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kp-eb0717-015008-3037 | PAUCARTAMBO, a province of Peru, in the depart ment of Cuzco, and situated to the east of the province and city of that name. It is traversed by a considerable stream of the same name, which flows into the Urubamba, one of the southern affluents of the Amazons. Considerable quantities of cocoa-leaf are annually exporte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-015009-3037 | PAUKPUTTAN, a town of Hindustan, possessed by native chiefs, in the province of Mooltan, 130 miles east by south from the city of Mooltan. Long. 73. 30. E. Lat. 30. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-015010-3037 | PAUL, originally Saul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, and author of several portions of the New Testament canon. Though a native of Tarsus, a city of Cilicia,^[1. Acts, xxii. 3, &c. ] he was the son of Jewish parents, belonging to the tribe of Benjamin.^[2. Philip. iii. 5. ] From his father he inherited the rights of Roma... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-015701-3128 | PAULEE, or Pauleegur, a celebrated fortress and town of Hindustan, province of Aurungabad, and district of Concan. It is erected on the top of an insulated mountain, about 1500 feet in height, and is inaccessible on the north side, which is well defended. It contains several reservoirs of water, and the store-rooms and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-015801-3141 | PAULIANISTS, Paulianistae, a sect of heretics, so denominated from their founder Paul of Samosata, who was elected bishop of Antioch in 262. His doctrine seems to have amounted to this, that the Son and the Holy Ghost exist in God in the same manner as the faculties of reason and activity do in man; that Christ was bor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-015802-3141 | PAULICIANS, a branch of the ancient Manicheans, so called from their founder, Paulus, an Armenian, who lived in the seventh century, and who, with his brother John, both of Samosata, formed this sect; but others are of opinion that they were so called from another Paul, an Armenian by birth, who lived under the reign o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-015803-3141 | PAULINUS, a bishop who flourished in the early part of the seventh century. He was the apostle of Yorkshire, and the first archbishop of York. This dignity seems to have been conferred upon him about the year 626. He built a church at Almonbury, which he dedicated to St Alban, and there he preached to and converted the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-015804-3141 | PAULO, Marco, a celebrated traveller, was son of Nicholas Paulo, a Venetian, who, with his brother Matthew, about the year 1255, visited Constantinople, in the reign of Baldwin II. Nicholas, at his departure, left his wife pregnant; and she brought to the world the famous Marco Paulo, the subject of this notice. The tw... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-015901-3154 | PAULO, San, a large and important province of Brazil, in South America, celebrated for the courage of its inhabitants, and for the number of expeditions which have sailed from it for the purpose of exploring the interior. It is formed by the union of a part of the old capitanship of St Amaro with half of that of St Vin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016201-3193 | PAULUS Aemilius. See Aemilius, Paulus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016202-3193 | PAUNGAOW, a small walled town belonging to the Mahrattas, in the province of Aumngabad, eighty-eight miles south-east from Ahmednagur. Long. 76.12. E. Lat. 18. 14. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016203-3193 | PAUSANIA, in Grecian antiquity, a festival with solemn games, in which nobody contended except free-born Spartans. They were instituted in honour of Pausanias the Spartan general, under whom the Greeks overcame the Persians in the famous battle of Plataea. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016204-3193 | PAUSANIAS, a Spartan king and general, who signalized liimself at the battle of Plataea against the Persians. The Greeks, sensible of his services, rewarded his merit with a tenth of the spoils taken from the Persians. He was afterwards appointed to command the Spartan armies, and he extended his conquests in Asia; but... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016301-3206 | PAUSE, a stop or cessation in speaking, singing, playing, or the like. One use of pointing in grammar is to make proper pauses in certain places. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016302-3206 | PAUW, Cornelius de, sometimes called Nicoas, a moral philosopher and historian, born at Amsterdam in 1739. He is better known as the uncle of the revolutionist Anacharsis Clootz, than by the ancestors from whom he was descended; they are, however, reported by his nephew to have distinguished themselves in the revolutio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016303-3206 | PAVAN, or Pavane, a grave dance used amongst the Spaniards, and borrowed from them, in which the performers made a kind of wheel or tail before each other, like that of pave, a peacock; from which circumstance the name is derived. The pavane was formerly in great repute, and was danced by gentlemen with cap and sword, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016304-3206 | PAVIA, a province or delegation of the Austrian territory of Milan, in Italy, bounded on the north by Milan, on the east by Lodi, on the south by Parma and Sardinia, and on the west by Sardinia. It extends over 495 square miles, comprising, besides the capital, eight market-towns, and 183 villages, with 168,500 inhabit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016305-3206 | PAVILION, in Architecture, signifies a kind of turret or building, usually insulated, and contained under a single roof, sometimes square, and sometimes in form of a dome; [7:17:164]and it is so called from the resemblance of its roof to a tent. Pavilions are sometimes projecting pieces in the front of a building, mark... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016401-3219 | PAVING, the construction of ground-floors, streets, or highways, in such a manner that they may be conveniently walked upon. In Great Britain the pavement of the streets and roads usually consists of flint or rubble-stone; but courts, stables, kitchens, halls, churches, and the like, are paved with tiles, bricks, flags... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016402-3219 | PAVO, in Astronomy, a constellation in the southern hemisphere, unknown to the ancients, and not visible in our latitude. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016403-3219 | PAVOR, a Roman deity, whose worship was introduced by Tullus Hostilius. The latter, in a panic, vowed a shrine to him and one to Pallor, Paleness ; and therefore both are found on the coins of that family. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016404-3219 | PAW, in the manege. A horse is said to paw the ground, when, his leg being either tired or painful, he does not rest it upon the ground, and fears to hurt himself as he walks. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016405-3219 | PAWANGHUR, a fortified town of Hindustan, in the Maliratta territories, province of Bcjapoor, and district of Parnella, of which it is the capital. It is considered as a place of great strength, and is forty-two miles south by west from Merritch. Long. 74. 20. E. Lat. 16. 52. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016406-3219 | PAWN, a pledge or gage for surety or payment of money lent. It is said to be derived a pugno, quia res quae pignori dantur, pugno vel manu traduntur ; which is certainly a far-fetched etymology. See Broker. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016407-3219 | PAZ, La, the name of a department, a province, and a large city of Bolivia, in South America. A general account of the department, with the number of its inhabitants, will be found in the article Bolivia. The province of La Paz is a district surrounding the city of the same name, in the vicinity of the western cordille... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016501-3232 | PEACE, Temple of, a very celebrated fane at Rome, which in the year 191 was consumed by a fire, produced, as some writers suppose, by a slight earthquake. Dio Cassius, however, supposes that the fire began in the adjoining houses; but however this may have been, the temple, with all the surrounding buildings, was reduc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016502-3232 | PEAK of Derbyshire, a chain of high mountains in the county of Derby, in England, famous for the mines they contain, and also for their remarkable caverns. See Derbyshire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016503-3232 | PEARCE, Dr, lord bishop of Rochester, was the son of a distiller in High Holborn. He received his education in Westminster school, where he was distinguished by his merit, and elected one of the king’s scholars. In 1710, when he was twenty years old, he was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge. During the first years ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016601-3245 | PEARL, in Natural History, a hard, white, shining body, usually roundish, found in a testaceous fish, a species of Mya. Pearls, though esteemed of the number of gems, and highly valued in all ages, proceed only from a distemper in the animal which produces them, analogous to the bezoars and other stony concretions in s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016602-3245 | PEARSON, John, a learned English bishop, was born at Snoring in 1613. After his education at Eton and Cambridge, he entered into holy orders in 1639, and was the same year collated to the prebend of Netherhaven, in the church of Sarum. In 1640 he was appointed chaplain to the lord-keeper Finch, and by him presented to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016603-3245 | PEASANT, a hind, one whose business consists exclusively in rural labour. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016604-3245 | PEAT, a well-known inflammable substance, employed in many parts of the world as fuel. There are two species of peat.
The first is a yellowish-brown or black peat, found in moorish grounds in Scotland, Holland, and Germany. When fresh, it is of a viscid consistence, but hardens by exposure to the air. It consists, acc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016701-3258 | PEBAS, a district of Peru, in South America, situated upon the left bank of the river Marañon, to the east of the confluence of the Ucayale with that river. It produces cocoa, sarsaparilla, vanilla, white and black bees-wax, maize, yucas, plantains, camotas, and papayas, and some dye-stuffs of a peculiar description. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016702-3258 | PEBBLES, a trivial name frequently given to different varieties of the agate and calcedony. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016703-3258 | PECK, Francis, a laborious and learned antiquary, was born at Stamford, in Lincolnshire, on the 4th of May 1692, and educated at Cambridge, where he took the degrees of bachelor and master of arts. He was the author of many works, the first of which is a poem entitled Sighs on the Death of Queen Anne, printed probably ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016704-3258 | PECS, a city of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, in the province of the Hither Danube, and circle of Baranyer. It is situated on a river of the same name, upon whose banks it extends in a single street more than six miles in length. It is the sec of a bishop, the seat of a Catholic seminary, and contains conventsand ho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016705-3258 | PECTORAL, a sacerdotal habit or vestment, which was worn by the J ewish high priest. The Jews call it Hhoschen, the Greeks yoa∕ov, the Latins rationale and pectorale, and in our version of the Bible it is called breastplate. It consisted of embroidered stuff, about a span square, and was worn upon the breast, set with ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016706-3258 | PECULIAR, in the Canon Law, signifies a particular parish or church that has jurisdiction within itself for granting probates of wills and administrations, exempt from the ordinary or bishop’s courts. The king’s chapel is a royal peculiar, exempt from all spiritual jurisdiction, and reserved to the visitation and immed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016801-3271 | PECULIUM signifies the stock or estate which a person in the power of another, whether male or female, either as his or her slave, may acquire by his industry. Roman slaves frequently amassed considerable sums in this way. The word properly signifies the advanced price which a slave could get for his master’s cattle or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016802-3271 | PEDAGOGUE, or Paedagogue, a tutor or master, to whom is committed the discipline and direction of a scholar, to be instructed in grammar and other arts. The word is formed from the Greek τtαιδων αγωγος, puerorum ductor, or leader of boys. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016803-3271 | PEDAL (pedale in Italian), is a musical term of various meanings. For example, pedal means one of the largest pipes, or one of the foot-keys, of an organ; or the footpiece attached to a piano-forte, a harp, or the like, and by which, in the former, the intensity of the sound is modified, and, in the latter, the chromat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016804-3271 | PEDANT, a schoolmaster or pedagogue, who professes to instruct and govern youth, and to teach them the languages and the arts.
