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»nt! fiiipTrt;,! Ins part of theconverf.itii.ii wiili c1iearfuliu.f<. 

 AtninVh-Tttirfd to rrll, but found the labour of j;<>i"g «p 

 Itiirj a)in )!l too mucli for him ; and obftrvid, " Wliat an 

 idle piece of ccreoiony this buttonin;; and unbuttoning is 

 to m- n-jw." After fictirij;; fotne mlnutts in a chair to re- 

 cruit himfelf, he went to bed, and in a fe>w minutes quietly- 

 expired. Hi3 fortune, which is faid to have exceeded 

 j!0,ood1., was Ifft between his two ncpliews, a few legacies 

 to friends a:iddillaiit relations excepted. 



A< llr. B. W.1S of a quiet and peaceable drfpofition, he 

 wai not likelv to enter into any feri;)'.is broil ; he was, how- 

 ever, at one time, obliged to accept a challeni^o. The occa- 

 lion was this : the ht- d>Aor, afteru-ards Sir John Elliot, 

 in the courfe of his attendance on a p.nient with Dr. B., 

 had made ufe of means to obtain the favour of the family 

 of the patient, which were not cunipatible with the cha- 

 ratter of a f^entlemin. Of this Dr. B. talked openly, 

 and the e>cp'.cluons he ufcd on the occafion were reported 

 to Dr. Elliot, with an intiination, that if he did nol infid 

 on an apology from hii antagonhl, no one would, hereafter, 

 meet or alTociate with him. A duel was the rcfult, v.hich, 

 however, terminated without the effulion of blood, the 

 fecondj having taken care to place the combatants at fuch 

 a dilhnce, that their balls, if they fhould hit, would do no 

 mifchief. 



Befides the Tvorks mentioned before, Dr. B. was author 

 of " Oratio Harveiana," publilhed 17C0, 4to. ; " An Ac- 

 count of a poifonous Root lately found mixed with Gen- 

 tian," Phil. Tranf. No. 486. ; " Experiments on cutting 

 the Tendons, in various Animals," ibid. vol. 43. ; " Cafe 

 of a Lady labouring under Diabetes," Med. Obf. vol. 3. ; 

 •' Experiments relative to the Analyfis of Seltzer Water," 

 ibid. vol. 4. ; " Cafe of an Encyftcd Tumour in the Orbit 

 of the Eye," ibid. ; arid " A Differtation on the Mufic of 

 the Ancients," fuppofed to be written in the early part of 

 Jiis life. 



BROD, a fortified town of Sclavonia, feated on the 

 Save, and famous for a viftory gained over the French in 

 16S8. N. lat.45°2o'. E.long. i8='36'. _ 



Brod, Bomifch, a town of iiohemia, in the circle of 

 Kaurzim ; reduced to alhes in 1637, and fmce rebuilt; 7 

 miles N.W. of Kaurzim. 



Brod, Tiutfch, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Czafla*, on the Sazava, taken by the allies in 1 741 ; 20 

 miles S.S.E. of CzaOau. 



Brod, Ungartjh, a town of Moravia, in the circle of 

 Hradifch ; 8 miles S.E. of Hradifch. 



BRODEAU, John, (Lat. Brodeus), in Biography, a 

 learned critic, was born at Tours about the beginning of 

 the 1 6th century, and having ftudied law at Bourges under 

 Alciatus, devoted himfclf to the belles lettres. He travel- 

 led into Italy, and formed connexions Avjth Sadolet, 

 Bembo, Manutius, and othA- literary charaoers. After his 

 return to France, he diftinguiflicd himfelf by feveral works 

 of criticifm, the principal of which is a coUeftion of obfer- 

 vations, correftions, explanations, &c. of ancient authors, 

 entitled " Mifcellanea." The firft fix books of this work 

 were publifhed in the fecond volume of Gruter's " Lam- 

 pas, feu Fax Artiu.n," in 1604 ; and the four latter books in 

 the fourth volume of the fame coUeftion. In his notes on 

 Euripides, he has been charged with plagiarifm. He was 

 alfo verfed in mathematics, and the oriental languages, as 

 well as claffical literature. He died at Tours, where he 

 was canon of St. Martin, in 1563. Gen. Dift. 



