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kp-eb0716-079004-7145 | PANTALONE, an instrument invented about the end of the seventeenth century, by Hebenstreit, a German. It resembled the German psaltery, was of an oblong shape, and had two sound-boards, the one furnished with metal wires, the other with gut-strings. Its compass was the same as that of the harpsichord. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-079005-7145 | PANTALOON, a sort.of garment consisting of breeches and stockings of one piece, and said to have been first introduced by the Venetians.
Pantaloon, in the theatre, is a buffoon or masked person, who performs high and grotesque dances, and shows violent and extravagant postures and airs. The word is likewise used for t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-079006-7145 | PANTELLARIA, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to the kingdom of Naples, between Sicily and Cape Bon in Africa, seventy-two miles south of Maritimo. It is about thirty miles in circumference, and is entirely volcanic, consisting of vestiges of lava, pumice, scoriae, and puzzolana. The interior consists of h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 36 51' 15" N 11 54' 20" E | PANTELLARIA |
kp-eb0716-079007-7145 | PANTHEA, in Antiquity, were single statues, composed of the figures or symbols of several different divinities. Joubert, who calls them pantheae, and has remarked them sometimes on medals, says that their heads were most commonly adorned with the symbols or attributes belonging to several gods. An instance of this appe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-079008-7145 | PANTHEISM, a philosophical species of idolatry, leading to atheism, in which the universe was considered as the supreme God. The inventor of this absurd systemis not known; but it was of early origin, and variously modified[7:16:791] by differènt philosophers. Some held that the universe was one immense animal, of whic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-079101-7159 | PANTHEON, a beautiful edifice at Rome, anciently a temple, dedicated to all the gods, but now converted into a church, and dedicated to the Virgin and all the martyrs. (See Rome.)
This edifice is generally thought to have been built by Agrippa, son-in-law to Augustus, from an inscription on the frieze of the portico S... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-079201-7172 | PANTIKU, a village of Asiatic Turkey, on the northeastern coast of the sea of Marmora. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-000101-1100 | PANTOGRAPH, an instrument contrived for the purpose of copying drawings, so that the copy may either be of the same, of a greater, or of a less size, than the original. It consists of four moveable rulers fixed together by four pivots, and forming a parallelogram. At the extremity of one of these rulers prolonged is a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-000201-1113 | PANTOMIME, Tlaντομιμος, amongst the ancients, a person who could imitate all kinds of actions and characters by signs and gestures, without speaking.
The pantomimes formed a part of the theatrical entertainments of the ancients; and their chief employment was to express by gestures and action whatever the chorus sung,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-000202-1113 | PANWELL, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad, situated on the banks of the Pan, about seven miles from its mouth. It is an extensive place, and carries on a considerable trade. There are still here the remains of a brick fort built by the Mahratta chief Sevajee about the year 1680, to protect the inhabit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 N 73 13' E | PANWELL |
kp-eb0717-000203-1113 | PANY Isle, one of the Philippines, 110 miles in length by thirty-eight in average breadth. It is situated due south of Luzon, between the 122d and 123d degrees of east longitude. The island is marshy, and consequently unhealthy. When viewed from the sea, it exhibits numerous villages on the declivity of the hills, the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 15' N 122 33' E | PANY |
kp-eb0717-000204-1113 | PAO, San Joan del, a town of Columbia, in South America, about fifty leagues south-west from Caraccas. It is situated on the river Pao, the course of which was turned about the end of the seventeenth century, and, instead of flowing into Lake Valencia, directed into the Portugueza, a branch of the Apure, which itself i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-000301-1126 | PAO-KING, a city of China, of the first rank, in Houquang, situated on the river Lokyang, by which it communicates with the great lake Tongting. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-000302-1126 | PAOLA, a city of Italy, in the province of Calabria Citeriore, of the kingdom of Naples. It stands on the side of a hill, about one mile from the sea, and contains several churches and monasteries, 650 houses, and 4500 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in making wine and oil, and in the manufacture of earthenware. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-000303-1126 | PAOOM, one of the smaller of the New Hebrides, in the South Pacific Ocean, and which appeared to Captain Cook to be two islands. Long. 168. 2Ò. W. Lat. 16. 30. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-000304-1126 | PAOTING, a city of China, of the first rank, in the province of Pe-che-lee. It is the residence of the viceroy, and ranks next to Pekin amongst the cities of the province. It is seventy-seven miles south-south-west of Pekin. Long. 115. 14. E. Lat. 38. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 54' N 115 14' E | PAOTING |
