is by some reckoned 88 W. and 75 broad. The whole of it abounds in miles, by others 10o in circumference. Dr Opmines of gold, so pure that it is often found of 23 penheim states its length to be 36 Italian miles, caracts 3 grains fineness. The mountain Sunchuli from N. to S. It is now called Como (see Como, is in this province, which had a gold mine uncom. N° 1.), and is included in the department of monly rich ; but about 1750, it was overflowed, the LARIO, which is named from it. and all attempts to drain it have since proved LARIX, the LARCH TREE. See Pinus, No sa abortive.

(1.) * LARK. n. f. [lat berce, Sax. lerk, Dan.lza LARINA. See LARINUM.

rock, Scottish.] A small singing bird. LARINATES, the ancient inhabitants of LARI. It was the lark, the herald of the morn. Shat. NUM.

Look up a height, the shrill gorg'd lark so far LARING, a town of Germany, in the duchy Cannot be seen or heard.

Shak. of Stiria ; 4 miles NE. of Marpurg.

Th' example of the heavenly lark, LARINO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Thy fellow poet, Cowley, mark.

Cooks Naples, and province of Capitanata, with a bi. Mark how the lark and linnet fing; shop's fee; 25 miles NE. of Molise. Lon. Is.SI.

With rival notes E. Lat. 41. 48. N.

They strain their warb'ling throats, LARINUM, in ancient geography, a town of To welcome in the spring. Drydes. Italy, near Apulia, feated on the Tifernus, near (2.) Lark, in ornithology. See ALAUDA, and its fall into the Adriatic. It belonged to the Fren- Bird.caTCHING, Ø 3. The lark is not only a ve. tani. It is now called LARINO.

ry agreeable bird for the cage, but will live upon LARIO, a department of the kingdom of Italy, almost any food, if it have once a week a freth tuft late the ITALIAN REPUBLIC, and formerly of the of three-leaved grass. The proper method of keepCISALPINE (which see), but greatly enlarged by ing them in health is this: there must be two pans the last division, on the 13th May 1805 ; when of food, the one containing meat, the other oatits population was found to be 371,895 citizens. meal and hempfeed. A very good food is the folIt is divided into four districts, viz. Como, Varese, lowing: Boil an egg very hard, to which add the Sondrio, and Lecco, of which the towns so named crumb of a halfpenny loaf, and as much hempare the capitals. Como is the capital of the de. seed ; let the egg be chopped very small, and the partment. The name is derived from the ancient hempseed bruised in a mortar ; when these are LARIUS. finca

mixed, the bread is to be crumbled in among the LARIOZO, a town in the island of Cuba, 48 reft, and the whole to be rolled together with a miles E. of Spiritu Santo.

common rolling-pin, and kept for use. There (1.) LARISSA, an ancient, rich, and celebrated must be some five small gravel ftrewed at the bof. town of Greece, in the province of Janna or Thef- tom of the cage, and renewed at fartheft once in sally, with an archbishop's fee of the Greek church, a week. This will prevent the bird's feet from a palace, and several handsome mosques. Ac. getting hurt by being clogged with the dung; and cording to Virgil, it was the country of Achilles. his basking in this will keep him also from growing

It was also the place where Philip the father of lousy. There must be a perch in the cage, and it Alexander the Great refided.-The inhabitants mutt either be lined with green bays, or made of carry on a considerable trade. The city is agree. fine matting, which the lark is very fond of. ably feated on the Peneus. Lon. 23. 36. E. Lat. When the bird is first 'taken, fome meat muft be 38.51. N.

ftrewed upon the sand in the bottom of the cage; (2.) LARISSA, a city between Egypt and Palef- for it will be sometimes almost familhed before it tine, where Pompey the Great was murdered. finds the 'meat in the pan. The cock bird is

(3-6.) Larissa, the name of other 4 ancient known from the hen by the loudness and length cities; viz. T. in Æolia, 70 ftadia from Cyme: 2. of his call, by his tallness as he walks about the in Asia Minor, near the s. borders of Troas : 3. cage, and by his doubling his notes in thi evening, near Ephesus: 4. a large city on the banks of the as if he was going with his mate to rooft. A betTigris, which had a pyramid, but much inferior ter tule than all others, however, is his singing to those of Egypt in height.

ftrong ; for the ben wood-lark fings but very weak LARISSÆUS, a fimame of Achilles, from his ly. Both the cock and hen of this kind are subje& birth-place, LARISSA; as well as of Jupiter, from to many disorders; the principal of these are his temple there.

cramps, giddiness of the head, and breeding lice. LARISSUS, a river of the Peloponnefus, run- Cleanliness is the best cure for the first and the ning between Elis and Achaia. Strabo, viii. Livy, last of these complaints; but we know of no cure xxvii. 31.

for.the other. A good strong bird, however, will LAŘISTAN, a province of Persia, formerly an often last very well five or fix years, and improve independent kingdom, under the descendants of all the time. Cofroes, king of Perfia; bounded on the N. and (3.) LARKS, DARING, or DORING OF, a me E. by Kerman ; S. by the Persian Gulf; and W. by thod of taking larks, by means of a clap-net and