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kp-eb0704-079501-9650 | BOOTES, a constellation of the northern hemisphere. Arcturus, a star of the first magnitude, is in this constellation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079502-9650 | BOOTH, Barton, a celebrated English actor, born in Lancashire in 1681, and educated in Westminster school under the celebrated Dr Bushby, where his success in the Latin plays customarily performed by the scholars gave him an inclination for the stage. He was intended for the church; but having run away from school to D... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079601-9663 | BOOTON, an island in the Eastern Seas, situated off the south-eastern extremity of Celebes, about the 5th degree of south latitude. It is estimated at eighty-five miles in length by twenty miles in average breadth. It is separated from the island of Pangansane by a narrow strait; and is productive, yielding rice, maize... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079602-9663 | BOOTY, whatever is taken from an enemy in time of war. Amongst the Greeks, the booty was the common property of the army, of which the general only claimed a larger share. According to the military discipline of the Romans, spoils taken from the enemy belonged to the republic, particular persons having no right to them... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079603-9663 | BOPAL, an extensive town of Hindostan, in the province of Malwah, surrounded with a stone wall, on the outside of which is a large gunge or mart, with wide and straight streets. On a rising ground to the south-west of the town is a fort called Futtehgur, built on a solid rock, and surrounded with square towers. Under t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079604-9663 | BOQUINIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect of heretics, so called from Boquinus their founder, who taught that Christ did not die for all mankind, but only for the faithful, and consequently was only a particular Saviour. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079605-9663 | BORACIC ACID (Sassoline or native boracic acid; boraxsaure), in Mineralogy, the only known compound of boron and oxygen, occurs in white pearly scales, which are soft and greasy to the touch, and have an acidulous taste. It fuses easily in the flame of a candle, and yields a glossy globule, which on cooling becomes opa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079701-9676 | BORACITE, or Borate of Magnesia, in Mineralogy, occurs only in tesselłar crystals, remarkably well defined. These are sometimes translucent, but generally opake, and of a gray or a yellowish-white colour. Their specific gravity is equal to 2∙974, and their contents, according to Pfaff, are, boracic acid 54∙55, magnesia... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079702-9676 | BORACK, among Mahommedans, a fabulous animal, of the middle kind between an ass and a mule, on which their prophet was supposed to have been carried in his nocturnal flight from Jerusalem to the heavens. This animal the Arabians call Al Borah, that is, shining. The night on which the journey was performed is called Lai... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079703-9676 | BORAX, in Mineralogy; borate of soda, tinhal, soude boratée. This salt is usually of a white or gray colour, translucent, feebly alkaline to the taste, soluble in water, and consists, according to Klaproth, of soda 14∙5, boracic acid 37Ό, and water 47Ό. It intumesces before the blow-pipe, and then melts into a transpar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079704-9676 | BORBORITES, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect of gnostics, in the second century, who, besides embracing the errors of these heretics, denied the last judgment. They were so called from the Greek word βogβogος, filth; on account of a custom they had of bedaubing their faces and bodies with ordure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079705-9676 | BORDA, John Charles, a mathematician and nautical astronomer, celebrated for his improvements in the theory of hydraulics and pneumatics, and in the construction of instruments for observation. He was born at Drax, on the 4th of May 1733, and was originally destined for the bar; but abandoned the pursuit of the law in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079901-9702 | BORDE, Andrew, a physician, jocularly surnamed Perforatus, was born at Pevensey in Sussex early in the sixteenth century, and supposed to have been educated at Westminster school. In his Introduction to Knowledge, he says he was a student of Oxford, but omits mentioning in what college. He left the university without a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079902-9702 | BOREAS, a Greek name for the north wind. The Greeks erected an altar to Boreas; and he is represented on the temple at Athens with his robe at his mouth, as if he felt the cold of the climate over which he presides, agreeably to the description of Ovid, who calls him gelidus tyrannus, the shivering tyrant. But he is us... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079903-9702 | BOREL, Peter, a learned physician, was the son of James Borel who published several poems, and was born at Castres about 1620. He applied himself to the study of physic, of which he was created doctor, and practised with great success in the town of Castres. Towards the end of the year 1653 he went to Paris, where he w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-079904-9702 | BORELLI, John Alphonso, the head of what has been called the iatro-mathematical sect,—or that which, misled by the great progress that the application of the mathematics had produced in the physical sciences, attempted to secure the same advantage for medicine, by subjecting to calculation the phenomena of the living e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-080001-9715 | BORGA, a circle in Russian Finland, taking its name from a city which is its capital. It is the seat of a bishop, contains 2138 inhabitants, and carries on trade in linen and in timber. The circle extends over 4284 square miles, and comprehends three cities and 1354 hamlets, with 124,600 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-080002-9715 | BORGEN, a town in the bailiwick of Rombals, in Norway, with a considerable fishery, and, including the island of the same name, containing 4864 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-080003-9715 | BORGIA, Caesar, Duke of Valentino, second natural son of Pope Alexander VI. by a Roman lady named Vannozia, was a brave general, but a most cruel and profligate man. It is incredible what numbers he caused to be taken off by poison or by 'the sword; and swarms of assassins were constantly kept in pay by him at Rome, fo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-080004-9715 | BORGOO, a large kingdom in the interior of Africa, bounded on the east by the Niger, on the south by Eyeo or Yarriba, on the west by Dahomey, and on the south by Gourma. It is about thirty days’ journey in length and eleven in breadth. It has generally a level surface, though crossed by a considerable range of mountain... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-000101-3076 | BORING, generally speaking, is the art of perforating a solid body. In the present article we propose to give some account of the boring of Cannon, of Cylinders, of Muskets, of Portland Stone, of Rocks, and of Wooden Pipes.
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kp-eb0705-000601-3141 | BORISSOGLEBSK, a circle of the Russian government of Tambow, extending over 2412 square miles, with a population of 65,400 persons. The chief place, a city of the same name, on the river Khoper, contains about 500 houses and 3300 souls. Long. 42. 1. E. Lat. 51. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-000602-3141 | BORISTHENES, or Borysthenes, in Ancient Geography, the largest river of Sarmatia Europaea, and described by Mela, after Herodotus, as running through â cognominal people,; as the pleasantest of all the rivers in Scythia, calmer than any of them in its course, and very agreeable to drink; as producing rich pastures, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-000603-3141 | BORKEN, a circle in the Prussian government of Munster, and province of the Rhine. It is on the frontiers of the kingdom of the Netherlands, and extends over 307 square miles, or 196,480 acres. .It contains four small cities, nine villages, and forty-four hamlets, with 5703 houses and 36,170 inhabitants. It is an undul... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-000604-3141 | BORKUM, an island of Hanover, on the coast of East Friesland, situated between the mouths of the East and West Ems, and included in the bailiwick of Grutsiel. It [7:5:7]is about twelve miles in circumference, and so low in the middle that it is separated into two parts at high water. A considerable proportion of the in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-000701-3154 | BORLASE, Dr Edmund, an eminent physician and English writer in the seventeenth century, was the son of Sir John Borlase, master of the ordnance, and one of the lords justices of Ireland in 1643. He studied in Dublin College, and afterwards at the university of Leyden, where he took the degree of doctor of physic. He af... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-000702-3154 | BORMIO, a town of the Austrian kingdom of Lombardy, in the delegation of Como. It is situated at the foot of a lofty hill of the same name, is well built, and contains about 2000 inhabitants. Long. 9. 51. E. Lat. 46. 28. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-000703-3154 | BORN, Ignatius, Baron Von, counsellor in the aulic chamber of the mint and mines at Vienna; of considerable eminence in the scientific world as a mineralogist and metallurgist,. and a promoter of science; was born of a family that had the rank of nobility, at Karlsburg, in Transylvania, in 1742; and died in 1791. He wa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-000901-3180 | BORNEO, an island forming part of the great East Indian Archipelago. Next to New Holland, which may be considered as a species of continent, it seems indisputably the largest in the known world. It reaches from about 7° north to 4° south latitude, and from 109° to 118° east longitude. Its length may be estimated at 750... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001101-3206 | BORNOU, an extensive kingdom, situatedin the eastern part of interior Africa. With the exception of Houssa, now subject to the sultan of the Fellatahs, it is superior in power and influence to any other state in that quarter of the continent. Major Denham, to whom we are indebted for the only full and authentic descrip... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001501-3258 | BORODINO, a village in Russia, near the river Moskwa, about ninety miles west of Moscow, remarkable for the terrible battle fought there on the 7th of September 1812, between the French and Russians, in which the latter were defeated. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001502-3258 | BOROMAEUS. See Borromeus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001503-3258 | BOROUGH, Burrough, Borow, or Burgh, is a term frequently used for a town or corporation which is not a city.
