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Bosc, Pierre du a French Protestant theologian, was born at Bayeux in 1623. Louis XIV having published an edict against the Calvinists, Du Bosc was delegatetd, in 1668, to hear remonstrances on this subject. He died at Rotterdam in 1692. He wrote, Des Sermons (Rotterdam, 1671, 1692): Des Lettres, with a sketch of his Life … Continue reading “Bosc, Pierre du”

Bosanquet, Bernard (1848-1923) Neo-Hegelian idealist, regards Reality as a single individual all-embracing, completely rational experience, combining universality and concreteness. It alone exists. All other particulars — minds or things — are only partially concrete, individual and real. The incidental, incomplete, dependent and only partially existent character of finite consciousness is shown by the reaching, seeking … Continue reading “Bosanquet, Bernard”

Bosa, Diocese of In the province of Cagliari, The city numbers about 35,000 inhabitants. St. Gregory the Great, in one of his letters, speaks of a Bishop of Bosa, without, however, mentioning the bishop’s name. In 1073 Constantino de Castro, Bishop of Bosa, who, according to an inscription,had built the cathedral dedicated to St. Peter, … Continue reading “Bosa, Diocese of”

Bosa an early English prelate, was a pupil of St. Hilda, at Stroneshall, and in 678 was appointed to the bishopric of Deira (Bede, Hist. Ecc 4:12), with his see at York. In 686, on Wilfrid’s restoration, Bosa was expelled, but returned on the second exile of Wilfrid, in 691, and retained his see until … Continue reading “Bosa”

Bos, Lambert an eminent scholar, was born at Workum, in Friesland, Nov. 23, 1670, and studied at the University of Franeker, where he devoted himself to Greek. His progress was so great that in 1697 he was appointed lecturer in Greek, and in 1703 professor. He died in 1717. His chief work is the Ellipses … Continue reading “Bos, Lambert (2)”

Bos, Jerome SEE BOSCHE. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bor, Eug&ne Orientalist, b. at Angers, 15 Aug., 1809; d. at Paris, 3 May, 1878. From the college of Angers he went to the Collège Stanislas in Paris, where at eighteen he won the prize in philosophy in a competition of all the colleges of France, one rival being Alfred de Musset. After a year … Continue reading “Boré, Eug&ène”

Bos, Cornelius SEE BUS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Borzone, Luciano a Genoese historical and portrait painter, was born in 1590, and studied under his uncle, Filippo Bertolotti. In San Domenico, at Genoa, there is a picture by him of the Presentation in the Temple, and in San Spirito the Baptism of Christ. He died in 1645. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine … Continue reading “Borzone, Luciano”

Borysthelnes (or the Dnieper), a river of Russia, was universally revered by the ancient Russians as holy, and in the holy city of Kiev, situated on its right bank, nearly all the gods of the Slavic race were at one time assembled. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature