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AUTHORS QUOTED IN THIS CYCLOPEDIA

With Places and Dates of Births and Deaths, and Brief
Characterizations

NOTE.-The star (*) which precedes the names of some of the authors quoted indicates that they are cited too frequently to make it necessary to give the page folios on which quotations from their works will be found. Where the author is anonymous, the name of the volume or collection in which the quotation appears is cited. The following abbrevia

tions are employed:

a, or ab.=about; b.=born; B.c.=Before Christ; c.=circa (about); d.=Dead or died; fl.=flourished; L.=Living or lived.

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BETTS, MARY FRANCES

BEVERLY, MIKE, song writer.

medieval romance.

BEYLE, MARIE HENRI, novelist, critic,

BEVIS OF HAMPTOUN, SIR, a hero of 40 210

787
FRANCE, 1783-1842
BIAS OF PRIENE, one of the seven sages,
GREECE, about B.C. 566

97 221 321

*BIBLE, quotations in alphabetical or-
der of book.

BICKERSTAFF, ISAAC, dramatist,

IRELAND, about 1735-after 1787
13 134 375 632 822
BIDPAI OF PILPAY, the supposed author
of a collection of fables in San-
skrit, now spread over the
world, of which only a portion,
the Panchatantra, or the Five
Books, exists. The original was
translated into Pahlavi by
Barsuye under King Khosru
Anushirvan (531-579), thence
into Arabic about the 7th cen-
tury. First English translation
bears the date 1570.

91 643 681 902

BOARDMAN, GEORGE DANA, mission- 787
ary to Burma,

UNITED STATES, 1801-1831
BOBART, JACOB, botanist. GERMANY, 1641-1719

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seller....

ENGLAND, 1796-1884
BOIARDO (BOJARDO), MATTEO-MARIE,

124

FRANCE, 1430-1494

FRANCE, 1636-1711

critic..

ENGLAND, 1850-L.

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COMTE DE, poet, scholar,

BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX, NICHOLAS, poet

and satirist.

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*BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

767

BOOTH, REV. JOHN

502

ENGLAND, 1723-1780

BORROW, GEORGE HENRY, writer,

907

673

Gypsy scholar..... ENGLAND, 1803-1881
BOSQUET, PIERRE, marshal

842

BLACKSTONE, SIR WILLIAM, jurist,

369 550 683

BLAIR, HUGH, clergyman, prof. of
rhetoric and belles-lettres, critic,
ENGLAND, 1718-1800

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FRANCE, 1810-1861
BOSSUET, JACQUES BENIGUE, Bishop

and pulpit orator... FRANCE, 1627-1704
65 222 684

BOSWELL, JAMES, lawyer and biog- 32 908
rapher, see also pages where

Samuel Johnson is quoted.

SCOTLAND, 1740-1759

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