Borough, in the original Saxon borge or borgh, is by some supposed to have primarily meant a tithing or company consisting of ten families, who were bound and combined together as sureties for one another. Afte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001504-3258 | BOROUGHBRIDGE, a borough and market-town in the parish of Aldborough and west-riding of Yorkshire, 208 miles from London, on the river Eyne, which is navigable to this place. The market is held on a Saturday. The number of inhabitants in 1801 amounted to 680, in 1811 to 745, and in 1821 to 860. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001505-3258 | BOROWITSCHI, a circle of the Russian government of Novogorod, extending over 18,796 square miles, containing one city and fifty-four parishes, with 91,720 inhabitants. The chief place is a city of the same name, on the river Msta, containing two churches, 860 houses, and 3500 inhabitants, amongst whom are many pilots e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001506-3258 | BOROWSK, a circle in the Russian government of Kaluga, 614 square miles in extent, with 78,400 inhabitants. The chief place is the city of the same name on the river Protwa, a manufacturing place for linen goods, with a population of about 7000 persons. Long. 36. 5. E. Lat. 55. 14. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001507-3258 | BORRELISTS, in Ecclesiastical History, a Christian sect in Holland, so denominated from their founder Borrel, a person of much learning in the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin tongues. They rejected the use of the sacraments, public prayer, and other external acts of worship; affirming that all the Christian churches of the wo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001508-3258 | BORRICHIUS, Olaus, one of the most learned men of his age, the son of a Lutheran minister, was born in 1626, at Borchen in Denmark. He was sent to study physic in the university of Copenhagen in 1644, and he began to practise during a terrible plague which made great havoc in that city. In 1660, although appointed prof... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001601-3271 | BORROMEAN Islands. Not far from the south-eastern termination of the Alps there is a lake called Lago di Locarno, or Lago Maggiore, extending above fifty miles in length by five or six in breadth. It contains several islands, amongst which are the Isola Bella and Isola Madre, situated in a large bay towards the west, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001602-3271 | BORROMEUS, St Charles, cardinal, and archbishop of Milan, was the son of Gilbert Borromeo, count of Arona, and of Mary of Medicis, and was born at the castle of Arona, upon the Lago Maggiore, in the Milanese, on the 2d October 1538. When he was about twelve years old, Julius Caesar Borromeus resigned to him an abbacy, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001801-3297 | BORROWSTOUNNESS (generally abbreviated to Bo’ness), a sea-port town of Scotland, in the county of Linlithgow, is situated on the southern shore of the Frith of Forth, where that arm of the sea is between three and four miles broad. This is one of the most ancient sea-port towns of Scotland, and many of the houses appea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001802-3297 | BORSEHOLDER, among the Anglo-Saxons, one of the lowest magistrates, whose authority extended only over one free burgh, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families. Every freeman who wished to enjoy the protection of the laws, and not to be treated as a vagabond, was under the necessity of being admitted a member ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001803-3297 | BORSET, or Borsett, celebrated for its baths, a place about half a league from Aix-la-Chapelle in Germany. The abbey is a very magnificent structure. It was formerly a monastery, but now serves as a nunnery, the abbess of which is usually a princess of the empire, and lady of Borset. The waters are warm, and of the sam... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001804-3297 | BORSOD, a circle in the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, the frontiers of which are washed by the rivers Samlior and Torna. It extends over 1332 square miles, or 852,480 acres, comprehends 12 towns, 167 villages, and 19,650 houses, and contains a population of 156,050 souls. Nearly half the land is covered with woods; but ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001805-3297 | BORYSTHENES. Sec Boristhenes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001806-3297 | BOS, John Baptist du, a celebrated author and member of the French academy, was born at Beauvais in 1670, and finished his studies at the Sorbonne. In 1695 he was named one of the committee for foreign affairs under Μ. Torez; and he was afterwards charged with some important transactions in England, Germany, Holland, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001901-3310 | BOSA, a city on the western coast of the island of Sardinia, in a fine valley on the northern bank of the Termo. It is the see of a bishop, and is somewhat subject to malaria, but contains about 4000 inhabitants. Long. 8. 25. 31. E. Lat. 40. 16. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001902-3310 | BOSCAGE, the same with a grove or thicket.
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kp-eb0705-001903-3310 | BOSCAN, Almogaver, Juan, a Spanish poet of the sixteenth century, born at Barcelona about the year 1500. He was the intimate friend of Garcilasso de Vega, and with him contributed essentially to the improvement of Spanish poetry. He was the first who introduced ende-casyllabic verse, and transported into the Castilian ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001904-3310 | BOSCAWEN, Edward, a brave British admiral, was the second son of Hugh Lord Viscount Falmouth. Having early entered into the navy, he was, in 1740, captain of the Shoreham; and behaved with great intrepidity as a volunteer under Admiral Vernon, at the taking of PortoBello. At the siege of Carthagena, in March 1741, he h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001905-3310 | BOSCOI, or Boscι, in Ecclesiastical History, denotes a class or tribe of monks in Palestine, who fed on grass like the beasts of the field. The word is Greek, ∕3otfκω, graziers, formed from βοδκω, pasco. The Boscoi are ranked amongst the number of Adamites, not so much on account of their habit as their food. They took... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-001906-3310 | BOSCOVICH, Roger Joseph, was born on the 18th of May 1711, at Ragusa, a sea-port on the coast of the Adriatic, and capital of a small republic of the same name, then under the protection of the Turks and the Venetians. It does not appear that our author gave any tokens of superior genius till he was sent to learn gramm... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002101-3336 | BOSHUANAS, called by some - Bichuanas, or Bet-juanas, a numerous people, or rather race, who occupy an extensive territory in Southern Africa. Their country is bounded on the south by the Cape Colony, on the east by the Caffre territory, on the north by the Makooas, and other tribes bordering on the Portuguese settleme... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002301-3362 | BOSJESMANS, or Bushmen, a race of Hottentots who inhabit the sides and valleys of the Sneuwberg, or Snowy Mountains, which form the northern boundary of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. They are rude and savage in the extreme, and, perhaps beyond any other race in existence, deformed and miserable. Their persons pr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002302-3362 | BOSNIA, the farthest north-east province of Turkey in Europe. It is bounded on the north by Austria, from which it is divided by the rivers Unna and Save; on the east by Semendra and Aladsehaissar; on the south-east by Beldschterin and Dukagin; on the south by Iscandria and Austria; and on the west by Austria. It exten... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002303-3362 | BOSPHORUS, or Bosporus, in Geography, a long and narrow channel running in between two lands, or separating two continents, and by which two seas, or a gulf and a sea, communicate with each other. In this sense Bosphorus means a channel or strait, and is synonymous with what the Italians call faro, the Latins fretum, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002304-3362 | BOSQUETS, in Gardening, groves so called, from bos-chetto, an Italian word which signifies a little wood. They are compartments in gardens formed by branches of trees disposed either regularly in rows, or wildly and irregularly, according to the fancy of the owner. A bosquet is either a plat of ground inclosed with pal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002305-3362 | BOSSINEY, a small borough in Cornwall, in the parish of Tintagel and hundred of Lesneweth. It is sometimes called the town of Trevenna. The ruins of a castle near it, according to the local tradition, are said to be those of the palace in which King Arthur was born, and where the ancient dukes of Cornwall resided. The ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002306-3362 | BOSSO, in Latin Bossus, Matthew, distinguished by his virtue and his learning, was born at Verona in 1428. He devoted himself to the ecclesiastical state in 1451, in the congregation of regular canons of St John de Lateran, and afterwards taught divinity at Padua. His orations, his sermons, and his letters, have often ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002307-3362 | BOSSU, Rene Le, born at Paris on the 16th March 1631, studied at Nauterre, and then entered among the regular canons of Sainte-Geneviève in 1649. After having[7:5:24] professed the humanities in different religious houses for twelve years, he withdrew into retirement, and died on the 14th March 1680. His first publicat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002401-3375 | BOSSUET, James Benigne, one of the most illustrious prelates which the church of France, so fruitful in great men, has ever produced, was born at Dijon on the 27th September 1627. He was descended from an ancient and noble family in Burgundy. On the establishment of the parliament of Metz, his father was appointed one ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002601-3401 | BOSSUPT, a town of the Netherlands, in the province of Brabant. Long. 4. 30. E. Lat. 50. 52. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002602-3401 | BOST, a very strong tbwn of Persia, and capital of the province of Zablestan. Long. 64. 15. E. Lat. 31. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002603-3401 | BOSTANGIS, in Turkey, persons employed in the garden of the seraglio, out of whose number are selected those who row in the grand signior’s brigantines, when he has a mind to divert himself with fishing, or to take the air upon the canal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002604-3401 | BOSTON, a market-town and borough of the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln, 140 miles from London, on the river Whitham, which divides it into two parts. The river is navigable, and is joined by a canal which connects it with the city of Lincoln. It is in a marshy situation and has a dense atmosphere, but t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002605-3401 | BOSWELL, James, Esq. of Auchinleck, in the county of Ayr, whose life of Dr Samuel Johnson entitles him to a place among those who have contributed to the great stock of intellectual wealth, was the eldest son of Alexander Boswell, styled Lord Auchinleck, one of the judges of the supreme courts of session and justiciary... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002901-3440 | BOSWORTH-Market, a market-town in the hundred of Sparkenhoe, in the county of Leicester, 107 miles from London. Near it is the celebrated field of the battle between Richard III. and Henry VII., then Duke of Richmond, by which the crown of England was transferred to the latter. The market is held on a Wednesday. The in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-002902-3440 | BOTAL or Botalli, Leonard, physician to the duke of Alençon, and to Henry III., was born at Asti in Piedmont. He published several books in physic and surgery; and the best edition of his works is that of Leyden, in 1660, octavo, published by Van Hoorne.
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kp-eb0705-003001-3453 | BOTANY.
Linnaeus divides all natural objects into three grand classes, which he calls kingdoms; and the sciences which treat of these are zoology, botany, and mineralogy. Botany, with which we are to be occupied in this place, enables us to distinguish, arrange, and name all plants or vegetables.
