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be preferred to railing and declaiming. Dryden. —Remote 
from ; not within the fpliere of: 
With equal mind, what happens’, let us War ; 
Nor joy, nor grieve, for tilings beyond our-care'. Dryden 
To iro beyond, is to deceive ; to circumvent.-—That no man 
go beyond, and defraud his brother in any matter, i IhrJJ. 
B KYS (Giles), a celebrated printer at Paris, in the 16th 
century, and the fird introducer of the confonants j and v. 
BF/ZA (Theodore), a zealous promoter and defender 
of the reformed church, was born at Vezetai, in Burgun¬ 
dy, June 24, 1519. He was brought up by his uncle Ni¬ 
cholas de Beza, counl'ellor of tlyf*parliament of Paris, till 
December 152", when he lent him to (hidy at O- leans, 
and afterwards at Bourges, where he was under the cafe 
of Melchior Wolmar, under whom he made an extraor¬ 
dinary prog refs in polite learning, and from him imbibed 
the principles of the proteliant religion. His uncle in¬ 
tended him for the bar; but the law not fuiting his dif- 
pofition, he fipent mod of his time in reading the Greek 
and Latin authors, and in compofing verfes. In 1539, he 
took his licentiate’s degree, and went to Paris. He fell 
into (hares in his youth, and wrote forne licentious things, 
Sicknefs awakened him ; and lie purfued a vow he had 
formerly made, of entering into tlie reformed church. 
According to this refolution he went to Geneva, and made 
public profedion of the prpteffant religion. In 1549, he 
accepted of the Greek profeflprfhip at Laufanne, where 
he alio read leftures in French on the New Teftatncnr to 
.the refugees of both (exes who dwelt in that city. Hav¬ 
ing fettled at Geneva, he adhered to Calvin, and became 
in a little time his colleague in the church and in the uni- 
verfity. He was fent to Nerac, to the king of Navarre, to 
confer with him upon affairs of importance. This was 
when the Guiles had got the authority under the reign of 
Francis II. to the prejudice of the princes of the blood. 
The king of Navarre having teftified his defire that Beza 
might ailitf at the conference, of Poilli, the Senate, of Ge¬ 
neva confented. The affembly hearkened attentively to 
bis harangue, till, fpeaking of the euchariff, he politively 
denied the-real prefence in the elements of the faerament. 
This occafioned a murmur: fome cried out, Blafphemavit! 
others got up to go away. Cardinal de Tournpn, who fat 
in the firff place, defined the king and queen.either to fi- 
lence Beza, or to permit him and his company to with¬ 
draw. The king did not (fir, nor any of the princes, and 
leave was given to go-on. Throughout the whole confer¬ 
ence he behaved with great ability. He often preached 
before the queen of Navarre, the prince of Condo, and in 
the f'ubm bs of Paris. After the maffacre^of Vafli, he was 
deputed to the king to complain of this violence; the civil 
war followed loon after, during which the prince of Conde 
kept him with him ;'and, while the prince was imprii'oned, 
he lived with admiral de Coligni, and did not return to 
Geneva till after tlie peace of 1563. In 157:, he. was 
chofen moderator at the national i'ynbd of Rochelle ; and 
the year after, aflified at that of Nifmes; after this, he 
aifiifled at the conferences of Montheliard, and at thole of 
Berne. The infirmities of old age beginning to fall heavy 
upon him, he could feldom fpeak in public : and at lad 
he left it off entirely in the -beginning of the year 1600. 
However, in 1597, he wrote forne animated verfes againd 
the jefuirs, on occalion of the report that was made of his 
death, and of his having before lie died made profellion of 
the Roman faith. He lived tiii the 13th of October 1605. 
He was a man of extraordinary mem, and one who did 
great fervices to the pfoteftant caufe. 'Phis, however, 
expofed him to innumerable calumnies ; but he (hewed 
both to the Catholics and Lutherans, that he underdood 
how to defend hinvfelf. He wrote a Tranflation of the 
New Tedament ; turned the Plalms of David into Latin 
Verfe ; publifhed a Treatife oit the Sacraments; fome 
Sermons on the Paffion of Jefus Chrid and bn Solomon’s 
Song; a Verfion of the Canticles, in lyric verfe; a French 
tragi-cofnedy, intitled, The Sacrifice of Abraham ; and 
many other pieces. 
