EMBANK- height of the Embankment should be carried up in MENT. lengths proportioned to the force employed, so as to finish the dam, and cover the slopes with turf, between the ebb of the tide and the return. This however can only be done where the height of the Embankment is less than six or seven feet. Trunks or sluices are to be left occasionally, to allow the water to flow off. Sod Em In Plate XL., fig. 1, we have given the section of a bankment. Sod Embankment of this description; the outer face having a slope of 3 to 1, and the inner side descending at an angle of 45°. Considerable art is required in laying the sods; but in situations where sodding is practised, an expert workman lays them as neatly as a piece of brickwork,-paring the edges, and fitting the joints with an exactness which at once gives a handsome appearance; and assisted by good ramming and beating down with a flat sod-beetle, tends much to the security and durability of the Embankment. Clay Em When the land intended to be embanked is flooded bankments. to a greater depth, a bank may be formed of stones mixed with clay, or even clay alone, brought in plenty, and thrown over. Many of the Dutch dikes are supposed to have been made in this manner; the déblai from their numerous canals forming the material. In such cases, the line of Embankment must always be traced out in the water by poles or stakes. sea Embankment. The grandest attempt at Sea Embankment hitherto undertaken was made, some years since, by Mr. Madocks, who endeavoured to shut out the tide from the estuary and outlet of the Glasslyn, two miles in width. Tre Madoc Besides the recovery of nearly 4000 acres of alluvial land, Mr. Madocks had in view the patriotic object of uniting the counties of Merioneth and Cardigan, then separated by nearly a day's journey: a new line of road from Worcester was intended to have been led over this new Embankment, by which it was hoped 40 miles of road would have been saved between Dublin and London. An immense flood-gate was first formed in the solid rocks of the shore, to admit the discharge of the rivers; and in 1807, the mound was commenced from both shores, and rock, sand, and clay, were thrown over in the direction of it, and left to take their own slope. The greater part of these materials were argillaceous rock, broke into small pieces, which, mixed with the clay and loam, would have been of the strongest texture. As the work proceeded, a railway was laid, to facilitate the labour; and in the course of three years, the opposite ends were brought within fifty yards of meeting in the centre. It was, however, found extremely difficult to unite them, from the rapidity of the influx and reflux of the tide. This difficulty might have been overcome but for the pecuniary impediments which arose; and it is much to be lamented, that this grand work is yet incomplete. It has been stated by a recent writer, that Sir Hugh Middleton, to whom London is indebted for its supply of water by the New River, had conceived the very plan we have described, and would have attempted it but for the other work in which he was then engaged. ments. Guard piles When the shore or bank is sapped by the action of to Embank- the waves, raised by a strong wind which has space to act, a simple remedy is found by driving rows of piles, their own breadth apart, a short distance from the shore, leaving their tops completely above the top-rise of the tide. This was successfully done at one of the sea forts at Portsmouth, where the surf undermined the founda cliffs. tions and masonry, although very strongly built. A EMBANK row of piles was driven eight or nine feet deep, at a MENT. distance of fifty yards from the walls, the top of which were left two feet above the high-water line; since this was completed, they have acted as a breakwater, the space between the piles and the fort being always smooth, even in rough weather, and the walls have ceased to receive injury. The same simple method might be successfully adopted on a large scale, to protect the banks of large rivers, when exposed to the waves. It is also conceived, that considerable protection would be afforded to many parts of the coast of Kent and Sussex, where the chalk cliffs are continually falling down. Brighton Proposed has felt this inconvenience to a great extent; the East guard to Cliff loses a portion of its roadway every winter: and Brighton within the recollection of most persons, a width, equal to that of several roads, has fallen down. If the persons in charge of the road, or interested in the valuable houses which must, ere long, be washed away, had consented, a few years since, to sacrifice a breadth equal to one road, the cliff would have been preserved for Ages. Fig. 2, Plate XL,, represents the cliff: by merely cutting away from the top a strip of the soil, equal to one-half the perpendicular height, and suffering it to assume its natural slope of 45°, the effect produced would have been as represented by fig. 3; at the foot of which a row of small rough piles would have preserved the scattered portions of the rock at bottom from being carried away. It is not yet too late to do something like this; for the road might be raised on the top of the slope, as represented by the dotted lines in the figure. River Embankments are constructed either to pre- River Em vent the encroachment of the current on the shores, or bankments. to protect