Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
boi'e-sen, Hjalmar Hjorth (1848-1895), a Scandinavian-American novelist. He was born at Fredericksvarn, Norway, and died in New York . He was educated at Christiania. When his studies were completed he came to America as editor of a Norwegian journal in Chicago. After studying for two years in Germany he was made professor of German in Cornell University , and later professor of Germanic languages and literature in Columbia College. Boyesen is the author of several novels which indicate imaginative faculty and deep human sympathies. In Gunnar, A Norseman's Pilgrimage, and Ilka on the Hilltop, he gives memories of his native land. The realism of his later works shows the influence of Tolstoi and Howells.
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Boyle
boil, Robert (1626-1691), an English chemist of the phlogistic period. Boyle was a quiet, modest man of good family and liberal education. He was a student at Geneva, and later he resided at Oxford, then in London. He took part in the formation of the Royal Society and held the office of president from 1680 to 1691. Boyle improved the air pump and worked persistently with gases. He enunciated Boyle's Law , that the volume of a gas varies inversely with the pressure. Boyle urged that chemistry should be studied to enlarge the bounds of knowledge, not merely to manufacture precious metals and prepare medicines, See Chemistry 2026 Editor's Note: "Of the phlogistic period" is unkind. Boyle is generally called the father of modern chemistry: his Sceptical Chymist of 1661 attacked alchemy's four elements and argued that matter is made of particles, and he insisted that claims be settled by published, repeatable experiment — the working method of science ever since. (Ed: BR 2026-06-02)
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Boyle (ROBERT a celebrated natural)
ROBERT, a celebrated natural philosopher, born at Lismore , Ireland, in 1626; was the seventh son of Richard, the first Earl of Cork. After finishing his studies at Eton he traveled 1644, he settled in the manor at Stalfor some on the Continent, till, in bridge, Dorsetshire, which his father had left him. Here he devoted himself to scientific studies, to chemistry and natural philosophy in particular . He was one of the first members of the society founded in 1645, afterward known as the Royal Society. At Oxford , to which he had gone in 1652, he occupied himself in making improvements on the air pump, by means of which he demonstrated the elasticity of air . He began the study of those Oriental languages which contain the origins of Christianity, and formed connections with such eminent scholars as Pococke , Clarke , Barlow, etc. He also instituted public lectures, known as the Boyle Lectures, for proving the Christian religion. The first series was delivered by Richard Bentley. He died in 1691, and was interred in Westminster Abbey. 10-Vol. II-Cyc BOYLE'S LAW:
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Boyle's Law
or MARIOTTE'S LAW, a law in physics to the effect that the volume of a gas will vary inversely to the pressure to which it is subjected, the temperature being constant.
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Boz
a pen name of Charles Dickens, as in Sketches by Boz. It rhymes with Mose, of which, indeed, it is but a corruption. See Dickens
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Bozeman
a city of Montana, the county-seat of Gallatin co. It is on the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads, and on the Gallatin river. It is the center of an important mineral region and in the neighborhood are deposits of coal and building stone. Its chief industries are agriculture and stock raising. There are flour mills, lumber mills, and foundries. The city is the seat of the State College of Agri Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and has a public library and a handsome county and municipal building. Pop. (1910) 5,107; (1920) 6,183.
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Bozrah
an ancient city of Palestine, E. of the Jordan, and about 80 miles S. of Damascus. It was the capital of Og, King King of Bashan, and subsequently belonged to the tribe of Manasseh. it became a Early in the Christian era flourishing place, and was long a great emporium of trade. It is now a scene of ruins.
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Bozzaris
MARCOS (bots-zär'ēs), a Greek patriot, born in 1789. He was by a Suliote, and and distinguished himself his devotion to his country, ry, in defending in a night it against the Turks. He fell Albanattack upon a body of the Turcoian army, who were advancing with the he view of taking Missolonghi, which had successfully defended for a considerable time, Aug. 20, 1823. BRABANÇONNE (brab-än-sôn'), the , composed national song of the Belgians Jenneval, a by the French M. and set to It was sung by music by Campenhout. during the Revolution of the insurgents September, 1830. Each verse of the Brabançonne ends with the refrain: "La mitraille a brise l'orange Sur l'arbre de la liberte." It was a favorite marching and fighting in the song with the Belgian troops WORLD WAR (1914-1918).
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Braccesco, Jean
A canon and alchemist of Brescia, who flourished in the seventeenth century He gave much study to the hermetic philosophy, and commented upon the work of Geber. His most curious work is The Tree of Life a dissertation upon the uses of the Philosophers' Stone in medicine. ( Rome . 1542.)
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Brace
CHARLES LORING, an American author and philanthropist, 19, 1826. born in Litchfield, Conn., Jan. He graduated at Yale in 1846, and studied theology, but held no pastorate. He in New devoted himself to philanthropy worked York, and lectured, wrote, and to enlist aid for the children of the poor. 1851" His books include "Hungary in Ger- (New York 1852); "Home Life in Folk" many" (1853); "The Norse (1857); "The Dangerous Classes of New Among York and Twenty Years' Work Them" (1872, 3d ed., 1880); "Gesta God" Christi" (1883); "To the Unknown (1889). He died in 1890. kind of ornament
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Bracebridge Hall
a series of sketches of English life by Washington Irving. The sketches were published in 1822 over the name of Geoffrey Crayon.
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Bracelet
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) a usually worn on the wrist, the use of most ancient which extends from the times down to the present, and belongs as unto all countries, civilized as well Egypt civilized. Bracelets were in use in and among the Medes and Persians at a the very remote period, and in the Bible bracelet is frequently mentioned as an Jews, both ornament in use among the ancient men and women. Among the Greeks bracelets seem to have been worn Romans only by the women. Among the it was a frequent practice for a general had to bestow bracelets on soldiers who themselves by their valor. distinguished Roman ladies of high rank frequently on the wrist and on the wore them both upper arm. Among the ancient heathen formed the chief Germanic tribes they and almost only ornament.
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