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BELGOROD, a circle in the Russian government of Kursk, which contains a population of 32,300 persons. The chief place is the city of the same name, on the river Do-ncz. It is the seat of an archbishop, and has considerable linen and other manufactures, five churches, 1695 houses, and about 9000 inhabitants. Long. 35.56...
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50 55' N 35 56' E
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BELGRADE, a famous town and fortress of European Turkey, in Servia, situated near the conflux of the Save and Danube. It is divided into four parts. First, the fortress, which stands on a steep eminence in the centre, and commands the Danube. It is inclosed with high walls, and possesses strong towers and a triple ditc...
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BELGRADE
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BELIAL, ⅛jr>⅛, a Hebrew word, which signifies a wicked worthless man, one who is resolved to endure no subjection. Thus the inhabitants of Gibeah, who abused the Levite’s wife, have the name of Belial given them; and Hophni and Phineas, the sons of the high priest Eli, are likewise called sons of Belial, on account of ...
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BELIAL
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BELIDOR, Bernard Forest de, a Catalonian engineer in the service of France, and member of the Academies of Sciences at Paris and Berlin, and of the Royal Society at London, was a celebrated mathematician, and author of a number of tracts, in which the science of mathematics is applied to military purposes. He died in 1...
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BELIEF, in a general sense, denotes a persuasion or assent of the mind to the truth of a proposition. In this sense, belief has no necessary relation to any particular kind of evidence. Thus we are said to believe our senses, to believe our reason, to believe a witness. But, in its more restricted and technical sense, ...
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BELIEF
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BELIEVERS, an appellation given, towards the close of the first century, to those Christians who had been admitted into the church by baptism, and instructed in all the mysteries of religion. They were thus called in contradistinction to the catechumens, who had not been baptized, and were consequently debarred from th...
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BELIN, a town in the circle of Leutmeritz, in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia, on the river Bicla. It is celebrated for its mineral springs, the water of which resembles that of Selzer, and for its preparations from it of Epsom salts and magnesia. The vicinity is most abundantly furnished with fossil coal. The resident...
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BELIN
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BELIO, in Ancient Geography, a river of Lusitania; otherwise called Limaeas, Limeas, Limias, and Lethe, or the river of oblivion; now El Lima, in Portugal.
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BELIO
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BELISARIUS, general of the emperor Justinian’s army, who overthrew the Persians in the East, the Vandals in Africa, the Goths in Italy, and, in a degenerate age, renewed the victories and triumphs which had immortalized the glorious times of the republic. But notwithstanding all his exploits, this great commander was f...
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BELISARIUS
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BELL, a well-known instrument, ranked by musicians among the musical instruments of percussion. The constituent parts of a bell are the body or barrel·, the elaρρer on the inside, and the ear or cannon by which it is attached to a large beam of wood. The matter of which it is formed is a composition called bell-metal....
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BELLA, Stefano de la, an eminent engraver, was born at Florence a. d. 1610. His father was a goldsmith, and he himself began to work at his father’s business. But whilst he was learning to draw, in order to perfect himself in that profession, there fell by accident into his hands some of the prints of Callot, with whic...
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BELLA
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BELLAC, an arrondissement in the department of the Upper Vienne, in France, extending over 780 square miles, and comprehending nine cantons and seventy-nine communes, with 76,150 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is situated on the river Vincou, and inhabited by 3291 persons.
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BELLAC
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BELLAGIO, a town of the Austrian kingdom of Lombardy, in the delegation of Como, at the point where the lake of Como is separated from the lake of Lecco. It is well built, and surrounded by most picturesque scenery.
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BELLAI, William du, lord of Langey, a French general, who signalized himself in the service of Francis I. He was also an able negociator, so that the emperor Charles V. used to observe, that “Langey’s pen had fought more against him than all the lances in France.” He was [7:4:548]sent to Piedmont in quality of viceroy,...
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BELLANO, a town of the Austrian kingdom of Lombardy, in the delegation of Como. It is situated at the end of the vale where the Poverna forms a most magnificent cataract, on the eastern side of the lake of Como, and is a place of considerable trade, with many country seats in the vicinity
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BELLANO
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BELLARMIN, Robert, an Italian Jesuit, one of the most expert polemical writers of his time. In 1576 he read lectures at Rome on controversies, with such applause, that Sixtus V. sending a legate into France in 1590, appointed him divine to the legation, in case any dispute in religion should happen to be discussed. Bel...