the country from being overflowed when the water rises above the level of the adjacent land. Experience and observation have taught Engineers, that when the course of a river is a straight line, or approaches nearly to it, the stream seldom corrodes the banks. Hence, for circuitous rivers, in flat countries, it has always been deemed advisable to form new outlets. The excavation from the new bed supplies the soil for forming the necessary Embankment, which should almost universally be constructed with a clay River clay wall in the centre, as we shall presently describe: and wall. in most cases where new outlets are to be chosen, an entirely new bed or channel should be dug for the river; otherwise as the stream passes alternately through new soils and through portions of the old bed, the water glancing from the more indurated and older bank, acts on the new-formed mound, forming holes and gullies, which require continual repairs. Another great reason for straightening the channels of the water courses in Straighten low countries, would be the facility of passing off the ening rivers inundations in rainy seasons, or after an extraordinary rise of tide; for the windings in the rivers being so many impediments, the waters rise higher, and overflow the land to a greater depth and extent than if a free and direct outlet offered itself. On this principle the Hundred-foot River, and other outlets, were cut through the Bedford Level; and a noble plan was drawn out by the late Mr. Rennie, for straightening the outfalls of the Rennie's whole of the fens; which, if carried into execution, plan. would have placed that great agricultural district out of all danger of future inundations. Partial injuries to river Embankments are prevented Jetties from extending, by Jetties or Protecting Piers, as they are sometimes called; but it is necessary to be very rer inunjons. BANK- cautious in using this remedy, which often makes ENT. matters worse elsewhere. To divert the current from a weak bank, a Jetty is sometimes placed almost at right angles to the shore; the stream is repelled strongly from the Jetty, and the impulse directs the water against the opposite shore, so that the effect is to produce another hole or breach on that side the shore. It is only of late years that experience has taught the agriculturist that the pile should be placed very obliquely to the current; indeed, the best Engineers recommend a total extinction of all these antiquated remedies, and where a bank is weak, an effectual repair should be given to it at once. And inasmuch as the most perfect section of the bed of a river would be a semicircle, all obstacles which prevent it from being such should be removed. In constructing Embankments to guard against inundations, it is a common, but inistaken notion, that ground may be saved by increasing the height of the Embankments, and confining their line close to the edge of the stream. An ill-judged tenaciousness of property also sometimes induces this method to be adopted, which has always been attended with loss. River floods seldom swell higher than a few feet above the ordinary level, unless considerably obstructed. For instance, if in times of flood the sectional area of a piece of water be 120 square feet, it is better to form a foreland, or space between the river and the Embankment, leaving a water way of 40 feet wide and only three feet deep, than to crowd the mound close to the side of the water course, leaving only a width of 20 feet, which would make the water double the depth; or to contract the channel to ten feet, which would require banks 12 feet effects of high. Vast sums might thus have been saved in the original construction of many Embankments, and in their tter ways, repairs, which, from the great pressure of the water, is very considerable. These forelands would in general be rich meadow-ground; or willows and osiers would always repay the cultivation. If the Embankments on the upper part of the Mersey had been made 80 or 100 yards apart, instead of being confined to 20, one-third of the height of the present banks would have guarded against floods; which their present great height is insufficient so to do. A distinction is necessary to be remarked between Embankments on the sides of a brook, or of a river distant from the sea, which are to prevent the overflowing from rains doing damage to the agriculturist; and the Embankments near the mouth of the same river, which are to direct the current of the waters, to keep the entrance clear. The object to be effected, and the means employed, are totally distinct. Having ascertained the sectional area of a river in times of flood, the distances between the Embankments may be computed, allowing a sufficient foreland; and the banks for the most part need not exceed four or five feet in height. The material for the Embankments should always be obtained by widening the river; and from a ditch to be formed inside of the bank, sluices should be formed, which might be advantageously used for irrigation. Fig. 4, Plate XL., shows the most advantageous form of these banks. New banks should tecting, be turfed or gravelled to a foot depth. Trees should always be planted on banks, as their roots tend greatly to bind the earthy materials. In Holland all the great dikes are planted, and form the principal, although a monotonous, interruption to the general flatness of the country. A simple method of protecting Embankments on the sides of rapid rivers, and one attended with com ks. MENT. paratively small expense, is to fix large hampers or EMBANK creels of basket-work at the foot of the Embankment, and to fill them with stones, which, from the facility of accumulating a great weight at one spot, would not easily be carried or washed down. Such a protection is suitable for the alluvial banks of streams passing through the fertile vallies or glens of mountainous countries which are subject to sudden and rapid currents, from the head branches of a river among the hills. Many of the preceding remarks on river Embankments are applicable to those raised against the sea, and the descriptions become identified in some respects according to local circumstances, particularly at the mouths and estuaries of large rivers abounding in shoals. These flats are mostly composed of the richest and most fertilizing particles brought down by the current from the upper.countries, and these by proper management may be converted into fertile land, while the navigation of the river is improved. The leading principle in such cases is to confine the whole waters of the river in one body, which is best effected by altering its course altogether, and forcing a new outlet for it. In pursuance of this object, and in furtherance of others connected with it, the new channel for the river Ouse, a little above Lynn-Regis, called the Eau-Brink Cut, has just been completed. And it is in this mode that it was sometime since purposed to reclaim the exterior tracts of the Lancaster and Milthorp, as well as the Ulverston and Duddon sands in Lancashire. The rationale of the process is founded on the fact, that the old bed of the river will in a few years be so choked up and raised above its original level, by the accumulation of sand and mud brought in by the tide, partially at springs and during the prevalence of particular winds, as to form of itself a bank, which, with a little artificial aid, will quite exclude the sea or waters; for as the current of the river formerly carried away all the sediment stirred up by various courses, this current being removed, it is evident that the particles held in suspension will not only be carried further up the old channel of the river, but a great part of them will be deposited as the tide recedes. About four years have now (1826) elapsed since the first opening of the Eau-Brink Cut, and the bed of the old river (nearly eight miles in length) is already silted up higher than the level of the cultivated lands within its old banks, and in the upper part is already inoculated with tufts of grass, and in a few years more, when the river is wholly excluded, will be brought into cultivation. This operation of silting up has been much practised in the Marsh-land district of Norfolk; and on that coast it is supposed this raising of the surface of land (particularly marsh land) is performed more rapidly than elsewhere; and the little hollows and inequalities are found by experience to silt up much faster when the tidewaters, after once stagnating, are speedily taken off by proper cuts and channels formed for the purpose, than when the contrary is the case. The sea Embankments near Lynn, and the river Embankments of the Ouse, although not perhaps the most perfect, may yet be most interesting; and in fig. 5 and 6, Plate XL., we have given a section of each. Fig. 7 is a section of the Embankment of the Eau-Brink Cut, where the system of providing an ample breadth of foreland has been carried to its full and proper extent. The art of Embanking against lakes and meers, or Embankloughs, is comparatively simple. As the waters in ments for lakes materials EMBANK- these places rise in the winter, and in rainy seasons MENT. chiefly, if the extent then overflowed exceeds the parts constantly covered, it may be an object to confine the water to its summer boundaries; and the principal attention should be directed to the grand outlet, which should be widened and deepened; either of these dimensions preponderating according to circumstances. The general principles of Embanking equally apply here as in rivers: observing, as a general rule applicable to all Embankments, that when the materials on the spot can be made use of, they should be employed, although the ditches from which they are taken may be consequently made larger than needful; and that the greatest care be taken to make them perfectly solid and firm by beating and ramming, and by diligent inspection of the different stages of the work. Form of, and The inner slope of an Embankment should never for, Emunder any circumstances form more than an angle of bankments. 