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BERECYNTHIA, in Pagan Mythology, the mother of the gods.
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BERECYNTHIA
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BERENGARIANISM, a name applicdby ecclesiastical writers to the doctrine of those who deny the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist. 1he denomination took its rise from Berengarius, archdeacon of the church of St Mary at Anjou about the year 1035, who maintained that the bread and wine, even ...
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BERENGARIANISM
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BERENICE, daughter of Ptolemy Auletes, king of ⅛ypt> succeeded her father before his death. This banished prince having implored the assistance of the Ro-nians, was restored by Pompey. Berenice, to support her.· s elt on the throne, allured a prince named Seleucus, who ''as descended from the kings of Syria, and admitt...
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BERENICE
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BEREWICHA, or Berewica, in our old writers, denotes a village or hamlet belonging to a town or manor, situated at some distance therefrom. The word frequently occurs in Doomsday-book: Istoe sunt berewich(e ejusdem rnanerii.
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BEREWICHA
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BEREZOV, a Russian town of Siberia, on the river Soswa, 18 miles from its confluence with the Obi. It contains three churches and a chapel. Its northern situation forbids all kind of agricultural industry; hence the inhabitants subsist on rein-deer, as also by hunting and fishing; and the furs which they procure are ex...
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BEREZOV
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BEREZOVSKOI, a town and fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Orenburg, situated on the river Oural. It has near it four gold mines from five to twenty fathoms deep, from which are extracted annually 100 pounds of gold dust. It is 140 miles E. N. E. of Orenburg. [7:4:582]
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BEREZOVSKOI
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BERG, a duchy of Germany, in the circle of W estphalia. It is bounded on the north by the duchy of Cleves, on the west by the county of Mark and the duchy of Westphalia, on the south by Wetteravia, and on the east by the diocese of Cologne, from which it is separated by the Rhine. It contains about 1188 square miles, w...
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BERG
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BERGAMO, a province, or, as it is usually termed, a delegation, of the Austrian kingdom of Lombardy. It is bounded on the north by the delegation of Sondrio, on the east by those of Tyrol and Brescia, on the south by Lodi, and on the west by Milan and Como. The extent is about 1615 square miles, or 1,033,600 acres. It ...
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BERGAMO
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BERGAMO, James Philip de, an Augustin monk, born at Bergamo in 1434, wrote in Latin a Chronicle from the Creation of the World to the year 1503, and a Treatise of Illustrious Women. He died in 1518.
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BERGAMO
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BERGAMO Γ, a species of citron, produced at first casually by an Italian’s grafting a citron on the stock of a bergamot pear-tree, whence the fruit produced by this union participated both of the citron-tree and the peartree. The fruit has a fine taste and smell, and its essential oil is in high esteem as a perfume. Th...
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BERGAMO Γ
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BERGARA, a city of the province of Guipuscoa, in Spain, on the river Deva. It is the seat of a school for mineralogy, and of a college for the nobles only. The population is 4200. Long. 2. 53. W. Lat. 43. 5. 27. N.
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BERGARA
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BERGEN, a city in Norway, the capital of the province of the same name. It is situated on the shore of the gulf or bay of Baag, has a fine harbour with two good entrances, and is surrounded by hills, some of which attain the height of 1800 feet. It contains seven churches, four of stone and three of wood, and about 200...
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BERGEN
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BERGEN-OP-ZOOM, a maritime town of the Netherlands, in North Brabant, situated on the river Zoom, near its confluence with the Scheldt. It contains 1150 houses, and 5600 inhabitants. The houses are well built, the market-places and squares handsome and spacious. It is so strongly fortified, both by nature and art, as t...
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BERGEN-OP-ZOOM
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BERGERAC, an arrondissement in the department o Dordogne, in France, extending over 926 square mi es, and comprehending thirteen cantons and 167 communis with a population of 108,905 persons. The capital is t e [7:4:583]city of the same name, on the Dordogne, which divides it into two parts. It contains 8665 inhabitant...
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BERGERAC
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BERGHEIM, a circle in the Prussian government of Cologne. It extends over ninety-eight square miles, or 62,700 acres, contains one town, which gives name to the district, seventy-five villages, and 29,188 inhabitants. It is on the high road from the Netherlands to Germany, between Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne, a poor tr...
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BERGHEIM
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BERGHEM. Sec Berchem.
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BERGHEM
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BERGHMONT, an assembly or court held upon a hill in Derbyshire for deciding controversies among the miners.
