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ordained by bifliop Reynolds; and the firft employment 
which lie had was at Milden in Suffolk, where lie conti¬ 
nued twenty-one years a conftant preacher, firft as a curate, 
and afterwards as reCtor of that church. In 1692, lie liad 
a call to the vicarage of Dedham in Effex, where he con¬ 
tinued to the time of his death, which happened in Octo¬ 
ber 1703. lie was a pious and charitable man. He made 
great collections for the French Proteftants ; and by his 
care, pains, and charges, procured a worthy minifter to 
. go and fettle in Carolina. Among other charities, he be¬ 
queathed feme lands, and the houfe wherein lie lived, to 
be an habitation for the lecturer that fliould be chofen from 
time to time to read the ieCture at Dedham. Befides his 
‘Commentary upon the New Teftament, written in the 
fame plain, practical, and affectionate, manner in which 
he preached, he wrote a volume, int it led. The Poor Man’s 
Help, and Rich Man’s Guide. 
To BURL, v. a. To drefs cloth as fullers do. 
BUR'LACE, or Burdelais, f. A fort of grape. 
BURLAMA'QUI (John James), an illultrious civi¬ 
lian, born at Geneva in 1694., and became afterwards pro- 
teflor of civil law there. Prince Fredepic of Hefte-Caftel, 
who was .his pupil, took him home with him in 1734, and 
kept him fome years. Upon his return to Geneva, he 
was named counfellor of Bate, and died there in 1748. 
His Principles of Natural Law, written in French, have 
made him known to great advantage in the republic of 
letters. He is fuppofed to have incorporated into this 
work all the bell things from Grotius, Puffendorf, and 
their commentator Barbeyrac. It is a fyftem, or chain, 
of juft and interefting ideas; clearly developed, happily 
connected, and expreffed with accuracy and precifion. He 
publifhed, fome time after, the Principles of Political 
Law ; w hicli was written in the fame language, and equally 
well received. 
BUR'LATS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Tarn: 4 miles eaft of Caftres, and 16 weft of La Caune. 
BUR'LEIGH. See Cecil. 
BURLES'QtJE, adj. [Fr. from burlare, ItaL to jeft.] 
Jocular; tending to raife laughter by unnatural or unfuit- 
able language or images.—Homer, in his character of 
Vulcan and Therfites, in his ftory of Mars and Venus, in 
his behaviour of lrus, and in other paffages, has been 
obferved to have lapfed into the burlej'que character, and 
to have departed from that ferious air effential to the 
magnificence of an epic poem. Addifon. 
BURLES'QUE, f. Ludicrous language or ideas; ridi¬ 
cule.—When a man lays out a twelvemonth on the fpots 
in the fun, however noble his fpeculations may be, they 
are very apt to fall into burlefque. Addifon. 
To BXJRLES'QJJ E, v.a. To turn to ridicule.—Would 
Homer apply the epithet divine to a modern lwineherd ? 
if not, it is an evidence that Eumeus was a man of confe- 
quence ; otherwife Homer would burlefque his own poetry. 
Broome. —Burlefque, tho’ a great engine of ridicule, is not 
confined to that fubjeCt alone ; for it is clearly diftinguiih- 
able into burlefque that excites laughter merely, and bur¬ 
lefque that excites derifion or ridicule. A grave fubjeCf, 
in which there is no impropriety, may be brought down 
by a certain colouring fo as to be rifible, as in Virgil Tra- 
veftie ; the author firft laughs at every turn, in order to 
make his readers laugh. The Lutrin is a burlefque poem 
of the other fort, laying hold of a low and trifling inci¬ 
dent to expofe the luxury, indolence, and contentions 
fpirit, of a fet of monks. Boileau, the author, turns the 
fubjeCt into ridicule, by drefting it in the heroic ftyle, and 
affeCting to confider it as of the utmoft dignity and im¬ 
portance. Though ridicule is the poet’s aim, he always 
carries a grave face, and never once betrays a (mile. The 
pppofition between the fubjeCt and the manner of handling 
it, is what produces the ridicule; and therefore, in a com- 
pofition of this kind, no image profeffedly ludicrous ought 
to have quarter, becaufe fttch images ddtroy the contraft. 
