Britain
Britain. To Mr. Fulton, However, Belongs The Great Honour Of Having Been The First W Ho Endeavoured To Investi Gate On Principle, The Difficulties Of The Subject; And It Is Remarkable, That He Derived His Data From The Expe Riments Of The Society For The Improvement Of Naval Architecture, A ...
Brlnn Brunn
Brunn, Brlnn, Brion, Brno, Or Bruna, Is A City Of Moravia, And The Capital Of A Circle Of The Same Name. This Town Is Agreeably And Strongly Situated, -at The Confluence Of The Rivers Schwartschaw And Surtawa, Upon Two Mountains, The Sides Of Which Are Well Cul Tivated, And Covered ...
Broadwoods
Broadwood's Temperament Of The Musical Scale. For Several Years Past, Mr James Broadwood, A Piano Forte Maker In London, Has Been Celebrated For The Ex Cellence Of His Instruments, As To Perfection Of Work Manship And Tone ; And He Has Been Supposed, Also, To Employ The Best Set Of ...
Brocade
Brocade, In The Manufacture Of Cloth, Signifies That Species, In Which A Certain Portion Of Woof Is Interwoven, In Order To Produce Fanciful Variety Upon Particular Parts Of The Superficies Of The Cloth. In This Respect It May, Without Any Violation Of Propriety, Be Taken As A Generic Term, Under ...
Brocken
Brocken, The Name Of The Highest Of The Hartz Mountains In Saxony. This Mountain, Which, On Ac Count Of Its Natural Curiosities, Is Much Resorted To By Travellers, May Be Ascended By Two Great Roads For Car Riages, Or By Five Foot-paths. The Best Method Of As Cending It On ...
Bron1ley
Bron1ley, A Market Town Of England, In The County Of Kent, Is Situated On The River Revensbourn, 10 Miles South-east From London. It Is A Clean, Well-built, Strag Gling Town, But Containing Nothing Worthy Of Notice, Ex Cept The Hospital Erected By Dr Warner, Bishop Of Ro Chester, In The ...
Bronze
Bronze, The Name Of A Mixed Metal, Which The Ancients Employed For Casting Statues And Other Orna• Ments. According To Vasari, The Bronze Of The Egyp Tians Consisted Of Two-thirds Of Brass, And One Of Cop Per ; And-pliny Informs Us, That The Greeks Added To The Brass One-tenth Part ...
Bronzing
Bronzing, Is The Art Of Imitating Bronze, Or Of Communicating To Figures In Wood, Ivory, Plaster, &c. That Greenish Rust Which Distinguishes The Bronze Figures Of The Ancients. The Golden Bronze Is Made Of The Finest And Brightest Copper Dust, And When It Is Wanted Of A Red Colour, A ...
Brook Taylor
Taylor, Brook, An Eminent English Mathema Tician, Was Horn At Edmonton Near London In 1685. In 1701 He Was Entered A Fellow Commoner At St. John's College, Cambridge; And In 1708, In The 23d Year Of His Age, He Wrote A Paper On The Centre Of Oscillations, Which Is Published ...
Brooklyn
Brooklyn, Battle Of See Vol. I. P. 636. 13roome, Nvillinim, An English Poet, Was Born In Cheshire, Of Poor Parents ; And After Being Educated Upon The Foundation At Eton, Was, By The Contribution Of His Friends, Sent To St John's College Cambridge, Where He Obtained A Small Exhibition During ...
Broseley
Broseley, A Market Town Of England, In The County Of Salop, Is Situated On The River Severn, Which Separates It From Madelev, 145 Miles N. W. From Lon Don. It Possesses Considerable Iron-works, Where Can Non And All Kinds Of Cast-iron Articles Are Founded ; And Also A Manufactory For ...
Brown1sts
Brown1sts. A Religious Sect, Which Owed Its Origin To Robert Brown, An English Divine Of The Six Teenth Century He Was First A Schoolmaster, And Next A Lecturer At Islington ; And Soon Distinguished Himself By Travelling Through Various Parts .of. England, And Inveighing Against The Discipline And Ordinances Of ...
