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kp-eb0705-063804-1357 | BUDWEIS, a circle in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia. It extends over 814 square miles, or 520,960 acres. It is situated in the southernmost part of the kingdom, joining to Bavaria. It comprehends eight cities, twenty-nine market-towns, 891 villages, and 26,985 houses. The inhabitants in 1817 were 170,670, but have sin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 59' 43" N 14 51' 10" E | BUDWEIS |
kp-eb0705-063805-1357 | BUDZIAC Tartary lies on the rivers Dniester, Bog, and Dnieper, having Poland and Russia on the north, Little Tartary on the east, the Black Sea on the south, and Bessarabia on the west. The chief town is Oczakow. It is subject to Turkey. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-063806-1357 | BUENAIRE, one of the Leeward Islands, in the West Indies, lying east of Curaçoa, and belonging to the Dutch. It is fifty miles in circumference, is mountainous in its appearance, and inhabited chiefly by Indians, with a small mixture of Europeans. It produces nothing but a few cattle, goats, large quantities of poultry... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 26' N 67 36' W | BUENAIRE |
kp-eb0705-063807-1357 | BUENAVENTURA, a Spanish settlement and mission [7:5:639] on the coast of New California. Vancouver mentions that the buildings of the mission, the arrangements of the gardens, and the cultivation of the land in the immediate vicinity, are in a style superior to that of any of the settlements in the north. In consequenc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 34 16' N 241 2' E | BUENAVENTURA |
kp-eb0705-063901-1370 | BUENOS AYRES, The capital of the Argentine republic or united provinces of the Rio de la Plata, is situated in the province of Buenos Ayres, on the southern margin of the river Plata, in South America. This province is bounded on the north by the province of Sante Fè and the rivers Parana and La Plata, on the east by t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 37 0' S 58 23' 34" W | BUENOS AYRES |
kp-eb0705-066101-1657 | BUFFET was anciently a little apartment, separated from the rest of the room by slender wooden columns, for the disposing of china, glass-ware, and other articles. It is now properly a large table in a dining-room, called also a sideboard for the plate, glasses, bottles, basons, &c. to be placed on, as well for the ser... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-066102-1657 | BUFFIER, Claude, a distinguished writer, born in 1661, became a Jesuit in 1679, and died at Paris in 1737. There are many works by this author, showing deep pénétration and accurate judgment. The principal of these is entitled Un Cours des Sciences, or a Course of Sciences, upon principles new and simple, in order to f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-066201-1670 | BUFFON, George Louis le Clerc, Count of, a celebrated naturalist, was born at Montbard, in Burgundy, on the 9th of September 1707. His father, Benjamin le Clerc, was a counsellor of the parliament of Dijon, and the son was destined to the same office, if science had not drawn him away from the law. He studied at Dijon;... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-066202-1670 | BUFFOON, a droll, or mimic, who diverts the public by his pleasantries and follies. Menage, after Salmasius, derives the word from buffo, a name given to those who appeared on the Roman theatre with their cheeks blown up; that, receiving blows thereon, they might make the greater noise, and set the people a laughing. O... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-066203-1670 | BUG, or Bugg. See Entomology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-066204-1670 | BUGGERS (Bιιlgarii) anciently signified a kind ofhere-tics, otherwise called Paterini, Cathari, and Albigenses. The word is formed from the French Bougres, and that from Bougria or Bulgaria, the country where they chiefly appeared. Among other errors, they held that men ought to believe no scripture but the New Testame... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-066205-1670 | BUGIA, a province of the regency of Algiers in Africa. It is almost surrounded with mountains, and peopled with the most ancient Arabs, Moors, or Saracens, called Ko-bayles. The province is very fertile in corn.
Bugia, by the Africans called Bugeiah, a maritime tθ'vn of Africa, in the regency of Algiers, and once the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-066206-1670 | BUGIE, a town of Egypt, situated on the western shore of the Red Sea, almost opposite to Zidon, the port town to Mecca, and about a hundred miles west of it. Long· 36. E. Lat. 22. 15. N.
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kp-eb0705-066301-1683 | BUILDER, in the general sense of the term, an undertaker of works of building. With reference to the operations of civil architecture particularly, the builder stands between the proprietor and architect on the one hand, and the artizan, merchant, and manufacturer on the other: he engages to the first to carry a certai... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-066302-1683 | BUILDING. Any work of civil architecture while in progress is familiarly termed a building. This substantive use of a participial term may be thought to arise from the old habit of contracting an expression if it be long, and using a part for the whole: “ the house or church a building, ” that is, in the course of buil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-066303-1683 | BUILDING.