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BELLASPOOR, a town of Hindostan, in the province of Delhi, situated on the east bank of the Sutlege river, which is here 100 yards broad when the water is lowest. The houses are well and regularly built, of stone and mortar; and the streets are all paved, though roughly. It is the residence of the rany or female ruler ...
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BELLASPOOR
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BELLEAU, Remi, a French poet, born at Nogent le Rotrou, in the territory of Perche, and province of Orleannois. He lived in the family of Renatus of Lorraine, marquis of Elbeuf, general of the French galleys, and attended him in his expedition into Italy in 1557. This prince highly esteemed Belleau for his courage; and...
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BELLEFOREST, Francis de, a French author, born in the province of Guienne in 1530. He was only seven years of age when he lost his father; and his mother was left in poor circumstances, but she contributed all in her power to his education. He was supported for several years by the queen of Navarre, sister to Francis I...
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BELLEGARDE, a barrier fortress of France, in the department of the Eastern Pyrenees. It stands on one of the Pyrennean mountains, very near a Spanish fort. Long. 2. 50. E. Lat. 42. 20. N. ∙
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42 20' N 2 50' E
BELLEGARDE
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BELLE-ISLE, an island on the coast of France, in the arrondissement of L’Orient and department of Morbihan. Its extent is about 75 square miles; and it contains three towns and thirteen villages, with 5650 inhabitants. Belle-isle, an island of North America, lying at the mouth of the strait between the country of the ...
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51 50' N 58 5' W
BELLE-ISLE
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BELLENDEN, John, archdeacon of Moray, occupies a conspicuous place in the literary annals of Scotland, but his personal history is still involved in some degree of obscurity. It is evident ⅛at several writers have confounded him with Sir John Bellenden of Auchinoul. Their names are indeed the same, but this is the only...
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BELLEROPHON, in fabulous history, the son of Glaucus, king of Epirus. Happening accidentally to kill his brother, he fled to Proetus, king of Argos, who gave him a hospitable reception; but Sthenoboea, his queen, falling in love with the beautiful stranger, and finding that nothing could induce the latter to injure his...
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BELLEROPHON
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BELLES Lettres. Neither the voluminous dictionaries of the French language, nor those treatises which profess to point out the method of studying and teaching the belles lettres, have thought proper to give a precise definition, or an intelligible explanation, of the meaning they attach to the words, nor any summary of...
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BELLES
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BELLEVOIS was a painter of sea-pieces, and known as such, though no particulars of his life have been handed down. He died in 1684.
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BELLEVOIS
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BELLEY, an arrondissement of the department of Ain, in France, 540 square miles in extent, and comprehending nine cantons and 118 communes, with a population of 75,230 persons. The capital is a city of the same name, containing an episcopal palace, and 3770 inhabitants. Long. 5. 35. 14. E. Lat. 45. 45. 29. N.
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45 45' 29" N 5 35' 14" E
BELLEY
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BELLINI, Gentile, a Venetian painter, born in the year 1421. He was employed by the republic of Venice; and to him and his brother that state is indebted for the noble works which are to be found in its council-hall. Mahomed II. having seen some of his performances, was so struck with them that he wrote to the republic...
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BELLINI
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BELLON, a distemper common among persons employed in smelting lead-ore. It is attended with langour, intolerable pains and sensations of gripings in the belly, and generally with costiveness.
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BELLON
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BELLONA, in Pagan Mythology, the goddess of war, is generally reckoned the sister of Mars, but some represent her as both his sister and wife. This goddess is described as of a cruel and savage disposition, delighting in bloodshed and slaughter; as not only the attendant of Mars, but as taking a pleasure in sharing his...
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BELLONA
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BELLONARH, in Antiquity, priests of Bellona, the goddess of wars and battles. The bellonarii pretended to cut and mangle their bodies with knives and daggers in order to pacify the deity; offering their own blood, not that of other creatures, in sacrifice. In the fury and enthusiasm with which they were seized on these...
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BELLONARH
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BELLORI, John Peter, of Rome, a celebrated antiquary and connoisseur, as well as author of the lives of the modern painters, architects, and sculptors,. and of other works on antiquities and medals. He died in 1υ»ο·
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BELLORI
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BELLOVACI, in Ancient Geography, a people of Gallia Belgica, reckoned the bravest of the Belgae. [7:4:555]
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BELLOVACI
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BELLOWS, a machine so contrived as to inspire and expire the air by turns, by enlarging and contracting its capacity. This machine is used in chambers and kitchens, in forges, furnaces, and founderies, to fan or blow up the fire; and it serves also for organs and other pneumatic instruments, to give them a proper degre...
