- a mark of distinction of the character or temper of the wearer, 265.
proper emblems for soldiers to wear on bracelets, 266.
Braidwood, Mr. account of his academy at Edinburgh for the deaf and dumb, ix. 160.
Brevity, on what occasions it is necessary and useful in an author, ii. 4.
Bridges, considerations on the strength of arches for bridges, v. 303.
Bristol and London, delineated by Savage, viii. 183.
Britæin, Great. See Great Britain.
Brodæus, Græcorum epigrammatum versiones metricæ, i. 175.
Brogues, those made use of in the isles of Sky, described, ix. 46.
Brooke, Mr. See Stage.
Broom, Betty, history of her life, iv. 224.
educated in a charity school, ibid.
objected to as a servant because she could read and work, 225.
goes to London, and an account of the various places she engaged in there, 113, 226, 233.
five hundred pounds left her by her mistress, with which she resolves to retire into the country, and teach poor girls to read and write, 236.
Broome, William, born in Chesire, viii. 229.
educated upon the foundation at Eton, and sent to St. John's college, 229.
in conjunction with Ozell and Oldisworth, translates the Iliad, ibid.
assists Pope in the notes to the Iliad, ibid.
some pieces of his poetry in Pope's miscellanies, ibid.
assists Pope in the translation of the Odyssey, ibid.
wrote all the notes to the Odyssey, 220.
Brown, Thomas, answers Dryden's Hind and Panther, vii. 281.
some account of him, ibid.
Browne, Edward, M.D. his life, vi. 492.
son of sir T. Browne, born at Norwich, 1642, ibid.
educated at Norwich, first entered at Cambridge, and removed to Oxford, ibid.
travelled through Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Thessaly, 1668 and 1669, 493.
published his travels, ibid.
physician to Charles the second and Bartholomew hospital, ibid.
assists in the translation of Plutarch's lives, ibid.
president of the college of physicians, and died 1708, ibid.
Browne, sir Thomas, his life, vi. 475.
descended from a family in Cheshire, and born at London, 1604, ibid.
educated at Winchester, ibid.
deprived of part of his fortune by a guardian, ibid.
entered gentleman commoner at Oxford, 1623, 476.
practised physick in Oxfordshire, ibid.
goes to Ireland with his father-in-law, ibid.
travels through France and Italy, ibid.
created M.D. at Leyden, ibid.
returns to London about 1634, 488.
wrote Religio Medici 1635, ibid.
history of that publication, 278.
settled at Norwich, 1636, 481.
incorporated M.D. at Oxford, 1637, ibid.
married Mrs. Miloham, 1641, ibid.
printed his Inquiry into Vulgar Errours, 1646, 482.
writes his Hydriotaphia, 1658, 484.
his account of the belief of the ancients of a future state, ibid.
his treatise on the garden of Cyrus, 485.
two collections of his posthumous works, one published by Dr. Tenison, the other, 1722, 487.
chosen honorary fellow of the college of physicians, 1665, 491.
knighted by Charles the second, 1671. ibid.
died at Norwich, 1682, ibid.
his character by Mr. Whitefoot, 494.
remarks on his style of writing, 499.
some expressions in his works tending to deism and atheism accounted for, 500.
Browny, (the fairy,) account of, ix. 104.
Bruce, the traveller, remarks on father Lobo's voyage, i. x.
Brumoy's Greek theatre, general conclusion to, v. 414.
Brun, Le, saying of Prior to the king of France on the paintings of, viii. 3.
Buccarelli, the propriety of his attack of fort Egmont considered, vi. 193.
Buckingham, Edmund, duke of, Pope's epitaph on him, viii. 361.
Buckinghamshire, John Sheffield, duke of, characterizes Dryden under the character of Bayes, in the Rehearsal, vii. 272.
his life, 479.
son of Edmund earl of Mulgrave, was born 1649, 479.
not satisfied with his tutor, undertakes his own education at twelve years of age, ibid.
served under prince Rupert, in the war against the Dutch, ibid.
commanded an independent troop of horse, ibid.
had a quarrel with the earl of Rochester, ibid.
served at sea in the Dutch war, 1672, ibid.
obtains a garter, and made gentleman of the bedchamber, 480.
entered into the French service, ibid.
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