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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

Remarks on some of Mr. Hobbes's Positions, 4to. 1769; 4, Thoughts on the Causes of the present Discontents, 1770; 5, A Modest Plea for the Property of Copy-Right, 8vo. 1774; 6, History of England, from the Revolution to the present Time, in Letters to her Friend Dr. Wilson, 1 vol. 4to. 1778.—This was published at Bath; 7, An Address to the People of England, Scotland, and Ireland, on the present important Crisis, 8vo. 1775; 8, A Treatise on the Immutability of Moral Truth, 8vo. 1783; 9, Letters on Education, 8vo. 1790.

Mrs. Macauley was pleasing and delicate in her person, and a woman of great feeling and indisputable abilities, though the democratic spirit of her writings has made them fall into disrepute.

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MACRINA, Sister of St. Basil and St. Gregory of Nyssa,

Was a woman of great piety and learning; who, after the death of her father, her brothers and sisters being settled, retired with her mother Emmelia to a convent which they founded on an estate of their own in Pontus, near the river Iris, and there died, 379. St. Gregory of Nyssa has written her life.

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MAGDALEN (MARY).

It was an opinion of the Jewish Rabbis, that the world was governed by ministering spirits. Good actions or the immediate commands of God performed by angels, and the contrary by devils. In the latter class were diseases: and when it is said in the scripture that

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