kp-eb0717-000305-1126 | PAPA, a town of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, in the province of the Hither Danube, and the circle of Wesz-primer. It contains a palace of Esterhazy, a Catholic, a Lutheran and a Reformed church, with a seminary belonging to the last of these religious sects. There are 780 houses, with 5150 inhabitants, who grow som... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 19' 32" N 17 20' 55" E | PAPA |
kp-eb0717-000306-1126 | PAPAL STATES. Under the article Italy we have traced the origin and growth of the temporal power of the Roman pontilis. In the article Rome we shall exhibit a view of the rise and progress of that great state which, first as a republic, and subsequently as an empire, obtained the command of the western world The presen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-000701-1178 | PAP Castle, in England, in Bridekirk parish, Cumberland, originally stood two miles from Cockermonth, on the other side of the Derwent. Its antiquity is proved by se veral monuments; and a large green stone vessel found here, with little images upon it, is supposed to have been formerly a Danish font. Pap Castle, which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-000702-1178 | PAPEMBERG, a high island off the coast of Japan, called by the natives Takaboko, or Takajama.
Paper is a word derived from the Greek' τrαmigoς, papyrus, the name applied to the celebrated Egyptian plant which was so much used by the ancients in all kinds of writing. It is unnecessary to describe the different expedien... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-001901-1334 | PAPER-MONEY —BANKS.
PART I. PAPER-MONEY.
We endeavoured to explain, in the fifth section of the article Money, the reasons why paper has been used as a substitute for coins in the ordinary transactions of society, and the principles on which its value is maintained. It is consequently unnecessary to enter at length, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-004801-1711 | PAPIER Mache'. This is a substance made of cuttings of white or brown paper, boiled in water, and beaten in a mortar, till they are reduced to a kind of paste, and then boiled with a solution of gumarabic or of size, to give tenacity to the paste, which is afterwards formed into different articles, by pressing it into ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-004802-1711 | PAPHLAGONIA, in Ancient Geography, a country of Asia Minor, beginning at Parthenius, a river of Bithynia, on the west, extending in length to the Halys on the east, and having the Euxine on the north, and Galatia on the south. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-004803-1711 | PAPHOS, in Ancient Geography, two adjoining islands on the western side of the island of Cyprus, the one called Palaea Paphos, and the other Nea Paphos ; and when Paphos is mentioned without an adjunct, this latter is always understood. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-004804-1711 | PAPIAS, bishop of Hierapolis, a city of Phrygia, was the disciple of St John the Evangelist, and the companion of Polycarp. He composed a work in five books, entitled Expositions of the Discourses of our Lord, of which there are only some fragments now remaining. It was Papias who introduced the opinion of the Millenar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-004805-1711 | PAPINIAN, a celebrated Roman lawyer of the third century. The Emperor Sèverus had so high an opinion of his worth that he recommended his sons Caracalla and Geta to the care of the jurisconsult. Caracalla having murdered his brother, ordered Papinian to compose a discourse excusing this murder to the senate and people;... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-004806-1711 | PAPISTS. See Pope and Roman Catholics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-004807-1711 | PAPPAL, a district of Borneo, on the north-east coast, the limits of which, on the north, are Sampanmangio and Keemanees river, in latitude 5. 30. north. The productions of this coast are, in general, sago, rice, betel-nut, cocoa-nut oil, camphor, wax, pepper, and coarse cinnamon. It is well watered, and has the conven... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-004808-1711 | PAPPENHEIM, a city of the kingdom of Bavaria, in the circle of the Rezat, which, with a district around it of seventy-seven square miles, inhabited by 7500 persons, forms a bailiwick, belonging to the mediatized count of that name, who, besides this, has other estates within the Prussian dominions. The city is situated... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-004809-1711 | PAPPUS, an eminent philosopher of Alexandria, said by Suidas to have flourished under the Emperor Theodosius the Great, who reigned from 379 to 395. His writings prove him to have been a consummate mathematician. Many of them, however, are lost; and those which remain continued long in manuscript, detached parts only h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-004810-1711 | PAPUA, or New Guinea, a very large island, or, as some suppose, a cluster of islands, the coast having never been explored, and extending from the south end of Gilolo and the north coast of Ceram, in a south-west direction, about 1200 miles. It is indented by very deep bays, so that it resembles a chain of peninsulas; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-004811-1711 | PAPYRUS, the reed from which was prepared the far-famed paper of Egypt.