Brucker
Brucker, Jon): Jamls, A Learned German Author, Well Known By His Laborious And Original Researches Into The History Philosophy, Was Born At Augsburg!). In Swabia, On The 22d Of January 1696. He Prosecuted His Studies At The University Of Jena, Where• He Afterwards Continued To Reside, For A Considerable Period, ...
Bruges
Bruges, Formerly A City Of The Austrian Nether Lands, And A Bishop's See, Now A City Of The French Em Pire, And Capital Of The Prclecturc Of The Department Of The Lys, Is Situated In A Beautiful Plain About Eight Miles From The Sea. It Is A Spacious And Well ...
Brunswick
Brunswick, A City Of The Kingdom Of Westphalia, And Capital Of The Department Of The Ocker, Is Situated In A Very Agreeable Plain On The Banks Of The Ocker, Which Is Navigable Above The City As Far As Wolfenbuttle. It Was Formerly An Imperial City, And One Of The Richest ...
Brute
Brute Is A Name Given, In Common Language, To All Those Classes Of Living Creatures Which Are Conceived To Be Destitute Of Reason, And Particularly The Beasts Of The Field. It Is Evidently Derived From The Greek Peso, (whence To Feed, Which May Be Traced To The Hebrew Or To ...
Brutus
Brutus, Lucius Junius, Was A Son Of Marcus Ju Nius And Tarquinia, Daughter Of Tarquin The Proud. His Name Was Held In Great Veneration By The Romans, Who Regarded Him As The Author Of Their Liberties, And Founder Of The Roman Republic; And, As Commonly Hap Pens, This Veneration, Aided ...
Brutus
Brutus, Nianeus Juatus. It Was Believed By Many That Julius Cesar Was The Father Of Br Utus, And Cxsar Seems To Have Been Of The Same Opinion. It. Is Certain That He Was Criminally Connected With Servilia, The Sis Ter Of Cato, And Mother Of Brutus, About The Time Of ...
Buccaneers
Buccaneers, An Appellation Originally ._.iven To The French Settlers In The Islands Of St Domingo And Tortuga, Who Subsisted By Hunting ; But Afterwards More Generally Applied To Those Daring Adventurers, Who, Towards The Close Of The Seventeenth Century, In Fested The West Indian And American Coasts. The Splendid Advantages ...
Bucharest
Bucharest, Buchorest, Or Buccarest, A Town Of European Turkey, In The Province Of Wallachia, Is Situated On The River Damboriza, And Is The Residence Of The Hospodar, Or Prince Of Wallachia, And The See Of A Greek Archbishop. It Shows At A Distance Numerous Cupolas, And A Vast Extent Of ...
Buckingham
Buckingham, The Principal Town Of Buckingham Shire, Is Situated On The Side And Bottom Of A Hill, On The River Ouse, Which Winds Round The Three Sides Of He Town, And Is Crossed By Three Stone Bridges. The Hou Ses, Which Are Chiefly Of Brick, Are Ill Built, And Many ...
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire, One Of The Inland Counties Of England, Is Bounded On The South By Berkshire And A Point Of Surrey, From Which It Is Separated By The Thames ; On The West By Oxfordshire ; On The North By Northamptonshire ; And On The East By The Counties Of Bedford, ...
Buda
Buda, The Of The Romans, The Capital Of The Circle Of Pest, And Metropolis Of Hungary, Is Beautifully Situated On An Eminence On The West Bank Of The Danube, About 125 Miles South-east Of Vienna, And 150 North West Of Belgrade. It Is Supposed To Have Received Its Name From ...
Bula Bula11a
Bula11a, Bula At, Or I3oco.vm, The Most Eastern Island Of The Bijuga Archipelago, On The Western Coast Of Africa, Lies In N. Lat. 11° S', And W. Long. 14° 5u'. It Is Situated On The North Nvest Of The Embouchure Of The Rio Grande, And Is Separated From The Main ...
Bull
Bull, Geonor., Bishop Of St David's, Was Born At Sarells, In Somcrsetshirc, In The Year 1634. At The Age Of Four, He Was Left, By The Death Of His Father, In Inde Pendent Circumstances. Having Been Early Destined For The Church, He Received A Liberal And Appropriate Educa Tion ; ...
