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 5 26 A R N A L D. preached at Bifhop Stortford, fchool-feaft, Auguft 3, 1726 j and another at the archdeacon's vifitation, at Leicefter, April 22, 1737. A third, preached atThurcafton, October 9, 1746, was published under the title of" The Parable of the " Cedar and Thiftle, exemplified in the great viftory at '* Culloden," 410, In 1744 he published his celebrated " adieus," in 1748; and another " on Tobit," &c, in 1752. Remarried a daughter of Mr. Wood, reclor of Wil- ford, near Nottingham ; and died in 1756. His widow furvived him till April iith, 1782. It is feldom an agreeable circumftance to a clergvman or his family TO have a fuc- ceflur : but it was otherwise in the prefent cak, as Mr. Hurd (now bifhop of Worcefter) patronized the fon (Dr. Arnald), a fellow of St. John's College ; who, by his favour and re- commendation, became fub-preceptor to the prince cf Wales, and praecentor of Lichfield, ARNAUD DE MEYRVEILH, or MEREUIL, a poet of Provence, who lived at the beginning of the thirteenth cen- tury. Having made fome progrefs in learning, he thought it necelTary to travel, and ftudied particularly the Provencal language, which was Men moft efteeined by thofe who were fond of poetry and romances. He entered into theferviceof the vifcountof B: ziers, who was married to the countefs of Burlas, with whom Arnaud fell violently in love. Hedurft not, however, declare his pafiion ; and leveral fonnets which, he wrote in her pnife, he afcribed to others : at length, how- ever, he rote one, which made fuch an imprefiion on the Jady, that (he behaved to him with great civility, and made him considerable prefents. He wrote a book intitled '* Las fonnets. He died in 1220. Petrarch mentions him in his Chap. i v, " Triumph of Love." ARNAUD DE VILLA NOVA, a famous phyfician, who lived in the thirteenth and fourteenth age. He itudied at Paris and Montpellier, and travelled through Italy and Spain. He was well acquainted with languages, and particularly with the Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic. He was at great pains to gratify his ardent defire after knowledge ; but this paflion carried him rather too far in his refearches : for he endeavoured to difcover future events by aftrology, imagin- ing this fcience to be infallible;' and upon this foundation he publifhed a prediction, that the world would come to an end
 * Commentary on Wifdom," in folio ; that " on Ecclefi-
 * recaflenas de fa comteflaj' 1 and a co!letiot, of poems and