Before entering on a description of the papyrus, it may be right to say a word or two as to the opinion generally received in Europe concerning the disappearance of this plant. Supposing the circumstance possible, the date of it must be fixed at n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-005001-1737 | PAR, in Commerce, signifies any two things which are equal in value. See Exchange. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-005002-1737 | PARA, a province of Brazil, in South America, of immense extent, and of such surprising fertility that it is characterized as at once the paradise of the Indies and of Brazil. It is a region of endless luxuriance, one where every rood of ground would maintain its man; and sufficiently capacious to receive all the redun... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-005401-1789 | PARABLE, a fable or allegorical instruction, founded on something real or apparent in nature or history, from which a moral is drawn by comparing it with something wherein the people are more immediately concerned: such are the parables of Dives and Lazarus, of the Prodigal Son, of the Ten Virgins, and others. Dr Blair... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-005402-1789 | PARACATU, a comarca of the province of Minas Geraes, in Brazil, South America. This district, which was detached from Sahara, and formed into a separate comarca in 1815, comprehends all the country lying to the westward of the river St Francisco, from the Carinhenha to the Abaité. Cazal states that the latter river is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-005403-1789 | PARACELSUS, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus, a famous alchemist and enthusiast of the sixteenth century, was born in 1493, at Einsiedeln, a small town of the canton of Schwitz, distant some leagues from Zurich. His father, who practised medicine at Villach in Carinthia, was a near relative of George Bombast de Hohenhei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-005601-1815 | PARACLETE, the Comforter, a name given to the Holy Spirit. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-005602-1815 | PARADANGA, a town of Bengal, in the district of Cooch Behar, and pleasantly situated on a small river, thirty-three miles north-east of Rungpore. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-005603-1815 | PARADISE, a term principally employed to signify the garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve were placed immediately upon their creation.
There have been many speculations as to the “situation of the terrestrial paradise. It has been placed in the third heaven, in the orb of the moon, in the moon itself, in the middle regi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-005604-1815 | PARADOX, ναζοοδοfy>ν, in philosophy, is a proposition seemingly absurd, as being contrary to received opinions, but yet true in fact.
The vulgar and illiterate take almost every thing, even the most important, upon the authority of others, without ever examining it themselves. But although this implicit confidence is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-005701-1828 | PARADOXI, a sort of mimes or buffoons amongst the ancients, who entertained the people with extempore effusions of drollery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-005702-1828 | PARAGAUDAE, amongst the Romans, were wreaths of gold, or of silk and gold, interwoven in, not sewed to, their garments. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-005703-1828 | PARAGOGUE, in Grammar, a figure by which a letter or syllable is added to the end of a word. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-005704-1828 | PARAGONG, a town of Northern Hindustan, in the province of Bootan. It is the capital of a district of the same name, and carries on an extensive manufacture in swords, daggers, arrows, and molten images of Buddha. The governor of the district has his residence here, dwelling in a well fortified palace, which is also a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-005705-1828 | PARAGUAY, formerly a province of the viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres, in South America, but declared an independent republic first in 1816, and again in 1826. It is bounded on the north by the province of Matto Grosso, in Brazil, from which it is separated partly by a river, and partly by a mountain ridge, its most norther... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006401-1919 | PARAIBA, or Parahyba, a province of Brazil, in South America, bounded on the south by Pernambuco, on the north by Rio Grande da Norte, on the west by Sera, and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean. It comprehends about two thirds of the old captaincy of Itamarca, and has between eighteen and nineteen leagues of seacoast, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006501-1932 | PARALIPOMENA, in matters of literature, denotes a supplement of things omitted in a preceding work. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006502-1932 | PARALLAX, in Astronomy, is the difference between the places of any celestial object, as seen from the surface and from the centre of the earth at the same instant. See Astronomy. Parallax is also used to denote the change of place in any object arising from viewing it obliquely with respect to another object. Thus, th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006503-1932 | PARALLEL, in Geometry, an appellation given to lines, surfaces, and bodies, which are everywhere equidistant from each other.
