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BARETTI, GIUSEPPE, an Italian lexicographer, born in Turin; taught Italian in London, patronised by Johnson, became secretary of the Royal Academy (1719-1789).
BARFLEUR, a seaport 15 m. E. of Cherbourg, where William the Conqueror set out with his fleet to invade England.
BaRFRuSH (603), a town S. of the Caspian, famous for its bazaar.
BAR'GUEST, a goblin long an object of terror in the N. of England.
BARI, THE, a small negro nation on the banks of the White Nile.
BARING, SIR FRANCIS, founder of the great banking firm of Baring Brothers & Co.; ama.s.sed property, value of it said to have been nearly seven millions (1740-1810).
BARING-GOULD, SABINE, rector of Lew-Trenchard, Devons.h.i.+re, celebrated in various departments of literature, history, theology, and romance, especially the latter; a voluminous writer on all manner of subjects, and a man of wide reading; _b_. 1834.
BARHAM, RICHARD HARRIS, his literary name Thomas Ingoldsby, born at Canterbury, minor canon of St. Paul's; friend of Sidney Smith; author of ”Ingoldsby Legends,” published originally as a series of papers in _Bentley's Miscellany_ (1788-1879).
BARKIS, a carrier-lad in ”David Copperfield,” in love with Peggotty.
”Barkis is willin'.”
BARKER, E. HENRY, a cla.s.sical scholar, born in Yorks.h.i.+re; edited Stephens' ”Thesaurus Linguae Graecae,” an arduous work; died in poverty (1788-1839).
BARKING, a market-town in Ess.e.x, 7 m. NE. of London, with the remains of an ancient Benedictine convent.
BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT, a mediaeval legend, being a Christianised version of an earlier legend relating to Buddha, in which Josaphat, a prince like Buddha, is converted by Barlaam to a like ascetic life.
BARLEYCORN, JOHN, the exhilarating spirit distilled from barley personified.
BARLOW, JOEL, an American poet and diplomatist; for his Republican zeal, was in 1792 accorded the rights of citizens.h.i.+p in France; wrote a poem ”The Vision of Columbus” (1755-1812).
BARLOWE, a French watchmaker, inventor of the repeating watch; _d_.
1690.
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