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GOO With respect to its merits as a system of classification, it will be sufficient in this place to state that it has never been generally, or even very extensively, adopted by the medical profession. His principal medical work is, "The Study of Medicine," which was published in 4 vols. in 1822, and which has passed through four editions, the last two having been edited, since Dr. Good's death, by the late Samuel Cooper. "The object of the work," says the author, "is to unite the different branches of medical science—which, when carried to any considerable extent, have hitherto, by most writers, been treated of separately—into a general system, so that the whole may be contemplated under a single view, and pursued under a common study. These branches are the following—I. Physiology, or the doctrine of the natural action of the living principle. II. Pathology, or the doctrine of its morbid action. III. Nosology, or the doctrine of the classification of diseases. IV. Therapeutics, or the doctrine of their treatment and cure." It may be doubted whether this plan was judiciously chosen, but both in a literary and a scientific point of view it was well executed; and the fact of so large a work having passed through four editions is a remarkable testimony to its general merits. It is now superseded by more recent, and in some respects superior works; but it may still be consulted with advantage. The "Book of Nature," which appeared in 1826, in 3 vols., consists of three series of lectures delivered at the Surrey Institution in 1810 and the two following years. The "Pantologia, or universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and words," which was published in 12 vols., between 1802 and 1813, and to which he contributed a great number of articles on various subjects, occupied also much of his time for several years.

2. Theological and Religious Works, &c.—One of the most interesting and instructive parts of Dr. Good's character was the deep religious feelings which actuated him during the later years of his life. For about seventeen years he associated himself with a Socinian congregation; but in 1807, after a thorough and conscientious re-examination of their opinions, he separated from that body and joined the English church. In 1803 he published a translation of the Song of Solomon; and in 1812, a translation of the book of Job, which latter book he attributes to Moses. Both works are accompanied by copious critical and explanatory notes; but both, and especially the former, are treated rather in a literary point of view than with the seriousness befitting the subject. This objection does not apply to his translation of the book of Psalms, which occupied much of his time during the last four or five years of his life, but which he did not live to publish. The introduction, or "Historical Outline of the Book of Psalms," was published in 1842, in compliance with his wishes, and the "New Translation" in 1854. A very edifying little book, entitled "Occasional thoughts on Select Texts of Scripture," was published after his death in 1828. In 1803 he published the "Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Dr. Alexander Geddes."

3. The only work directly relating to Classical Literature is his translation of Lucretius into blank verse, which appeared in 2 vols. 4to, 1805. As an instance of Dr. Good's diligent economy of time, it deserves to be mentioned that this translation was composed in a great measure during his walks in the streets of London, it being his custom to commit to memory a certain number of lines of the original poem, translate them in his own mind during his walk, and then correct and polish the passage on his return home.

