. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... born, in 1601, at Havre. After havingserved in the army, he beciime a writer furthe theatre, and produced sixteen his other works are, Alaric, orRome Vanquished, an heroic,poem; andan atack upon The Cid of Corneille. Hedied in 1667. SCUDERI, .Magdalex, sister of theforegoing, a woman of more wit and talenttlian taste, was born in 1607; was long apopular writer of romances; was intimatewith many of the most distinguished ofher literary contemporaries; and died in1701. Her p
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... born, in 1601, at Havre. After havingserved in the army, he beciime a writer furthe theatre, and produced sixteen his other works are, Alaric, orRome Vanquished, an heroic,poem; andan atack upon The Cid of Corneille. Hedied in 1667. SCUDERI, .Magdalex, sister of theforegoing, a woman of more wit and talenttlian taste, was born in 1607; was long apopular writer of romances; was intimatewith many of the most distinguished ofher literary contemporaries; and died in1701. Her principal works are, the ro-mances of , Artainenes, Clelia,and Ibraliim; Conversations; Fables; andsome fugitive poetry. SEBA, Albert, a naturalist, was born,in 1665, at Eetzel, in East Friesland ; wasbrought up as an apothecary; and settledin tliat capacity at Amsterdam, after hav-ing made several voyages to the East andWest Indies, in the course of which heformed a valuable collection of naturalhistory. He died in 1736. He left adescription of his collection in four foliovolumes, with SECKER, Thomas, an eminent andpious prelate, was born, in 1693, at Sib-thorpe, in Nottinghamshire, and was edu-cated, at various seminaries, with the viewof becoming a preacher among the dissent-ers. In 1716, however, he went to Leyden,Btndied physic, and took his degree. In1721 he entered at Exeter College, conformed to the church, he took SEL 463 orders, and obtained preferment. Afterhaving filled various minor ministries, hewas consecrated bishop of Bristol in was translated to Oxford in 1737; and,in 1758, he was raised to the arcliiepisco-pal see of Canteibury. He died in Sermons, Charges, and other works,form twelve volumes octavo. SEDGWICii, Theodore, was bornat Hartford, in 1746, was educated at AaleCollege, and removing to Massachusetts,pursued the study of the law. He end;ai k-ed with spirit in the cause of the popularparty before the rev
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