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 440 EDWARDS lished "A Year on the Punjaub Frontier" (2 vols. 8vo, London, 1851). He afterward re- turned to India, and in 1864 was appointed lieutenant governor of the Punjaub. His " Life of Sir Henry Lawrence " was completed by Herman Merivale (London, 1872). EDWARDS. I. An unsettled 8. W. county of Texas; area, 1,225 sq. m. It is chiefly noted for its mountain cedar, cold springs, and large rocks. II. A 8. E. county of Illinois ; area, 200 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 7,565. Bon Pas creek flows along its E. border, and the Wa- bash touches it on the. S. E. The surface is occupied by forests and fertile undulating prai- ries. The chief productions in 1870 were 122,- 703 bushels of wheat, 352,371 of Indian corn, 129,152 of oats, 14,522 of potatoes, 7,374 tons of hay, 48,703 Ibs. of wool, and 133,150 of tobacco. There were 2,952 horses, 2,045 milch cows, 2,900 other cattle, 14,401 sheep, and 13,274 swine. Capital, Albion. EDWARDS, Amelia Blandford, an English novel- ist, born in 1831. She early exhibited literary and artistic tastes, and in 1853 began to con- tribute to periodicals. She has written an history of England, a volume of ballads, and several books for children, the most successful of which are " The Little Marquis " and "The Story of Cervantes." But she is best known by her novels: " My Brother's Wife" (1855), "The Ladder of Life" (1857), "Hand and Glove ". (1859), " Barbara's History " (1864), " Half a Million of Money " and " Miss Carew " (1865), " Debenham's Vow " (1870), and " Mon- sieur Maurice and other Tales" (1873). EDWARDS, Bela Bates, an American author and editor, born in Southampton, Mass., July 4, 1802, died in Georgia, April 20, 1852. He graduated at Amherst college in 1824, entered the seminary at Andover in 1825, in 1826 was appointed tutor at Amherst, and in 1828 was chosen assistant secretary of the American education society, and performed the duties of this office till 1833. His literary and editorial labors were very great and important. From 1828 to 1842 he edited for the education society the "American Quarterly Register." In 1833 he established the " American Quarterly Ob- server," which, after three volumes, was uni- ted with the " Biblical Repository " of Prof. Robinson, which he edited from 1835 to 1838. Of the " Bibliotheca Sacra " he was the editor from 1844 to 1852. In 1837 he was appointed Srofessor of Hebrew in the seminary at An- over; and in 1848 of Biblical literature, which office he held till his death. He pre- pared the " Eclectic Reader," " Biography of Self-taught Men," "Memoirs of E. Cornelius" (1842), a volume on the Epistle to the Gala- tians, and the "Missionary Gazetteer" (1832). A selection of his sermons, lectures, and ad- dresses, with a memoir by Prof. Park (2 vols. 12mo), was published in Boston in 1853. EDWARDS, Bryan, an English historian, born m Westbury, Wiltshire, May 21, 1743, died July 15, 1800. After acquiring a good English education at Bristol, he emigrated to Jamaica in 1759, where a rich uncle gave him the means of completing his studies, and made him his heir. He became a prominent member of the colonial assembly, and published in 1784 a pamphlet against the restrictions laid by gov- ernment on the trade between the West Indies and the United States. He afterward went to Santo Domingo, and collected materials for his "Historical Survey of the French Colony " in that island (4to, London, 1797), which was in- corporated in the author's best known work, " The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies" (2 vols. 4to, London, 1793 ; 3d ed., 3 vols. 8vo, 1801 ; 5th ed., with a continuation to 1796, 5 vols. 8vo, 1819). This work bears a high character, and gives very minute and varied information. Mr. Edwards returned to England, and from 1796 till his death represented Grampound in parliament. EDWARDS, George, an English ornithologist, born in Stratford, Essex, about 1693, died July 23, 1773. He was brought up to trade, but developed a taste for natural history and antiquities, and at the close of his apprentice- ship visited Holland, Norway, and other parts of Europe, in prosecuting his favorite re- searches. The fruit of his labors appeared in his "Natural History of uncommon Birds, and of some rare and undescribed Animals" (4 vols. 4to, London, 1743, '47, '50, and '51) ; to which three more volumes were added in 1758, '60, and '64, called " Gleanings of Natu- ral History." This exceedingly valuable work contained numerous plates, with descriptions in French and English of more than 600 sub- jects. In its original form it is scarce, but several partial editions and abridgments have been published. He left a work entitled " Ele- ments of Fossilology," which appeared in 1776. EDWARDS, John, an English divine, born in Hertford, Feb. 26, 1637, died in Cambridge, April 16, 1716. He graduated at Cambridge in 1661, and took charge of Trinity church there, thence removed successively to Bury St. Edmund's, to Colchester, and back to Cambridge. In 1699 he was made doctor of divinity; and from this time he became a voluminous writer, showing himself a subtle, able, and learned polemic. He was a very earnest Calvinist, and from his abhorrence of Arminianism connected it with popery. His most important works are " Veritas Redux, or Evangelical Truths Restored;" "Inquiry into four remarkable Texts ;" " Discourse con- cerning the Authority, Style, and Perfection of the Books of the Old and New Testa- ments ;" " Survey of the several Dispensations of Religion;" "Answer to Dr. Whitby's Five Points;" "Animadversions on Dr. Clarke's Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity ;" and " The- ologia Reformata: the Body and Substance of the Christian Religion." He wrote also several treatises against the Socinians.
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