. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... died in .\ugnst, 1792. Burgoyne wrotethe dramas of the Heiress, the Maid of theOaks, the Lord of the Manor, and RichardOiur de Lion; some pamphlets in his owndefence; and a Probationary Ode. BrKIDA\,JoiiN,a native of Bethune,in Flanders, born in the fourteenth century,a nominalist ])hilosopher, was rector of theuniversity of Paris; and has, but errone-ously, been deemed the founder of the uiii- BUR vcrsity of Vienna. He is believed to havediiil about ;8. His memory has been
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... died in .\ugnst, 1792. Burgoyne wrotethe dramas of the Heiress, the Maid of theOaks, the Lord of the Manor, and RichardOiur de Lion; some pamphlets in his owndefence; and a Probationary Ode. BrKIDA\,JoiiN,a native of Bethune,in Flanders, born in the fourteenth century,a nominalist ])hilosopher, was rector of theuniversity of Paris; and has, but errone-ously, been deemed the founder of the uiii- BUR vcrsity of Vienna. He is believed to havediiil about ;8. His memory has beenperpetuated by his dilemma of the ass l)c-twecn two bundles of hay, which he used toillustrate the doctrine offree will,and whichhas grown into a |)roverb. BrRIG.\Y,JoHNLKvr,s«iUK,aFrenchwriter, member of the Academy of Inscrip-tions, was Ixjrn at Rlieims, in 1691, an>ldied at Paris, in He wrote Histo-ries of Pagan Philosophy; Sicily; and theConstantinopolitan empire; Lives of Gro-tius, Erasmus, Bossuet, and Cardinal doPerron; a Treatise on the Papal Authori-ty; and numerous other BURKE, Eiiiii/Ni), whose name fills solarge a space in our political and literaryannals, was the sou of an eminent atlorney,and was born at Dublin, January 1, having received his early educationfrom Abraham .Shackletoii, a quaker school-master of Ballytore, he went to TrinityCollege, Dublin, in 1746, where he re-mained three years, and pursued an exten-sive course of study, on a plan of his 1753, he entered as a law student atthe Temple, but ap|)licd himself almostwholly to literature; his unremitting atten-tion to which at length injured his his illness he became an inmate inthe house of Dr. Nugent, a physician, towhose daughter he was afterwards union he always described as the chiefblessing of his life. His first acknowledgedwork, which was of course published anony-mously, was his Vindication of NaturalSociety; an admirable imita
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