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the public at firft.;. and the allitfion;-, which are crowded 
in allnoft .every page, completed his Inccels. It (bmgwhat 
funk in the.opinion of men, when that entire generation, 
whole follies it attacked, was parted away ; yet, as it con¬ 
tains many things applicable to all times and places, it is 
more than probable it never will be forgotten.” 
BRUYE'RES, a town of France, and principal place 
of a didrift, in the department of Vofges: ten miles weft- 
fouth-weft of St. Diey, and eleven eaft of Epinal. 
BRUYE'RES SOUS LAON, a town of France, in the 
department of the Aifne, and chief place of a canton, in 
the didrift of Laon : one league fouth-eaft of Laon. 
BRU'YN (Cornelius), a painter, and famous traveller, 
born at the Hague, began his travels through Ruffia, 
Perlia, and the Ead Indies, 1674; and did not end them 
till 1708 ; they were printed at Amderdam : the Voyage 
to the Levant in 1714, folio; and thole of Ruflia, Perlia, 
Sec. in 171S, two volumes, folio. This edition is greatly 
efteemed oil account of the plates ; but the edition of 
Rouen, of 1725, of 5 vols. 4to. is more ufeful, as the 
abbe Bannier lias improved the ftyle, enriched it with 
many excellent notes, and has added to it the voyage of 
Delmourteanx, &c. Bruyn is an inqtiilitive and indruftive 
traveller ; but, like mod other travellers, lie is not always 
accurate, and his diction is far from being elegant. 
BRU'YS (Francis), born at Serrieresin the Maqonnois 
in 1708, quilted his country to pnrfue his dudies at Ge¬ 
neva, from whence he went to the Hague, where he had 
fome relations; and there lie became Calvinid. A difpute 
with fome divines obliging him to leave Holland; he re¬ 
tired into Germany, from whence he returned to France. 
He there recanted, and died fome time after at Dijon in 
1738, being only thirty years old. He publifiied, 1. Cri¬ 
tique defintereliee des Journaux Litteraires, 2 vols. 121110. 
2. Hiflory of the Popes, from St. Peter to Benedift XIII. 
inclulive, 5 vols. 410. 1732. 3 Memoires Hidoriques, 
Critiques, et Litteraries, 2 vols. 121110. in which are many 
anecdotes of the charafters and works of the learned men 
he became acquainted with in the countries he had vifited. 
BRU'ZEN DE LA MART INHERE (Anthony Au- 
guftine), nephew of the famous Richard Simon, was born 
at Dieppe, and educated at Paris under his uncle. In 
J709 he went to the court of the duke of Mecklenburg, 
who had invited him thither in order to employ him in 
making fome refearches into thehiftory of that dukedom. 
This prince dying, he attached himfelf to the duke of 
Parma, and afterwards to the king of the Two Sicilies, 
who made him his fecretary. Pie had for a long time 
conceived the projedl of a new geographical dictionary ; 
which he executed at the Hague, whither he had retired, 
and where he died, in 1749, aged eighty-three. He wrote, 
Le grand Dictionnaire hiftorique, geographique, et cri¬ 
tique ; Hague, 1726-30, 10 vols. folio; and re-printed at 
Paris in 6 vols. 1768, with corrections and additions: it 
certainly is not a firft-rate performance, though one of the 
belt of the kind. He is hkevvife the author of feveral o- 
ther works. 
BRY'A,yi in botany. See Amerimnum. 
BRY'ANBRIDGE, a town of Ireland, in the county 
of Clare and province of Connaught, feated on the river 
Shannon, eight miles north of Limeric. 
BRY'ANT (Sir Francis), a foldier, ftatefman, and a 
poet of no inconfiderable fame in his time, was born of a 
genteel family, and educated at Oxford. In 1522 he at¬ 
tended, in a military capacity, the earl of Surrey on his 
expedition to the coart of Brittany ; and commanded the 
troops in the attack of the town of Morlaix, which he 
took and burnt : for this fervice he was knighted. In 
1529 he was fent ambartador to France ; and, the year fol¬ 
lowing, to Rome, an account of the king’s divorce. He 
was gentleman of the privy chamber to Henry VIII. and 
to his fuccelTor Edward VI. in the beginning of whofe 
reign he marched with the proteftor againrt the Scots; and 
after the battle of Murtelburgh, in which he commanded 
the light horfe, was made banneret. In 1548, he was ap. 
