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ported tlie motion for the vacancy of the throne, and the conjunc-tive sovereignty of the prince and princess; upon whose accessionhe was again made privy-seal. Yet, in 1689, he quilted thecourt, and became a zealous opposer of the measures of govern-ment till his death, in April, 1695. The pieces he has left shewhim to have been an ingenious, if not a masterly', writer; and hisAdvice to a Daughter contains much good sense in few words.He also wrote, The Anatomy an Equivalent; A Letter to a Dis-senter ; A Rough Draught of a New Model at Sea ; and Maximsof State ; all in one volume, 8 vo. He also published the Charac-ter of King Charles II. 8vo. the Character of Bishop Burnet , andHistorical Observations upon the Reigns of Edward I: II. HI. andRichard II . with Remarks upon their faithful Counsellors and falseFavourites.
Savile, or Saville, Sir Henry, a very learned Englishman,the second son of Henry Saville, Esq. was born at Bradley, nearHalifax, in Yorkshire , Nov. 30, 1549. lie was entered of Mer-ton College, Oxford , in 1561, where he look the degrees in arts,and was chosen fellow. When he proceeded M. A. in 1570, heread for that degree on the Almagest of Ptolemy ', which procuredhim the reputation of a man eminently skilled in mathematicsand the Greek language ; in the former of which he voluntarilyread a public lecture in the university for some time. In 1578 hetravelled into France and other countries; where, improving him-self in all useful learning, in languages, and the knowledge of theworld, he became a most accomplished gentleman. At his re-turn, he was made tutor in the Greek tongue to Queen Elizabeth,wiio had a great esteem for him. In 1585 he was made warden ofMerton College, which he governed 36 years with great honour,and improved it by all the means in his power. In 1596 he waschosen provost of Eton College ; w hich he tilled with many learnedmen. James I. upon his accession to the crown of England, ex-pressed a great regard for him, and would have preferred him eitherin church or state; but Saville only accepted the ceremony otknighthood fiom the king at Windsor in 1604. His only sonHenry dying about that time, he thenceforth devoted his fortuneto the promoting of learning. Among other things, in 1619, hefounded in the university of Oxford,two professorships in geometryand in astronomy ; which he endowed with a salary of 160/. a-yearbesides a legacy of 600/. to purchase more lands for the sameuse. Re also furnished a library with mathematical books, nearthe mathematical school, for the use of his professors ; and gave! C0/. to the mathematical chest of his own appointing: adding af-terwards a legacy of 40/. a-year to the same chest, to the university,end to his professors jointly. He likewise gave 120/. towards the»ew building of the schools, besides several rare MSS. and printed“ooks to the Bodleian library ; and a great quantity of Greektypes to the printing-press at Oxford . After a life thus spent inthe encouragement of science and literature in general, he diedat Eton College the 19th Feb. 1622, in the 73d year of his age,3nd was buried in the chapel there. His publications are, 1.
°ur Books of the Histories of Cornelius Tacitus , and the Life oftliSncola ; with notes upon them, in folio, dedicated to Queendtzabeth, in 1581. 2. A View of certain Military Matters, or
ommentaries concerning Roman Warfare, I59S. 3. Rerum An-
8 ■earnm Scriptores post Bedam, &c. 1596. This is a collectioni .he best writers of English history ; to which he added chrono-() °8‘cai tables, from Julius Caesar to William 1 . 4. The Works
f ”t. Chrysostom , in Greek, in 8 vols. folio, 1613. In the pre-a q e “e says, " that having himself visited, about 12 years before,the 1 R'blic and private libraries in Britain , and copied outSo nc ® whatever he thought useful to this design, he then sentGan' 6 . " ne< * men into France, Germany, Italy , and the East, toot j SCr 'be such parts as he had not already, and to collate the6>e best MSS.” At the same time, lie makes his ac-Thu^ W to several eminent men for their assistance ; ascheli' 1nUS ’ 1 ' / °lsenis, Sehottus, Casaubon, Ducams, Gruter, Iloes-°'vn J IS ’ ^ C " ^ l1 t ' le ,Ujt b eolume are inserted Sir Henry Saville’s
of ti ! j' 0t< ;?’. U !t ''. fbose of other learned men. The whole chargehomi' S L " ,'9 11 ’ including the several sums paid to learned men, atHtiim ft i ror|, !> employed in (hiding out, transcribing, and col-fcdition . 1B r , s - t: amounted to no less than 8000/. Several!
