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 A S T E L L, '' i/iir- Vntten by a Lady, 1706," Colonel Hunter's celebrated Letter ca jzrno. Enthufiafm. It was repuhli/hed in 10. " Bjrt'lemey Fair j or, an En- 1721, without the words "Baii'lemey after Wit, 1709," occafioned by " Fair." ASTRUC (JoHN), a phyfician of France, was born at Sauves, a town of Lower Languedoc, the igth of March, 1684; and died at Paris, the 5th of May 1766. He was extremely eminent in his profefiion, and filled leveral import- ant cflkts. He was phyfician in ordinary to the king, pro- f'eflbr in the College Royal, doctor regent of the faculty of phyfic of Paris, and ancient profeffor of the fame of Mont- pelier. He was the author of leveral ufeful and curious works ; and perhaps it is net too much to fay of his *' Libri 44 fex de Alorbis Venereis," that it is as well digtfled and well-written a book as can be found in any language. It was printed in 410 at Paris, 1735; in two volumes 410, 1740; and it has been tranflated into French and Englifh, and probably into moft of the European languages. His " Traite des Tumeurs et des Ulceres," printed 1759, ia two vols. I2mo, and that " des Maladies des Femmes," 1766, in fevcn vols. I2mo, a.re alio very well known to the learned in the faculty. Cave'sHift. ATHANASIUS (Sr.), was born at Alexandria s of hea> 3n 'then parents, He was noticed, when very young, by Alex-, antler bifhop of that fee, who took care to have him educated Bingham s . . j . . r j-ii { .Jn ail good learning ; and when he v/as or age, ordained nim deacon. He took him in his company when he attended the council of Nice, where Anathafius greatly difHnguifhed him- fclf as an able and zealous oppofer of the Arian herefy. Sooa after the difTolution of the council, Alexander died, and Ana- i .afius was appointed to fucceed him in the government of the church of Alexandria. This was in 326, when Athana- iius is fuppofed to have been about twenty-eight years of Arius and fome of the principal of his followers renoun- ced their errors, and fubfcribed to the Nicene faith ; by i h means they obtained the countenance and favour of the emperor Conftantine. He wrote letters to Athanafius, infilling upon his re-admitting Arius into the church, and feceivKig him to communion ; which however he peremp- torily and inflexibly refufed to do, though urged warmly by imperial authority, and menaced with the rod of royal ven- geance. While he thus lay under the emperor's difpleafure,, fc'.s enemies toal: the opportunity of bringing againft him many