' B R O 
tkg .poet appeared; at other times, lie became as confpi- 
ettous as any of the brotherhood. AddiJbn. 
BRO'THF.RLY, adj. Natural; fitch as becomes or be- 
feems a brother.—They would not go before the laws, 
but follow them; obeying their fuperiors, and embracing 
one another in brotherly piety and concord. Addlfon. 
BROTHERLY-, adv. After the manner of a brother; 
with kindnefs and affection.—I fpeakbut brotherly of him ; 
but, lltould 1 anatomize him to thee as he is, I rnuft blulh 
and weep. Skakefpearc. 
BRO'THERS, illands in the Indian Sea, on the north 
fide of the entrance into the Straits of Malacca. Lat. 7. 
i 3 . N. Ion. 78. 10. to 78. 15. E. Greenwich. - 
BRO'fHERS (Seven), illands in the Indian Sea. Lat. 
3. 24. S. Ion. 60. 25.E. Greenwich. 
BRO'THERS (Three), illands in the Indian Sea. Lat. 
3.45. S. Ion. 62.25. E. Greenwich. 
BRO'THERS (Three), illands in the Eaft Indian Sea. 
Lat. 10. 32. N Ion. 107.59.E. Greenwich. 
BRO'THERS (Three), illands in the Eaft Indian Sea. 
Lat.3.20.S. Ion. 117.30. E. Greenwich. 
BRO'THEUS, in fabulous hiftory, a fon of Vulcan and 
Minerva. He was fo deformed that he was the jeft of all 
the world, for which reafon he threw himfelf into the 
abyfs of mount 2®tna. 
BROTIER' (the abbe), was born at Tanav, a fmqll 
village of the Nivernois, in 1722, and died at Paris, Fe¬ 
bruary 12, 1789, at the age of lixty-feven. In his youth 
he made it his practice to write notes in every book that 
he read; and the margins of feveral in his library were 
entirely filled with them. Until his laft moments he pur¬ 
ified the fame method of ftudy. All thefe he arranged 
wonderfully in his memory ; and, if it had been polfible 
after his death to have put his papers in that order which 
he alone knew, they would have furnifhed materials for 
many curious volumes. With this method, and continued 
labour for twelve hours a-day, the abbe Brotier acquired 
an immenfe ftock and prodigious variety of knowledge. 
Except the mathematics, to which it appears he gave lit¬ 
tle application, he was acquainted with everything; na¬ 
tural hiftory, chemiitry, and medicine. It was his rule to 
read Hippocrates and 'Solomon once every year in their 
'Original languages: thefe, he faid, were the beft books 
for curing the difeafes of the body and the mind : but the 
belles lettres were his grand purfuit. He had an exten- 
five knowledge ot all the dead languages, but particularly 
the Latin, of which he was perfectly mafter; he was be- 
fides acquainted with moft of the languages of Europe, 
tfe was weli verfed in ancient and modern hiftory, in chro¬ 
nology, coins, medals, inferiptions, and the ufages of an¬ 
tiquity, which had always been objects of his ftudy. He 
had collected a conliderable quantity of materials for wri¬ 
ting a new hiftory of France, and it ismuch to be regretted 
that he was prevented from undertaking that work. On 
the diffolution of the order of jefuits, the abbe Brotier 
found an alylumin the houle of M. de la Tour, a printer, 
eminent in his profeflion, who has gained a juft tribute of 
praife for thole works which have come from his prefs. 
If was in this retirement thatthe abbe Brotier fpent twen¬ 
ty-fix of the latter years of his life, and that he publifhed 
thole grand and magnificent works which will render his 
name immortal; an edition of Tacitus, enriched not only 
with notes and learned diflertations, but alfo with fupple- 
ments, which fometimes leave the reader in a doubt, 
whether the modern writer is not a fuccefsful rival of the 
ancient; and an edition of Pliny the naturalift, which is 
only a Ihort abridgment of what he had prepared to cor¬ 
rect and enlarge the edition of pere Hardouin, and to 
give an hiftorical feries of all the new dilcoveries made 
lince the beginning of this century ; an immenfe labour, 
which belpeaks the moft extenfive erudition. To thefe 
two editions, which procured the abbe Brotier the ap- 
plaufes of all the literati in Europe, he added fome others 
of lefs confideration: a beautiful edition of Phsedrus, and 
an edition of Rapin on gardens, at the end of which he 
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has Subjoined a hiftory of gardens, written in Latin with 
admirable elegance, and abounding in the moft delightful 
imagery. 