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Dei contra Pelagium, et de Yirtute Causaaun ; to which lie [ire-fixed the life of Bradwardin. 6. in 1621 he published a collectionot his own Mathematical Lectures on Euclid’s Elements , in 4to,7. Oratio coram Eliz.-.betba Regina, Oxunia’ habita, anno 1592.Oxford, 1658, 4to. 8, He translated into Latin King James ’sApology for the Oath of Allegiance. He also left several MSS.behind him, written by order of King James ; all which are in theBodleian library . He wrote notes likewise upon the margin ofmany books in his Iibrary, particularly Eusebius’s EcclesiasticalHistory ; which were afterwards used by Vaiesius, in his editionof that work in 1659. Four of his letters to Camden are pub-lished by Smith, among Camden’s Letters, 1691, 4lo.
SAVIOUR, an appellation peculiarly given to Jesus Christ , asbeing the Messiali and Saviour of the world. See Jesus , andMessiah.
Saviour, Order of St. a religious order of the RomishChurch, founded by St. Bridget, about the year 1445, and socalled from its being pretended that our Saviour himself declaredits constitution and rules to the foundress.
SAUL , [Siust, Ileb. i. e. asked,1 the son of Kish, a rich manof Gibeah, of the tribe of Benjamin, the first king of Israel ; forthe usurper Abimelech does not deserve to be numbered amongthe kings. Saul ’s fruitless journey seeking his lather’s asses; hismeeting with the prophet Samuel ; the interesting particulars fore-told to him, with his anointing as king, about 15. C. 1095, orA. M. 2909 ; his prophesying along with the young prophets ; hisappointment by the lot; his modesty in hiding himself; his firstvictory over the Ammonites; his rash sacrifice in the absence ofSamuel; his equally rash curse; his victories over the Philistines and Amalekites; his sparing of king Agag, with the judgementdenounced against him for it; his jealousy and persecution of Da-vid ; his barbarous massacre of the priests and people of J^Tob ;his repeated confessions of his injustice to David ; his consul-tation of the witch of En-dor; with his defeat and suicide, arerecorded in 1 Sam. ix.—xxxi. He reigned 40 years, and diedA. M. 2949.
SAUL1EU, a town of France , in the department of the Coted’ Or, and late province of Burgundy, 25 miles W. of Dijon , and142 S. E. of Paris . Lon. 4. 7. E. Lat. 47. 17. N.
SAUMUR, a considerable town of France , in the departmentof Maine and Loire, late province of Anjou, and late capital ofthe Saumurois, with an ancient castle. Lon. 0. 2. E. Lat. 47,15. N.
SAUNDERSON, Dr. Nicolas, was born at TIuirlstone inYorkshire , in 1682, and may be considered as a prodigy for hisapplication and success in mathematical learning, in circumstancesapparently the most unfavourable. He lost his sight by the small-pox before he was a year old. But this did not prevent him fromsearching after knowledge. lie was initiated into the Greek andRoman authors at a free-school at Penniston. After spendingsome years studying the languages, his father (who was in the ex-cise) began to teach him arithmetic. He soon surpassed his father ;and made long and difficult calculations, without any sensiblemarks to assist his memory. At 18 he was taught the’principlesof algebra anti geometry. Saunderson was also assisted in Ids ma-thematical studies by Dr. Nettleton. These two gentlemen readhooks to him and explained them. He was next sent to a privateacademy at Attercliff near Sheffield , but logic and metaphysics notsuiting his turn of mind, he soon left it, Some of his friends, whohad remarked his perspicuous manner ot communicating his ideas,proposed that he should attend the university of Cambridge as ateacher of mathematics. This proposal was immediately put inexecution : and lie was conducted to Cambridge in his 25th vearby Mr. Joshua Dunn, a fellow-commoner of Christ’s college.Though he was not received as a member of the college, he wastreated with great respect. lie was allowed a chamber, and hadfree access to the library. Mr. Whiston was then professor ofmathematics ; and as he read lectures in the way that Saundersonintended, it was supposed he would view his project as an inva-sion of his office. But the plan was no sooner mentioned to himthan he gave his consent. SniVndersons’s reputation was soonspread through the university. When tiis lectures were announced,a general curiosity was excited to hear such intricate mathematicalsubjects explained by a man who had been blind from his infancy,6 T The
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