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kp-eb0704-034606-3813 | BANIANS, a religious sect in the empire of the Mogul, who believe in metempsychosis, and therefore refrain from eating any living creature, or killing even noxious animals, but endeavour to release them when in the hands of others. The name of Banian is used with some diversity, which has occasioned much confusion, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034607-3813 | BAÑIER, Anthony, member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-lettres, an ecclesiastic of the diocese of Clermont in Auvergne, was born in 1673. He is principally celebrated for his translation of the Metamorphoses of Ovid, with historical remarks and explanations; which was published in 1732, at Amsterdam, in foli... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034608-3813 | BANISTER, John, a physician and surgeon in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was educated at Oxford. In 1573 he took the degree of bachelor of physic; and, obtaining a licence from the university to practise, settled at [7:4:347]Nottingham, where he lived many years in great repute, and wrote several medical and surgical t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034701-3826 | BANJARMASSIN, a town and district of Borneo, on the south-eastern coast, situated on a river of the same name, which has a shallow bar at the entrance. Many Chinese reside in this place, and carry on a considerable trade with China, exporting pepper, camphor, gold dust, wax, rattans, edible birds’ nests, biche-de-mer, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034702-3826 | BANK, in Political Economy, an establishment for keeping money secure, and for dealing in money by discounting bills and otherwise. The history of banks will be given under the article Money. That class of banks whose object is to encourage habits of saving among labourers, called banks for savings, will be treated und... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034703-3826 | BANKER, a person who traffics and negociâtes in money. The ancient bankers were called argentarii and nummularii; by the Greeks τ∙gατrεζ∕τα∕, κoλ뽉ra∕, and ¢zp- γ∙jgομο∕βο∕. Their chief business was to put out the money of private persons to interest. They had their boards and benches for this purpose in all the marke... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034704-3826 | BANKING, or the science of a banker or dealer in money. This important subject will be treated under Money. Banking also denotes that branch of civil engineering which relates to the formation of banks to oppose the force of rivers, the sea, &c. See Embankment. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034705-3826 | BANKRUPT, a person publicly declared to be in debt beyond his power of payment. Bankruptcy is distinguishable from insolvency. An insolvent is one who owes more than he can pay; he becomes a bankrupt when that inability is proclaimed by some public or judicial proceeding.
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kp-eb0704-034801-3839 | BANKS, John, a dramatic writer, was bred to the law, and belonged to the society of Gray’s Inn; but this profession not suiting his natural disposition, he quitted it for the service of the muses. His turn led him entirely to tragedy, in which his merit is of a peculiar kind; for at the same time that his language must... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035101-3878 | BANKS’S ISLAND, an island of New Zealand, of a circular form, about 60 miles in circumference, and visible at the distance of twelve or fifteen leagues. It is of a broken, irregular surface, and presents a barren appearance, though it is inhabited. It is fifteen miles from Tavai-Poenammoo. The south point lies in long.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 32' S 186 30' W | BANKS’S ISLAND |
kp-eb0704-035102-3878 | BANN, or Ban (from the Brit, ban, i. e. clamour), is a proclamation or public notice, any public summons or edict, in short, whereby a thing is commanded or forbidden. The word banns is used in England and in Scotland in publishing matrimonial contracts; which is done in the church before marriage, to the end that if a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035103-3878 | BANNER denotes either a square flag, or the principal standard belonging to a prince. We find a multiplicity of opinions concerning the etymology of the word banner; some deriving it from the Latin bandum, a band or flag; others from the word bann, to summon the vassals to appear in arms; others again from the German b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035104-3878 | BANNERETS, an ancient order of knights, or feudal lords, who led their vassals to battle under their own flag or banner, when summoned by the king. The word seems formed from banner, a square flag, or from band, which anciently denoted a flag. Bannerets are also called by ancient writers milites vexilliferi, and vexill... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035105-3878 | BANNOCKBURN, a village of Scotland, in the county of Stirling, and noted for the ever memorable battle foughl near it on the 24th June 1314, between the Scottish and English armies, in which the latter was totally defeated. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035106-3878 | BANQUETING Room or House. The ancient Romans supped in the atrium, or vestibule, of their houses but in after-times magnificent saloons or banquetingrooms were built, for the more commodious and splendid [7:4:352] entertainment of their guests. Lucullus had several of these, each distinguished by the name of some god; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035201-3891 | BANSKA, a city in the circle of Hither Danube, in Hungary. It is the seat of a bishop, and of the civil and military rulers of the Comitat of the Gran. There is a Catholic and a Lutheran ecclesiastical seminary established here. The inhabitants amount to 10,619, and are employed in making various metallic goods, and in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 45' N 19 3' 40" E | BANSKA |
kp-eb0704-035202-3891 | BANTAM, a town of Java, capital of a district of the same name, at the north-western extremity of the island, situated on the Bay of Bantam, near the mouth of a river which falls into the bay. It was once a large, rich, and flourishing city, but now exhibits nothing except ruins, the memorials of its departed greatness... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035203-3891 | BANTRY BAY, a bay on the north-west coast of Ireland, in the county of Cork, about twenty-five miles long by six or eight broad, with between ten and fourteen fathoms of water, surrounded by high mountains, and in- ' dented by creeks and inlets. It affords a very fine harbour for shipping, and contains two small island... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035204-3891 | BAPTISM, in matters of religion, the ceremony or sacrament by which a person is initiated into the Christian church. The word is drived from the Greek βαπτf j >, a frequentative form of βαπτω, to dip or wash. Baptism is known in ecclesiastical writers by divers other names and titles. Sometimes it is called palingenesi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035601-3943 | BAPTISMAL Vow or Covenant, a profession of obedience to the laws of Christ, which persons in the ancient church made before baptism. It was an indispensable part of the obligation on catechumens before they were admitted to the ceremony of regeneration. The vow was made by turning to the east, for what mystical reason ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035602-3943 | BAPTIST, John Monnoyer, a painter of flowers and fruit, was born at Lisle in 1635, and educated at Antwerp, where he perfected himself in the knowledge of his art, and in his first years was intended for a painter of history; but having soon found that his genius more strongly inclined him to the painting of flowers, h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035603-3943 | BAPTISTS, in Ecclesiastical History, a denomination of Christians, distinguished from other Christians by their particular opinions respecting the mode and the subjects of baptism.
Instead of administering the ordinance by sprinkling, they maintain that it ought to be administered only by immersion. Such, they insist,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035701-3956 | BAPTISTERY, in ecclesiastical language, the name of a place in which the ceremony of baptism is performed.
In the ancient church it was one of the exhedrae or buildings distinct from the church itself, and consisted of a porch or anti-room where the persons to be baptized made their confession of faith, and an inner a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035702-3956 | BAR, in courts of justice, denotes an inclosure made with a partition of timber, where the counsel are placed to plead causes, and where prisoners are brought to answer to indictments, &c. It corresponds to what among the Romans was denominated tribunal. The French call it barre d’audience. In England, lawyers who are ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035801-3969 | BARA, the name of a festival formerly celebrated with much magnificence at Messina, and representing the assumption of the Virgin. Though used as the general denomination of this festival, bara signifies more particularly a vast machine fifty feet high, at the top of which a young girl of fourteen, representing the Vir... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035802-3969 | BARABINZIANS, a tribe of Tartars, living on both sides of the river Irtisch. They seem to derive their name from the Barabaian desert, the lakes of which supply them abundantly with fish, on which and the products of their herds they chiefly subsist. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035803-3969 | BARACOA, a town in the north-eastern part of the island of Cuba. Long. 74. 50. W. Lat. 20. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 20 25' N 74 50' W | BARACOA |
