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felves up in their folitary apartment, waiting their diffo- 
lution with immovable fortitude. When any one came 
and knocked, they remained fllent as if removed from the 
place. This circumftance appeared very fufpicious to one 
of Boifli’s friends, who proceeded to burd open the door. 
How great was his furprife, at feeing his friend, his wife, 
and fon, extended on the bed, pale and emaciated, fcarcely 
able utter a found! The boy lay in the middle, and the 
hulband and wife had their arms thrown over him. The 
Adiild firetched out his little hands towards his deliverer, 
and his fil'd w'ord was bread! The parents lay in a perfect 
llupor; they had never heard the binding open of the 
door, and felt nothing of the embraces of their agitated 
friend. Their waded eyes were directed towards the boy, 
and the tendered expreilions of pity were in the look with 
which they had lad beheld him, and dill faw him dying. 
Their friend hadened to take meafures for their recovery ; 
which he happily efteded, but not without great difficulty. 
This t ran faction made much noife in Paris, and quickly 
reached the ears of the ntarchionefs de Pompadour. Boidi’s 
deplorable dtuation moved her. She immediately fent 
him a hundred louis-d’ors, and foon after procured him 
the profitable place of comptrolleurdu Mercure de France, 
with a penfion for his wife and child, if they outlived 
him. His Oeuvres de Theatre are inpvols. 8vo. His 
Italian comedy, in which path he is the author of nume¬ 
rous pieces, has not the merit of the above. He was of 
the French academy, and died in April 1758. 
BOISSIE'RE (La), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Somme, and chief place of a canton, in the 
didriiSt of Montdidier : two leagues E. N. E. Montdidier. 
BOI'STEROLfS, adj. [byjler, Dut. furious.] Violent; 
loud ; roaring ; dormy : 
By a divine indind, men’s mind’s miflrufl 
Enfuing danger ; as by proof we fee 
The waters fwell before a boijkrous dorm. Shakcfpcare. 
Turbulent; tumultuous; furious: 
God into the hands of their deliverer 
Puts invincible might, 
To quell the mighty of the earth, th’ oppreffor, 
The brute and boifl'rous force of violent men. Milton. 
Unwieldy ; clumfily violent : 
His boijkrous club, fo buried in the ground, 
He could not rearen up again fo light, 
But that the knight him at advantage found. Spenjir. 
It is 11 fed by Woodward of heat; violent.—When the fun 
hath gained a greater drength, the heat becomes too pow¬ 
erful and boijlerous for them. Nut. liij't. 
BOl'STEROUSLY, adv. Violently ; tumultuoufly : 
A feeptre, fnatch’d with an unruly hand. 
Mud be as boi/leroti/ly maintain’d as gain'd. Shakefpeare. 
B()l'STEROUSNESS,yi The date or quality of being 
boiflerous; tumulmoufnels; turbulence. 
BOISZ'KY, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Biellfc : twelve miles fovtth-wed of Bielfk. 
BOIT, a celebrated painter in enamel. He was born 
in Stockholm, but travelled to France ; where, changing 
his religion, he was countenanced by the regent, and ob¬ 
tained a penfion of 250 pounds per annum, but died fud- 
denly at Paris in 172 6. There is a large piece done by 
him at Kenfiiigtoii, representing queen Anne fitting, and 
prince George Handing by her ; and at Bedford-houfe is 
anotiter very large plate of the duke’s father and mother. 
BOIT'M ANZDORF, of Boesdork, a town of Silefia, 
in the principality of Neyfz : five miles north-north-ead 
of Neyfz. 
BOIT'ZENBURG, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and U’cker Mark of Brandenburg : 
eight miles fouth-wed of Prenzlow. 
BOIT'ZENBURG, or Botzenburg, a town of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of Lower Saxony, and duchy of Meck¬ 
lenburg, at the conflux of the Boitre and the Elbe. It 
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was furrounded with walls in the 14th century: veflels 
that pafs the river pay a toll at the town, which formerly 
was very confiderable, but diniinifhes yearly: three leagues 
ead of Lauenburg. 