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BERGHMONT
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BERGMAN, Sir Torbern, a celebrated chemist and natural philosopher, was born in the year 1735, at Catha-∙ rineberg, in West Gothland. His father was receiver-general of the finances, and had destined him to the same employment; but nature had designed him for the sciences. To them he felt an irresistible inclination fr...
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BERGMAN
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BERGOMUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Transpadana, built by the Gauls on their incursions into Italy; now called Eergamo, in one of the Austrian delegations of Lombardy. Long. 10. E. Lat. 45. 40. N.
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BERGOMUM
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BERGOO, an extensive country of interior Africa, between Darfur and Begherme. It is traversed by a large river, which appears to be the Misselad of Browne. A considerable part of the territory is described as mountainous, inhabited by warlike tribes, who sometimes swell [7:4:584]the armies of the state, sometimes make ...
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BERGOO
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BERGZABERN, a canton in the circle of the Rhine, and kingdom of Bavaria, whose chief city, of the same name, contains about 1600 inhabitants. It comprehends two market-towns and twenty-nine villages, with about 6500 inhabitants.
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BERGZABERN
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BERIA, Berie, Berry, signifies a large open field; and hence those cities and towns in England, the names of which end with that word, are built on plain and open places, and do not derive their names from boroughs, as Sir Henry Spelman imagines. Most of our glossographers, in the names of places, have confounded the w...
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BERIA
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BERING, Sinus, of Copenhagen, a Latin lyric poet, who flourished about 1560.
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BERING
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BERKELEY, George, the celebrated bishop of Cloyne, was the eldest son of William Berkeley, Esq. of Thomas-town, in the county of Kilkenny, a cadet of the family of Earl Berkeley of Berkeley Castle. At eight years of age he was sent to the school of the Ormond foundation at Kilkenny, from which Swift had a few years bef...
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BERKELEY
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BERKHAMSTEAD, Great, a market-town of the hundred of Dacorum, in the county of Hertford, twenty-seven[7:4:586] miles from London. It is situated in a valley through which the Grand Junction Canal is carried, and the river Colne passes. The chief employment is making straw plait, and some thread lace. The inhabitants am...
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BERKHAMSTEAD
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BERKOFDSCHA or Bergovacs, a city of the government of Sofia, in Turkey in Europe. It is situated on the south side of the Balkan Mountains, near to the celebrated mine of Kerus, and has 2500 inhabitants.
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BERKOFDSCHA
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BERKSHIRE, an English inland county, bounded on the north by Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, from which it is separated by the Thames; on the east by Surrey; on the south by Hampshire; and on the west by Wiltshire. At the north-eastern corner this county comes slightly in contact with Gloucestershire. It is of a very ...
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BERKSHIRE
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BERLIN, the capital of the Prussian dominions, as well as of the province of Brandenburg. It is built on both sides of the navigable river Spree, which is divided in its course into several branches, over which are bridges connecting together the several parts of the city. It is divided into eight different quarters, a...
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BERLIN
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BERME, in Fortification, a space of ground left at the foot of the rampart, on the side next the country, designed to receive the ruins of the rampart, and prevent their filling up the fosse. It is sometimes palisadoed for the greater security, and in Holland it is generally planted with a quickset hedge. It is also ca...
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BERME
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BERMUDAS, or Somers’s Islands, a cluster of small islands in the Atlantic Ocean, about four hundred innumber, but for the greater part so small and barren that they possess neither inhabitants nor name. The discovery of these islands, like that of many others of greater note, resulted from shipwreck. Juan Bermudas, a S...
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BERMUDAS
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BERNARD, St, the first abbot of Clairvaux, was born in the year 1091, in the village of Fontaine, in Burgundy. He acquired so great a reputation by his zeal and abilities, that all the affairs of the church appeared to rest upon his shoulders, and kings and princes seemed to have chosen him as general arbitrator of the...
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BERNARD
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BERNARDINE, St, was born at Massa, in Tuscany, in 1380. In 1404 he entered into a Franciscan monastery near Sienna, where he became an eminent preacher, and was afterwards sent to Jerusalem as commissary of the Holy Land. On his return to Italy he visited several cities, where he preached with such applause that Ferrar...
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BERNARDINE
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BERNARDINES, an order of monks founded by Robert, abbot of Molême, and reformed by St Bernard. They wear a white robe with a black scapulary, and when they officiate are clothed with a large gown, which is all white, and has large sleeves, with a hood of the same colour. The Bernardines differ very little from the Cist...
