Brothers of Purity
An association of Arab philosophers founded at Bosra in the tenth century. They had forms of initiation, and they wrote many works which were afterwards much studied by the Jews of Spain .
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Single-source entries: B (117)
Each of these 9 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Broughton
RHODA, an English novelist, born in Segrwyd Hall, Denbighshire, Wales, Nov. 29, 1840. She was the daughter of a clergyman, and resided at Broughton Hall, Cheshire. Her novels are very popular, and include "Cometh Up as a Flower" (1867); "Not Wisely but Too Well" (1867); "Red as a Rose Is She" (1870); "Good-bye, Sweetheart" (1872); "Nancy" (1873); "Belinda" (1883); "Doctor Cupid" (1886); "Alas" (1890); "A Beginner" (1894); "Scylla and Charybdis" (1895); "Between Two "Be Stools" (1912), etc. She died in 1920. (brö'sa)
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Broussard
ROBERT F., an American senator; born in New Iberia, La., Aug. 17, 1864. He studied at Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., and graduated from the law school of Tulane University of Louisiana, in 1889. He served for eighteen years as representative in Congress from the Fifty-fifth to the Sixty-third Congresses inclusive. He was elected to the Uni United States Senate in May, 1912, for the term beginning March 4, 1915. He died April 12, 1918. BROUSSONETIA (named after P. N. V. BROUSSONET, a naturalist who traveled in Barbary, and published a work on fishes in 1782), a genus of plants belonging to the order urticaceæ (nettleworts). B. papyrifera is the paper mulberry. It has 3-5 lobed leaves. There is another species of the genus, B. spatulata, or entire leaved broussonetia. BROWN. Brown is not one of the primary colors in a spectrum. It is composed of red and yellow, with black, the negation of color. It is also the name of a genus of colors, of which the typical species is ordinary brown, tinged with grayish or blackish. The other species chestnut are brown, deep brown, bright bro brown, rusty, cinnamon, red brown, rufous, glandaceous, liver colored, sooty, c and lurid.
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Brown University
an institution for higher education at Providence , R. I.; founded in 1764. It was at first known as Rhode Island College , but in honor of Nicholas Brown, a wealthy merchant who endowed it generously the name was changed to Brown in 1804 . In 1919 its enrolment included 277 freshmen, 220 sophomores , 174 juniors and 182 seniors. There were 79 students pursuing special courses and 106 graduate students. There were 270 in the women's college . The teaching staff included 78 full professors , besides a staff of assistant teachers. The volumes in the library number 270,000. A Memorial Arch and a Language Building were erected in 1919. Language requirements for entrance have been modified and an increase made in the number of elective courses. President, W. H. P. Faunce, DD., LL. D.
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Brown, Alice
Alice (1857-), an American novelist and writer of short stories. She was born in New Hampshire , and many of her stories are descriptive of New England life and character. She taught school for some years but gave up teaching to devote her time to literary work. Her writings show insight into character, carefulness in style, and finish. She is specially successful in the short story. Meadow Grass is a collection of some of the best of these tales. Among other writings are The Road to Castalay, Fools of Nature, and Margaret Warrener.
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Brown-Tailed Moth
Euproctis chrysorrhæ, a European moth of the Liparididæ family, having white wings and a brown rump, the larvæ feeding on forest and orchard trees. It appeared in Massachusetts some few years ago, shortly after the arrival of the gipsy moth, and has already become a serious pest in that State. It is thought to have been introduced from Holland in a consignment of roses. More than $1, 000,000 has already been spent by the State of Massachusetts in endeavoring to destroy this and the gipsy moth; and although great success was at first obtained in this direction , the cessation of attempts at extermination through the grant of funds being discontinued led to the reappearance of the moths in greater numbers than ever. A four-winged fly, which acts as a parasite, depositing de its eggs in the larvæ , has now been brought from Europe, resulting in large numbers of the caterpillars being killed. sty,
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Browne, Sir Thomas
A learned English medical man who died in 1682 at an advanced age. Besides his famous Religio Medici and Urn Burial, he was chiefly celebrated by the manner in which he combatted popular errors in a work entitled Pseudodoxia Epadinium, an essay on popular errors, an examination of many circumstances in his time received as veritable facts, and which he proved to be false or doubtful. But frequently the learned author replaces one error by another, if on the whole his book is wonderfully accurate considering the date of its composition. The work is divided into seven books, the first of which deals with those errors which spring from man's love of the marvellous; the second, errors arising from popular beliefs concerning plants and metals, the third, absurd beliefs connected with animals; the fourth book treats of errors relative to man; the fifth, errors recorded by pictures; the sixth deals with cosmographical and historical errors, and the seventh, with certain commonly accepted absurdities concerning the wonders of the world. For the publication of this work he was charged with atheism, which drew from him his famous Religio Medici.
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Brownell
WILLIAM CRARY, an American essayist and critic, born in New York City, Aug. 30, 1851. He graduated from Amherst, and devoted himself to critical and editorial work in New York. He became editor of "Scribner's Magazine," and wrote "French Traits: an Essay on Comparative Criticism" (1889); "French Art" (1892); "Newport" (1896); "American Prose and "Criticism" (1909); Masters" (1914).
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Brownie
a Scotch fairy. In Scotland belief was strong in the existence of benevolent fairies who helped people out by working in the night. Sometimes a troop of brownies would cut or thresh grain, churn, guard the flock, etc. A prosperous farm was reputed to be guarded by the brownies. Brownies were never to be seen or spoken to. Palmer Cox has taken up the idea admirably in his "Brownie" pictures. See Fairy
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