BRO'TO, a town of Spain, in Arragon: fix leagues 
from Jaca. 
BROU St. ROMAIN, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Eure and Loire, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftridt of Chateaudun : fix leagues fouth- 
fouth-weft of Chartres, and three and a half north-weft 
of Chateaudun. 
BROUA'GE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Charente. Flere are conliderable falt-works. It is 
two leagues fouth-weft of Rochefort. 
BROUCK, or Biioug. SeeBitUGG. 
BROUGH, a Fmall town in Weftmorelaud, fix miles 
from Appleby, and 252 from London. It is alfo called 
Burgh-under-Stanemore, i. e. a borough ona ftony moun¬ 
tain. Its being fituated on the great road from London to 
Glafgow, and the fouthern parts of Scotland and north of 
Ireland, (croftingat Port Patrick,), occafions the town to 
be much frequented by travellers. The principal em¬ 
ployment of the- poor is in knitting white yarn {lockings ; 
here is alfo a cotton manufactory, and an indigo-mill. 
BROUGHT, [participle pajjive of bring .—The Turks 
forfook'the walls, and could not be brought again to the 
alia ult. Knolles . 
BROUGH'TON (Hugh), an Eliglifti divine, who died 
in 1612, was very learned, and publifhed a great number 
of books. He was fo laborious, that, unlefs he was hin¬ 
dered by fome particular bulinefs, he Ih^died twelve, or 
fourteen, or fixteen, hours a-day. His commentaries on 
the Apocalypfe and the prophet Daniel, are thought to 
be under mediocrity. He was extraordinarily attached to 
the difeipline of the church of England, and rigoroufly 
condemned that of the diftenters. The oration he ad- 
dreftes to the inhabitants of Geneva fhews it in a very 
lively manner. It was printed in Greek at Mentz, 1601, 
under the title, when- tranflated into Englifh, An Oration 
to the Inhabitants of Geneva, concerning the Signification 
of the ExprelTion ofdefcending into Hell. He aimed par¬ 
ticularly at Theodore Beza, whom he reproached for al¬ 
tering, in every edition, his notes on the New Teftament, 
He w rote him very rough letters, and communicated co¬ 
pies of them to the Jefuit Serrarius, with full permifiion 
to publifh them ; for, though he would have thought it 
finffil to have held any fellowlhip with preibyterians, yet 
he was fomevvhat more moderate with regard to Roman 
catholics. 
BROUGH'TON (Thomas), one of the original wri¬ 
ters pf the Biographia Britannica, was born at London, 
July 5, 1704, in the parifli of St. Andrew, Holborn, of 
which his father was minifter. At aiv early age lie was 
fent to Eaton-fchool, where he loon diftinguilhcd himfelf 
by the acutenels of his genius, and the ftudioufnels ol his 
difpofition. Being fnperannuated on this foundation, he 
removed, abouti722, to Cambridge ; and, for the fake of 
a fcholarfhip, entered himfelf of Gonville and Cains col¬ 
lege. Here two of the principal objects of his attention 
w ere, the acquifition of the know ledge of the modern lan¬ 
guages, and the ftudy of the mathematics under the fa¬ 
mous profeftor Sanderfon. May 28, 1727, Mr. Brough¬ 
ton, after taking the degree of B. A. was admitted to 
deacon’s orders. In the fucceeding year, Sept. 22, he was 
ordained prieft, and proceeded to ihc degree of M. A. 
At this time he removed from the univerlity to the curacy 
of Offiey in Henfordfhire. In 1739 lie was militated to 
the redtory of Stibington, in the county of Huntingdon, 
on the prefentation ot John duke of Bedford, and \\ as ap¬ 
pointed one of that nobleman’s chaplains. Soon after, he 
waschofen reader to the Temple, by which means lie be¬ 
came known to bifiiop Sherlock, v\ ho conceived fo high 
an opinion of him, that, iri 1744, this eminent prelate pre- 
fented Mr. Broughton to the valuable vicarage of lied- 
minfter, near Briftol, together will the chapels of St. Mary 
Redclifi, St. Thomas, and Abbot’s Leigh, annexed. Some 
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