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BERNARDINES
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BERNAY, an arrondissement of the department of the Eure, in France, extending over 450 square miles, comprehending six cantons and 144 communes, with 79,813 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name on the river Charenton, with 6569 inhabitants, chiefly manufacturers of linen and woollen goods. Long. 1. 17. E...
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BERNAY
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BERNBURG, a city, the capital of the duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg. It is situated on the river Saale, by which it is divided into two parts. It is the seat of the ducal courts of judicature, revenue, and other branches of administration. The sovereign residence or castle is on an elevation, surrounded with deep ditches, be...
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BERNBURG
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BERNCASTEL, a circle in the Prussian government of Treves, extending over 211 square miles, or 135,040 acres. It contains one town and sixty-six communes, with 32,726 inhabitants. The northern part is mountainous and woody; the southern, on the banks of the Moselle, is fruitful in corn, wine, and fruit. The town, which...
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BERNCASTEL
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BERNE, one of the largest cantons of the Swiss confederation. It extends over 3690 square miles, a great part of which surface is too mountainous to be habitable. Some of the most lofty elevatiôns of the Alps are within the canton, among which are the Finsterahorn, 13,234 feet; the Jungfrau, 12,S72 feet; the Monk, 12,6...
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BERNE
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BERNICLE Shell. See Conchology, Index. Berniclľ. See Ornithology, Index.
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BERNICLE
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BERNIER, Nicholas, an eminent musician and composer, was born at Mante on the Seine, in the year 1664. Owing to his merit in his profession he was appointed conductor of the music in the chapel of St Stephen, and afterwards in that of the king. The regent duke of Orleans admired his works, and patronized their author. ...
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BERNIER
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BERNIER’S Island, a small island near the mouth of Shark’s Bay, on the western coast of New Holland. The island consists of regular horizontal beds of sand and limestone, containing shells which sometimes appear at the height of 150 feet above the level of the sea. Vegetation is languid; the chief production being a sp...
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BERNINI, John Laurence, commonly called Cavalier βernin, a Neapolitan, remarkable for his skill in painting, sculpture, architecture, and mechanics. He first began to be known under the pontificate of Paul V., and Rome is indebted to this artist for some of its greatest ornaments. He died at Rome in 1680.
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BERNINI
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BERNO, abbot of Richenou, in the diocese of Constance, flourished about the year 1008, and is celebrated as a poet, rhetorician, musician, philosopher, and divine. He was the author of several treatises on music, particularly of one De Instrumentis Musicalibus, which he dedicated to Arrabon, archbishop of Mentz; and he...
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BERNO
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BERNOULLI, a name illustrious in the annals of the exact sciences, and belonging to a family of respectability, originally of Antwerp. During the oppressive and bigoted government of Spain, when the Flemings, like the expatriated Greeks with their stores of ancient learning, carried their arts, industry, and genius, to...
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BEROEA, in Ancient Geography, a city of Macedonia, to the south of Edessa or Aegae, and south-east of Cyrtus. The people are commended in Scripture for their reception of the Gospel. There was another Beroea in Syria, called also Eeroe, and by the inhabitants Beroëa. It is supposed to be identical with the modern Alepp...
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BEROEA
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BEROLA, Nuova, a market-town in the Austrian kingdom of Lombardy, in the delegation of Brescia. It is situated on the river Strone, and contains two churches, an orphan-house, and 4450 inhabitants.
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BEROLA
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BEROOT. See Bairout.
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BEROOT
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BEROOZE, a circle in the Austrian kingdom of Hungary. It extends over 1680 square miles, or 1,θ75,840 acres, and comprehends nine towns and 237 villages, with 139,750 inhabitants. It is mostly a marshy plain, and suffers from the heat and moisture of the climate. The soil is productive in wheat, maize, flax, hemp, and ...
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BEROOZE
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BEROSUS, priest of the temple of Bclus at Babylon in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus, and author of the History of Chaldaea, a work often cited by the ancients, and of which Josephus gives some curious fragments.
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BEROSUS
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BERRE, a town of France, in the department of the Mouths of the Rhone, seated on a lake of the same name. It contains 1800 inhabitants, and is remarkable for the quantity and excellence of the salt that is made there. Long. 5. 9. E. Lat. 43. 22. N.
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BERRE
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BERRETINI da Crotona, Pietro, historical and landscape painter, was born at Crotona in 1596, and, according to some writers, was a disciple of Andrea Commodi, though others affirm that he was the disciple of Baccio Ciarpi. He is allowed to have been of as great and enlarged a genius as most of his profession, and to ha...