Some years ago, Baro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014101-4896 | BOTANY Bay, a spacious bay on the south-east coast of New Holland, so named by Captain Cook, by whom it was discovered in 1770, from the profusion of hitherto unknown plants growing on its shores. Great Britain has established a settlement here for transported criminals. The bay does not afford either good shelter or a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014102-4896 | BOTANOMANCY (from β οτavn, an herb, and μαντεία, divination}, an ancient species of divination, by means of plants, especially of sage and fig leaves. The manner of performing it was this: The persons who consulted wrote their own names and their questions on leaves, which were exposed to the wind; and as many of the l... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014103-4896 | BOTH, John and Andrew, Flemish painters, and pupils of Bloemart, were born at Utrecht about the year 1610. The union of these brothers was remarkable; they were alike inseparable in their studies, their travels, and their painting. John painted the landscape part of their pictures in the manner of Claude Lorrain, and A... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014104-4896 | BOTHNIA. See Russia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014105-4896 | BOTTICELLI, Alesandro, born at Florence in 1437, learned the rudiments of painting under Filippo Lippi. He executed several pictures for Pope Sixtus IV. and for the city of Florence, for which he received large sums of money; but he expended all his acquisitions in thoughtless extravagance, and at last died in great di... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014201-4909 | BOTTLE, a small vessel for containing liquors, and made of leather, of glass, or of stone. The word is formed from butellus or botellus, a barbarous Latin word for a small wine vessel; and a diminutive of bota, which denoted a but or cask of that liquor. The ancient Jewish bottles were made of the skins of goats or oth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014202-4909 | BOTTOM, in a general sense, denotes the lowest part of á thing, in contradistinction to the top or uppermost part.
Bottom, in Navigation, is used to denote as well the channel of rivers and harbours, as the body or hull of a ship. Thus, in the former sense, we say, gravelly bottom, clayey bottom, sandy bottom, and so ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014203-4909 | BOTTOMRY, feenus nauticum, is a term applied to that particular kind of transaction where a person lends money to a merchant, who wants it to traffic, and is to be paid a greater sum at the return of a certain ship, standing to the hazard of the voyage; and, in this case, although the interest be greater than that allo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014204-4909 | BOTTONY. A cross bottony, in Heraldry, terminates at each end in three buds, knots, or buttons, resembling in some measure the three-leaved grass; on which account Segoing, in his Tresor Heraldique, terms it croix treβlee. It is the badge of the order of St Maurice. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014205-4909 | BOTTOSCHANY, a city of the province of Moldavia, in European Turkey. It is situated on a river of the same name, which falls a little below into the Siena. It consists chiefly of wooden houses, and has several Greek churches and monasteries, with 4200 inhabitants, who have a considerable trade in wine, cattle, wool, ho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014206-4909 | BOTTRIGARI, Hercole, a person eminently skilled in the science of music, though not a musician by profession, was descended of a noble family of Bologna, and born in that city in the year 1531. He seems to have entertained a strong predilection in favour of the ancient music; and he attempted, as Vincentine and others ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014207-4909 | BOTTS. See Entomology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014208-4909 | BOTZEN, a city, the capital of the circle of the Etsch, in the Austrian province of Tyrol. It is situated at the junction of the rivers Isach and Talfer, on the road from Germany to Italy, with both of which countries great commerce is carried on at four large fairs held annually here. It was destroyed by fire during t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014209-4909 | BOUCHE of Court, the privilege of having meat and drink at court scot-free. This privilege is sometimes only extended to bread, beer, and wine. It was a custom anciently in use, as well in the houses of noblemen as in the king’s court. Thomas earl of Lancaster retained Sir John de Ewre to serve him with ten men at arms... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014210-4909 | BOUFLERS, Louis Francis, Duke of, a peer and marshal of France, and a general of distinguished reputation, was the son of Francis count of Bouflers∙ He was born on the 10th January 1644, and having early entered into the army, was raised in 1669 to the rank of colonel of dragoons. In the conquest of Lorraine he served ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014301-4922 | BOUGAINVILLE, Louis Antoine de, a celebrated circumnavigator, was born in Paris in 1729. His father was a notary and one of the sheriffs of the city of Paris. The parents of young Bougainville wished him to practise as a lawyer, and, for this purpose, he was received advocate in the parliament of Paris; but his own inc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014401-4935 | BOUGEANT, William Hyacinth, a famous Jesuit, born at Quimper 4th November 1690, first taught humanity at Caen and Nevers, and afterwards settled at the college of Louis the Great, where he employed himself in writing several works. The principal of these are, 1. A Collection of Physical Observations, extracted from the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014402-4935 | BOUGH, a term nearly synonymous with Eranch. Anciently green boughs formed part of the decoration of altars and temples, especially on festive occasions. Boughs of oak were offered to Jupiter, of laurel to Apollo, of olive to Minerva, of myrtle to Venus, of ivy to Bacchus, of pine to Pan, and of cypress to Pluto.