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BELLOWS
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BELLUNO, one of the delegations into which the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy is divided. It is bounded on the west and north by the Tyrol, on the east by Friuli, on the south-east by Treviso, and on the south-west by Vicenza; and its extent is 1210 square miles, or 774,4∩0 acres. It is generally a hilly and mou...
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BELLUNO
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BELOI, a circle in the Russian government of Smolensko, the chief town of which is of the same name, on the: Obscha, and contains 2274 inhabitants. Long. 33. 7. E. Lat. 55. 34. N.
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55 34' N 33 7' E
BELOI
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BELOMANCY, Belomantia, a kind of divination by means of arrows, practised in the East, but chiefly among the Arabians. The word is of Greek origin, being compounded of βiλος, arrow, and μαvitia, divination.
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BELOMANCY
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BELON, Peter, of Le Mans, the capital of Le Maine, a province of France, flourished about the middle of the sixteenth century. He published several works in Latin and in French, ’including a book of travels, or observations of many singularities and memorable things found in Greece, Asia, Judaea, Egypt, and other forei...
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BELON
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BELOOCHISTAN, a country of Asia, situated on the north-western coast of the Indian peninsula. It is bounded on the north by Afghanistan and Seistan; on the west by the Persian provinces of Kirman and Laristan; on the south by the Indian Ocean; and on the east by a part of Sinde and Shikarpoor. In general, it maybe said...
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BELOOCHISTAN
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BELOSERSK, a circle of the Russian government of Novogorod, extending over 28,722 square miles, and comprehending one city, one market-town, and 126 parishes, with 54,700 inhabitants. The chief place, a city of the same name, on the river Seheksna, has some commerce, and contains about 4000 inhabitants. Long. 37. 46. E...
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BELOSERSK
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BELPER, a market-town in the hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 134 miles from London. The whole is the property of the family of Strut, who have erected most extensive cotton works, which have caused a great increase of dwellings and population. A new church, and several dissenting places of worship, have b...
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BELPER
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BELSHAZZAR, the last king of Babylon, generally supposed to be the son of Evilmerodach, and grandson to Nebuehadnezzar. The memorable story of this king’s death, with the marvellous event by which it was foreshown, may be read in the book of the prophet Daniel.
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BELSHAZZAR
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BELT, Great and Little, the name of two straits which connect the Baltie with the Cattegat. The former lies between the islands of Zealand and Funen. Its greatest width is about twenty miles, and its depth varies from five to twenty fathoms. The navigation of the Great Belt is dangerous, from the number of sand-banks a...
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BELT
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BELTURBET, a town of Ireland, in the county of Cavan, on the river Erne. Distilling and brewing are carried on here, and there is also a weekly market. The population is 2010; and it is seventy-seven miles N. W. of Dublin.
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BELTURBET
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BELVEDERE, in Italian Architecture, denotes either a pavilion on the top of a building, or an artificial eminence in a garden. The word literally signifies a Jine prospect. Belvedere, a considerable town of Greece, and capital of a province of the same name in the Morea. The province[7:4:560] is situated on the western...
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BELVEDERE
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BELUNUM, in Ancient Geography·, a town of Rhaetia, above Feltria, in the territory of the Veneti; now Belluno, capital of the Bclluncse.
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BELUNUM
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BELUS, in Ancient Geography·, a small river of Galilee, at the distance of two stadia from Ptolemais, running out of the lake Cendevia, at the foot of Mount Carmel.
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BELUS
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BEMBEA. See Bamba.
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BEMBEA
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BEMBO, Peter, a noble Venetian, secretary to Leo X., afterwards cardinal, and one of the best writers of the sixteenth century. He was a good poet, both in Italian and Latin; but he is justly censured for the licentiousness and immodesty of some of his poems. Besides these, he published A History of Venice; Letters; an...
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BEMBO
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BENARES, a large and valuable district of Hindostan, in the province of Allahabad, situated on both sides of the river Ganges, between the 23d and 27th degrees of N. latitude. It contains 1200 square miles of fertile soil, which produces grain, chiefly barley, wheat, several species of the pea, and some rice; besides s...