kp-eb0704-035804-3969 | BARA-FRANCA, a city in the intendancy of Calatanisetta, in the island of Sicily, with the largest convent of barefooted friars in the kingdom. It is on a gentle hill, in a healthy situation, and contains about 6000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035805-3969 | BARAHAT, a town of northern Hindostan, situated among the mountains of Serinagur. This town was almost destroyed by an earthquake in 1803; and from the houses having been built of large stones with slated roofs, the calamity was greatly aggravated. From its central position it maintains a free communication with all pa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 30 48' N 78 22' E | BARAHAT |
kp-eb0704-035806-3969 | BARAICHE, a town of Hindostan, in the province of Oude, and chief town of the district of Baraiche. It is finely situated on the river Sy, in long. 81. 36. E. lat. 27. 31. N. The district of Baraiche extends along the north side of the river Goggia, and is separated from the territories of Nepaul by a lofty range of mo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 31' N 81 36' E | BARAICHE |
kp-eb0704-035807-3969 | BARALIPTON, among logicians, a term denoting a syllogism of the first indirect mode of the first figure. Hence a syllogism in baralipton is when the first two propositions are universal affirmatives, the third a particular affirmative, and the middle term the subject in the first proposition, and the predicate in the s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035808-3969 | BARALLOTS, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect of heretics at Bologna in Italy, who are said to have had all things in common, even their wives and children. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035809-3969 | BARAN, a circle in the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, extending over 1681 square miles, or 1,075,840 acres. It lies at the south-east angle formed by the Danube and the Drave, and comprehends one city, seven towns, and 328 villages, with 223,400 inhabitants. The greater part of the land is fertile, but a portion of it is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035810-3969 | BARANGI, officers among the Greeks of the lower empire. Cujacius calls them in Latin protectores, while others give them the name of securigeri. It was their business to keep the keys of the city gates where the emperor resided. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035811-3969 | BARANWAHR, a town of Lower Hungary, in a county of the same name, taken by the emperor of Germany from the Turks in 1684. It is situated between Buda and Belgrade, in long. 18. 5. E. lat. 46. 0. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 0' N 18 5' E | BARANWAHR |
kp-eb0704-035812-3969 | BARATHRUM, in Antiquity, a deep dark pit at Athens, into which condemned persons were thrown headlong. It had sharp spikes at the top, that no man might escape out; and others at the bottom, to pierce and torment such as were cast in. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035813-3969 | BARATIERE, or Barettier, Philip, an extraordinaryinstance of the early and rapid expansion of the mental faculties. This surprising genius was the son of Francis Baratière, minister of the French church at Schwobach, near Nuremberg, where he was born on the 10th January 1721. The French was his mother tongue, together ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-035901-3982 | BARBACAN, or Barbican, an outer defence or fortification of a city or castle, used especially as a fence to thecity or walls; also an aperture made in the wall of a fortress, to fire through upon the enemy.
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kp-eb0704-035902-3982 | BARBADOES, one of the Caribbees, is the most easterly of the West India islands, and the oldest colony of the British empire. It was probably discovered by Columbus or some of his companions, but they seem to have deserted it in pursuit of more splendid acquisitions; as, on the landing of the English in 1605, it was co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 10' N 59 W | BARBADOES |
kp-eb0704-036001-3995 | BARBARA, among logicians, the first mode of the first figure of syllogisms. A syllogism in barbara is one of which all the propositions are universal affirmatives, the middle term being the subject of the first proposition, and the attribute in the second.
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kp-eb0704-036002-3995 | BARBARANO, a town in the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy, in the delegation of Vicenza. Also the chief place of a district of the same name, at the foot of the Bernis Mountains. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-036003-3995 | BARBARIAN, a name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to all who were not of their own country, or were not initiated in their language, manners, and customs. In this sense the word signified with them no more than foreigner; not, as among us, a rude or uncivilized person. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-036004-3995 | BARBARISM, in a general sense, a rudeness of language or behaviour.