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kp-eb0705-014403-4935 | BOUGUER, Peter, an eminent French mathematician, was born in 1698. His father was king’s professor of hydrography at Croisic in Lower Brittany, one of the best hydrographers of his time, and author of an excellent treatise on navigation. Young Bouguer was bred to mathematics from his infancy, and made rapid progress in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014601-4961 | BOUHOURS, Dominic, a celebrated French critic, was born at Paris in 1628. He entered into the society of Jesuits at the age of sixteen, and was appointed to read lectures upon polite literature in the college of Clermont at Paris, where he had studied; but he was so incessantly attacked with headachs, that he found him... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014602-4961 | BOUKA, or Lord Anson’s Island, in the South Pacific Ocean, lying south of Bougainville’s Island, is covered with wood from the shore to the centre, which is of considerable height. Along the beach are extensive plantations of cocoa-nut trees. Their canoes are ingeniously constructed; and they are remarkably dexterous i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014603-4961 | BOULAINVILLIERS, Henry de, Lord of Saint Saire, and an eminent French writer, was descended from a very ancient and noble French family, and born at Saint Saire in 1658. He received his education among the fathers of the oratory, at the college of Juilli, where he discovered from his infancy the uncommon abilities for ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014604-4961 | BOULANGER, Nicholas Anthony, a very singular Frenchman, was born at Paris in 1722, and died there in 1759, aged only thirty-seven. During his education he is said to have come out of the college of Beauvais almost as ignorant as he entered it; but struggling hard against his unaptness to learn, he at length overcame it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014701-4974 | BOULAY, Caesar Egasse du, in Latin Dul<zιιs, was born at St Ellier, on the Lower Maine, in the beginning of the seventeenth century, and became professor of humanity at the college of Navarre, as well as register, rector, and historiographer of the university of Paris. He died in 1678, after having published several wo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014702-4974 | BOULDER-WALL, a kind of wall built of round flints or pebbles, laid m strong mortar, and used where the sea. has a beach cast up, or where there are plenty of flints.' | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014703-4974 | BOULETTE, in the manege. A horse is called 'bou- ν leite when the fetlock, or pastern joint, bends forwaι∖l, 1 and out of its natural situation, whether through violent riding, or by reason of the animal being too short jointed, in which case the least fatigue will bring it down. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014704-4974 | BOULOGNE, an arrondissement of the department of the Pas de Calais, in France, extending over 348 square miles, comprehending six cantons and 100 communes, and containing 76,220 inhabitants. The chief city, of the same name, on the sea shore, is divided into the lower and the upper town, together having six churches, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 43' 33" N 1 30' 43" E | BOULOGNE |
kp-eb0705-014705-4974 | BÓULTER, Dr Hugh, was born in or near London, of reputable and wealthy parents. He was educated at Merchant-Tailor’s School before the Revolution, and was from thence admitted a commoner of Christ-church in Oxford. Some time afterwards he was chosen a demy of Magdalen College, at the same election with Mr Addison and D... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014801-4987 | BOULTINE, a term which workmen use for a moulding, the convexity of which is just one-fourth of a circle; being the member just below the plinth in the Tuscan and Doric capitals. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-014802-4987 | BOULTON, Matthew, a manufacturer and practical engineer of great celebrity, son of Matthew Boulton, by his wife Christian, daughter of Mr Peers of Chester, was born at Birmingham on the 14th of September 1728, and died in August 1809.
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kp-eb0705-014803-4987 | BOUNTY, in Commerce, a premium paid by government to the exporters of certain commodities. See Political Economy.
[7:5:149] | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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