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elocution. Having vTited the monks of mount Athos, he kindly treated, and iinjuftly charged with Sncinianlfm. At 

 enijHgcd with the:n in a co-itrovcriy concerning tlic place length lie fell into the hypochondriac maladies incident to 

 of tile fiV.;] and the efl'ence of God. Thefe fanatical afcc- literary men, and died in 1648. Barlsus was a man of eru- 

 tics, in their mer.tal Rbilra^tions, pretended to fee the light dition as well as genius ; and he principally diltinguifhed 

 of mount Th^ibor, which had been niaiiifeiled to the dil'ci- himfelf by his Latin poetry, in which hv has been thought 

 pies in the transfiguration of Chrift, on the region of the to rival the ancients, and at lead to be upon a par with 

 navel, conceived by them to be the feat of the foul ; and Claudiau. Kis " Poems," printed at Leyden in 1628 and 

 this light was adortd by them as the pure and perfcft ef- 1C31, contain three books of heroic pieces, two of elegies, 

 fence of God himftlf. Nor were thcfe fimple folitaries in- and one of mifccUariies, coiifilling of iambics, epigrams, &c. 

 quifitive, how the divine effence could be a inata-'ial fub- His Latin harangues, on various fubjcds, were admired, 

 ftance, or how an immalerial fubilar.ce could be perceived by Every great event that occurred called forth his exertions ; 

 the eyes of the body. Barlaam ridiculed thtfe monks, and and he celebrated moll of the great-ll men of his age. 

 accufed them of hercfy and blafphcmy. His attack in- His " Relation of the Tranfafl ions in Brafil under the go. 

 dnccd the more learned of the monks to renounce or diflem- vernm.ent of count Maurice" was publilhed in 1647 ; and 

 ble the fimple devotion of their brethren ; and Gregory Pa- his " Letters" were collected after his death, and prnitcd in 

 lamas, who took a lead in this difpute on the part of the two volumes. He alfo publilhed fevtralcontroveiiial pieces 

 mouko, introduced a fcholallic dilHnfiion between the ef- againll the advcrfaries of Armiiiius. Gen. Dift. 

 fence and operation of God. This d;iUnction, however, Barlz-eus, Lanxlcrt, the brother of the preceding, was 

 did not efcape the reproach of polytheifm ; and Barlaam born at Bommel in Guelderland in 1 595, and became pro- 

 charged the adherents of Palaiaas with holding two eternal fefi'or of Greek in the univerfity of Leyden. His inaugural 

 fubftances, a vifiblc and an invifibic God. The difpute was oration " De Grjecarum Literarnm Prxilantia ac Utilitate" 



violent, and Barlaam's life was in danger. However he fe 

 cured hi.Ttfelf by a timely retreat ; and Andronicus, who, 

 with a view of obtainirg- the aid of the welltrn princes 

 againft the Turks, wiflicd to reconcile the Greek ciiurch 

 ■with the fee of Rome, fent Barlaam in 1339 to condudl 



was pronounced in 1641. In 1652, he pubiifhcd the " Ti- 

 mon of Lucian," with notes ; and after his death, which 

 happened in 1655, his " Commentary upon the Theogony 

 of Hefiod" was printed in 1658. Gen. Did. 



BARLAIMONT, or Barlemont, in Gengrnphy, a town 



this negotiation at the coart of pope Benedict XH. at of the Netherlands, in the county of Hainaut ; 4 leagues 



Avignon. Here he formed an intimate connedlion with fouth-eaft of Le Quefnoy. 



Petrarch, whom he inftructed in the Greek language ; and BARLAND, Adrian, in B'wgraphy, a writer of the 



Barlaam is faid to have been the firft who revived, beyond fixteenth century, was born about the year 1488 at Barland, 



the Alps, the memory, or at leall the writings of Homer, a village of Zealand, whence he took his name. Having 