Barbarism, in Grammar, an offence against the purity of style or language, or a form of speaking or writing contrary to the true idiom of any particular language. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-036005-3995 | BARBAROSSA, Aruch and Hayraddin, two famous corsairs, the sons of a potter in the Isle of Lesbos, who, turning pirates, carried on their depredations with such success and conduct, that they soon became possessed of twelve galleys besides smaller vessels. Of this fleet Aruch, the elder brother, called Barbarossa from t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-036006-3995 | BARBARY STATES.'
The name of Barbary, or the Barbary States, is applied by the moderns to an extensive district, occupying, with the exclusion of Egypt, the whole northern coast of Africa. It comprehends also that portion of the western coast which lies to the north of the Great Desert. The states included within this... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-036701-4086 | BARBASTRO, a city of the province of Aragon, in Spain, on the river Vero, near its junction with the Cinca. Tt is fortified, and has a cathedral and seven other churches, with several hospitals, and 6200 inhabitants, chiefly employed in tanning and currying leather. Long. 0. 20. W. Lat. 41. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 41 54' N 0 20' W | BARBASTRO |
kp-eb0704-036702-4086 | BARBATELLI, Bernardino, otherwise called Po-clιetti, a painter of history, fruit, animals, and flowers, was born at Florence in 1542. He was the disciple of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio at Florence. His touch was free, light, and delicate, and the colouring of his objects inexpressibly true; and, besides his merit in this style... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-036703-4086 | BARBE, or Baŗb, is an old word, denoting the armour of the horses of the ancient knights and soldiers, who were accoutred at all points. It is said to have been an armour of iron and leather, wherewith the neck, breast, and shoulders of the horse were covered. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-036704-4086 | BARBEL. See Ichthyology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-036705-4086 | BARBER, one who makes a trade of shaving or trimming the beards of other men for money. Anciently a lute, viol, or some such musical instrument, made part of the furniture of a barber’s shop; which then used to be frequented by persons above the ordinary level of the people, who resorted to the barber either for the cu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-036706-4086 | BARBERINO, Francis, one of the best poets of his age, was born at Barberino, in Tuscany, in the year 1264. As his mother was of Florence, he settled in that city, where his profession of the law, but especially the beauty of his poetry, raised him a very considerable character. The greater part of his works are lost; b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 40' N 12 25' E | BARBERINO |
kp-eb0704-036707-4086 | BARBET. See Ornithology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-036708-4086 | BARBEYRAC, John, was born at Besiers, in Lower Languedoc, in 1674. He was successively professor of belles lettres at Berlin, of law and history at Lausanne, and of public law at Groningen. His death took place in 1729. He translated into French the two celebrated works of Pufendorf, his Law of Nature and Nations, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-036709-4086 | BARBEZIEUX, an arrondissement of the department of Charente, in France, extending over 465 square miles, and comprehending six cantons and eighty-eight communes, with 51,279 inhabitants. The town, from which it takes its name, is in a mountainous situation, with 2152 inhabitants. Long. 0. 5. W. Lat. 45. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 23' N 0 5' W | BARBEZIEUX |
kp-eb0704-036710-4086 | BARBIERI, Giovanni Francesco, otherwise called Guercino dα Cento, an eminent historical painter, was born at Cento, a village not far from Bologna, in 1590. At first he was a disciple of Benedetto Gennari; but he afterwards studied for some time in the school of the Caracci, though he did not adopt the manner of that f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-036711-4086 | BARBOUR, John, the contemporary and in some respects the rival of Chaucer, is the author of a poem which may justly be described as a national work: it relates the exploits of a very heroic monarch, whose memory is still cherished by his countrymen, and it displays so conspicuous a union of talent and patriotism, that,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-037101-4138 | BARBUDA, one of the Caribbee islands, is 21 miles in length by about 12 in breadth, presenting a very flat surface, covered to a great extent with forests of small trees, in which excellent deer abound. Many varieties of very fine shell and other fish are found on the coast, which is [7:4:372] also frequented by large ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 36' N 61 46' W | BARBUDA |