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BENARES
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BENAVIDIUS, or Bonavxdus, Marcus Mantua, a celebrated civilian, who taught civil law with reputation, during sixty years, at Padua, the place of his birth, and died in 1582, aged ninety-three. His principal works are, l∙ Collectanea super Jus Caesareum; 2. Consilia, tom. ii.; 3. Problemata Legalia; 4. De illustribus Ju...
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BENAVIDIUS
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BENBECULA, a low, sandy, and unproductive island °f the Hebrides, eight miles in length and as much in breadth. It is situated between the islands of North and oouth Uist, from the latter of which it is separated by a narrow channel. It is annexed to the county of Inverness.
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BENBECULA
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BENCH, or Banc, in Law, has various significations. Tree- Bench signifies that estate in copyhold-lands '' ’ bich the wife, being espoused a virgin, has, after the decease of her husband, for her dower, according to the custom of the manor. With respect to this free-bench, dincrent manors have different customs. King...
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BENCH
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BENCHERS, in the inns of court, the senior members of the society, who are invested with the government of the body to which they belong.
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BENCHERS
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BENCOOLEN, the chief establishment possessed by the East India Company, in the island of Sumatra, on the south-western coast. It was for a few years a distinct presidency, but has been since placed under a resident, with four assistants, subject to the immediate direction of the government of Bengal. Under the East Ind...
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BENCOOLEN
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BEND, in Heraldry, one of the nine honourable ordinaries, containing a third part of the field when charged, and a fifth when plain.
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BEND
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BENDER, a town of Bessarabia in European Russia, seated on the river Dniester. It is remarkable for being the place of retreat of Charles XII. after he was defeated by the Russians at the battle of Pultowa in 1709. Long. 29. 36. E. Lat. 46. 50. 32. N.
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BENDER
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BENDIDA, in Antiquity, a festival, not unlike the Bacchanalia, celebrated by the Athenians in honour of Diana.
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BENDIDA
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BENDING, in a general sense, the reducing of a straight body into a curve, or giving it a crooked form. Bending, in the sea language, the tying of two ropes or cables together; thus, to bend the cable, is to make it fast to the ring of the anchor; to bend the sail, to make it fast to the yard.
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BENDING
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BENDS, in a ship, the same with what seamen call wails or wales, are the outmost timbers of a ship’s side, on which men set their feet when climbing up. They form the chief strength of a ship’s sides, and have the beams, knees, and foot-hooks, bolted to them.
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BENDS
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BENDY, in Heraldry, is the field divided into four, six, or more parts, diagonally, and varying in metal and colour.
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BENDY
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BENCAPED, among sailors. A ship is said to be bencaped when the water does not flow high enough to bring her off the ground, out of the dock, or over the bar.
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BENCAPED
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BENE, a city of the province of Mondovi, in the kingdom of Sardinia. It stands on a hill between the rivers Sturo and Tanaro, and contains several churches and other religious houses, with 5180 inhabitants.
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BENE
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BENEDICITE, among ecclesiastical writers, an appellation given to the song of the three children in the fiery furnace, on account of its beginning with the word benedicite. The use of this song in Christian worship is very ancient, having been sung in all the churches as early as the time of St Chrysostom.
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BENEDICITE
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BENEDICT XIV. Pope (Prosper Lambertini of Bologna), celebrated for his learning and moderation, which gained him the esteem of all Protestants. He was the patron of learned men and celebrated artists, and an elaborate writer on theological subjects. His works fill 12 vols. in folio. He died in 1758. Benedict, St, the ...
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BENEDICT XIV
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BENEDICTINES, in Ecclesiastical History, an order of monks who profess to follow the rules of St Benedict. The Benedictines, who of all the regular clergy are alone entitled to the appellation of monks, wear a loose black gown with large wide sleeves, and a capuche or cowl on their heads, ending in a point behind. In t...
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BENEDICTINES
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BENEDICTION, in a general sense, the act of blessing, or giving praise to God, or returning thanks for his favours. Neither the ancient Jews nor the early Christians ever ate without a short prayer. The Jews are obliged to rehearse a hundred benedictions a day; of which eighty are to be spoken in the morning. The first...
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BENEDICTION
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BENEFICE, Beneficium, is used for a fee, which is sometimes denominated more peculiarly beneficium militare. In this sense benefice was an estate in land, at first granted for life only, and so called because it was held ex mero beneficio of the donor; and the tenants were bound to swear fealty to the lord, and to serv...
