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at'Maccrata in 1617, and under Carlo Maratti, whofe dif- 

 ciple he was, he ilmiied defif^ii and colouring for fome years, 

 and became fo diftinguiflied as a painter, that he excited 

 the jealoufy and envy even of liis mailer. His early works, 

 after he quitted tlie fchool of Maratti, were in the llyle and 

 talle of Guido ; a circumllance, which of itfelf, higldy re- 

 commends them. He died in i68z. Pilkington. 



BERRHCEA, in jinciait Geography. See Bi roea. 



Berrhof.a, a town of Thrace, between Nicopohs of 

 Moclia, and Phihppopohs of Thrace. Auimianus Marcelhnus 

 fpeaks of it as a large city. 



BERRIMAN, William, in Biography, a learned Eii- 

 glifli divine, was born in I,ondon in 1688, and from Mer- 

 chant Taylors' fchool was removed, at the age of 18, to 

 Oriel college, Oxford, where he profecuted his (Indies with 

 j^reat afliduity and fuccefs. With a view to the critical 

 examination of the fcripture^, he combined witli flcill, in the 

 Greek tongue, the ftudy of the Hebrew, together with the 

 Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic ; and in explaining the facred 

 writings, he had recourfe to the rules of grammar, criticifm, 

 logic, and the analogy of faith. Tlic articles of doftriiie 

 and difcipline, whicli he deduced from the fcriptures, he 

 traced through the primitive church, and confirmed by the 

 evidence of the fathers, and the decifions of the more gene- 

 rally received councils. After he left the univeri'ity, where 

 he was graduated M. A. in 171 1, he ierved two churches 

 in I^ondon. His firft appearance in print, was on occafion 

 of the Trinitarian controverl'y, in 17 19, when he publiflied 

 •' A feafonable Review of Mr. Whiilon's Account of Pri- 

 mitive Doxologies," which was followed in the fame year 

 by " A fecond Review." Thefe performances recommended 

 him to the patronage of Dr. Robinfon, biihop of London, 

 who, befides conferring upon him a living in the city, and 

 appointing him his chaplain, left him at his death the fifth 

 part of his large and valuable library. In 1 722, he accu- 

 mulated, at Oxford, the degrees of bachelor and dotlor in 

 divinity. In the years 1723 and 1724, he was appointed 

 to preach lady Moyer's lecture in defence of the commonly 

 received doftrine of the Trinity, and his eight fermons, 

 delivered on this occafion, were publifhed, in 1725, under 

 the title of " An Hiftorical Account of the Trinitarian 

 Controverfy." In confequence of this fervice, he was elefted, 

 in 1727, a fellow of Eton college. His " Hillorical Ac- 

 count" contained fome obl'ervations relating to miracles, and 

 drew upon him the animadverlions of Dr. Conyers Middle- 

 ton ; in anfwer to which, he puljliflicd, in 173 i, " A De- 

 fence of fome paflages 111 the Hiftorical Account." By his 

 *' Brief Remarks on Mr.Chandler's Introduftion to the Hif- 

 tory of the Inquifition," printed in 1733, and followed by 

 a " Review of the Remarks," he incuired the charge of 

 favouring the principles of intolerance, and in this contro- 

 verfy he incurred the fevere llriclures of that acute and 

 learned nonconfonnift. His next publication was his courfe 

 of fermons at Boyle's lefturc, preached in the years 1730, 

 1 731, and 1732, and given to the world in 2 vols. 8vo. in 

 1733. In this work he Hates the evidence of our religion 

 from the O. T. ; vindicates the Chrillian interpretation of 

 the ancient prophecies ; and points out the hiftorical chain 

 and conucttion of thelc prophecies. In the preface, he af- 

 ferts the authority ot Mofes, as an infpired hiftorian and law- 

 giver. Befides the writing); already ciuimerated. Dr. Beni- 

 ntian printed a number of occafional fermons. He departed 

 this life at his houfe in I^ondon, on the 5th of February 

 '749 — jOj i" tli*^ "^id year of his age, and in his funeral 

 fermon, preached by Mr. Ridley, a great charafter is given 

 of him, both as a minillcr of his parilh, and as a private 

 ■Chriiliun. His piety was unaffecled and fincere ; and his 



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benevolence extenfive. In the year of his dcceafe, two 

