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Bible, the veneration always paid to facred hiftory, ii. 55. Biography, impediments in the way of, iii. 76. By what means it is rendered difgutiful and ufelefs, v. 385. A fpecies of writing entertaining and intructive, 386. Moft eagerly read of any kind of writing. viii. 339. More ufeful than hiftory, 339. Every man the beft writer of his own ftory, 340. Difficulties in writing the life of another, 341. Few authors write their own lives, whilft ftatefmen, generals, &c. frequently do, 405. The neceffity of adhering to truth in, xi. 198.

Biographia Britannica, many untruths in that publication in the life of Dr. E. Y ung, iv. 253. 269.

Birch, Thomas, Eis Bigxior, xi. 397.

Blackmore, Sir Richard, charged by Dryden with ftealing the plan of Prince Arthur from him. i. 357. Libels Dryden in his Satire upon Wit, 370. His life, iii. 172. Born at Corfham, in Wiltshire, 172. Educated at Westminster, and entered at Oxford, 1668, 172. Made Doctor of Phyfick, at Padua, 172. For a fhort time a schoolmaster, 172. Fellow of the College of Phyficians, Apr. 12, 1687, 173. Refided at Sadler's Hall, Cheapfide, 173. Wrote for fame, or to engage poetry in the caufe of virtue, 173. Published his Prince Arthur, 1695, 174. Made Phyfician in Ordinary to K. William, and knighted, 175. His paraphrafe of Job, 1709, 176. His Satire on Wit, the fame year, 176. Creation, a philofophical poem, 1712, 178. His account of wit, 182. Obfervations on the Tale of a Tub, 183. Extract from his Effay on the Spleen, 184. Cenfor of the College of Phyficians, 1716, 185. His New Verfion of Pfalms, 1721, 186. His Alfred, 1723, 186. Becomes despised as a poet, and neglected as a physician, 186. Wrote many books on phyfick, 187. His cenfure of Hippocrates's Aphorifms, 187. His opinion of learning, 188. Died Oct. 8, 1729. His character, and as an author, 189. Extract from his Prince Arthur, 191. Blank Verfe, characterized, iv. 291.

Blake, Robert, Admiral, his life, iv. 358. Son of a merchant, and born at Bridgewater, 1598, 358. Entered at Oxford, 1615, where he continued to 1623, 358. On being refused a fellowship of Wadham College, retires to the country, 259. Chofen Member for Bridgewater, by the Puritan party, 1640, 359. Declares for the Parliament, and raifes a troop of dragoons, 359. Governor of Taunton, 1645, which he defends against Lord Goring, 365. Commiffioner of the Navy, 1648-9, 360. Sent in pursuit of Prince Rppert, whom he drives into the Tagus. 360. Takes feventeen and burns three Portuguese fhips, 361. Takes a French man of war, valued at one million, 361. Drives Prince Rupert into Carthagena, . 362, Attacks the Prince in the harbour of Malaga, 362. Takes a French man of war in the Mediterranean, 362. His conduct in the war with Holland, 1652, 363. His opinion that it is not the bufinefs of a feaman to mind ftate affairs, 370. Sent with a fleet into the Mediterranean, 1654, 373. Forces Algiers to fubmiffion, 1656, 373. Obliges Tunis and Tripoli to fubmit to him, 373. Obliges the Governor of Malaga to give up a priest who had beat fome failors for paying no refpect to a proceffion of the holt, 373.

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Deftroys the plate fleet of Spain, 1656, 375. Died at fea, and byred in Henry VIIth's Chapel, 376. After the Restoration, his body taken up, and thrown into a pit in St. Margaret's Church-yard, 376. His military character, by Lord Clarendon, 376. His moral cha racter, by the author of Lives English and Foreign, 377. Got his brother difcharged from the command of a ship, for not having done his duty, 378.

Blackwell, Thomas, review of his Memoirs of the Court of Auguftus, x. 185. His vanity cenfured, 186.

Black Friars Bridge, confiderations on the plans offered for the conftruction of, x. 290.