There is a very interesting work on the life, writings, and character, literary, professional, and religious, of Dr. Good, published in 1828, by his friend Dr. Olinthus Gregory, from which work the preceding facts are taken.—W. A. G.  * GOODALL,, line engraver, was born at Leeds in September, 1795. Mr. Goodall has executed several large engravings after Turner, particularly "Caligula's Bridge," "Tivoli," and "Cologne;" as well as some after other landscape painters. He is, however, most celebrated as an engraver of book plates, and especially of those from Turner's drawings; his exquisite rendering of that great artist's vignettes in such works as Rogers' Italy, and Poems, has probably seldom been equalled, and never surpassed. Mr. Goodall's style is essentially his own, and is as varied as the subjects he represents.—J. T—e.  * GOODALL,, A.R.A., son of the preceding, was born in London, September 17, 1822. He owes his rudimentary education in art entirely to his father, whose profession it was at first intended he should follow. Whilst only fourteen he received a commission to make drawings of Lambeth Palace and Willesden church; and, a year later, was employed to make a series of drawings of the interior of the Thames Tunnel. This last commission had an important influence on his career as an artist. It suggested the subject and supplied the materials of his first oil painting, "Finding the Dead Body of a Miner by Torchlight;" and it brought him acquainted with Mr. Isambard Brunel, by whose urgent advice he was induced, at the age of sixteen, to make a sketching tour in Brittany and Normandy. During the four following summers he returned to those districts, and thenceforth for several years continued to paint scenes from the peasant life he there observed; and almost to the present time the types of form, face, and expression with which he then familiarized himself, have been of constant recurrence in his pictures. Later he visited Ireland and Wales, and painted scenes of Welsh and Irish life. Again he went to Brittany, but this time it led him to venture on a higher class of subjects; and he has, with increasing years and experience, been constantly essaying loftier themes. One of the earliest of his larger pictures was the well-known "Village Holiday," painted in 1847 for Mr. Vernon, and presented by him to the nation. Others are—"Hunt the Slipper;" "Raising the Maypole;" "Arrest of a Peasant Royalist—Brittany;" "Cranmer at the Traitor's Gate;" "Felice Ballarin reciting Tasso to the people of Chioggia;" and "Early Morning in the Wilderness of Shur"—a noble picture, the result of recent studies in the East. Mr. F. Goodall was elected A.R.A. in 1852.—J. T—e.  GOODALL,, a well-known historical antiquary, was the son of a farmer in Banffshire, where he was born about 1706. He was educated at King's college, Aberdeen; and in 1730 was appointed depute-keeper of the advocate's library in Edinburgh, first under Thomas Ruddiman, and afterwards under David Hume. He was a staunch jacobite and a furious partisan of Queen Mary; and in 1754 he published "An Examination of the Letters said to be written by Mary to James Earl of Bothwell." He also published new editions of Crawford's Memoirs, Scott of Scotstarvet's Staggering State of Scots Statesmen, and Fordun's Scotochronicon; contributed to Keith's Catalogue of Scottish Bishops; and wrote a preface and life to Sir James Balfour's Practicks. He died in 1766 in very indigent circumstances, caused by intemperate habits.—J. T.  GOODMAN,, an English reformer, who took a considerable part also in the Scottish Reformation, was a native of Chester, where he was born about the year 1520. In 1536 he entered at Brazennose, Oxford, where he took his degrees in arts; and in 1547 he was made senior student of Christ Church in the same university. About the end of King Edward's reign he was chosen divinity lecturer, but on the accession of Mary he was obliged to quit the kingdom, and retired to Frankfort. He was afterwards joined with Knox as co-pastor in the charge of the English church of Geneva. During his residence in that city he assisted in preparing the revised version of the scriptures usually called the Geneva Bible, and also in drawing up the directory for public worship, called the Book of Common Order. On the accession of Elizabeth he returned to England, but was coldly received on account of a work on the obedience of subjects to princes, which he had published during the reign of Mary. He therefore withdrew to Scotland in 1559, and was warmly welcomed by Knox and his colleagues, by whom he was sent for a time to preach in Ayr. In 1560 he was appointed first protestant minister of St. Andrews. In 1565 he returned to England, and accompanied Sir Henry Sidney as chaplain in his expedition against the rebels in Ireland. In 1571 he was cited before Archbishop Parker to answer for his obnoxious book, which was not even yet forgotten, and made his peace by a recantation and renewed professions of loyalty. He was afterwards a preacher in Chester, where he survived till 1601 or 1602.—P. L.  GOODMAN,, who is generally spoken of as the only protestant prelate of England who ever went over to Romanism, was born of a good family at Ruthvyn in Denbighshire in 1583. After finishing his education at Trinity college, Cambridge, he was appointed in 1607 to the living of Stapleford Abbots in Essex, and rose into distinction as a preacher. In 1616 he published "The Fall of Man and Corruption of Nature, proved by Reason," which drew him into a controversy with Dr. George Hakewill. He obtained in succession a canonry of Windsor in 1617, the deanery of Rochester in 1620, and the bishopric of Gloucester in 1625. In 1626 he preached before the court, and 