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 B E C ( 53^ ) BED portion, order, andfimplicity contributes greatly to en- calmed, when there is not a breath of wind to fill the hance the beauty of the obje<£b that furround us, and fails. of courfe tends to our happinefs. We may be con- BECANER, the capital of the territory of Becar in Infirmed in this thought, upon refledting, that our tafte dia, fituated on the river Ganges, in 83° E. long, for thefe particulars is not accidental, but uniform and and 28° N. lat. univerfal, making a branch of our nature. At the BECCABUNGA, in botany, the trivial name of a fpefame time, regularity, uniformity, order, and fim- cies of veronica. See Veronica. plicity, contribute, each of them, to readineis of ap- BECHICS, medicines defigned to relieve coughs, beprehenfion, and enable us to form more diftindt ideas ing the fame with what we call expectorants and pecof objedts than can be done where thefe particulars are torals. wanting. In fome inftances, as in animals, propor- BECHIN, a town of Bohemia, in iy° E. long, and tion is evidently connedted with utility, and is the 490 14' N. lat. more agreeable on that account. BECKENRIEDT, a town of Switzerland in the canBeauty, in many inftances, promotes induftry, and ton of Underwaldt. as it is frequently connedted with utility, it proves an BECZAU, a town of Bohemia, upon the river Topel. additional incitement to enrich our fields and improve BED, a machine for ftretching and compofing the body our manufadtures. Thefe, however, are but flight on, for eafe, or fleep, confifting generally of feathers effedts, compared with the connedtions that are form- inclofed in a ticken cafe. There are varieties of ed among individuals in fociety by means of beauty. beds, as a (landing-bed, a fettee-bed, a tent-bed, a The qualifications of the head and heart are undoubt- truckle-bed, isc. edly the moft folid and moft permanent foundations of Bed of juftice, in the French cuftoms, a throne upon fuch connedtioos : But, as external beauty lies more which the king is feated when he goes to the parliain view, and is more obvious to the bulk of mankind ment. The king never holds a bed of juftice unlefs than the qualities now mentioned, the fenfe of beauty for affairs that concern the ftate, and then all the offihas a more extenfive influence in forming thefe con- cers of parliament are cloathed in fcarlet robes. nedtions. At any rate, it concurs in an eminent degree Bed of the carriage of a great gun, a thick plank, that with mental qualifications, in producing facial inter- lies under the piece ; being, as it were, the body of courfe, mutual good-will, and confequently mutual aid the carriage. and fupport, which are the life of fociety. It muft not Bed, in mafonry, a courfe, or range of (tones ; and the however be overlooked, that the fenfe of beauty does joint of the bed is the mortar between two ftones, not tend to advance the interefts of fociety, but when placed over each other. in a due mean with refpedt to ftrength. Love, in par- Bed, in gardening, fquare or oblong pieces of ground, ticular, arifing from a fenfe of beauty, lofes, when in a garden, raifed a little above the level of the adexceflive, its focial charadter ; the appetite for gratifi- joining ground, and wherein they fow feeds, or plant cation, prevailing over affedtion for the beloved ob- roots. See Hot-bed. jedt, is ungovernable, and tends violently to its end, //cZ-Bed. of the Bed-chamber, in the Britifh cuftoms, ten regardlefs of the mifery that muft follow. Love, in Lords who attend in their turns, each a week ; during this ftate, is no longer a fweet agreeable paffion ; it lords time they lie in the king’s bed-chamber, and becomes painful, like hunger or thirft, and produceth which no happinefs, but in the inftant of fruition. This fug- wait on him when he dines in private. a market-town of Yorkftiire, eight miles gefts an important lefibn, that wtoderation in our de- BEDAL, of Richmondj in i° 20' W. long, and y4° 20 fires and appetites, which fits us for doing our duty, fouth contributes at the fame time the moft to happinefs; N. lat. even focial paffions, when moderate, are more plea- BEDEL. See Beadle. BEDEREPE, a cuftomary fervice, by which tenants fant than when they fwell beyond proper bounds. were anciently bound to reap their landlord’s corn in Beauty, in architefture, painting, and other arts, is harveft-time. the harmony and juftnefs of the whole compofition BEDFORD, the county-town of Bedford/hire, fituated taken together. the river Oufe, about 22 miles fouth-weft of CamBEAUVIN, a city of Burgundy,0 in France, about 15:0 onbridge, in 20 W. long, and y2° ic/ N. lat. miles north of Chalons, in 4 50' E. long, and 47 BED-MOULDING, in architecture, a term ufed for N. lat. thofe members of a corniche, which are placed below BEAUVOIR, a port-town0of France, about ay miles the and now ufually confifts of. an ogee, a fouth-weft of Nants, in 2 W. long, and 47° N. lat. lift, coronet; BEAUVOIS, a city of the0 ifle of France, about0 43 ronet.a large boultine, and another lift under the comiles north of Paris, in 2 20' E. long, and 4 30' BEDOUINS, in the Arabian cuftoms, tribes of Arabs, N. lat. who live in tents, and are difperfed all over Arabia, BECAH, or Bekah, in Hebrew antiquity, a Jewifti Egypt, and the north of Africa. coin, equal to of our money. a borough-town of Wiltftiire, about 18 BECALM, in a general fenfe, fignifies to appeafe, to BEDWIN, miles north-weft of SalHbury, in i° 40' W. long, and allay. Becalm, in the fea language. A ftiip is faid to be be-