45°. The outer slope varies from 15° to 45°: the power of a bank to resist a weight of water as well as to break its force being inversely as its acclivity; and the power of water to destroy the bank being diminished nearly in the same proportion. The examples given in Plate XL. will best exemplify the general sections of Embankments formed of mounds of earth, which vary from a base of 10 feet, and a height of three feet, as on the Thames and the Forth, to a base of 100 feet, and a height of 10 feet, as on the great banks of the Ouse. The great rivers of Germany and Holland are embanked in this mode beyond the tide-waters; the banks of the Vistula, near Dantzic, are 15 feet in height; the Oder, the Elbe, &c. have, as well as the other streams, their banks closely matted with grass, and planted with trees and shrubs. A mode peculiar to the sea Embankments of Holland consists in covering the outer slope of the bank with straw matting; elsewhere, gravel, fagots, hurdles, &c. are employed; but the general principle is to prevent the water wearing holes in the banks by agitating loose substances left by the waves or tide; and thus straw matting, while it lasts, is as effectual as a covering of sheet iron. Where any matter, except sand and mud, are habitually left by the tide, or where the banks consist of materials unequal in hardness and durability, the Embankments should be, as they are in Holland and Lincolnshire, regularly watched a small hole in a sea bank presents an opening to the water, it soon enlarges, and if protection is not bestowed to the surface, will terminate in a breach. The body of the bank should be repaired every summer. A very secure form of Embankment in rapid rivers is made by dropping barge-loads of stones, so that they may lie close on the sloped banks, the natural acclivity of which must be decreased when the upper and lower strata are dissimilar,-care being taken to lay the stones from the bed of the river to above the height of floods; gravel and small stones should be spread above these, so as to form an artificial beach, which will be the most effective against the powerful current. these materials cannot be obtained, thick sods should If be laid down in summer, and planted with willows; but should the subsoil not be favourable to their growth, then sods full of the roots of rushes may be substituted, as when these plants thrive, the bank is effectually protected. This mode is far superior, and infinitely less expensive than the causeway of plank, brick, or stone. Under the head Dock we have given several ex- EMBANK amples of Quay Walling, and Sea Walls, formed of MENT. masonry. Belider first gave the curves in the section of the London Dock quay walls. Some very fine walls of this kind have been erected by Mr. Telford on the Caledonian Canal, particularly where it was found necessary to form new beds for the rivers of the mountainous district through which that navigation passes. The granite sea walls which embank the Neva at Petersburgh, are very fine specimens of this particular species of Embankments. Protection is sometimes afforded to a bank by wicker or dead hedges at its feet, and these may be placed in parallel rows; but it is conceived that they are less durable than when the wicker work lies flat on the beach. The banks in the great level of the fens are formed of the light materials of that soil, chiefly moor; they are consequently porous, and it has been well observed by a late author, that the waters which have soaked through the porous fen banks, have done that fertile county more real damage than all the floods which have ever come upon them. In constructing new canals in these parts it is now customary, before laying the mound, to bring up a puddle-dike or clay section in the centre of the highest part of the Embankment proportioned to its height. When the clay of this interior bank is well worked by men's feet or clay rammers, it will be impervious to water, care being however taken that the foundation be laid upon a substratum either naturally impervious to the water, or in a similar mode rendered equally So. In old banks, a gutter or trench is cut through a little on the land side of the centre, down to the general clay substratum of the fens; this is afterwards filled up with tempered clay, well trodden or rammed down. One of the figures in the plate illustrates this very simple and most effective operation. Embankments, when constructed for retaining the Canal En waters of a reservoir, and to form the artificial banks of a canal the level of which is above that of the surrounding country, require great attention, more particularly on account of their frequent liability to slip. Embankments for inland navigation appear to have been long in use in China, where canals 200 feet wide are embanked 20 feet high for considerable distances. Aqueduct bridges for carrying canals over deep and wide vallies, or over large and navigable rivers, always require less or greater lengths of solid mound in which the canals are formed, up to their proper height, connecting them with the level of the naviga tion. The necessary height of the head for a reservoir or canal Embankment being determined, the nature of the material to be used in the construction is to be considered, both as to the degree of slope it will assume, and to its capability of containing water when consolidated. From 18 to 24 inches base to 12 in soil consists of slippery clay, particularly that blue height, appears to be the usual slope; but when the kind generally found in the great alluvial basis of the Thames, an additional slope should be given, and care should be taken to put frequent layers of sand and coarse gravel to lessen the tendency of such soil to slipIf the reservoir or canal requires bottom-puddling or lining, it will often be right to use the additional precaution of carrying up an interior puddle bank, banknests. EMBANK- described in a preceding part of this Paper, as proper MENT. for river Embankments in fen lands. EMBARGE In all considerable Embankments there will be required one or more arches to convey the brooks or water courses under the canal, and perhaps