Though the burlefque that aims at ridicule produces its 
effects by elevating the ftyle far above the fubjeCt, yet the 
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poet ought to confine himfelf to Rich images as are lively, 
and readily apprehended. A (trained elevation, foaring 
above the ordinary reach of fancy, makes not a favqunu 
ble imprellion. The mind is loon difgufted by being kept 
long on the ftretch. Machinery may be employed in a 
burlefque poem, Inch as the Lutrin, the Dilpenfary, or 
Hudibras, with riiore fuccefs and propriety than in any 
other fpecies of poetry. For burlefque poems, though 
they alfuine the air of hiftory, give entertainment chiefly 
by their pleafant and ludicrous pictures : it is not the aim. 
of (uch a poem to raife fympathy; and for that reafon, a 
ftrict imitation of nature is not neceffary. And hence, the 
more extravagant the machinery in a ludicrous poem, the 
more entertainment it affords. 
BUR'LEY (Walter), an Englifh prieft, who lived in 
1337, left Commentaries on Ariftotle, printed in the fif¬ 
teenth century; and a book De Vita & Moribus Philofo- 
phorum. Cologne, 1472, a fcarce edition. 
BUR'LINEiSS, f. Bulk; biufter. 
BUR'LINGTON, a town of the United States of Ame¬ 
rica, in New Jerfey, extending about three miles along 
the Delaware, and one mile back into the county to which 
it gives name; the Delaware is here a mile wide. It is 
a free port, and has a mayor and court of aldermen. There 
is a church for Epifcopalians, and a place of worfliip for 
Quakers. This town was firft fettled in the year 1677. 
It is fifteen north-eaft of Philadelphia, and fifty-five miles 
fouth-fouth-eaft of New York. Lat. 40. 5. N. Ion. 73. 
54. W. Greenwich. 
BUR'LINGTON, a county of United America, in the 
ftate of New Jerfey. Burlington and Bordentown are the 
principal places. 
BUR'LO, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 
phalia, and bifhopric of Munfter: four miles north-north- 
weft of Borchen. 
BUR'LY, adj. [Junius lias no etymology; Skinner 
imagines it to come from boor-like, clownifh.] Great of 
ftature; great of fize ; bulky; tumid.-—Steel, if thou 
turn thine edge, or cut not out the ^arCy-boned clown in 
chines of beef, ere thou deep in thy (heath, I befeech Jove, 
that thou may’ft be turned into hobnails. Ska/tefpeare „ 
Away with all your Carthaginian ftate, 
Let vanquifti’d Hannibal without doors wait, 
Too burly and too big to pafs my narrow gate. Dry den, 
BUR'MAH. See Ava. 
BUR'MAN (Francis), a Proteftant minifter, and learn¬ 
ed profeffor of divinity at Utrecht, was born at Leyden in 
1628, and died on the ioth of November 1679, after hav¬ 
ing publifhed a courle of divinity, and feveral other works. 
He is not to be confounded with Francis Barman, his fon ; 
or with Peter Burman, a laborious commentator on Phse- 
drus, Lucan, Petronius, and other profane authors, who 
died in 1741. 
BUR'MAN (John), profeffor of botany and medicine 
at Amfterdam, publifhed, j. Rarioruirt Africanarum Plan- 
tarum Decades x. Amfterdam, 1738 and 1739, 4to. with 
plates. 2. Thefaurus Zeylanicus, 1737, 4to. cum fig. 
They are curious and fcarce. 
BURMAN'NIA, J. [fo named in honour of the above 
John Burman, M. D. ] In botany, a genus of the clafs hex- 
andria, order monogynia, natural order of liliaceous flow¬ 
ers. The generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium. 
long, one-leaved, prilmatic, coloured, with three longi¬ 
tudinal membranous angles; the mouth trifid, fmall. Co¬ 
rolla: petals three, ovate, oblong, very (mail, placed in 
the month of the calyx, extremely minute. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments fix, very (hurt; antherse in the mouth of the calyx, 
very (hort, two always together, (ep irated by a reflected 
point. Piftillum: germ cylindric, (horter by half than 
the calyx ; ftyle filiform, the length of the corolla; ftig- 
mas three, ohtufe, concave. Pericarpium : capfule co¬ 
vered by the calyx, cylindric, three-cornered, three-celled, 
three-valved, gaping at the angles. Seeds : numerous, 
very fmall.— Ej/ential Character. Calyx, prilmatic, colon;- 