kp-eb0704-037201-4151 | BARCA, the name which has been given by the Arabs to an extensive country between Tripoli and Egypt, occupying the site of the ancient Cyrenaica. It is from this identity, and from the monuments which it presents, that the region in question is now chiefly interesting. Indeed, since the important expeditions of Pacho a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-037202-4151 | BARCELLOS, a city of the province of Entre-Douro-e-Minho, in the kingdom of Portugal. It is on the river Savado, is fortified, and contains a population of 5000 persons, who, in the fertile district around them, cultivate the celebrated white wine which takes the name of the city. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-037203-4151 | BARCELONA, a city of Spain, the capital of the province of Catalonia. It is situated on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, between the mouths of the river Besos and the Llobregat, about one mile from each, on a plain of great fertility, covered with gardens and country houses. The city is but imperfectly fortified; bu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 23' 8" N 2 5' 55" E | BARCELONA |
kp-eb0704-037204-4151 | BARCELONETTE, an arrondissement of the department of the Lower Alps, in France, 472 square miles in extent, containing 4 cantons, 20 communes, and a population of 18,304 persons. The capital is a market-town of the same name, on the river Ubaye, 3600 feet above the level of the sea, with 2130 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-037205-4151 | BARCELOR, a town of Asia,, in the East Indies, on the coast of Malabar. It is supposed to be the ancient Barace, and has a considerable trade in pepper. Long· 74. 15. E. Lat. 13. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-037206-4151 | BARCLAY, Alexander, an English poet of considerable celebrity, appears to have been a native of Scotland. The place of his nativity has indeed been disputed; but Bishop Bale, in a work published during Barclay’s lifetime, mentions him as a Scotsman;^[1. Alexander Barkeley, Scotus, rhetor ac poeta insignis.” (Balei Illu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-037701-4216 | BARCLAY, John, M.D. a distinguished anatomist, was born in Perthshire in 1760, and died at Edinburgh in 1826. After the usual routine of parochial education, Dr ι Barclay was entered as a student at the United College of St Andrews, where he distinguished himself as a classical scholar. He subsequently studied divinity... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-037801-4229 | BARCOCHEBAS, or rather Barcochab, a Jewish impostor, whose real name was Ahiba, but who took that of Barcochab, which signifies the Son of a Star, in allusion to the prophecy of Balaam, “There shall a star arise out of Jacob.” He proclaimed himself the Messiah; and talking of nothing but wars, victories, and triumphs, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-037802-4229 | BARD, a word denoting a poet by profession, who, to use the language of Ossian, “sung of the battles of heroes, or the heaving breasts of love.” .
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kp-eb0704-037901-4242 | BARDAS, the brother of the empress Theodora, and uncle of the famous Photius, is said to have had no good Quality besides that of loving the sciences and polite literature, which he established in the eastern empire; for otherwise he was treacherous, cruel, and ambitious. In the year 856 he assassinated Theoctistes, ge... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-037902-4242 | BARDESANISTS, a sect of ancient heretics, thus denominated from their leader Bardesanes, a Syrian of Edessa, in Mesopotamia. Bardesanes, born in the middle of the second century, became eminent, after his conversion to Christianity, for his zeal against heretics, and wrote a multitude of books against them; yet had he ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-037903-4242 | BARDEWICK, a town of Germany, in the circle of Lower Saxony and duchy of Lunenburg, formerly a very large place, but being ruined in 1189 by the duke of Saxony, it never afterwards recovered its former consequence. It is seated on the river Ilmenau, in long. 10. 6. E. lat. 53. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 53 40' N 10 6' E | BARDEWICK |
kp-eb0704-037904-4242 | BARDOE, the most northern inhabited place in Europe, in the province of East Finmark, in Norway. It has a small harbour, closed by ice during the greater part of the year. It contains only 100 inhabitants, who have a fort to defend their little storehouses. Long. 31. 1. 25. E. Lat. 70. 22. 35. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 70 22' 35" N 31 1' 25" E | BARDOE |
kp-eb0704-037905-4242 | BARDT, a strong and rich town of Germany, in the duchy of Pomerania, with a castle and a spacious harbour. It is subject to the Swedes; and is situated near the Baltic Sea, in long. 13. 20. E. lat. 54. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 23' N 13 20' E | BARDT |
