- sea, and buried in Henry the seventh's chapel, 307.
after the restoration, his body taken up, and thrown into a pit in St. Margaret's church-yard, 308.
his military character, by lord Clarendon, ibid.
his moral character, by the author of Lives English and Foreign, ibid.
got his brother discharged from the command of a ship for not having done his duty, 309.
Blank verse, characterized, viii. 473.
Blount, Martha, some account of her acquaintance with Pope, viii. 304.
Bluster, Squire, some account of his infamous character, iii. 175.
Body natural and body politick, the parallel between, iv. 250.
Boerhaave, Herman, M.D. his life, vi. 270.
born at Voorhout, near Leyden, 1668, ibid.
his character of his father, ibid.
designed for the ministry, 271.
a stubborn ulcer on his thigh the cause of his turning his thoughts to medicine, ibid.
his progress in learning at Leyden, 272.
loses his father in 1682, ibid.
his diligence at the university, ibid.
continues in the study of divinity, 273.
his fortune being exhausted by his education, he reads lectures in mathematicks, 274.
begins to study physick, ibid.
engages in the practice of chymistry, 276.
makes researches in botanical knowledge, ibid.
takes the M.D. degree at Hardewich, 1693, ibid.
designs to obtain a license to preach, but finds difficulties, from being suspected of atheism, ibid.
cause of that suspicion, 277.
begins the practice of physick, 278.
invited to settle at the Hague, but refuses it, 279.
elected professor of physick, 1701, ibid.
recommends the study of Hippocrates, and reads lectures as well in chymistry as physick, ibid.
invited to the professorship of physick at Groningen, which he refuses, 280.
recommends mathematicks in the science of physick, ibid.
advanced to the highest degrees of the university, 1714, 281.
makes an oration, recommending the attaining to certainty in natural philosophy, ibid.
this oration opposed by the professor of Franeker, who at length submits to him, ibid.
elected member of the academy of sciences at Paris, 1728, 282.
professor of chymistry at Leyden, 1718, ibid.
violently afflicted with the gout, 1722, 283.
seized with a violent fever, 1727, 284.
resigns his professorships of botany and chymistry, 1726, ibid.
visited by patients from all parts of Europe, 285.
his readiness at discovering disorders, ibid.
his own account of his last illness, 286.
his opinion of the soul, 287.
died 1738, ibid.
his person described, 288.
his character, ibid.
catalogue of his works, 292.
his serious reflection on the execution of criminals, iii. 40.
Boerhaave, James, character of him, by his son Herman Boerhaave, vi. 270.
Boethius, Hector, (first president of the king's college, Aberdeen,) account of him, ix. 11.
his revenue, as president, forty Scottish marks, about two pounds four shillings and sixpence, 12.
Boileau, his opinion of epick poetry, vi. 364.
his sentiments on the power of diction, iii. 291.
Bolingbroke, lord, supposed to have declared his opinions to Mr. Hooke, though he concealed them from Pope, viii. 290.
Pope leaves his manuscript papers to him, 306.
burns one thousand five hundred copies of the Patriot King, printed by Pope without his knowledge, ibid.
employs Mallet to traduce the memory of Pope, and Warburton defends it. ibid.
leaves his works to Mallet, 467.
Bombasine, Mrs. her character, ii. 56.
Books, the study of them not sufficient to constitute literary eminence, iii. 233.
observations on the multiplication of, iv. 401.
compilations in general useless, ibid.
multiplication of books distracts choice, and disappoints inquiry, 426.
of travels, most generally read of any, and in general disappoint their readers, 433.
how they tend to the civilization of mankind, 141.
the various motives to reading, 142.
Booksellers, their treatment of authors complained of, iv. 314.
Boscovich, his interview with Dr. Johnson, i. xlii.
Bower, Archibald, patronized by lord Lyttelton, viii. 491.
Boyle, Robert, philosophy much improved by his discoveries, iii. 4.
his opinion of the best expedients for promoting manufactures, 432.
Bracelet, observations on the reappearance of it, iv. 264.
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