Parallel Sphere, that situation of the sphere in which the equator coincides with the horizon, and the poles with the zenith and nadir.
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kp-eb0717-006504-1932 | PARALLELOPIPED, in Geometry, is a regular solid, comprehended under six parallelograms, the opposite ones of which are similar, parallel, and equal to each other. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006505-1932 | PARALOGISM, in Logie, a sophism in reasoning, or a fault committed in demonstration, when a consequence is drawn from principles which are false, or, though true, are not proved; or when a proposition is passed over which should have been proved by the way. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006506-1932 | PARAMARIBO, the principal town of Dutch Guiana, and capital of the province of Surinam. It is situated on the right bank of the beautiful river Surinam, about eighteen miles from its embouchure. It is about one mile and a half in length by about three quarters of a mile in breadth, and is built in the form of an oblong... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006507-1932 | PARAMATTA, a town of New Holland, on the east coast, situated at the head of Port Jackson harbour, at the distance of about eighteen miles by water and fifteen by land from Sydney. The river is for the last seven or eight miles navigable only for boats of twelve or fifteen tons burden. The town is built on a level plai... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006601-1945 | PARANA, a vast river of South America, originating in those mountainous ranges which traverse the Brazilian provinces of Minas Geraes and Goyas. Like the Paraguay, it is formed of a great number of small streams, the sources of which extend over several degrees, probably from the sixteenth to the twentieth of south lat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006701-1958 | PARANYMPH, amongst the ancients, the person who waited on the bridegroom, and directed the nuptial solemnities, and who was also called pronubus and auspex, because the ceremonies began by taking auspicia. As the paranymph officiated only on the part of the bridegroom, a woman called pronuba officiated on the part of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006702-1958 | PARAPET, in Fortification, an elevation of earth designed for covering the soldiers from the enemy’s cannon or small shot. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006703-1958 | PARAPHERNALIA, or Parapiierna, in the civil law, those goods which a wife brings her husband besides her dower, and which are still to remain at her disposal, exclusive of her husband, unless there is some provision made to the contrary in the marriage-contract. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006704-1958 | PARAPHRASE, an explanation of some text in clearer and more ample terms, by which is supplied what the author might have said or thought on the subject. Such are esteemed Erasmus’s Paraphrase on the New Testament, the Chaldee Paraphrase on the Pentateuch, and other works of this kind. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006705-1958 | PARAPHROSYNE, a word employed by medical writers to denote a delirium, or an alienation of mind in fevers, or from whatever other cause. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006706-1958 | PARASANG, an ancient Persian measure, which differed at different times and in different places, being usually thirty, sometimes forty, and occasionally fifty stadia or furlongs. The word, according to Littleton, is formed from parasch angarius, that is, the space a postman rides from one station or angaria to another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006707-1958 | PARASCENIUM, in the Grecian and Roman theatres, was a place behind the scenes, whither the actors withdrew to dress and undress themselves. The Romans more frequently called it Postscenium. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006708-1958 | PARASELENE, in Natural Philosophy, a mock moon; a meteor or phenomenon encompassing or adjacent to the moon, in form of a luminous ring; in which are observed sometimes one and sometimes two or more images of the moon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006709-1958 | PARASEMON, amongst the Greeks, was the figure carved on the prow of a ship, to distinguish it from others. This figure was generally that of a bull, lion, or other animal; sometimes the representation of a mountain, tree, flower, or other object. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006710-1958 | PARASITE, amongst the Greeks, was originally a very reputable title, the parasites being a kind of priests, or at least ministers, of the gods, in the same manner as the epulones were at Rome. They took care of the sacred corn, or the corn destined for the service of the temples and the gods, viz. sacrifices and feasts... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006801-1971 | PARASITES, or Parasitical Plants, in 2Jotawy, such plants as are produced out of the trunk or branches of other plants, whence they receive their nourishment, and are incapable of growing on the ground. Such are the misletoe, some kinds of fungi, and others. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006802-1971 | PARBUNCLE, in a ship, the name of a rope almost like a pair of slings. It is seized both ends together, and then put almost double about any heavy thing that is to be hoisted in or out of the ship; having the hook of the runner hitched into it to hoist it up by. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006803-1971 | PARCAE, in heathen mythology, goddesses who were supposed to preside over the accidents and events, and to determine the date or period, of human life. The Parcae were three, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos; because, forsooth, all things have their beginning, progress, and end. Hence the poets tell us that the Parcae spu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006804-1971 | PARCHMENT, the skins of sheep or goats prepared after such a manner as to render them proper for being written upon, or used in covering books.