The art of building comprises the practice of civil architecture, or the mechanical operations necessary to carry the designs of the architect into effect. It is not unfrequently called practical architecture; but the adoption of this term would have tended only to confuse, by rendering it difficult to make ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-069601-2112 | BUILTH, ον Bualtii, a market-town in the county of Brecknock, in South Wales, 177 miles from London. It has little trade, and only a small market on Saturday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 677, in 1811 to 815, and in 1821 to 946. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-069602-2112 | BUKHARIA, Bukhara, or Bocknara, an extensive region of Asia, in Usbeck or Independent Tartary. W e have no data to define the exact limits of this country, which vary in extent, as in most Asiatic states, according to its power. The habitable part of the-country is small in proportion to the desert by which it is mostl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 27' N 62 45' E | BUKHARIA |
kp-eb0705-070001-2164 | BUL, in the ancient Hebrew chronology, the eighth month of the ecclesiastical, and the second of the civil year. It has since been called Marshevan, and answers to our October. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070002-2164 | BULAH, a large village of Upper Egypt, two miles to the west of Cairo, to which city it serves as a harbour. It contains a custom-house, magazines, and a large bazar. Here the baths are very fine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070003-2164 | BULAM, or Bulama. See Bissagos. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070004-2164 | BULARCHUS, a Greek painter, the first who introduced, among the Greeks at least, different colours in the same picture. He flourished in 740 b. c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070005-2164 | BULB, a kind of large bud, generally produced under the ground, upon or near the root of certain herbaceous plants, hence denominated bulbous. See Anatomy, Vegetable. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070006-2164 | BULEUTAE, in Grecian Antiquity, were magistrates answering to the decurions among the Romans. See Decurio. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070007-2164 | BULFINCH. See Ornithology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070008-2164 | BULGARIA, a province of European Turkey, extending from the mouth of the Danube, along that river till it meets the Timok above Widdin, on the borders of Servia. The Danube forms the whole of its northern, and the parallel chain of the Balkan its southern boundary. It is about three hundred and fifty miles long, extend... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070101-2177 | BULK of a Ship, the whole space in the hold for the stowage of goods.
BuLK-Heads are partitions made athwart the ship with boards, by which one part is divided from the other; as the great cabin, gun-room, bread-room, and several other divisions. The bulk-head afore is the partition between the forecastle and gratings... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070102-2177 | BULKAU, a city in the Austrian province of the Lower Ens, and the circle of Marhartsberge, on a river of the same name, containing 301 houses, and three thousand one hundred and fifty inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070103-2177 | BULKH, or Balk. See Balk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070104-2177 | BULL, Dr John, a celebrated musician and composer, was born in Somersetshire about the year 1563. He received his education under Blitheman. In 1586 he was admitted at Oxford to the degree of bachelor of music, having practised in that faculty fourteen years; and in 1592 he was created doctor in the university of Cambr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070201-2190 | BULLAE, in antiquity, a kind of ornament much in use among the ancient Romans. Mr Whittaker (History of Manchester, vol. i. p. 79) is of opinion that they were originally formed of leather among all ranks of people; and it is certain that they continued so to the last among the commonalty. He also imagines that at firs... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070301-2203 | BULLEYN, William, a learned physician and botanist, was born in the Islc of Ely in the early part of the reign of Henry VIII., and educated at Cambridge. Botany being his favourite study, he travelled through various parts of England, Scotland, and Germany, chiefly with an intention to improve his knowledge in that sci... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070302-2203 | BULLIALDUS (the latinized form of Boulliau, or Bouillaud), Ismael, an eminent astronomer, was born at Loudun in France in 1605. He travelled in his youth for the sake of improvement; and afterwards published several works, among which are the following, viz. 1, De Natura Lucis, 1638, 8vo; 2, Philolaus, 1639, 4to; 3, As... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070303-2203 | BULLINGER, Henry, born at Bremġarten in Switzerland in 1504, was an eminent Zuinglian minister, a great supporter of the reformation, and one employed in many ecclesiastical negociations. He composed a number of works, among which may be mentioned the Chronicle of Zurich, the History of the Reformation, and the History... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070304-2203 | BULLION, uncoined gold or silver in the mass. Those metals are so called, either when smelted from the native ore, and not perfectly refined, or when they are perfectly refined, but melted down in bars or ingots, or in any unwrought body, of any degree of fineness. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070305-2203 | BUMM, a city of Persia, in the province of Kirman, of which it was the frontier town until the Afghans were expelled the country. It is situated in a plain in the vicinity of high mountains, usually if not always covered with snow. About twenty years prior to 1810 this city had been the scene of repeated contests; the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 29 17' N 58 E | BUMM |
kp-eb0705-070306-2203 | BUNDE, a circle in the Prussian government of Minden, extending over 125 square miles, containing 5308 houses, in two towns, ten villages, and forty-seven hamlets, inhabited by 35,370 persons. The chief place, of the same name, on the river Else, contains 1458 individuals, mostly occupied in spinning. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070307-2203 | BUNDELCUND, or Bandelkhand, an extensive district of the province of Allahabad, in Hindustan, between [7:5:704] the rivers Cane and Betwah, occupying a superficies of about 11,000 square miles. The south-west frontier lies in about 24° north latitude, and 80° 45' east longitude, and the territory extends about two degr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070601-2242 | BUNDER, or Bender Abbas, or Gomberoon, the ancient Harmozia, a fortress of Persia, in the province of Fars, situated in a barren country, in a bay of the Gulf of Ormuz. It is subject to the imaum of Maskat, and is fortified with double walls. It was at one time the first seaport of Persia, and is still a place of consi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070602-2242 | BUNEL, Peter, one of the most elegant writers of his time, was born at Toulouse in 1499, and died at Turin in 1547. He left behind him some Latin epistles, Epistolae Ciceroniano Stylo Scriptae, remarkable for the elegance and purity with which they are written. Bunel, says Bayle, “was an honest man, the very person who... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070603-2242 | BUNGAY; a market-town of the hundred ofWangford, in the county of Suffolk, 107 miles from London, on the river Waveney, which divides it from the county of Norfolk, and is navigable to the sea at Yarmouth. It is a well-built town, comprising two parishes with their churches, and the ruins of an ancient monastery and of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070604-2242 | BUNNASS, a river of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, where it has its source. It is a rapid stream, about half a mile in breadth in some parts, though during the dry season not above twenty yards of this space contain water. It loses itself in the Kakreze. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070605-2242 | BUNTING. See Ornithology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070606-2242 | BUNTINGFORD, a market-town of the hundred of Edwintree, in the county of Hertford, thirty-two miles from London, on the river Rib. It is situated in three different parishes. The church is very ancient, and stands nearly a mile from the town. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070607-2242 | BUNTWALLA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of South Canara, situated on the north bank of the river Netravati, which is navigable above the reach of the tide for canoes. It contains about three hundred houses, and is fast improving, being the thoroughfare for the trade between Mysore and Canara. The inhabitants ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070608-2242 | BUNTZLAU, a circle in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia. It extends over 1578 square miles, or 1,009,920 acres, and comprehends twenty-three cities, eighteen towns, and 1034 villages, with 57,640 houses. The inhabitants amount to 352,756. A range of lofty mountains separates this circle from the kingdom of Saxony. The ch... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070701-2255 | BUNWOOT, an island about eighteen miles in circumference, lying off Pollok harbour, in Magindanao. It has few springs, but many ponds of fresh rain water. In 1775 this island was ceded to Captain Forrest for the East India Company, by the sultan of Magindanao. Long. 124. 28. E. Lat. 7. 14. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070702-2255 | BUNYAN, John, author of the Pilgrim s Progress, was born at Elstow, near Bedford, in 1628. He was the son of a tinker, and in the early part of his life a great reprobate, having served as a soldier in the parliament army; but being at length deeply struck with a sense of his sins, he laid aside his profligate courses,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070703-2255 | BUOY, in sea affairs, a sort of close cask, or block of wood i fastened by a rope to the anchor, to determine the place where the anchor is situated, that the ship may not come too near it, to entangle her cable about the stock, or the flukes of it.
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kp-eb0705-070704-2255 | BUPALUS, a celebrated sculptor, and native of the island of Chios, was the son, grandson, and great grandson of sculptors. He had a brother, named Athenis, of the same profession, and they flourished in the sixtieth Olympiad, being contemporary with Hipponax, a poet or an ugly and despicable figure, with whom they dive... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070705-2255 | BUPHONIA, in antiquity, an Athenian feast or ceremony, so denominated from a bullock being slain therein, with quaint formalities. From the origin of the buphonia, it may be concluded that by the laws of Attica it was forbidden to kill an ox; but it once happened, at the feast of the diipolia, that an ox ate the corn o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070706-2255 | BURBOT. See Ichthyology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070707-2255 | BURCKHARDT, John Ludwig. This traveller, celebrated for his extensive journeys in the East, was descended from an ancient family in Switzerland, who had been long established at Kirchgarten, near Lausanne. His father, John Rudolph, had been tried by a French military commission on a charge of having delivered up the tê... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070801-2268 | BURDEN, or Burdon, in Music, the drone or bass, and the pipe or string which plays it; hence that part of a song which is repeated at the end of every stanza is called the burden of it. A chord which is divided so as to perform the intervals of music, when open and undivided, is also called the burden. Burden of a Ship... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070802-2268 | BURDWAN, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, situated between the twenty-second and twenty fourth degrees of north latitude, and on the western side of the Hooghly river. It is bounded on the north by Birboom and Ranjeshy, on the south by Midnapoor and Hooghly, on the east by the river Hooghly, and on t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070803-2268 | BUREN, a circle in the Prussian government of Minden, and province of Westphalia. It extends over 262 square miles, or 167,680 acres, and contains four towns, fifty-one villages, sixteen hamlets, and 28,228 inhabitants. It is generally a very poor district, but affords some iron, lead, and salt. The chief place, from w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070804-2268 | BURFORD, a market-town of the hundred of Bampton, in the county of Oxford, seventy-three miles from London, on the river Windrush. It is celebrated as the place where an ecclesiastical synod was held in 685, to determine on the time for celebrating Easter; for a battle between Cuthred, king of the West Saxons, and Ethe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070805-2268 | BURGAGE, or Burgage-tenure, is where the king or other person is lord of a borough in which the tenements are held by a rent certain. A borough is distinguished from other towns by the right of sending members to parliament; and where the right of election is by burgagetenure, that alone is a proof of the antiquity of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070901-2281 | BURGAU, a city, the capital of a magistracy of the same name, in the circle of the Upper Danube, of the kingdom of Bavaria. The district extends over sixty-five square miles, and contains, besides the city, one markettown, with thirty-five villages and 11,408’inhabitants. The city is situated on the river Mindel, has a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070902-2281 | BURGEBRACH, a town, the chief place of a magistracy of the same name, in the circle of the Upper Maine, and kingdom of Bavaria. The judicature extends over 195square miles, and contains, besides the town, fifty-eight villages, with 13,430 inhabitants. The town is small, and has only 114 houses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-070903-2281 | BURGER, Godfrey Augustus, a celebrated German poet, born on the 1st of January 1748, at Wolmerswende, a village in the principality of Halberstadt, where his father was Lutheran minister. In his childhood he discovered little inclination to study; the Bible and the Canticles alone had any attraction for him: these he k... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071001-2294 | BURGESS, an inhabitant of a borough or walled town, [7:5:711] or one who possesses a tenement therein. Anciently, burgesses were held in great contempt, being reputed servile, base, and unfit for war; so that the gentry were not allowed to intermarry in their families, or fight with them, but in lieu thereof to appoint... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071101-2307 | BURGGRAVE properly denotes the hereditary governor of a castle or fortified town, chiefly in Germany. The word is compounded of bourg, town, and graf or grave, count. The burggraves were originally the same with what is otherwise called castellans or comites castellani ; but their dignity was considerably advanced unde... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071102-2307 | BURGH, a market-town of the Lindsay division of the hundred of Candleshoe, in the county of Lincoln, distant a hundred and thirty-six miles from London. The country around it is a rich tract of mårshy land, in which the best oxen are fattened. The market is held on Thursday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 716, in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071103-2307 | BURGHBOTE signifies contribution towards the building or repairing of castles or walls, for the defence of a borough or city. By a law of King Athelstan, the castles and walls of towns were to be repaired, and burghbote levied every year within a fortnight after rogation days. No person whatever was exempt from this se... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071104-2307 | BURGHBRECHE, or Burghbrech, a fine imposed on the community of a town or burgh, for a breach of the peace among them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071105-2307 | BURGHMOTE, the court of a borough. By the laws of King Edgar, the burghmote was to be held thrice in the year; by those of Henry I. twelve times. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071106-2307 | BURGLARY, or Nocturnal House-Breaking (burgi latrocinium), which by the ancient English law was called hamesuchen, a word also used in the law of Scotland, but in a somewhat different sense, has always been looked upon as a very heinous offence. The definition of a burglar, as given by Sir Edward Coke, is, “he that by ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071107-2307 | BURGLENGENFELD, a magistracy in the circle of Regen, in the kingdom of Bavaria, which comprehends 323 square miles, and contains 24,500 inhabitants. The city from which it takes the name stands in a most romantic situation, and in the neighbourhood of others of similar beauty, on the river Nab. It contains about 1500 i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071108-2307 | BURGOMAS l’ER, Burghermaster, Burgermester, or Burgmester, the chief magistrate of the great towns in Flanders, Holland, and Germany. The power and juris- ∖ diction of the burgomaster are not the same in all places, every town having its particular customs and regulations. The word is formed from the two Flemish words ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071109-2307 | BURGOS, a province of Castile, in the north of Spain, bounded on the north by the ocean; on the east by Biscay, Alava, and Soria; on the south by Segovia; and on the west by Palencia, Valladolid, Toro, and Asturias. Its extent is 7822 square miles. It is a lofty territory, intersected by ranges of mountains, between wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071110-2307 | BURGUNDIONES, a part or branch of the Vindili or Wandili, placed by Cluverius about, the Warta, a river of Poland; though the conjectures as to the seat of this people are doubtful. They afterwards removed to Cisalpine Germany, and at length to Celtic Gaul, and gave name to the duchy and county of Burgundy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071111-2307 | BURGUNDY, called also Burgundy Proper, or Lower Burgundy, formerly a province in the east of France, lying on the west of Franche-Comté, and on the south of Champagne. It now forms the departments of the Yonne, Côte d’Or, Saône et Loire, and Ain, under which several heads Burgundy will be found described. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071112-2307 | BURHAMPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, situated on the east bank of Bhagirathi or Cossimbazar river, five miles from Moorshedabad. Here is stationed a brigade of troops in commodious cantonments, [7:5:712]which consist of a fine range of buildings in an open lawn. Long. 89. 14. E. Lat. 24. 3. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071201-2320 | BURIAL, the interment of a deceased person. In almost all countries the rites of sepulture have been looked upon as a debt so sacred, that those who neglected to discharge it were thought infamous. Hence the Romans called themyWa, and the Greeks νόμιμα, δίκαια, οΰια, words implying the inviolable obligation which natur... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071202-2320 | BURIATS, Buraty, or Bratsky, a tribe of Tartars, now brought under the jurisdiction of Russia, and widely dispersed throughout Siberia, in the government of Irkutsk, wherein their numbers are computed from the capitation tax at about sixty thousand. Their features are of a genuine Tartar cast, resembling those of the K... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071203-2320 | BURIDAN, John, a native of Bethune, in Artois, was one of the most celebrated philosophers of the fourteenth century. He taught in the university of Paris with great reputation, and wrote commentaries on logic, morality, and Aristotle’s metaphysics. Aventinus relates that he was a disciple of Ockam; and that, being exp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071204-2320 | BURKE, Edmund, an illustrious writer, orator, and statesman, was born in Dublin on the 1st of January 1730. His father was an attorney, first in Limerick, and afterwards in Dublin. Young Burke received the rudiments of his education at Castletown Roche. He was afterwards put under the tuition of Abraham Shackleton, a q... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071601-2372 | BURKITT, William, a celebrated commentator on the New Testament, was born at Hitcham in Northamptonshire 25th July 1650, and educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. He entered young upon the ministry, having been ordained by Bishop Reynolds; and the first employment which he had was at Milden in Suffolk, where he continu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071602-2372 | BURLEIGH. See Cecil. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071603-2372 | BURLESQUE, a species of composition, which, though a great engine of ridicule, is not confined to the ridiculous alone; for it is clearly distinguishable into burlesque that excites laughter merely, and burlesque that excites derision or ridicule. A grave subject, in which there is no impropriety, may be brought down b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071604-2372 | BURLINGTON, or Bridlington, a sea-port town of England, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, situated on a bay called Burlington Bay, formed by Flamborough Head, which is about five miles distant, nearly north-east. It is situated about a mile from the shore; but there is another portion of it, named Burlington Quay, situa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-071605-2372 | BURMAN, Peter, a philologer and critic of high reputation, was born at Utrecht on the 26th of June 1668. His father, Francis Burman, professor of divinity in that university, was the son of a German clergyman, whom the destructive war of the Palatinate had driven from Frankenthal: his mother was Mary the daughter of Ab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-072101-2437 | BURNET, Thomas, a distinguished writer, was born at Croft in Yorkshire about the year 1635, but is supposed to have been descended of a Scotish family. His early education he received at the free-school of Northallerton, in the same county, under Thomas Smelt, who used to propose him as an example to the rest of his sc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-072401-2476 | BURNHAM, a market-town of the hundred of Brothercross, in the county of Norfolk, 128 miles from London, near the sea shore. The market is held on Monday. It is celebrated as the birth-place of Admiral Lord Nelson. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 743, in 1811 to 845, and in 1821 to 937. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-072402-2476 | BURNING, the action of fire on some pabulum or fuel. Burning, in antiquity, a way of disposing of the dead, much practised by the Greeks and Romans, and still retained by several nations in the East and West Indies. The antiquity of this custom reaches as high as the Ιheban war, where we are told of the great solemnity... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-072501-2489 | BURNING GLASSES, OR BURNING MIRRORS, The name of certain glasses or mirrors which have the property of inflaming combustible substances by the action of the sun’s rays, being so formed as to collect all the rays which fall over their whole surface into a single point or spot, more or less distant, according to the form... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074001-2684 | BURNISHER, a round polished piece of steel, serving to smooth and give a lustre to metals. Of these there are different kinds, of different figures, straight, crooked, and the like. Half burnishers are used to solder silver, as well as to give it a lustre. Burnishers for gold and silver are commonly made of a dog’s or ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074002-2684 | BURNISHING, the art of smoothing or polishing a metalline body, by a brisk rubbing of it with a burnisher. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074003-2684 | BURNLEY, a market-town of the parish of Whalley, and hundred of Blackburn, in the county of Lancaster, 210 miles from London. The district abounds with coal, the raising of which, as well as stones and slate, is the chief labour in which the inhabitants find occupation. The market is held on Saturday. The population am... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074004-2684 | BURNS, Robert, the national bard of Scotland, was born on the 25th of January 1759, in a clay-built cottage about two miles south of the town of Ayr. He was the eldest son of William Burncs, or Burness, who at the period of Robert’s birth was gardener and overseer to a gentleman of small estate; but resided on a few ac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074401-2736 | BURNTISLAND, or Bruntisland, a royal burgh and parish of Scotland, in the county of Fife, situated upon the Frith of Forth. It is slightly peninsular, but it does not appear to have been ever surrounded by the sea. It is well sheltered towards the north by steep hills; and accordingly the harbour, which lies on its wes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074501-2749 | BURRAMOOTEE, a large town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, forty-four miles south-east from Poonah, and one mile from Merud. It has a strong fortification, divided by the Kurrah river. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074502-2749 | BURROW, Sir James, master of the crown office, was elected a fcllow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Arts in 1751. On the death of Mr West in 1772, he was prevailed on to fill the president’s chair at the Royal Society till the anniversary election, when he resigned it to Sir John Pringle; and on the 10th of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074503-2749 | BURSA, a large walled city of Asiatic Turkey, in the province of Natolia, about six miles in circuit, including the suburbs. It is situated on eminences on each side of a height, and is surmounted by a castle, which is about a mile in circumference, and which antiquaries conjecture to be the ancient Prusa. The city is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074504-2749 | BURSAR, or Burser (JBτιrsarius'), is used, in the middle-age writers, for a treasurer or cash-keeper. In this sense we meet with bursars of colleges. Conventual bursars were officers in monasteries, who were bound to deliver an account yearly on the day after Michaelmas. The word is formed from the Latin bursa, whence ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074505-2749 | BURSARIA, the bursary, or exchequer of collegiate and conventual bodies; or the place of receiving, paying, and accounting, by the bursarii or bursars. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074506-2749 | BURSE, in matters of commerce, denotes a public edifice in certain cities, for the meeting of merchants to negociate bills, and confer on other matters relating to money and trade. In this sense burse amounts to the same with what we otherwise call an exchange. The first place of this kind to which the name Burse was g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074507-2749 | BURSLEM, a market-town of the hundred of Pirehill, in the county of Stafford, 151 miles from London, on an elevated spot near the Trent and Mersey Canal, about one mile from an underground tunnel 1880 yards in length. It is one of the most important towns in the potteries, in a thickly-peopled neighbourhood, where the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074508-2749 | BURTON, Robert, known to the learned by the name of Democritus junior, was a younger brother of the William Burton who wrote the Antiquities of Leicestershire, and born of an ancient family at Lindley, in that county, upon the 8th of February 1576. He was educated in grammatical learning in the free school of Sutton Co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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