Blount, Martha, fome account of her acquaintance with Pope, iv. 85. Blutter, Squire, fome account of his infamous character, vii. 9. Body Natural and Body Politick, the parallel between, viii. 135. Boerhaave, Herman, M. D. his life, iv. 329. Born at Voorhout, near Leyden, 1668, 329. His character of his father, 330. Defigned for the miniftry, 330. A ftubborn ulcer on his thigh, the cause of his turning his thoughts to medicine, 331. His progrefs in learning at Leyden, 332. Lofes his father, 1682, 332. His diligence at the Univerfity, 333. Continues in the ftudy of Divinity, 334 His ferture being exhaufted by his education, he reads Lectures in Mathematicks. 335. Begins to ftudy Phyfick, 335. Engages in the practice of Chemistry, 336. Makes refearches in botanical knowledge, 337. Takes the M. D. degree at Hardewich, 1693, 337. Deigns to obtain a licence to preach, but finds difficulties, from being fufpected of atheifm, 337. Caufe of that fufpicion, 338. Begins the practice of Phyfick, 340. Invited to fettle at the Hague, but refufes it, 340. Elected Profeffor of Phyfick, 1701, 341. Recommends the study of Hippocrates, and reads Lectures as well in Chemistry as Phyfick, 341. Invited to the Profefforship of Phyfick at Gottingen, which he refufes, 342. Recommends Mathematicks in the fcience of Phyfick, 342. Advanced to the highest degrees of the Univerfity, 1714, 543. Mikes an Oration, recommending the attaining to certainty in Natural Philofophy, 343. This Oration opposed by the Profeffer of Franeker, who at length fubmits to him, 344. Ele&ted Member of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, 1728, 3.5. Fellow of the Royal Society, 1730, 345. Profeffor of Chemistry at Leyden, 1-18, 345. Violently afflicted with the gout, 1722, 346. Seized with a violent fever, 1727, 347. Refigns his Profefforfhips of Botany and Chemistry, 1726, 347. Vifited by patients from all part, of Europe, 348. His readinefs at difcovering diforders, 348. His own account of his latt illness, 349. His opinion of the foul, 350. Died 1738, 351. His person defcribed, 352 His character, 352. Catalogue of his works, 357• His ferious reflection on the execution of criminals, vi. 272. Boerhaave, James, character of him, by his fon Herman Boerhaave, iv. 330.

Boetius, Hector (First Prefident of the King's College, Aberdeen), account of him, x. 329. His revenue, as Prefident, forty Scottish marks, 6d. 330. Boileau,

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Boileau, his opinion of epick poetry, ii. 356. His fentiments on the power of diction, vii. 164. Bolingbroke, Lord, fuppofed to have declared his opinions to Mr. Hooke, though he concealed them from Pope, iv. 70. Pope leaves his MS. papers to him, 87. Burns 1500 copies of the Patriot King, printed by Pope, without his knowledge, 88. Employs Mallett to traduce the memory of Pope, and Warburton defends it, 88. Leaves his works to Mallett, 284.

Bombafine, Mrs. her character, v. 74.

Books, the ftudy of them not fufficient to conftitute literary eminence, vi. 86. Obfervations on the multiplication of, viii. 343. Compilations in general useless, 343. Multiplication of books diftracts choice, and dilappoints enquiry, 376. Of travels, moft generally read of any, and in general difappoint their reader, 386. How they tend to the civilization of mankind, ix. 150. The various mo tives to reading, 152.

Bookfellers, their treatment of authors complained of, viii. 222.
Bower, Archibald, patronized by Lord Lyttleton, iv. 313.

Boyle, Robert, philofophy much improved by his difcoveries, vi. zz5.
His opinion of the best expedients for promoting manufactures, vii.
352.
Bracelet, obfervations on the re-appearance of it, viii. 155. Propofal
to make them a mark of distinction of the character or temper of the
wearer, 156. Proper emblems for foldiers to wear on bracelets, 158.
Braidwood, Mr. account of his academy at Edinburgh for the deaf and
dumb, x. 520.