kp-eb0704-037906-4242 | BAREILLY, a large and populous city of Hindostan, in the province of Delhi, and capital of the district of Bareilly, and of Rohilcund generally. It is situated at the confluence of the Jooah and Sunkra, and formed the capital of a Rohilla chief, who was slain at the battle of Cutterah, and who lies interred there. The ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 28 22' N 70 21' E | BAREILLY |
kp-eb0704-038001-4255 | BAREITH, a town of Germany, in Franconia, containing 10,000 inhabitants. It was formerly the chief town of a margravate of the same name. Long. 11. 50. E. Lat. 50. 0. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 0' N 11 50' E | BAREITH |
kp-eb0704-038002-4255 | BARFLEUR, a town of France, in Normandy, now the department of the Channel. It was ruined, and had its harbour filled up by the English in 1346. The cape of that name is twelve miles east of Cherbourg, and near it part of the French fleet was destroyed in 1692. Long. 1. 6. W. Lat. 49. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 40' N 1 6' W | BARFLEUR |
kp-eb0704-038003-4255 | BARGA, a city of the province of Saluzzo, in the kingdom of Sardinia. It stands at the confluence of the rivers Infernetto and Ghiadone, and has three churches, two monasteries, and 7250 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in the manufacture of fire-arms. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038004-4255 | BARGAIN and Sale, a species of conveyance in the English law. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038005-4255 | BARGE (Bargie, Dutch, from Barga, low Latin), a boat of state or pleasure, sometimes furnished with elegant canopies and cushions, equipped with a band of rowers, and decorated with flags and streamers. There are likewise barges of a smaller kind for the use of admirals and captains of ships of war. These are of a ligh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038006-4255 | BARGHMOTE, or Barmote, a court which takes cognizance of causes and disputes between miners. By the custom of the mines, no person is to sue any miner for ore-debt, or for ore, or for any ground in variance, but only in the court of barmote, on penalty of forfeiting the debt, and paying the charges at law. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038007-4255 | BARI, a maritime province of the kingdom of Naples, bounded on the north by the Adriatic Sea, on the east and south-east by Otranto, on the south-west by Basilicata, and on the west by Capitanata. It extends over 1740 square miles, and contains a population of 324,600 persons. The capital, from which the province deriv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038008-4255 | BARILLA, or Barílha, the name of a plant cultivated in Spain for its ashes, from which the purest kinds of vegetable alkali or soda are obtained. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038009-4255 | BARK, in the anatomy of plants, the exterior part of trees, corresponding to the skin of an animal. See Anatomy, Vegetable. Bark, or Jesuiís Barh, is a name given by way of eminence to the quinquina, or cinchona. See Cinchona. Bark, in Navigation, a general name given to small ships; it is, however, peculiarly appropri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038010-4255 | BARKING, a market-town of the hundred of Beacontree, in the county of Essex, seven miles from London, on a creek which receives the river Rhoding, communicating with the Thames. It is in a rich marshy district, and its situation is considered unhealthy. The parish church is a large and handsome building. The inhabitant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038011-4255 | BARKWAY, a town of Hertfordshire in England, on the great road from London to York. Long. 0. 5. W. Lat. 52. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038012-4255 | BARLAEUS, Gaspar, professor of philosophy at Amsterdam, and one of the best Latin poets of the seventeenth century. There was scarcely any thing great that happened in the world, while he lived, but he made a pompous elegy upon it, when reasons of state opposed no obstacle to it. He was a great defender of Arminius, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038013-4255 | BARLETTA, a city in the province of Bari, in the kingdom of Naples. It is the seat of an archbishop, and was formerly fortified, but its defences are now in a dilapidated condition. It contains 17,950 inhabitants, who export much salt, made by evaporation in a large lagoon, and also considerable quantities of oil, wine... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038014-4255 | BARLEY. See Agriculture and Brewing. Pearl Barley and French Barley, barley freed of the husk by a mill; the distinction between the two being, that the pearl barley is reduced to the size of small shot, all but the very heart of the grain being ground away.