Being compelled, however, to relinquifh a fruitlefs embafly, ftudied at Ghent and Louvain, he became firll a private 



he returned to Conftantinoplt, and his difpute. with the 

 monks of Athos was renewed ; and the cenfure of a coun- 

 cil, held in 1341, obhged him to quit the eaft. After a fe- 

 paration of three years, he renewed his acquaintance with 

 Petrarch in the court of Naples ; and by his recommenda- 



teaeher at the latter place, and afterwards profcfTor of elo- 

 quence in the univerfity ; in which ftation he continued till 

 h'.s death in 1642. His works, which were all written in La- 

 tin, were numerous. Some of the principal are " Notes on 

 Terence, Virgil, Menander, and Pliny the younger ;" " An 



tion Barlaam was finally fettled in a fmall bifhnpric of his Abridgment of Uiiiverfal Hillory, from the birth of Chrift. 

 native Calabria at Hieracium, now Gerace, where he died to 1532 ;" " On the Doges of Venice ;" " Chronicle of 

 about the year 1348. He defervedly incurred the charge the Dukes of Brabant ;" " Hillory of the Counts of Hol- 



of inconRaucy in religion ; becaufe, when he was a Greek 

 monk, he wrote againft the Latin communion, which he 

 vindicated after having been made a Latin bifliop. Having 

 adopted the fentimeiits and precepts of the ftoics with re- 

 fpc6l to the obligations of morality and the duties of life, 

 he digeftcd them into a work intitlcd " Ethica ex Stoicis." 



land ;" " Life of Charles, Duke of Burgundy ;" " Cata- 

 logue of the chief Towns of Lower Germany ;" " De lite- 

 ratio Urbis Romae Principibus." Several of his hiftorical works 

 were publifhed together at Cologne, in 1603, 8vo. Mo- 

 reri. 



BARLENGA, in Geography, a fmall ifland, is the 



He alfo wrote a work on arithmetic, and fome letters and principal of a duller in the Atlantic ocean, about 3 leagues 



orations. Moreri. Gibbon's Hift. vol. xi. p. 388. vol. xii. from the weft ccall of Portugal, with a fortrefs. Thefe 



p. 66. 120. Modieim's Eccl. Hift. vol. iii. p. 305. 368. iflands are called " Borlings" by the Englifh feamen, and 



BARLAAMITES, in Clmrch Hi/lory, the followers of moft of them are merely rocks. N. lat. 39' 20'. W.long; 



the Calabrian monk mentioned in the preceding article. 8^41'. 



They are the fame with thofe otherwife denominated Jcln- I3ARLERL-\, in Botany, a genus of plants interme- 



dynitfs. diate between Ruellia and 'Jujl'ida, named by Plumier in 



BARLjEUS, Caspar, in Biography, an eminent Latin honour of James Barreher, a Parifian phyfieian and bota- 

 poet of the i6th century, was born at Antwerp in 1584, and nilt. Lin. g. 785. Schreb. 1051. Plum. 31. Juff. 103. 

 educated for the minilli-y at Leyden, where he afterwards fet- Gsertn. t. 54. Clafs, didynamla angiofpei mia. Nat. Ord. 

 tied in the exercile of his proftifion, and alfo as fub-principal Perfonatx — Acanthi Jufl". Gen. Char. Ca/. perianth four- 

 and profelTor of logic. But in confequence of having joined parted, permanent; two oppofite leaflets larger. Cor. mo- 

 tile Arminian party, he was deprived of all his employ- nopetalous, funnel-form, quinquefid, fubequal, the filth di- 

 nients, and devoted himfelf to the ftudy of medicine, for vifion deeper than the others. Slam, filaments four, filiform, 

 which purpofe he took a doftor's degree at Caen. In the two very Ihort, capillary ; anthers oblong, two, lower wi- 

 pradice of phyfic he made no great progrcfs ; but refum- thered. P'ljl. germ ovate ; ftyle filiform, the length of the 

 ing the office of a teacher, delivered leclures in philofophy ftamens ; iligma bifid. Per. capfule acute, flat-quadrangu- 

 and the belles lettres to young perfons at Leyden. From lar, two-celled, two-valvcd, gaping elallically at the claws; 

 hence he was invited in 16^: to be profeffor of philofophy partition contrary. Seeds two, compreffcd, roundifli. 

 in the public fchool founded at Amllerdam, where, on ac- Elf. Gen. Char. Cal. four-parted. Stam. two far lefa 

 count of his attachment to Arminian principles, he was the than the others. Capf. quadrangular, bilocular : bivalvular, 

 cbjucl of jealoufy to the orthodox, by whom he was un- elallic without ihe claw$. Sadt two. 



Species, 



