. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. ghteenthcentury, embraced the ecclesiastical life at taught theology with much reputation, andfilled successively the most considerable posts inhis order. He made a long stay at Rome, inthe commencement of the pontificate of ClementXL, who entertained a great regard for him jand he died at Cavee, a house belonging to hisorder in the bishopric of Liege, about the year1720, at a very advanced period of life. Hi
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. ghteenthcentury, embraced the ecclesiastical life at taught theology with much reputation, andfilled successively the most considerable posts inhis order. He made a long stay at Rome, inthe commencement of the pontificate of ClementXL, who entertained a great regard for him jand he died at Cavee, a house belonging to hisorder in the bishopric of Liege, about the year1720, at a very advanced period of life. Hisprincipal work is a complete and methodicalbody of moral theology, entitled Ethica Amo-ris, 1709, in three volumes folio, which, onaccount of its maintaining the Ultramontanedoctrines relating to the power and jurisdictionof the court of Rome, was not favourably re-ceived in France. He was also the author of atheological work, in folio, in which he explainedthe first part of the Summa of St. Thomas jand of a work, entitled Molinismus profliga-tus, in two volumes octavo; which, as welVas the preceding, is held in much estimation byCatholic divines. The titles of some other. . -R- -M^/fAcn,\;.^\ S. C/tjf . HEN 147 ) HEN pieces attributed to him, intended to point outtlie necessity of reforming the order of the Je-suits, may be seen in Moreri. Nouv. —M. HENRV, Nicholas, an able French pro-fessor of the Hebrew language in the eighteenthcentury, was born at Verdun, in the year \Ve are not informed where he received hiseducation ; and he is first introduced to our no-tice in the capacity of tutor to the sons of l-ieury, attorney-general to the parlia-ment of Paris. He gave such satisfaction inthis employment, thy in the year 1723 hispatron procured for him the appointment to thechair of professor of Hebrew in the College-Royal. When he firi^t entered upon this office,his acquaintance with the language which hewas to teach was far
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