Brazil, account of the Indians on that coast, iv. 423.

Brevity, on what occafions it is necessary and useful in an author, v. 5. Bridges, confiderations on the ftrength of arches for bridges, x. 290. Brifol and London, delineated by Savage, iii. 356.

Britain, Great. See Great-Britain.

Brodeus, Græcorum epigrammatum verfiones metricæ, xi. 407. Brogues, thofe made ufe of in the ifles of Sky, defcribed, x. 373. Broom, Betty, hiftory of her life, viii. 100. Educated in a charity. fchool, 100. Objected to as a fervant, becaufe fhe could read and work, 101. Goes to London, and an account of the various places fhe engaged in there, 102. 113. Five hundred pounds left her by her mistress, with which the refolves to retire into the country, and teach poor girls to read and write, 116.

Broome, William. born in Cheshire, iii. 414. Educated upon the foundation at Eton, and fent to St. John's College, 414. In conjunction with Ozell and Oldifworth, tranflates the Iliad, 415. Ahifts Pope in the notes to the Iliad, 415. Some pieces of his poetry in Pope's Mifcellanies, 415. Affifts Pope in the tranflation of the Odyffey, 415. Affiited Pope in the notes to the Iliad, iv. 26. And in the tranflation of the Odyffey, 48. Wrote all the notes to the Odyffey, 49. Wrote the notes to Pope's Odyffey, 129. Browne, Edward, M. D. his life, iv. 603. Son of Sir T. Browne, born at Norwich, 1642, 603. Educated at Norwich, first entered at Cambridge, and removed to Oxford, 603. Travelled through

Germany,

Germany, Auftria, Hungary, and Theffaly, 1668 and 1669, 603.
Published his Travels, 603. Phyfician to Charles II. and Bartho
lomew Hofpital, 603. Allifts in the translation of Plutarch's Lives,
603. Prefident of the College of Phyficians, and died 1708, 604.
Brown, Thomas, anfwers Dryden's Hind and Panther, ii. 352. Some
account of him, 353.
Browne, Sir Thomas, his life, iv. 581. Defcended from a family in
Chefhire, and born at London, 1605, 581. Educated at Winchester,
581. Deprived of part of his fortune by a guardian, 582. Entered
Gentleman Commoner at Oxford, 1623, 582. Practifed Phyfick in
Oxfordshire, 582. Goes to Ireland with his father-in-law, 582.
Travels through France and Italy, 582. Created M. D. at Leyden,
583. Returns to London about 1634, 583. Wrote Religio Me-
dici, 1635, 583. Hillory of that publication, 584- Tranflated
into Latin, Italian, German, Dutch, and French, 583. Settled at
Norwich, 136, 589. Incorporated M. D. at Oxford, 1637, 89.
Married Mrs. Micham, 1641, 589. Printed his Enquiry into Vul
gar Errors, 1646, 59. Writes his Hydriotaphia, 1658, 592.
His Account of the Belief of the Antients of a Future State, 593.
His Treatife on the Garden of Cyrus, 594. His partiality to
quincunx figures, 594. Two collections of his posthumous works,
one published by Dr. Tenifon, the other, 1722, 596. Account of
thefe collections, 596. Ch fen Honorary Fellow of the College of
Phyficians, 166, 601. Knighted by Charles II. 1671, 601. Died
at Norwich, 1682, 601. His epitaph, 6.2. His character by Mr.
Whitefoot, 604. Remarks on his ftyle of writing, 611. Some ex-
preffions in his works tending to deiẩm and atheism, accounted for,

612.

Browry (the fairy), account of, x. 448.

Brun, Le, faying of P.ior to the king of France on the paintings of,

ii. 132.

Baccarelli, the propriety of his attack of Fort Egmont confidered,

x. 73.

Buckingham, Edmund, Duke of, Pope's epitaph on him, with the Vi-
fitor's criticifms, iv. 157.

Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, characterizes Dryden under the
character of Bayes, in the Rehcarfal, ii. 342.
His life, iii. 119.
Son of Edmund Earl of Mulgrave, was born 1649, 119. Not fa-
tisfied with his tutor, undertakes his own education at twelve years
of age, 119. Served under Prince Rupert, in the war against the
Dutch, 119. Commanded an independent troop of horse, 120.
Had a quarrel with the Earl of Rochetter, 120. Served at fea in the
Dutch war, 1672, 120. Obtains a Garter, and made Gentleman
of the Bed-chamber, 121. Entered into the French fervice, 121.
Lieutenant of Yorkshire, and Governor of Hull, 121. Sent with
2000 men to the relief of Tangier, 121. Accepts places under
King James, whom he attends to maf, 121. Acquiefces in the Re-
volution, 123. Made Marquis of Normanby, 1694, 124. Re-
ceived into the Cabinet Council, with a penfion of 3,000 124.
Said to have courted Queen Anne, when young, 124. Made Lord
Privy Seal, 124. Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of York-

fhire,

fhire, 124. Made Duke of Normanby, and after of Buckingham. fhire, 124. Joined the Tories, 124. Offered the Chancellorship, 124. Lord Chamberlain of the Houthold, 124. After the Queen's death, oppofed the Court, 124. Died Feb. 24, 1720-21, 125. His character, 125 Story of a workman extorting his bill on the leads of Buckingham-house, 125. His character as a writer, 126. Defcribed in the affembly of bards, xi. 176.

Bucolus, his account of Mrs. Bufy's economical character and conduct, vi. 426.

Budgel, Euftace, writes the Epilogue to Philips's tranflation of Racine's Andromache, iv. 191.

Buller of Buchan, account of the extraordinary cavity there, x. 334Burke, Edmund, review of his Philofophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, x. 199.

Burman, Peter, his life, iv. 480. Born at Utrecht, 1668, 480. Educated at Utrecht, and admitted into the University in his thirteenth year, 481. His quick acquirement of learning, 481, Becomes a pupil under Grævius, 482. Studied Philofophy at Leyden, 483. Doctor of Laws, 1688, 484. Travelled into Switzerland and Germany, 484. Collector of the Tenths, 1691, 484. Vifits Paris, 1714, where he is introduced to Montfaucon, 485. Profeffor of History, Eloquence, and the Greek Language, at Leyden, 1715, 487. Chief Librarian at Leyden, 488. Died March 31, 1741, 489. His character, 489. Catalogue of fome of his works, 491. Burnet, Gilbert, Obfervations on Dryden's Answer to his Remarks on Varillas, . 351.

Business, the neglect of it foolish and pernicious, vii. 240. The folly of a man's attempting to do too much bufinefs himself, by which all is neglected: exemplified in the hiftory of Jack Whistler, viii. 72. Very feldom reckoned a pleasure, 405.

Bufle, Lady, her character expreffive of the active scenes of a country life, v. 325,

Bufy, Mrs. the particularities of her character, vi. 426.

Butler, Samuel, affifted Buckingham in writing the Rehearsal, ii. 342. His life, 177. The fon of a farmer at Strenfham, Worcestershire, born 1612, 177. Not known whether he was of either Univerity, 178. Clerk to a Justice of the Peace in Worcestershire, 179. Amufed himself in Mufick and Painting, 179. Taken into the family of the Countess of Kent, 179. Afterwards into the family of Sir S. Luke, 174. Secretary to the Earl of Carbury, and Steward of Ludlow Castle, 180. Married Mrs. Herbert, 180. Part I. of Hudibras published, 1663. Part II. 1664, 180. Supposed to have been Secretary to the Duke of Buckingham, when Chancellor of Cambridge, 181. Story of his being to be introduced to the Duke of Bucks, by Mr. Wycherly, 181. Part III. of Hudibras published, 1678, 182, Died 1680, and interred in the church-yard of Coyent-Garden, 182. Reported to have received 100 7. a year of the Treafury, 182. Copy of his monument in Weftminster-Abbey, 183. Three vols. of his Posthumous Works published, 183. Two vols. more, lately by Mr. Thyer, of Mancheßler, 183. He ridiculed the establishment

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