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BENEFICE
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BENEFICIARII, in Boman Antiquity, denote soldiers who attended the chief officers of the army, being exempted from other duty. Beneficiarii were also soldiers discharged from the military service, and provided with beneficia or pensions to subsist on. The latter were probably the same with the former, and both might th...
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BENEFICIARII
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BENEFICIARY, Beneficiarius, is more particularly used for a beneficed person, or him who receives and enjoys one or more benefices. A beneficiary is not the proprietor of the revenues of his church; he has only the administration of them, though not accountable for his conduct therein to any but God and his superior. ...
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BENEFICIARY
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BENEFICIUM, in Roman military matters, denoted a promotion to a higher rank by the favour of some person in authority.
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BENEFICIUM
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BENEFIELD, Sebastian, an eminent divine of the seventeenth century, was born in 1559, at Prestonbury in Gloucestershire, and educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1608 he took the degree of doctor in divinity, and five years afterwards was chosen Margaret professor in that university. Several years before, he ...
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BENEFIELD
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BENEFIT Societies. See Friendly Societies.
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BENEFIT
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BENEVENTE, a town of the province of Alentejo, in Portugal, on the river Corraya, which here empties itself into the Tagus. The inhabitants are about 2500, and depend on the trade of its small harbour, which is only accessible to vessels drawing little water.
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BENEVENTE
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BENEVENTO, a small province or delegation of the papal dominion, according to the settlement made by the treaty of Vienna in 1815. Naples, however, having at that date claims and possession, which she relinquished in some measure, still exercises authority over the schools, roads, posts, and the sale of salt, tobacco, ...
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BENEVENTO
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BENEVENTUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Samnites, formerly called Alaleventum from the unwholesomeness of the wind, an appellation under which it is mentioned by Livy; but after a Roman colony had been led thither in the- 485th year of the city, the name Beneventum, as a more auspicious denomination, was applie...
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BENEVENTUM
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BENGAL, A large and important province of Hindostan, situated, towards its eastern extremity, between the 21st and 27th degrees of north latitude. It is bounded on the north by the kingdom of Nepaul, the territories of the Sikkim Raja, and by the high country of Bootan; it has the bay of Bengal on the south; Assam, an...
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BENGUELA, a considerable country on the western coast of Africa, between Congo and Angola. Being occupied by the Portuguese, to the exclusion of all other European nations, the knowledge of it is withheld from the latter with the most jealous care. The general observations made upon the coast of Angola will in a great ...
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BENGUELA
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BENHINNOM, in Ancient Geography, a valley in the suburbs and to the east of Jerusalem, forming part of that of Kidron, infamous for the sacrifice of children, or passing them through the fire. The place in the valley where the idol stood to which the sacrifice was made was called Tορhet, frθ m the beating of drurns or ...
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BENHINNOM
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BENI Arax or Beni Rashid, a tribe of Arabs in the southern district of Algiers, possessed formerly of considerable power, but who, even in Shaw’s time, were so much reduced, that their principal fortress consisted only of a poor village.
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BENI
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BENICARLO, a city of Spain, in the province of Valencia, on the coast of the Mediterranean. It is celebrated for its red wine, of which more than 220,000 casks are annually exported from the harbour. The population amounts to 5850 persons.
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BENICARLO
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BENIGANIM, a town of the province of Valencia, in Spain, containing 3800 inhabitants, who cultivate vineyards producing excellent wine.
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BENIGANIM
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BENIN, an important country of Western Africa, situated on a bay or bight of the same name, in the most interior part of the great Gulf of Guinea. It forms the eastern limit of that long line of coast to which the name of Guinea is usually applied; and here commences that long chain of estuaries which, as there is now ...
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BENIN
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BENNET, Henry, earl of Arlington, was born of an ancient family in Middlesex. In the beginning of the civil war he was appointed under-secretary to George Lord Digby, secretary of state; he afterwards entered himself as a volunteer for the royal cause, and did his majesty good service, especially at Andover, in Hampshi...
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BENNET
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BENOIT, Renatus, a famous doctor of the Sorbonne, and curate of Eustathius at Paris, in the sixteenth century. He was a secret favourer of the Protestant religion; and that his countrymen might be able to read the Bible in their own tongue, he published at Paris the French translation which had been made by the reforme...
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BENOIT
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BENOWM, the capital of the Moorish kingdom of Ludamar, in Central Africa, on the southern border of the Great Desert. It consists of a large collection of dirty huts resembling tents, and has more the appearance of a large encampment of shepherds than of a metropolis. Mr Park was detained here in long and cruel captivi...
