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COBURG

Volume 7 · 186 words · 1842 Edition

a city, the capital of the duchy of Saxe- Coburg. It stands in a pleasant and fruitful district on Cocceum the river Its, and is surrounded by mountains, whose sides are covered with vines, and at whose feet are well culti- vated gardens. It contains 765 houses, and, including the military, 8154 inhabitants. The ducal palace is a magnificent pile of building, which incloses the court, church, and the public library, consisting of more than 25,000 volumes, and all the state papers. There are five other churches, and appropriate institutions for education and charity. But the manufactures are few, and the trade only such as is attracted by the markets and fairs. Long. 10. 52. 59. E. Lat. 50. 15. 14. N.

COCECIUS, Joins, professor of theology at Bremen, was founder of a sect called Cocceiani, who, amongst other singular opinions, held that of a visible reign of Christ in this world, after a general conversion of the Jews and all other people to the true Christian faith, as laid down in the voluminous works of Cocceius. He died in 1699, at the age of sixty-six.