The word comes from the Latin pergamena, the ancient name of this manufacture, which is said to have been taken from the city of Pergamus, to Eumenes, the king of which, its i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006805-1971 | PARDIES, Ignatius Gaston, an ingenious and learned French Jesuit, was born at Paris in 1636. He taught polite literature for several years, during which he composed, with peculiar delicacy of thought and style, small pieces both in prose and verse. At length he devoted himself entirely to mathematicsand natural philoso... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-006806-1971 | PARDON, in Criminal Law, is the remitting or forgiving an offence committed against the king.
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kp-eb0717-006901-1984 | PAREENUGGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Cutch, and district of Parkur. It was formerly a place of great consequence, and celebrated for its temples, which were dedicated to Buddha. It now contains only 300 [7:17:70]houses, chiefly inhabited by Sodah Rajpoots; its ancient inhabitants having long ago left it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-007001-1997 | PAREGORICS, in Pharmacy, medicines that assuage pain, and are otherwise called Anodynes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-007002-1997 | PARELCON, in Grammar, a figure by which a word or syllable is added to the end of another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-007003-1997 | PAREMBOLE, in Rhetoric, a figure in which something relating to the subject is inserted in the middle of a period. According to Vossius, all the difference between the parembole and parenthesis is, that the former relates to the subject in hand, whereas the latter is foreign to it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-007004-1997 | PARENT, a term of relation applicable to those from whom we immediately derive our being. To this subject belongs an inquiry, first, into the legal duties of parents to their legitimate children, and, secondly, their power over them.
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kp-eb0717-007101-2010 | PARENTALIA, in Antiquity, funeral obsequies, or the last duties paid by children to their deceased parents. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-007102-2010 | PARENTHESIS, in Grammar, means certain intercalary words inserted in a discourse, which interrupt the sense, but nevertheless seem necessary for the better understanding of the subject. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-007103-2010 | PARGA, a town of Greece, situated on the coast of Albania, fourteen miles from Cape Bianco, and ten from Paxos. It is built on a conical rock about 250 feet above the level of the sea, which surrounds it on three sides, and, with a fortress on the narrow neck which joins it to the main, forms a strong post. The territo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-007104-2010 | PARHELION, or Parhelium, formed from παgα, near, and ηκa>ς, sun, in Natural Philosophy, a mock sun or meteor, in the form of a very bright light, appearing on the one side of the sun.
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kp-eb0717-007201-2023 | PARIA, a province of Bolivia, in South America, situated in the department of Oruro. On the north and northeast it is bounded by the provinces of Pacajes and Oruro, on the east and south-east by Porco, on the south-west by Lipes, and on the west by Caranjas. This province is traversed by a rapid river called the Desagu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-007301-2036 | PARIAN Chronicle. See Arundelian Marbles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-007302-2036 | PARIAS, or Pariahs, a tribe of Hindus, so peculiarly distinguished from all others, that they live by themselves in the outskirts of towns; and, in the country, build their houses apart from the villages, or rather have villages of their own, furnished with wells. They dare not so much as fetch water from those which o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-007303-2036 | PARINACOCHAS, a province of Peru, in the department of Ayachucho. It has an elevated situation in that part of the chain of the Andes which sweeps down in a circular form towards Arequipa. The temperature therefore is throughout cold, with the exception of some hollows amongst the mountains, where it is comparatively m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-007304-2036 | PARIS, the capital of France, is built on a plain watered by the river Seine, which intersects the city, and is situated in 48. 50. north latitude, and 2. 20. east longitude.