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BERRETINI
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BERRETONI, Nicoo, historical painter, was born at Macerata in 1617, and became a disciple of Carlo Maratti, under whom he studied design and colouring for several years, and attained such excellence that he excited the jealousy and envy of his master, who seemed to be apprehensive of finding a powerful competitor and r...
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BERRIMAN, Dr William, was the son of Mr John Bernman, apothecary in Bishopsgate Street, London, where he was born in 1688. He studied at Oriel College, Oxford, where he took his several degrees, and became curate and lecturer of All-Hallows in Thames Street, and lecturer of St Michael’s Queenhithe. In 1720 he was appoi...
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BERSABE, in Ancient Geography, a town in the tribe of Simeon, and the southern boundary not only of this tribe, but of the whole land of Israel, as appears by the common expression “from Dan to Bersabe,” or, as it is ir our translation, Beersheba. It was the residence of the patriarchs Abraham and Isaac, and received f...
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BERSARH, in writers of the middle ages, means a kind of hunters or sportsmen, who pursued wild beasts in forests and chases. The word is either derived from the barbarous Latin bersare, to shoot with a bow, or from bersa, the fence or pales of a park.
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BERTHOUD, Ferdinand, chronometer-maker to the French admiralty, member of the Institute of France and of the Legion of Honour, was born in the county ol Ncufchâtel in 1727. His father’s profession was that ol architect, and the son was intended to be bred to the church; but, having shown a taste for clock-work, an expe...
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BERTINORO, a city in the delegation of Forli, in the papal dominions in Italy, the seat of the bishop of the united dioceses of Forlempopoli and Bertinora. It stands on a hill, below which the river Ronca flows, and is celebrated for the excellence of its wine. It contains about 4000 inhabitants. Long. 12. 2. 30. E. La...
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BERTINORO
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BERWICK, the Duke of, was natural son of James II. by Mrs Arabella Churchill, sister to the great Duke of Marlborough. He followed the fate of his father, and, after the revolution of 1688, went to France, where he was recommended to the court by his superior merit. He was created marshal of France, knight of the Holy ...
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BERWICK
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BERWICK, a county situated at the south-eastern extremity of Scotland, is bounded by the German Ocean on the east; by East Lothian on the north; by a part of Mid Lothian, but chiefly by Roxburghshire, on the west; by the river Tweed, and that part of Roxburghshire which lies to the north of the same river, on the south...
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BERWICK
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BERY, or Bury, the villa or seat of habitation of a nobleman, a dwelling or mansion-house, being the chief of a manor. It is derived from the Saxon beorg i which signifies a hill or castle. Bery. See Beria.
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BERY
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BERYL; aqua-marine; émercude limpide; berìl. This mineral, as was originally conjectured by Pliny, is a variety of the emerald, being distinguished from the latter only by its colour. The term emerald is consequently confined to that variety which presents its own peculiar colour, namely, the rich deep emerald green; w...
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BERYTUS, in Ancient Geography. See Beirout.
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BERYTUS
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BESAILE, in Law, a writ that lies where the greatgrandfather was seised in fee of any lands, tenements, or messuages, at the time of his death, and after his decease a stranger enters thereon, and excludes the lawful heir.
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BESAILE
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BESANCON, an arrondissement of the department of the Doubs, in France, extending over 560 square miles, comprehending eight cantons and 201 communes, with 90,154 inhabitants. The chief city, of the same name, is situated on the river Doubs, which flows round it on three sides. It is strongly fortified, being protected ...
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BESANCON
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BESANT, or Bezant, a coin of pure gold, of uncertain value, which was struck at Byzantium in the time of the Christian emperors; and hence the gold offered by the king at the altar is called besant or bisant.
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BESANT
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BESHESK, a circle in the Russian government ofTwer, containing 16,457 square miles, with two cities and 171 parishes, and a population of 169,500 persons. The chief place, of the same name, is on the river Mologa, and contains about 4000 inhabitants, employed chiefly in the linen manufacture. Long. 36. 45. E. Lat. 57. ...
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BESHESK
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BESINGHEIM, a bailiwick, taking its name from the city, which is on the Neckar, where it receives the waters of the Ens. It contains 2310 inhabitants, and is situated in the circle of the Neckar, and kingdom of Wirtemburg. It extends over fifty-seven square miles, contains four cities, five market-towns, and thirteen v...
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BESINGHEIM
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BESISTAN, or Berstein. In Constantinople, Adrianople, and some other towns in Turkey, they call those places where the merchants have their shops, and expose their merchandises to sale, besistans, which are commonly large galleries, vaulted over, and having gates, which are shut every night.