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pointed chief governor of Ireland, where he married- the 
counteft of.Ormond. Be died loon alter, and was buried 
at Waterford. He wrote, 1. Songs and Sonnets; fome of 
which were printed with thofe of the earl of Surre\ and’ 
Sir Thomas Wyatt. Lond. 1563. 2. Letters written from 
Rome concerning the King’s Divorce; manufeript. 3. A 
Dilpraifeof the Life of a Courtier," Sec. Lond. 1348, 8vo. 
from the French of Alaygri, Who tranflated it from the 
Caftilian language, in which it was originally written by 
Guevara. 
BRYAN'TKA and BRYAN'THUS,/ in botany. See 
And romeu a. 
BRY'AS, a general of the Argives againrt Sparta, put 
to death by a woman, to whom he had offered violence. 
Pauf. A general in the army of Xerxes. Htrodot. 
BRYE (John Theodore de), a famous engraver, was 
a native of Liege; but refided chiefly at Franckfort, w here 
he carried on a conliderable commerce in prints. It does 
tiot appear to what mnfter lie ow ed his inftru.ftion in the art 
of dertgning and engraving. He worked alniuli entirely 
with the graver, and feldem called in the allirtance of the 
point. He acquired a neat free ftyle of engraving. His 
heads in general are fpirited and expreffive, and the other 
extremity of his figures well marked. His back-grounds, 
though frequently High*, are touched with a mafterly 
hand. He died, as his fons inform us in the third part 
of Boiffard’s collection of portraits, on March 27th, 1398 ; 
the two firft parts of which collection were engraved by 
himfelf, allilted by his fons, who afterwards continued it. 
RRYENTNIUS (Manuel), a Greek writer on mufic, 
fuppofed to have flourifhed under tire elder Paleologus, 
about the year 1120. He wrote three hooks on Harmonics4 
the firft w hereof is a kind of commentary on Euclid, as 
the fecond and third are on Ptolemy. He profelfes to have 
ftudied perfpicuity for the fake ot young men. Meibo- 
mius had given the public expectations of a tranflation of 
this work : but, not living to complete it, Dr. Wallis un¬ 
dertook it ; and it now makes a part of the third volume 
of his -works, publirtied at Oxford in 3 vols. folio, 1699. 
BRYEN'NIUS (Nicephorus), a prince diftinguifhed by 
courage, probity, and learning, was born at Orertia in 
Macedonia ; where his father by rebellion provoked the era- 
perorto fend his general Alexis Comnenusagainfthitn, who 
ordered his eyes to be pulled out; but, being charmed with 
his fon Bryennius, he married him to Anne Conmenus his 
daughter, fo famous by her writings. When Alexis came 
to the throne, he gave Bryennius the title of Ccefar ; but 
would not declare him his fuccertor, though folicited to 
•it by the eniprefs Irene ; and was therefore fucceeded by 
his fon John Conmenus, to whom Bryennius behaved with 
the utmoft fidelity. Being fent, about the year 1137, to 
bertege Antioch, he fell tick ; and, returning, died at 
Conftantinople. This prince wrote the Hiftory of Alexis 
Comnenus, which he compofed at the requeft of his mo¬ 
ther-in-law the emprefs Irene. 
BRYG'MUS,yi [from to make a noife.] The 
noife which is made by the collifion and gnafhing together 
of the teeth. 
BRYO'NIA,yi [£?fito fpring or fprout up.] In bo¬ 
tany, the herb Bryony, or wild vine; a genus of the 
clafs monoecia, order fyngenefta, natural order cucurbi- 
tacese. The generic charafters are—1. Male flowers. Ca¬ 
lyx : perianthium one-leafed, bell-fhaped, five-toothed ; 
toothlets Tubulate. Corolla: five-parted, bell-fhaped, faf- 
tened to the calyx ; divifions ovate. Stamina : filaments 
three, very fhort : anthene five, two connate on each of 
two filaments, and a fingle ope.on the third. II. Female 
flowers. Calyx : perianthium as in the males, fuperior, 
deciduous. Corolla : as in the males. Pirtillum : germ 
inferior ; ftyle trifid, the length of the corolla expanded ; 
iligmas emarginate, patulous. Pericarpium : berry fub- 
globular, fmooth, and even. Seeds : a few, fattened to 
the coat, fubovate. —EJfential CharaElcr. Calyx five-tooth¬ 
ed ; corolla five-parted. Male. Filaments three. Female. 
Style quadritid 5 berry fubglobular, marry-feeded. 
Species. 