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BENOWM
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BENSERADE, Isaac de, an ingenious French poet of the seventeenth century, was born at Lyons. He made himself known at court by his verses and his wit, and had the good fortune to please the cardinals Richelieu and Ma[7:4:573]zarin. After the death of Richelieu, he got into favour with the duke de Brèze, whom he accompa...
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BENSERADE
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BENSHEIM, a city of the province of Storkenburg, in the duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. It is situated on the river Lauterbach, near the Rhine, and contains 3146 inhabitants, mostly manufacturers or cultivators of vineyards.
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BENSHEIM
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BENSON, George, a learned dissenting minister, born at Great Salkeld, in Cumberland, in 1699. His progress in learning was so precocious, that at eleven years of age he was able to read the Greek Testament. He afterwards studied at Dr Dixon’s academy at Whitehaven, from which he removed to the university of Glasgow. In...
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BENSON
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BENTHAM, Thomas, bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, was born at Sherbourn, in Yorkshire, in the year 1513. and educated in Magdalen College, Oxford. He took the degree of bachelor of arts in 1543; in 1546 was admitted perpetual fellow, and proceeded master of arts the following year, which was that of Edward VĽs accessi...
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BENTHAM
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BENTHEIM, a province of the kingdom of Hanover. Till the year 1806 it was an independent state, and now, though mediatized, confers the title of count, and affords a yearly income of about L.2000 to the former sovereign. It extends over 406 square miles, or 259,840 acres. The capital, of the same name, contains about 1...
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BENTHEIM
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BENTINCK, William Henry Cavendish, third duke of Portland, was born on the 14th of April 1738. Having finished his education at Christ Church, Oxford, he went on his travels. Soon after his return he was elected for the borough of Weobly, in the first parliament of the king’s reign. For this borough, however, he did no...
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BENTINCK
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BENTIVOGLIO, Guido, cardinal, born at Ferrara in the year 1579. He went to study at Padua, where lie made considerable proficiency in what is sometimes called polite literature. Upon his leaving the university, he went to reside at Rome, where he became universally esteemed. He was sent as nuneio, first to Flanders, an...
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BENTIVOGLIO
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BENTLEY, Richard, one of the greatest critics of modern times, was a native of Oulton in the parish of Rothwell and the West Riding of Yorkshire, and was born on the 27th of January 1662. His ancestors belonged to the higher class of English yeomen. During the civil wars, his grandfather, James Bentley, had been a capt...
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BENTLEY
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BERAR, a large province of Hindostan, in the Deccan, situated between the 19th and 21st degrees of north latitude. Its boundaries to the north are the provinces of Khandesh and Allahabad; to the south Aurungabad and the Godavery; to the east the province of Gundwana; and to the west Khandesh and Aurungabad. Its limits ...
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BERAR
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BERAUN, a circle in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia. It extends over 1066 square miles, or 682,240 acres, and comprehends ten cities, twenty-two towns, and seventy-two villages, with 22,880 houses. The inhabitants amount to 158,500. The capital bears the same name. It stands at the junction of the river Letawka with th...
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BERAUN
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BERBICE is a colony belonging to the British, situated on the banks of the river of the same name, in the province of Guiana, in South America. The latitude of the mouth of the river Berbice is 6. 20. N. and its longitude 57. 11. W. from London. The plantations are situated on each side of the river, and extend nearly ...
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BERBICE
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BERCHEM, or Berghem, Nicholas, a painter, was a native of Haerlem, and born in 1624. He received instructions from several very eminent masters; and it was no small addition to their fame that Berchem was their scholar. The pictures of cattle and figures by this master are held in high estimation; and he has been singu...
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BERCHEM
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BERCHETT, Peter, an eminent historical painter, was born in France in 1659, and at the age of eighteen was employed in the royal palaces. He came to England in 1681, to work under Rambour, a French painter of architecture; but after staying a year, he returned to Marli. He revisited this country, however, and was sent ...
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BERCHETT
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BERCHTESGADEN, or Berchtolsgaden, a small town, most beautifully situated on the eastern confines of Bavaria, to which kingdom it was united in 1809. It has been long celebrated for its extensive mines of rock-salt, which were commenced working in the year 1628, and are the source whence all Bavaria is supplied with th...
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BERDASH, in Antiquity, was a name formerly used in England for a certain kind of neck-dress; and hence a person who made or sold such neckcloths was called a l>er-daslιer, from which is derived our word haberdasher.
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