. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... siege to Palmyra. Shewas taken while attempting to escape;was carried to Rome to grace his triumpli;and died there, in private life, about a. ZEUXIS, a celebrated painter of antiq-uity, is believed to have been born al/outB. 0. 497, and to have died about b. He was a native of Heraclea, butof which of the cities bearing that nameis not known, though it is supposed tobe the Heraclea of Magna Gryecia. Hebrought to perfection the management oflight and shade. Of his own meri
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... siege to Palmyra. Shewas taken while attempting to escape;was carried to Rome to grace his triumpli;and died there, in private life, about a. ZEUXIS, a celebrated painter of antiq-uity, is believed to have been born al/outB. 0. 497, and to have died about b. He was a native of Heraclea, butof which of the cities bearing that nameis not known, though it is supposed tobe the Heraclea of Magna Gryecia. Hebrought to perfection the management oflight and shade. Of his own merit hehad a sufficiently lofty idea ; for, Imvingbecome rich, he gave away his pictures,on the ground that no price was equal totheir worth. ZIMMERMAN, John George, a_ sician and miscellaneous writer, was orn, in 1723, at Brugg, in the canton ofBerne; studied medicine under Haller inGottingen; practised for some years athis native place; was a])pointed, in 176S,chief physician to the king of England at physborn 526 ZOE Hanover ; ntlendcd Frederic or Prus<(ia rmbis death tied ; was a violent literary op-. ponent of tlie llluniinali and the Frenchrevoliiiioiiists ; and tiled, in 179), a victimto hypochondriac di^ease. Among hisworks are, A Treatise on Solitude (oncehi°:hly popular) ; An Essay on NationalPride ; and A Treatise on the Experienceof Medicine. ZINCKE, Christian Frederic, aGerman painter, was horn, ahout 16S4,atDresden; studied under Hoit; settled inEns;land in his twenty-second year; he-came justly celchrated for the heauty of hisenamel iwrlrails ; and died in 1767. ZINZKNDOUF, Nicholas ,Count, the restorer of the Moravian sect,was horn, in 17 00, at Dresden ; was a sonof the elector of Saxonys ehamherlain ;and studied at Halle and VVittenlieri;. Heearly manifested an enthusiastic turn ofmine! with respect to religious 1721, having pivcn an asylum on hisestate to some of the persecuted Moravianhrethren, he espoused their doctrines, andhecame the h
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