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BESISTAN
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BESOUL, an arrondissement of the department of the Upper Saone, in France, containing ten cantons, 239 communes, with 106,670 inhabitants, and extending oyer 905 square miles. The chief city, of the same name, is situated near the river Drugeon, and contains 915 houses, with 5376 inhabitants. Long. 5. 4. E. Lat. 47. 37...
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BESOUL
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BESOZZI, or Bezutius, Ambrogio, a painter of some eminence, was born at Milan in 1648. He worked for a time under Gioseffo Danedi, called Montalti, and afterwards went to Rome, where he studied from the antiques and the pictures of the greatest masters. He died at Milan in 1706, aged fifty-eight. [7:4:601]
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BESOZZI
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BESSARABIA. See Russia.
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BESSARABIA
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BESSARION, titular patriarch of Constantinople, archbishop of Nice, and one of those illustrious persons who contributed to the revival of letters in the fifteenth century, was born at Trebizond. He was very zealous to reunite the Greek with the Latin church, and induced the Emperor John Palaeologus to interest himself...
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BESSARION
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BESSICA, in Ancient Geography, a district of Thrace, towards Mount Haemus, to the south of the Hebrus. It was inhabited by a fierce and barbarous people, noted for their robberies. Their chief city, Uscudama, is now known by the name of Adrianople. They lived under their own kings till the consulate of Μ. Licinius Lucu...
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BESSICA
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BESTAIL, or Bestial, in ancient statutes, all kinds of beasts or cattle, especially those purveyed for the king’s provision.
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BESTAIL
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BESTIARII, in Roman Antiquity, those who fought against beasts, or were exposed to them by a sentence of the law.
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BESZPRIM, a circle in the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, near the great lake of Platten, the south-east part of which is included within it. It comprehends 1517 square miles, or 970,880 acres, and contains one city, nine towns, and 253 villages, and about 151,868 inhabitants, chiefly of Sclavonian origin. The Catholics a...
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BESZPRIM
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BETANZOS, a city of Spain, in the province of Galicia, consisting of one long street, on the banks of the Mandoe, about eight miles south-east of Corunna, and containing two churches, two monasteries, and 2700 inhabitants. Long. 8. 14. 58. W. Lat. 43. 19. 30. N.
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BETANZOS
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BETEL, a substance compounded of different ingredients, which is chewed in the East in the same way as tobacco is used in other parts of the world, but to much greater extent. All individuals, without exception of age or sex, begin at an early age to accustom themselves to betel, and it gradually becomes an article of ...
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BETEL
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BETELFAGUI, a town of Asia, in Arabia Felix, famous for the vast quantity of coffee bought and sold there; being the mart to which the country people bring their coffee to sell, and where the Europeans come or send their factors or brokers to purchase it. Long. 57. 20. E. Lat. 15. 40. N.
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BETELFAGUI
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BETHABARA, in Ancient Geography, a term denoting “a passage,” and therefore by many referred to the passage of the Israelites at Jericho.
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BETHABARA
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BETHAGLA, or Beth-hagla, in Ancient Geography, a town of the tribe of Benjamin. In Jerome’s time there was a village called Agla, ten miles from Eleutheropolis, towards Gaza, and supposed to be Bethagla.
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BETHAGLA
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BETHANY, in Ancient Geography, a village at the foot of Mount Olivet, about two miles to the east of Jerusalem.
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BETHANY
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BETHARAMPHTHA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Galilee, in the Peraea, which, being walled round by Herod Antipas, was called Julias, after Julia, the daughter of Augustus, and consort of Tiberius. It stood to the north of the lake of Genesareth, at the influx of the Jordan into that lake.
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BETHARAMPHTHA
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BETHARAN, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Peraea, or on the other side Jordan. It is said to have been called Livias or Libias, in the Greek manner, by Herod, in honour of Livia (Eusebius, Jerome); it wa≡ *y the same latitude with Jerusalem (Ptolemy); and it is called Julias by Josephus, who always denominates the ...
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BETHARAN
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BETHAVEN, in Ancient Geography, a town in the tribe of Ephraim, and a name given to Bethel by Hosea after the establishment of the idolatry of Jeroboam there, but Bethaven was a distinct town to the south-east o Bethel. [7:4:603]
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BETHAVEN
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BETHEL, in Ancient Geography, a city of Samaria, on the borders of the tribe of Benjamin, anciently called Luz. Bethel was properly the place of Jacob’s vision; and Luz, or Lus, an adjoining town, afterwards called Bethel, the former name being lost in that of Bethel. It was twelve miles to the north-east of Jerusalem.