others for roads to pass through. Great attention should be paid in sloping off and finishing the ends of the culverts and arches under an Embankment, agreeably to the slope sides of the banks thereof; these are thereby prevented from mouldering down into the brook or road-way, and moreover awkward projections in the slopes are avoided. At the entrance or upper side of a water arch, or of a road arch that may occasionally become such, return or wing walls of brick or stone should be made for some distance along the slope of the Embankment, and the sharp corners of the entrances of the arches should be a little rounded off to prevent the rapidity of sudden floods from wearing or injuring the bank. It may be proper to advise, that new banks ought not to be placed on the sides of very steep ground, without considerable care in first forming it into levels like steps, to prevent the slipping of the new part. Among the most considerable Embankments that MENT. EMBARK. have been made for canals, are those of Bollin and EMBANKStretford on the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal, and those at Wolverton, Weedon, and Bug Brook on the Grand Junction; but the greatest extent of high Embankment known, is that in the valley of the Boyne, for the Grand Canal of Ireland; and perhaps the highest bank in the world, is to be found on the same canal over the valley of the river Rye. It is above 90 feet high. Mr. James Brindley used a kind of caisson of planks in forming his great Embankments, in which dirt boats were used to bring materials from the higher ground that had been cut through. All the remarks and precautions in Canal Embankments apply to those for Rail-ways, particularly as respects their slipping; an occurrence which has repeatedly taken place from an over anxiety to spare the great extent of ground, often the most valuable, required for the bases of high Embankments; but in such cases, a less base might be safely given to Embankments, and their slopes only one-half to one: and by securing the sides from slipping by pitching or paving the slopes with stones or broken rock, which, judiciously effected, gives them great tenacity. EMBAR, bar, from the A. S. bairg-an, to secure, to fortify, to strengthen. See BAR. To bar in, to secure, to guard; and also, to guard against, to prevent, to prohibit. Themselues, for feare into his iawes to fall, Hee forc't to castle strong to take their flighte, He has them now foure yeers besieg'd to make the thrall. If this commerce 'twixt heaven and earth were not She, for whose losse we have lamented thus, Donne. Funeral Elegies. An Anatomy of the World. [The king] translating the mart (which commonly followed the English cloth) vnto Calice, and embarred also all further trade for the future. Bacon. Henry VII., fol. 130. EMBA'RGE, or Imbargo (says Skinner) a word EMBARGO, V. -(jam etiam) well known to the comEMBARGO, n. mon people. Sp. embargo, navium detentio, from the verb embargar, to detain, to retain, from the press. En, or in, and the noun bar; q. d. to detain by the opposition of a bar. Haçkluyt and others write Embarge. To embar; to bar in, to stop or obstruct; and thus, to stay, to detain. The first, to know if there were any warres betweene Spaine and England. The second, why our merchants with their goods were embarged or arrested. Hakluyt. Voyages, &c. vol. iii. p. 555. Sir Francis Drake. Howsoever in respect of the king's departure, (at which time they use here to embarge all the mules, and means of carriage in this town,) I believe his lordship will not begin his journey so soon as he intended. Cabbala, p. 43. Sir William Alston to Secretary Conway. My Lord Digby went to court, and gave a round satisfaction in this point, for it was no voluntary, but a constrained act in the English, who being in the Persian's port, were suddenly embargu'd for the service. Howell. Letter 11. book i. sec. 3. Embargoes on merchandize was another engine of royal power, by which the English princes were able to extort money from the people. Hume. History of England, vol. v. p. 462. appen. iii. VOL. XXI. To go into a bark, or barge; to go, or cause to go, to put, on ship-board; and, consequently, to go upon any risk, venture or enterprise; to engage in. Then when he had gotten his men of war together, he fraighted his ships and embarked his host. Arthur Goldyng. Justine, fol. 52. But the Corinthians, who bifore had thair people embarqued & the succours of thair allyes all ready, wolde not so agree. Nicolls. Thucydides, fol. 20. The swineheard having followed them to the water side (for by that time were the thieves embarged with them) cried aloud unto the swine, as his manner was: whereupon they knowing his voice, leaned all to one side of the vessell, turned it over, and sunk it, tooke to the water, and so swam again to the land unto their keeper. Holland. Plinie, vol. i. fol. 230. Embarquments all of fury, shall lift vp Their rotten priuiledge and custom 'gainst My hate to Martius. Shakspeare. Coriolanus, fol. 8. I was just embarking myself for England, about Christmas 1679, when one Mr. Hoby invited me to go first a short trading voyage to the country of the Moskitos. Dampier. Voyages, Introduction. Falconer. The Shipwreck, can. 1. Meantime the royal progeny is brought 3 R Glover. Athenaid, book ix. EMBAR RASS. EMBASSADE. EMBA'RRASS, v. Fr. embarrasser ; It. imbarEMBARRASS, n. razzare; Sp. embaraçar, to EMBARRASSMENT. hinder, to perplex: I believe (says Skinner) from the prep. in, and bar, q. d. obicem seu repagulum objicere, to oppose a bar or obstacle. To oppose or throw in the way, a bar or obstacle; to obstruct, to hinder, to perplex, to render intricate, to confound or confuse. Let us admire, then, the art and dexterity of the poet, who has extricated himself from the embarrassments he lay under, by this polite and ingenious device. Lewis. The Thebaid of Statius, book i. Churchill. The Rosciad. From whence arose the embarras of David and Jeremiah (not to speak of the disputants in the book of Job) to account for the prosperity of some wicked individuals, in the present life? Warburton. The Divine Legation, &c., book v. sec. 5. The three friends contend that the good man can never be unhappy, because such a situation would reflect dishonour on God's attributes. Now the doctrine of a resurrection supposed to be here urged by Job, cleared up all his embarras. Id. Ib. book vi. sec. 2. You will have the goodness to excuse me, if my real unaffected embarrasment prevents me from expressing my gratitude to you as I ought. Burke. Speech to the Electors of Bristol. EMBARREN, en, and barren, (q. v.) i. e. barred, stopt up; and thus, To cause to be, to make or render, unproductive, unfruitful. Like the ashes from the mount Vesuvius, though singly small and nothing; yet in conjoyned quantities they embarren all the fields about it. Feltham. Resolve 9. EMBA'SE, En, and base; Gr. Báois, from EMBA'SEMENT, Baiv-ew, to go; that upon which EMBA'SING, S n. we stand or go, the lowest part of the foot; any thing low. See BASE, and DEBASE. To put, place, or bring low; to lower, to depress, to degrade; (to debase; now the more usual word.) And either vow'd with all their powre and wit, Spenser. Faerie Queene, book iii. can. 1. Which he could wisely vse, and well apply, To please the best, and th' euill to embuse. Id. Ib. book iv. can. 1. Yea, shall I say more? we should, if we were wise, take from them their tribuneship; which most manifestly is the embasing of the consulship, and the cause of the division of the city. Sir Thomas North. Plutarch. Coriolanus, fol. 191. All vain, luxuriant allegories, rhyming cadencies of similary words, are such pitiful embellishments of speech, as serve for nothing but to embase divinity; and the use of them, but like the plaistering of marble, or the painting of gold, the glory of which is to be seen, and to shine by no other lustre but their own. South. Sermons, vol. iv. p. 46. in that by Chalmers it is Am. Book xiv. near the end. EMBAS Low Lat. ambasciator, Wachter is says, Any messenger of King, Monastery, or State:-it is more generally Any messenger; or person sent or intrusted with a message or errand. Sendeth som other wise embassadours, For by my trouthe, me were lever die, Than I you shuld to hasardours allie. Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12548. But as soone as the hete of thy charytye descended vpon the in the similitude of fyre, they were then made so constaunt & sure in theyr myndes, that from that tyme forwarde by no drede, threatning, nor persecucion, they feared to shew thine embassade & commaunde ment. Fisher. On the Seuen Penitential Psalmes, sig. N 7. And in that point Christ would haue those that his be, to excel and be ring leaders enen aboue emperours: as those, vnto whom, beinge his embassadours, he gaue the keies of the kingdōe of heauē. Stephen, Bishop of Winchester. Of True Obedience, fol. 41. Enclyne thyne eare Lord and consydre, open thine eyes, O Lord' and se, and pondre all the wordes of Sennacherib, whiche bathe sente hys embassage to blaspheme the liuing God. Bible, Anno 1551. Isaye, ch. xxxvii. But when the erle of Warwik vnderstode of this mariage, he tooke it highly that his embasiate was deluded. Sir Thomas More. Workes, fol. 60. The History of King Richard III. WARW. I, but the case is alter'd. When you disgrac'd me in my embassade And come now to create you duke of Yorke. So that the dueness of respect to the ministers of religion, seems to be the common acknowledgement of mankind, grounded upon the relation they have to God, as his embassadours, and stewards of his mysteries. Glanvil. Sermon 5. Which more perplex'd him, and in nearer sort, Daniel. History of the Civil War, book vii. Whiles Anniball on this side the river, staied in giving audience to the embassages of the Gaules, he conducted over the regiments of footmen more heavily armed. Holland. Livius, fol. 420. And instantly an embassy is sent To Charles of France, to will him to restore The English kings were owners of before. Fabius thinking his embassie had been ended, and being somewhat hot and rash in defence of the Clusinians, gave defiance to the valiantest Gaule there, to fight with him man to man. Sir Thomas North. Plutarch. Numa, fol. 57. It is evident therefore that Herod, received them not as kings, no nor with that respect that is due to the embassadors of kings. South. Sermons, vol. ii. p. 95 With fear the modest matron [Hersilia] lifts her eyes And to the bright embassadress [Iris] replies. Garth. Ovid, book xiv. Imagine an ambassadour presenting himself in a poor frieze jerkin, and tattered cloths, certainly he would have but small audience, his embassy would speed rather according to the weakness of him that brought it, than the majesty of him that sent it. South. Sermons, vol. i. p. 179. SADE |
