. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... lated and published the Mary-land Ephemerides. BARAHONA Y SOTO, Louis, aSpanish physician and poet, a native ofLuceria, in Andalusia, continued, underthe title of the Tears of Angelica, the ro-mance of Ariosto, and executed his taskin such a manner as to gain the applauseof Cervantes. He is also the author ofsome eclogues, stanzas, and sonnets. BARATIER, John Phii-ip, ayouthofuncommonly premature talents, was bornin 1721, at Scliwabach, in the margraviateof Anspach. At four years of ag
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... lated and published the Mary-land Ephemerides. BARAHONA Y SOTO, Louis, aSpanish physician and poet, a native ofLuceria, in Andalusia, continued, underthe title of the Tears of Angelica, the ro-mance of Ariosto, and executed his taskin such a manner as to gain the applauseof Cervantes. He is also the author ofsome eclogues, stanzas, and sonnets. BARATIER, John Phii-ip, ayouthofuncommonly premature talents, was bornin 1721, at Scliwabach, in the margraviateof Anspach. At four years of age, he spokein Latin, German, and French; at six,he mastered the Greek; and at eight, hebecame a proficient in Hebrew. Mathe-matics and astronomy he learned in threemonths. The law of nations, ancient andmodern literature, architecture, medals andinscriptions, Greek, Roman, and orientalantiquities, and the deciphering of hiero-glyphics were all objects of his studiesHe died at the age of nineteen. He trans-lated, from the Hebrew, Benjamin of Tudelas Travels, and published Anti-Artnionius, and other BARBAULD, Anna Letitia, \va«born at Kibworth, in Leicestershire, , and received an excellent educationfrom her father, the Rev. Dr. Aikin. In1772, she published a volume of poems,which gave her a high place among herpoetical contemporaries; and, in the fol-lowing year, she joined her brother ingiving to the press a volume of Miscella-nies. Her marriage took place in the last forty years of her life, sheresided in the vicinity of the metropolis;first at Hampstead, and next i t StokeNewington, at which latter place she died. M BAR OH the 9(h of April, 1825. Her literaryprodiictiiinrt are iiiimeroiiM. Amotif; themost proinint-nt of tluiii inay be named,Early aiif) Hymns, in prose; apoctfral Kpistio to Nir. Milherforcc ;Kiliteeii lluiulrtil ami Klevcii, a i)ocm;and Miiigrapliical ami Critical Rssays,prefixed to a prirction from llie Tatlcr,ISpertatiir,
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