BOIVIN' (Francois de), baron of Villars, was fecretary 
to the marechal de BrifTac, and accompanied him into 
Piemont under Henry II. Hewrote, L’Hidoire des Guerres 
de Piemont, depuis 1550 jufqu’en 1561; Paris, 2 vols. 
8vo. This hidorian is neither elegant nor accurate in ge¬ 
neral ; but he may be confulted with fafety on the exploits 
that pad'ed under his own obfervation. Boivin died hr 
1618 very old. His hidory, continued by Cl. Malinger, 
appeared in 1630. 
BOIVIN' (John), profelTor of Greek in the college- 
royal, was born at Montreuil l’Argile. Being fent to 
Paris, he foon made great progrefs in literature. He 
died October 29, 1726, aged fixty-four, member of the 
academie Franyoife, of that of belles-lettres, and keeper 
of the king’s library. He wrote, 1. The Apology for 
Homer, and the Shield of Achilles, 121110. 2. Tranfla- 
tion of the Batrachomyomachia of Homer into French 
verfe. 3. The Oedipus of Sophocles, and the Birds of 
Aridoplianes, tranflated into French, nnio. 4. Pieces 
of Greek Poetry. 5. The edition of the Mathematici 
veteres, 1623, in folio. 6. Life of Claude le Peletier, in 
4to. 7. A trandation of the Byzantine Hidory of Nice¬ 
phoros Gregoras, exad, elegant, and enriched with a 
curious preface, and notes replete with erudition. 
BO'KENEM, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and bidiopric of Hildefiieim : fixteen miles 
fouth-foutli-ead of Hildefiieim. 
BO'KET, a town of Germany, in the circle of Fran¬ 
conia, and bidiopric of Wurtzburg : four miles north of 
Kifiingen. 
BOKHA'RAH, fee Buckaria. 
BOKHA'RI, one of the mod celebrated dodors of 
Mudulmanifm, was born in Arabia in the 194th year of 
the Hegira, under tlie khaliphat of Amin. His real name’ 
was Abu Abdulla Mohammed Ben IJ'mail Al Gioji, but he iss 
more generally known by that of Bokhari. Fie began 
his dudies when but ten years ©Id, and particularly ap¬ 
plied liimfelf to the knowledge of the law and religion of 
his country. He came to Bukharia when Abu Heifs was 
mufti of it; and was received very coolly by him, becaufe 
he maintained the principles of prededination. Fie retired' 
to one of the fuburbs of Samarcand, called Khcrtenh, 
where lie died in the 256th year of the Hegira. The grand' 
work of this dodor is intituled Techich, the Sincere; in, 
which, lie fays, lie has colleded 7275 mod authentic tra¬ 
ditions, feleded from 100,000 traditions, all of which he 
believed to be true, and that he had feparated tiiefe 
100,000 from 200,000 others, which lie had rejected as 
falfe. He wrote this work at Mecca. The authority of 
all thefe traditions is principally founded on the faith of 
Ben Hanbeil, one of the four chiefs of the orthodox feet 
of Mahometans. What has conliderably increafed the re¬ 
putation of the work is, that lew books have had more 
commentators. 
BOKI'RA, a river of India, which runs into the feay 
fifty miles wed of Junagur. 
BOK'KA MEALA, a country of Africa, in Lowe? 
Guinea. 
BOK'SAN, a town of Hungary : ten miles S. Lugos. 
BOL (Hans or John), an eminent painter, born at 
Mechlin in 1534. He received his fird indrudions from 
a mafter of no great repute, whom he foon left; and, go¬ 
ing to Heidelberg, employed himfelf in copying of pic¬ 
tures of the eminent artids. His fubjects are chiefly, land- 
fcapes with animals ; but he foinetimes painted hidory, 
with no fmall fuecefs. We have by him a fet of views 
in Holland, diglitly etched, but in a dyle that indicates 
the hand of a inader. He died in 1593. 
BOL (Ferdinand), a celebrated painter both of hidory 
and portraits, was born at Dort in 1611, and educated at 
Amfterdam. In the leliool of the celebrated Rembrant 
Gerrctz. 
