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174 BOYLE BOZMAN pressing upon that body the duty of promoting Christianity in the East, and in 1677 he caused the Gospels and the Acts to be translated into Malay at his cost by Dr. Thomas Hyde, and gave a large reward to the translator of Gro- tius's De Veritate into Arabic. A selection of his works was published in Latin at Geneva in 1677, though without his consent or knowledge. In 1680 he was elected president of the royal society, but declined from a conscientious scru- ple. He gave pecuniary aid to Burnet while the latter was compiling his "History of the Reformation." The revolution cut off his re- sources from Ireland, and his health being im- paired, he resigned his presidency of the society for the propagation of the gospel in 1689. His sister, with whom he had lived for 23 years, died in 1691, and he did not survive her a week. Boyle was tall, pale, and of delicate health. He never married. His habits were very careful, regular, and abstemious, and he j was noted for reverential piety. His philosoph- ical experiments gave him a very high repu- tation in science, and he has been called " the great Christian philosopher." His works, with an autobiography, were published in London in 1744, in 5 vols. folio. Among them may be mentioned the " Disquisition into the Final Causes of Natural Things," "Free Inquiry into the received Notions of Nature," " Dis- course of Things above Reason," " Considera- tions about the Reconcilableness of Reason and Religion," "Excellency of Theology," and "Considerations on the Style of Scripture." IV. Charles, 4th earl of Orrery, born at Chelsea in August, 1676, died in August, 1731. He was the great-grandson of the first earl of Cork, and second son of the second earl of Orrery. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. An edition of the epistles of Phalaris, the preface of which contained a disparaging allusion to Richard Bentley, having been published under his name, he became complicated in a famous controversy | between Bentley, Atterbury, and other scholars. (See BENTLEY, RICHARD.) In 1700 Mr. Boyle was elected to parliament, and in 1703 he suc- ceeded to the title of earl of Orrery. He served as major general under Marlborough in Flanders, and after the treaty of Utrecht in 1713 was sent as envoy to the states of Brabant and Flanders, and created a peer of Great Britain as Lord Boyle. Under George I. he was one of the lords of the bedchamber, but in 1722 was confined six months in the tower for high treason as an accomplice in Sayer's plot. In the latter part of his life he amused him- self with philosophical subjects. It was in his honor that George Graham, the inventor, gave the name of the orrery to the instrument exhib- iting the planetary revolutions. V. John, only son of the preceding, born Jan. 2, 1707, died Nov. 16, 1762. He succeeded his father as earl of Orrery in 1731, and in 1753, on the death of his second cousin, became fifth earl of Cork. In the house of lords he constantly opposed the administration of Sir Robert Walpole. He edited the dramatic works and state papers of the first earl of Cork, Pliny's letters, and the "Life of Robert Gary, Earl of Monmouth " (1759), and contributed to various periodical publications; but he is best known by his "Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, in a Series of Letters " (Lon- don, 1751), the publication of which brought upon him a great deal of censure. BOYLS'TON, Zabdiel, an American physician, born at Brookline, Mass., in 1680, died in Boston, March 1, 1766. In 1721, when the smallpox appeared at Boston, the attention of the faculty was called by Cotton Mather to in- oculation. Dr. Boylston, the only member of that body who did not treat the communica- tion with disdain, commenced the practice suc- cessfully in his own family, and extended it to other cases. But the opposition to the new process was so stubborn that the doctor was in danger of being mobbed, until six clergymen came forward in his support, and the practice approved itself. In 1721 and 1722 he inocu- lated 247 persons ; 39 were inoculated by others ; of the whole number only 6 died. During the same period, of 5,759 who had the disease in the natural way, 844 died. BOYNE, a river of Ireland, which rises near Carberry in the barony of that name, county of Kildare. It is formed by the confluence of several small streams, and after leaving the bog of Allen has a N. E. course to the town of Navan, where it is joined by the Blackwater. After this it flows nearly E. to Drogheda, on its left bank, and 4 m. below that city falls into the Irish channel about 10 m. S. of Dunany point, the headland of Dundalk bay, after a winding course of 60 m. from its source. It is navigable 25 m. from the sea. It has been called the " Boyne of science" on account of the many monastic institutions along its shores, and is celebrated for its scenery, and for its ancient and modern historical associations. The decisive battle between William III. and James II. was fought on the banks of the Boyne, July 12, 1690. An obelisk, erected in 1736, opposite the ford at Oldbridge, marks the spot where William was wounded. BOYSE, Boys, or Bois, John, an English the- ologian, born at Nettleshead, Suftblk, Jan. 3, 1560, died Jan. 14, 1643. He was one of the translators of the Bible appointed by James I., and not only executed his own task, which was the Apocrypha, but also that of one of the others. He was also one of the six revisers of the whole. He afterward assisted Sir Henry Savile in his edition of St. Chrysostom. An- drews, bishop of Ely, made him prebendary of his cathedral in 1615. He left many MSS. at his death, one of which, on the text of the Evangelists and the Acts, was published in 1655. Peck's Desiderata (2 vols. fol., London, 1732- '5) contains his curious autobiography. BOZMAN, John Leeds, an American historian and jurist, born at Oxford, Talbot co., Md., Aug.' 25, 1757, died there, April 23, 1820. He