Barley- Water is a decoction of either of these, reputed sof... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038015-4255 | BARLOW, William, bishop of Chichester, descended of an ancient family in Wales, was born in the county of Essex. In his youth he favoured the Reformation, and travelled into Germany to be instructed by Luther and other preachers of the new doctrine. How long he continued a Protestant is uncertain; but from his letter t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038201-4281 | BARM, the same with yest. See Baking and Brewing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038202-4281 | BARMOUTH, a small market-town in the county of Merioneth, in North Wales, 223 miles from London. It is the only port in that division of the Welsh shore, and is much frequented in the summer as a bathing place, to which the picturesque scenery in the neighbourhood largely contributes. It is included in the parish of Co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038203-4281 | BARN, in Husbandry. See Agriculture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038204-4281 | BARNABAS’S Day, St, a Christian festival, celebrated on the 11th of June. St Barnabas was born in Cyprus, and descended of the tribe of Levi, whose Jewish ancestors are thought to have retired thither to secure themselves from violence during the troublesome times in Judaea. His proper name was Joses, to which, after h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038205-4281 | BARNABITES, a religious order, founded in the sixteenth century by three Italian gentlemen, who had been advised by a famous preacher of those days to read care fully the epistles of St Paul. Hence they were called clerks of St Paul, and also Barnabites, because they per formed their first exercise in a church of St Ba... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038206-4281 | BARNACLES, in Farriery, an instrument composed of [7:4:383]two branches joined at one end with a hinge, to put upon horses’ noses when they will not stand quietly to be shod, bled, or dressed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038301-4294 | BARNARD-Castle, a market-town in the parish of Gainsford and Darlington Ward, of the county of Durham, 247 miles from London, on the banks of the Tees. The market is held on Wednesday. A long and spacious street forms the principal part of the town, and its chief ornament is a handsome octagon market-house. The inhabit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038302-4294 | BARNES, Joshua, professor of the Greek language at Cambridge in the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was chosen queen’s professor of Greek in 1695, a language which he wrote and spoke with the utmost facility. His first publication was a whimsical tract entitled Gerania, or a new discovery of the little sort of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038303-4294 | BARNET, or Chipping Barnet, a market-town in the hundred of Caisho and county of Hertford, 11 miles from London, on the great northern road. Near it, in 1471, was fought the decisive battle between the houses of York and Lancaster, in which the great Earl of Warwick fell. The market, held on Monday, is large, as well a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038304-4294 | BARNEVELDT, John d’Olden, the celebrated Dutch statesman, and one of the founders of the civil liberty of Holland. His patriotic zeal inducing him to limit the authority of Maurice, prince of Orange, the second stadtholder of Holland, the partisans of that prince falsely accused him of a design to deliver his country i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038305-4294 | BARNSLEY, or Black Barnsley, a town in the parish of Şilkstone, of the wapentake of Staincross, in the Vest Riding of Yorkshire, 171 miles from London. It was iormerly a place of considerable manufacture in iron, but it has of late years become extensively engaged in making linen and other cloth. The trade has been gre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038306-4294 | BARNSTAPLE, a market and borough-town and seaport of the hundred of Braunton, in the county of Devon, 194 miles from London and 36 miles from Exeter. It stands on the river Tawe, in a fertile district, and was formerly a great manufacturing place, but of late years has declined in that branch of industry. The market, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-038307-4294 | BAROCCI, Frederic, a celebrated painter, was born at Urbino, where the genius of Raphael inspired him. In his early youth he travelled to Rome, where he painted several things in fresco. He then returned to Urbino, and giving himself up to intense study, acquired a great name in painting. His genius particularly led hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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