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BETHEL
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BETHESDA, called in the Greek κoλu∕A⅛>1^α πgoCa- <r∕xtj, and thence in the Vulgate piscina, probatica, was the Hebrew name for a pool or public bath, which had five portico, piazzas, or covered walks, around it. This bath, on account of its singular usefulness, was called Bethesda, γ∏dπ n*3, or Beth-Chesda, or the “Hou...
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BETHESDA
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BETHLEHEM, a town of Palestine, famous as the birth-place of our Saviour. It was once a flourishing place, but is now only a paltry village. It is situated on an eminence two leagues south-east of Jerusalem, in a country full of hills and valleys, and might be rendered very agreeable, as the soil is fertile, and fruits...
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BETHLEHEM
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BETHLEHEMITES, or Bethlemites, in Ecclesiastical History, a s0r t 0 f m onks introduced into England in the year 1257, habited like the Dominicans, except that on their breast they wore a star with five rays, in memory °f the star or comet which appeared over Bethlehem at the nativity of our Saviour. They were celled a...
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BETHLEHEMITES
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BETHORON, Upper and Nether, in Ancient Geogra- P^ĬJì a town of Samaria, in the tribe of Ephraim, built by bhera, grand-daughter of Ephraim, and restored by Solomon. We know more of the nether than of the upper town; 1 t was situated on a mountain, and stood on the public road to Lydda and Caesarea, distant an hundred s...
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BETHORON
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BETH-PEOR, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Reubenites, on the other side Jordan, at Mount Fogor, over against Jericho, six miles above Livias. It had a temple sacred to the idol Baal-Peor, called Beel-Phegor by the Vulgate, and interpreted Priapus by Jerome.
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BETH-PEOR
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BETHPHAGE, in Ancient Geography, a place on the western declivity of Mount Olivet. -
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BETHPHAGE
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BETHSAIDA is supposed to be identical with Betii-aramphtha, to which the reader is accordingly referred.
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BETHSAIDA
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BETHSAN, or Bethsean, in Ancient Geography, a town of Samaria, in the half-tribe of Manassch, on the borders of Galilee, about half a league'from Jordan, and having a considerable part: of its territory in the Peraea. It was afterwards called Scythopolis; and was distant from Tiberias, on the lake Genesareth, 120 stadi...
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BETHSAN
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BETHUNE, Maximilian de, Duke of Sully. See SULLY, Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of. Bethune, an arrondissement of the department of the Pas de Calais, in France, extending over 346 square miles, comprehending ’ eight cantons and 144 communes, and containing 119,850 inhabitants. The capital city, of the same name, is on t...
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BETHUNE
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BETIS, governor of Gaza under Darius, celebrated for his valour and loyalty. He defended a place of consequence with a few men against Alexander, who was there wounded in the shoulder, Betis thinking the Macedonian slain, returned triumphantly to the city; but in a second assault he was wounded and brought before Alexa...
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BETIS
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BETLIS, a town of Armenia, in Kurdistan, situated in a fine and highly-cultivated valley, producing fruit, grain, and honey. Here the Armenians have four churches and as many monasteries, and they enjoy more courteous treatment than usually falls to their lot in Mahommedan countries. The houses are scattered over the v...
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BETLIS
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BETROTHMENT, a mutual promise or compact between two parties for a future marriage. Betrothment amounts to what is called by civilians and canonists sponsalia, or espousals.
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BETROTHMENT
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BETTERTON, Thomas, a celebrated actor, was the son of Mr Betterton, under-cook to King Charles I., and was born in Tothill-street, Westminster, in the year 1635. Having received the rudiments of a genteel education, his fondness for reading induced him to request his parents to bind him apprentice to a bookseller; whic...
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BETTERTON
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BETTIAH, a district of Hindostan, in the province of Bahar, situated between the 27 th and 28th degrees of north latitude. It contains an area of 2546 square miles, and is bounded on the north by the Terriani, on the east by Moc-wanny and Tirhoot, and on the west by the river Gunduck. The chief towns are Bettiah and Bo...
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BETTIAH
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BETTINÉLLI, Xavier, one of the most celebrated Italian literati of the eighteenth century, was born at Mantua on the 18th of July 1718. After studying under the Jesuits in his native city and at Bologna, he entere in 1736 upon the noviciate of this society. He then undertook a new course of study; and afterwards taught...
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