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ivory, musk, gold dust, silver ingots, with ental, and, in particular, with the Indian
silks, tea, paper and knives fiom China, language and literature. While studywith which' B. has a. close intercourse. ing these, he did not neglect Arabian and
The current coin is the Narainy rupee of Persian, and foundl in Elmina von Chezy
Co1ChI Behar, worth about 20 cents. The and Sylvestre de Sacy, as well as in A1ucustoms of the inhabitants resemble those gustus William. yon Schlegei, friends who
of tle'Birmans or inhabitants of: Ava, willingly assisted him in his investigamore than they do those of their nearer tions. With a small pension from the
neighbors of Thibet or Assam. king of Bavaria, he lived five years in
BOTES; a northern constellation, called, Paris,, afterwards in London, then in G6talso, by the Greeks,./rctophylax, and, by tingen, devoted to his favorite studies with
the English, Charles's Wain. Arcturus was -the greatest perseverance. He was now
placed, by the ancients, on his breast; by made professor of the Oriental languages
the moderns, on the skirt of his coat. in Berlin. He. wrote on the system of
Fable relates that Philoumelus, son of conjugation in the Sanscrit language,
Ceres and Jasion, having been robbed by compared with that of the Greek, Latin,
his brother Plutus, invented the plough, Peisian and German tongues, and accomnyoked two bulls to it, and thus supported panied his, remarks with translations of'
himself by.cultivating the ground. Ceres,' extracts from Indian poems (Frankforto
to reward his ingenuity, transferred him, on the Maine, 1816). He also published
with. his cattle, under the naime of Bo6tes, works. with the following titles: Srinmato the heavens. ldbharcrte.alopakhajanam. ~alas, car men
BoOTrH, Barton, an actor of great celeb- Sanscritum, e. Ma/abhar:ato,, edidit, Latine
rity in the reigns of queen Anne and vertit et adnot. illust., Fr. Bopp, London,
George I, was born in 1681, and placed, Paris and Berlin; Complete System of the
under doctor "Busby, at Westminster Sanscrit Language; Indralokagamdnan,
school. -An early attachment for the dra- Voyage of Ardschura to the Sky of Inma was. fostered by the applause he met dra; together with other Episodes of
with while performing a part in one of Masabsarah, published for the first Timne
Terence's plays, at. the annual exhibition in the original Language, and translated in
in that seminary. He eloped from school Metre, with a Commentary.
at the age of 17, and joined A )shbury's BoRA, Catharine von, wife of Luther,
company of strolling players, with whom was born in 1499. Her birth-place is not
he went to Dublin. After performing known, and.of her parents we only know
three years in the Irish capital with great that her mother, Anna, was descended
applause, he returned, in 1701, to Lon- from one of the most ancient families of
don, and,, engaging with Betterton,. met Germany,. that of Hugewitz, (Haugewitz).
with simnilar success. On the death of The daughter took the veil, very early, in
that manager,. he joined the. Drury lane the nunnery. of Nimptschen, near Grimcompany, and, on the production.of Cato, ma. Notwithstanding her devout dispoin 1712, raised his reputation as a trage- sition, she soon felt very unhappy in her
dian to the highest pitch, by his perform- situation, and, as her relations would not
ance of the principal character. It was listen to.her, applied, with eight Other
on this occasion that lord Bolingbroke nuns, to Luther, whose fame had reached
presented him from the stage-box with 50 them. Luther gained over a citizen of
guineas-r-an example Which was imme- Torgau, by the name of Leonard Koppe,
diately followed by that nobleman's polit- who, in union with some other citizens,
ical opponents. Declamation, rather than, undertook to deliver the nine nuns front
passion, appears to have been his forte, their convent. This was done the night
though Cibber speaks of his Othello as after Good Friday, April 4, 1523. He
his finest character. He became a pat- brought them to Torgau, and from thence
entee and manager of the theatre in,1713, to. Wittenberg, where Luther provided
in conjunction with Wilks, Cibber and them a decent abode. At the same time,
Doggett,, and died May, 1733. He was to anticipate. the charges of his enemies,
buried in Westminster abbey, where there he published a letter to Koppe, inl Which
is a monument to his memory. He was he frankly confessed that he was theau.the author of. Dido and'Eneas, a mask, thor of this enterprise, and had persuaded
various songs, &c., and the translator of Koppe to its execution; tlat hehbad done
several odes of Horace. so in the confident hope that Jesus Christ,
Borp, Francis, born in 1791, at:entz, who had restored his gospel,:and. destroywent to Paris, in the autumn of 1812. in ed the kingdom of Antichrist, would,be
order to becorme acquainted with the 0O- their protector, though it might. cost them