Vol. Ill, No. 113. 
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BE'ZAP/A, a rivgr of Spain, which runs into the Orio> 
in the province Guiptificoa. 
BEZALIE'I., [b’Sxa of 3 in,Ssth’e fhadow, andbxGod, 
Heb. i. e. in the fhadow of God.] A famous artificer among 
the Jews, employed in making the principal ornaments of 
the tabernacle in the Wildernefs. 
BEZAN'S,yi cotton cloths which come from Bengal ; 
fome are white, and others driped with'federal colours. 
BEZANT'LER, f. the branch of a deer’s horns next 
below the brow-antler. 
BEZDEL'KINO, a town of Siberia : eighty miles north 
of Balaganfkoi. • 
BEZD ZlliZ, a town of Lithuania, in the palatmate of 
Brzefc : twenty-four miles wed of Pinik. 
BEZE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Cote d’Or, and chief place of a canton, in the didvift of 
If-fur-Tille : tliree leagues and a half wed of Gray, and 
two and half ead-fouth-ead of If-fur-Tille. 
BEZ'EL, or Bezil, f. [ Higginus derives it of bajfm, 
Fr.] the upper part of the collet of a ring, that encom- 
pafiv the done. 
BEZEN'STEIN, or Petzenstein, a townof Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of Bavaria, and territory of Nurem¬ 
berg : nineteen miles north-ead of Nuremberg and twenty- 
lix fouth-ead of Bamberg. 
BEZETZ'SK, a town of RufTia, in the government of 
Tver: forty-eight miles north-north-ead of Tver, and 260 
fouth-ead of Peterfburgh. Lat. 58. 30. N. Ion. 54. 30. E. 
Ferro. 
BEZH'LEN, a town of Trahfilvania : twelve miles 
north-north-ead of Bidriz. 
BE'ZIERS, a city of France, and principal place of a 
didrift, in the department of the Herault, fituated on the 
left bank of the Qrbe, not far from the grand canal. Be¬ 
fore the revolution it was the feat of a governor, and the 
fee of a bifhop ; the cathedral was finall but beautiful: it 
had, befides one collegiate church, fcveral religious houfes, 
two hofpitals, a college, and an academy of fciences for 
thirty-feven members. It is furrounded by a wall flanked 
with old towers, and bad ba'ftions. Ft is not populous in 
proportion to its extent, the number of inhabitants is elti- 
mated at 18,000. Eight'flutces of the grand canal are 
within fight of the town : three pods north-ead of Nar- 
bonne, and io8g fouth-fouth-ead of Paris. Lat. 43. 20. N. 
Ion. 20. 53. E. Ferro. 
BE'ZOAR, f [front pa, againd, and zakar, poifon, 
Perfic.] A done, or concretion, formerly Held in high 
efieem as an antidote againd poifon. Avenzoar is the fird 
who mentions it as a medicine, or who gives its hiftory,. 
The bezoar dones are preternatural or morbid concretions 
formed in the bodies of various land animals; they are 
compufed of feveral drata, or layers, like an onicti. In 
the Hid. de 1 ’Acad. an. 1703, it is afferted that all bezoar 
dones are bilious concretions of the refpeftive animals 
which afford them. The bezoars may be ranked thus : 
1. The true Oriental and occidental. 2. Such dones as 
are got from animals, and refentble bezoar; finch as thole 
from apes, and even the various lpecies of pearls and 
crabs’ eyes. 3. The feveral fpecies of foflile bezoars. 
4. Thofe that have only the fliape, without the virtues, of 
bezoar, finch as tlie human calculi in the bladder, kidneys, 
and gall-bladder ; or in. the lame parts of oxen. 5. The 
tegagropila, Sec. 
The Oriental bezoar-done, is fuppofed to be produced 
in the cavity at the bottom of the fourth domach of a 
f pecies of goat in Perfia called parau. It is only found in 
the old ones, and only in thofe which feed on particular 
mountains. This done, finely powdered, and levigated 
with fpirit of wine, was formerly made into balls, which 
were called GaJcoign-balls, from Gafcoign, their inventor; 
which are at prefent fold under that name by the trading 
chemids, or rather a fiophidicated medicine without be¬ 
zoar. 'Fhe American, or occidental bezoar, is found in 
the domach of an animal of the dag kind, called animate 
bezoarticum occidentale, which is a native of Peru, and other 
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