BRODENFELD, in Geography, a town of Germany, 

 in the circle of Upper Saxony, and territory of Vogtland ; 

 3 miles E. of Oilfnitz. •' 



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BRODER.'^, a fortified town of Hindoftan, in thtcountry 

 of Gjzerat, fituate on the fmall river Dader, in the north- 

 call part of the traft lying between the rivers Tapty and 

 Mvhie, through which the great road leads from Sural to 

 Ougein. This is a modern town in comparifon with feveral 

 others, having been built by the fon of the WX king of 

 Guzerat, near the fcite of an ancient town, formerly called 

 Radipore, but now Old Biodera, which is entirely gone ta 

 decay. It Hands in a very fertile, though fandy, country, 

 has good walls and toivtrs, and is full of artificers, who ma- 

 nnfatlure the finell Ihiffs of Guzerat, bafts, nicanees, cannu- 

 quiiis, ehtlocs. Sec. : the cottons of Brodera are finer than 

 thofe of Baioath, but narrnwer and fhovter. Indigo is alfo 

 an article of trade in this place, and the vicinity fupplies 

 gum-lac. The Dutch faftory eftablifhed at Brodera ia 

 1620, was abandoned before the year 1670. N. lat. 22° IJ' 

 30''. E. loii.a;. 73" 1 1'. 



BRODERIJES, Fr. a term in Mufic for embroidering or 

 gracing a melody. It is equivalent likewife with duuHcs, 

 variations, JlcurlU, an old term for fiourifhing an air. All 

 thcfe terms are ufed for the notes of mufic which the per- 

 former adds to his part in the execution, to vary a melody 

 often repeated, to embellifh pafiages too plain and fimple, 

 or to (hine by the aftivity of throat or finger. Nothing mani- 

 fells the good or bad taile of a muGcian, fays Rouffeau, more 

 than the choice and apphcation of thefe ornaments. French 

 vocal performers were very fparing of their broderies or 

 graces in the middle of the laft century ; for if we except 

 the celebrated Jeliote and mademoifelle Fel, no French finger 

 durft venture to make a fingle change in his part on the llage. 

 French m-^lody had been for fome years growing more flowi 

 and lamentable, that it was capable of no improvement by 

 graces. The Italians are unable to execute a melody 

 quite plain ; they give full fcope to their memory or fancy, 

 and try who can make the greateft number of changes : anu 

 emulation often abfurd, and carried to an ofFenfive excels. 

 However, the accents of their melody are fo ftrongly marked, 

 that there is little fear of the air being fo difguifed, as not 

 to be recognizable through all the performers' redun- 

 dances. 



With regard to inftruments, a folo player may do what 

 he pleafes ; but a performer in a full piece, who dares em- 

 broider his part, was never fuffered in a good orcheftra. 



BRODETZ, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in the 

 circle of Boltflaw ; e^ miles S. of Jung Buntzlaw. 



BRODIATORES, in the Middle Age, a kind of libra- 

 rl'i, or copiils, who did not write the words and letters plain, 

 but varioufiy flourifhed and decorated, after the manner of 

 embroidery. Du-Cangc Glofl". Lat. torn. i. 



BRODNITZ, in Geography, a town of Prufiia, in the 

 bifhopric of Culm : 30 miles E. of Culm. 



BRODOW, a town of Germany, in the circle of Lower 

 Saxony, and duchy of Holftein, 4'i miles N.E. of New- 

 ftatt. 



BRODY, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Lem- 

 berg ; 30 miles S. of Lucko. 



BRODZIEC, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 

 Mintk; 48 miles E. of Minfk. 



BROECK, Crispin Vanden, in ^/o^ra/^jr, a painter and 

 engraver, was a native of Antwerp, and flourifhed about the 

 year 1590. As a painter, he had fome reputation in the hif- 

 torical line ; but the prints engraved from his defigns, which 

 are numerous, evince him to have been a man of genius and 

 great fertility of invention. Among the engravings that are 

 attributed to him, is the " Circumcifion of Chrift," in chiaro- 

 fcuro ; the outline of which is etched in a bold free manner on 

 copper ; and the block of wood, which produces the lighter 



tints, 