 volumes of his fermons were publilhcd in »vo., under the 

 title of " Chriftian Doftrines and Duties explained and re- 

 commended ;" and in 176?, 19 fermons appeared in one 

 volume, under the fame title. " With refpcd to Dr. Ber- 

 riman's praftical difcourfes, it is allowed that they are 

 grave, weighty, and ufeful, and well fitted to promote 

 pious and virtuous dilpofitions ; but when he treats on the 

 power, lights, and dignity of the priefthood, or on doclrines 

 which have been greatly difputed, difterent opinions will be 

 formed, according to the diffLirnt fentiments of his readers." 

 Biog. Brit. 



BERRY, Bacca, a grain, fruit, or feed, produced by 

 fevcral herbs, trees, and (hrubs, thence called " bacciferous," 

 for the confervation and reproduclion of their kind. Some 

 define berries as a fruit fmaller than apples, growing in 

 bunches, but not fo thick or clofe as grapes. Others, a loft, 

 flefhy, fucculcnt fruit, having Hones or kernels within them. 

 Such are the fruits of laurels, olives, currants, and the like. 

 'l"he berry, or bacca, in a fti ift fenfe, denotes a pulpy pericar- 

 dium without valves, in which the feeds arc naked. Sec 

 Bacca. 



Berries are of various fizes, forms, properties, and ufes, 

 according to the plants whereon they grow. — Some are 

 ufed in medicine, as juniper-berries, buckthorn-berries, &c. 

 — Others in dying, as French or yellow berries, Sec. The 

 yellow berry-wadr may be thus prepared : take a pound of 

 the French berries, and put them to a gallon of water, with 

 half an ounce of alum ; boil them an liour in a pewter veffel, 

 and filter off the fluid ; put them again into the boiler, and eva- 

 porate the fluid till the colour appear of the required llrength, 



V)\Lv.K\ -Bearing AlJir. See RhamnX/S Frangula. 



Berry, yhignon. See Avignon. 



Berrv, ylle. See Ale. 



Berry, in Geography, a province of France, before th« 

 revolution, now comprehended under the departments of 

 Indre and Cher, of which Bourges was the capital ; bound- 

 ed on the north by Orleannois, on the fouth by Bonrbonnois 

 and Marche, on the eaft: by Nivernois, and on the weft by 

 Poitoii. Berry was divided into the Upper and the Lower, 

 and extended about 90 miles from north to iouth, and 73 

 from eafl; to well ; it is watered by feveral rivers, as the 

 Loire, Creufe, Cher, Indre, &c. enjoys a temperate air ; is 

 fertile in corn, fruit, wine, hemp, flax, and pafturage ; 

 and contains leveral ftone quarries, and fome mines of filver, 

 iron, and ochre. Befides the trade in wine, carried on at 

 Bourges, the principal commerce of this province confills in 

 fat cattle fmt to Paris, and the great number of Iheep, 

 which produce fine wool, manufactured in this and other 

 parts of the kingdom. In Berry there are two kinds of 

 manufaftures ; one for cloths and ferges, and the other for 

 knit and wove ilockings. 



Berry Haven, lies about a mile fouth of the entrance 

 into Donnegal haven, on the weft coaft of Ireland, and 5 

 miles N.N.E. from the haven of Ballyftiannon. 



Berry Head, a noted promontory on the foutk coaft of 

 Devon, being the fouth-weft limit of Torbay, and running 

 far out fouth into the lea. Off this head, out of the 

 way of the entrance into the bay, is a rock, called Berry- 

 rock. 



Berry's IJIands, a fmall clufttr of iflands on the north- 

 well point of the great Bahama bank, in the channel of 

 Providence. N. lat. 25° 30'. W. long. 75^ 40'. 



BERSABA, in Aticitnt Geography. See Beer-Sheba. 



BERSABORA, a large, ftrong, and populous town of 

 Pcrl»a. 



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