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 A M Y R A U T. <)ay, entreating him at the fame time to perfuade the Prote&J ants to comply with it. To this Amyraut made anfwer, that, on the contrary, he woul c/o di redly and exhort his parifhioneis nut to comply with K, as he himfelf was refolved r?ot to obey fuch orders ; that in all his fermons he had en- deavoured to infpire his hearers with obedience and fubmifiion CD fuperior powers, but not when their confciences were con- cerned. Having thus acquainted the feneichal with his refo- lution, he went from hoofe to houfe, laying before his pa- rilhioners the reafons why he thought they ought not to obey the order of the council. The king's lieutenant, however, not thinking it proper to fupport the fenefchal, no tumult arofe on this occalion. Amyraut was a man of fuch charity and comp^flion, that he beftowed on the poor his whole falary during the laJt ten years of his life, without diftin&ion of Catholic or Proteftant. He died the 8th of February, 1664, and was interred with the ufual ceremonies of the academy. He left but one fon, who was one of the ablet! advocates of the parliament of Paris ; but fled to the Ha^ue after the revocation of the edidl of Nantes: he had alfo a daughter, who died in 1645,3 year and a half after (he had been married. His works are chiefly theological, and verv voluminous. Mr. Du Bofc wrote the C* following diftich under Mr. Amyraut's print : A Mofe ad Mofem par Mofi non fuit ullus, More, ore, et calamo, mirus uterque fuit. From Mofes down to Mofes, none Among the Tons of men, With equal luftre ever {hone, In manners, tongue, and pen. ANACHARSIS, an illuftrious Scythian philofopher, whofe life is written by Diogenes Laertius. He travelled to Athens in the time of Solon, with whom he contracted an intimate friendfliip; and Solon not only inllrufted him, but ibught all opportunities of doing him honour. Anacharfis was kindly received alfo for his own fake, arid was the only flranger the Athenians had ever incorporated into their city. He had a quick and lively genius, a ftrong and mafterly elo- quence ; and there was fomething Ib determined and refolute in his manner, that thofe who imitated him were faid to fpealc in the Scythian iryle. He was extremely fond of poetry, and wrote upon certain laws of the Scythians and Greeks. Croefus invited him to Sardis, arid offered him. money :