The origin of Paris is enveloped in total obscurity. The first mention we find made of it is in the Commentaries of Caesar, in whose time, about... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-008301-2166 | PARISH, the precinct of a parochial church, or a circuit of ground inhabited by people who belong to one church, and are under the particular charge of its minister. The word comes from the Latin parochia, and the Greek παg>ικια, habitation, compounded of παξα, near, and δικος, house. ’Accordingly, Du Cange observes, t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-008302-2166 | PARK (French parque, that is, locus inclusus) is a large extent of ground enclosed and privileged for wild beasts of chase, by the king’s grant or prescription.
Manwood defines a chase a privileged place for beasts of venery, and other wild beasts of the forest and chase, tarn sylvestres quam campestres. A park, there... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-008501-2192 | PARKER, Matthew, the second Protestant archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Norwich in the year 1504, the 19th of Henry VII. His father, who was a man in trade, died when his son was about twelve years of age; but his mother took especial care of his education, and at the age of seventeen sent him to Corpus Christi Co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-008502-2192 | PARKUR, a small district of Hindustan, situated about the twenty-fourth degree of north latitude. This part of the country has been seldom visited by Europeans, but is described by the natives as of a sandy and rocky nature, ill supplied with water. It has to the north the sandy desert, to the south Cutch, to the east ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-008503-2192 | PARLEY, a conference with an enemy. To beat or to sound a parley is therefore to give a signal for holding such a conference, by beat of drum or sound of trumpet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-008504-2192 | PARLIAMENT, the grand assembly of the three estates of the kingdom, summoned together by the king’s authority, to consider of matters relating to the· public welfare, and particularly to enact and repeal laws.
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kp-eb0717-009101-2270 | PARMA, a sovereign state, called a duchy, in Italy. It consists of three districts, viz. Parma, Piacenza, and Borgo St Domino, which, under the government of Napoleon, formed the department of the Taro, to which has been added the small duchy of Guastalla, now a fourth division. It is situated between Modena, the Austr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-009102-2270 | PARMIGIANO, a celebrated painter, whose true name was Francesco Mazzuoli; but he received that of Parmigiano from the city of Parma, where he was born in 1504. He was brought up under his two uncles, and was an eminent painter when but sixteen years of age. He was famous all over Italy at nineteen; and at twenty-three ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-009103-2270 | PARNASSUS, a mountain of Phocis, near Delphi, with two tops; the one sacred to Apollo, the other sacred to Bacchus. It is thus described by Chandler :—“Parnassus was the western boundary of Phocis, and, stretching northward from about Delphi toward the Oetaean Mountains, separated the western Locri from those who posse... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-009201-2283 | PARNELL, Dr Thomas, an ingenious divine and an elegant poet. He was archdeacon of Clogher, and the intimate friend of Pope, who published his works, with a copy of recommendatory verses prefixed. He died in 1718, at the age of thirty-nine. “The life of Dr Parnell,” says Johnson, “is a task which I should very willingly... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-009202-2283 | PARNELLA, a town and district of Hindustan, in the •province of Bejapoor, and one of the most healthy in the Mahratta dominions. Long. 74.15. E. Lat. 16. 50. N. It was at this place that Aurungzebe’s camp was stationed in April 1701, when Sir W. Norris, the ambassador from the English East India Company, arrived to tre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-009203-2283 | PARO, more properly Beni, a great river of South America, and one of the three principal streams which form the famous Madera. Of these, the Paro is the first or most western branch. It is formed of an infinite number of smaller streams, which, falling into it within a short distance of each other, soon constitute a ve... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-009204-2283 | PARODY, a poetical pleasantry, consisting in applying the verses written on one subject, by way of ridicuíe, to another; or in turning a serious work into burlesque, by affecting to observe, as nearly as passible, the same rhymes, [7:17:93]words, and cadences, in treating a mean, low, or ridiculous one.
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kp-eb0717-009301-2296 | PAROLE, in a military sense, the promise made by a prisoner of war, when he has leave to go anywhere, of returning at a time appointed, if not exchanged.
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kp-eb0717-009302-2296 | PARONOMASIA, in Rhetoric, a pun, or a figure, by which words nearly alike in sound, but of very different meanings, are affectedly or designedly used. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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