Bull_2
Bull, From Idia, A Seal, Is A Decree Issued By The Pope, Which Is Used Both In Affairs Of Justice And Of Grace, And Answers To The Edicts Of Secular Princes. It Is Written On Parchment, In An Old Gothic Letter, And Has A Leaden Seal Attached To It, Which ...
Bullion
Bullion Tni. Question That Has Of Late Engaged So Large A Portion Of Public Solicitude, Will Lead To A Division Of This Article Into Two Parts Of Very Unequal Extent : The First Treating Het Rally Of Bullion,—the Second Of The Bullion Contro Versy. The Latter Is Entitled To A ...
Bunyan
Bunyan, Jon N, Btst Known As Tile Author Li Progreso, Wa, 1)0111 Near Belford, In The )( 1628. Ills Fatlu•r, Though A Fink( R, Guy C Idol A Info Education Than Usual, By Having Him To R( Ad .11( Write. But Being Of Ea Ty Froward Di-position, And I Exposed ...
Buoeros
Buoeros, Lill. Ste. ; Cala° Or Hornbill. Bill Convex, Curved, Sharp-edged, Of Large Dimensions, Serrated At The Margins, With A Horny Protuberance Near The Base Of The Upper Mandible ; Nostrils Behind The Base Of The Bill ; The Tongue Short, And Situated At The Bottom Of The Throat. By ...
Buonarotti
Buonarotti, Mieuar.t. Angelo. This Cele Brated Person, Who Has Generally Been Considered As The Great Restorer Of The Arts Of Painting, Of Sculpture, And Of Architeettn E, Was Horn In 1474. The Place Of His Na Tivity Was Castel Caprese, In Tuscany ; A Fortress Of Considerable Importance In The ...
Burglary
Burglary (burgi Latrocininni,) Or Nocturnal House Breaking, In Law, Signifies An Unlawful Entering Into The Dwelling-house Of Another, In The Night-time, With The In Tention Of Committing Some Felony. In Burglary There Are Four Things To Be Considered : The Time, The Place, The Manner, And The Intent. 1. The ...
Burgos
Burgos, A City Of Spain, And Capital Of Old Castile, Is Situated On The Declivity Of A Hill, On The Right Bank Of The River Arlanzon, Whose Stream 'flows Close To Its Walls. It Is Supposed By Some Writers To Be The Braum Or Bra Vum Of Ptolemy, But Others ...
Burial
Burial, Denotes The Act Of Interring The Body Of A Person Deceased. Although The Mode Of Disposing Of The Body After Death, Has Varied In Different Ages And Countries, Yet De Votional Feelings, Combined With A Sense Of Decency, As Well As A Regard To Health And Comfort, Seem To ...
Burn
Burn. See St 111.1..lt Y. Bf I; N Ar Cordin Tram Al Up Aioti, Founded On An Inadyertent Cni)11•`. .10 1 A Wood, Was Born Un Scotland ; But It Aim( At , I. The Nio•e R( Spectable Authority Of Bird'', Lif Ti Its,n, That 1 Native ',lac( Was Croft ...
Burne Blac
Blac ,.burne, Francis, A Name Which Will Ever Be Revered By The Friends Of Religious Liberty. He Was Born At Richmond, In Yorkshire, On.the 9th Of June 1705, On The Banks-of The River Swale, In That Vicinity, His Ancestors Bad Been In Possession Of An Estate, Which His Grandfather Was ...
Burning Of
Burning Of Tim Dead. All The Nations Of The World, Rude And Civilized, Have, In Every Age, Exhibited Some Remarkable Ceremonial In The Disposal Of Their Dead. Some, By Simple Inhumation, Have Restored The Body To Its Parent Earth ; Others Have Committed It To The Waters ; And Others ...
Burns
Burns, Ron Hilt, A Distinguished Scottish Poet, Was Born On The 25th Of January 1759, In A Small House About Two Miles From The Town Of Ayr, And Within A Few Hundred Yards From " Alloway's Auld Haunted Kirk," Which The Poet Has Rendered So Famous In His Tam 'o'shanter. ...