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kp-eb0717-016805-3271 | PEDARIAN, in Roman antiquity, were those senators who signified their votes by their feet, not with their tongues; that is, such as walked over to the side of those whose opinion they approved of, in divisions of the senate. Dr Middleton thus accounts for the origin of the word. He says, that though the magistrates of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016806-3271 | PEDATURA, a term used in Roman antiquities to indicate a space or proportion of a certain number of feet set apart. This word often occurs in writers on military affairs. In Hyginus De Castrametatione we meet with the following passage, viz. “Meminerimus itaque ad computationem cohortis equitatae milliariae pedaturam a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016807-3271 | PEDDABALABARAM, a town of Hindustan, in the Mysore rajah’s territories. The fort is built entirely of mud, but it is nevertheless large and strong; and one side is surrounded by gardens, the other by the town. Its trade is inconsiderable. Long. 77. 47. E. Lat. 13. 17. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016808-3271 | PEDD APORE, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, and district of Rajamundry, twenty-five miles eastnorth-east from the town of Rajamundry. Sugar is cultivated in the neighbourhood to a considerable extent. A battle was fought here in 1758, between the French and English, in which the former were totally defeat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016809-3271 | PEDESTAL, in Architecture, the lowest part of an order of columns, being that part which sustains the column, and serves it as its base. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016810-3271 | PEDIAEAN, in Grecian antiquity. The city of Athens was anciently divided into three different parts; one on the descent of a hill, another on the sea-shore, and a third in a plain between the other two. The inhabitants of the middle region were called ∏iδ∕αo∕, Pediaeans, from τrοδιον, plain or flat; those of the hill, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016811-3271 | PEDICLE, amongst botanists, that part of a stalk which immediately sustains the leaf of a flower or a fruit, and is commonly called a footstalk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016812-3271 | PEDIR, a town on the western coast of the island of Sumatra, from which are exported betel-nut, pepper, gold dust, canes, rattans, bees-wax, camphor, and benzoin or frankincense. The soil around is fertile, and the country well watered. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016813-3271 | PEDOMETER, or Podometer, formed from ττους, pes, foot, and μtτξοv, measure, a mechanical instrument, in the form of a watch, consisting of various wheels with teeth, catching in one another, all disposed in the same plane, which, by means of a chain or string fastened to a man’s foot, or to the wheel of a chariot, adva... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016814-3271 | PEDRA Blanca, a large and elevated rock, perfectly white, and situated in the Sea of China. Long. 114.57. E. Lat. 22. 19. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016815-3271 | PEDRO, Dom, of Portugal, Duke of Coimbra, was the fourth child and second surviving son of King John of Portugal, and was born on the 4th of March 1394. His father gave him an excellent education, which, joined to strong natural abilities and much application, rendered him one of the most accomplished princes of his ti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-016901-3284 | PEEBLESSHIRE, or Tweeddale, a county in Scotland, situated between 55. 24. and 55. 50. north latitude, and between 2. 45. and 3. 23. west longitude from Greenwich. It is bounded on the north by Mid-Lothian or Edinburghshire, on the east by the county of Selkirk, on the south by Dumfriesshire, and on the west by Lanarks... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017101-3310 | PEEK, in nautical language, is a word used in various senses. Thus the anchor is said to be a-peek when the ship, being about to weigh, comes over her anchor in such a manner that the cable hangs perpendicularly between the hawse and the anchor.
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kp-eb0717-017102-3310 | PEEL, a town on the western side of the Isle of Man, in the Irish Channel, formerly called Holm. It is a scattered place, containing nothing remarkable excepting an old cathedral in a dilapidated ‘state, and a castle on a small island, or rather rock, at the mouth of the river of the same name as the town. It has but l... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017103-3310 | PEELAS Isles, a cluster of small islands in the Eastern Seas. Plenty of cowries are found along the beach. The Peelas are covered with wood, but are destitute of fresh water, and have no settled population. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017104-3310 | PEER, in general, signifies an equal, or one of the same rank and station. Hence, in the acts of some councils, we find these words: “with the consent of our peers, bishops, abbots,” and others. Afterwards the same term was applied to the vassals or tenants of the same lord, who were called peers, because they were all... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017105-3310 | PEERESS, a woman who is noble by descent, by creation, or by marriage. As we have noblemen of several ranks, so we may also have noblewomen. Thus Henry VIII. made Anne Boleyn, Marchioness of Pembroke; James I. created the Lady Compton, wife of Sir Thomas Compton, Countess of Buckingham, in the lifetime of her husband, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017106-3310 | PEERGAUM, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, and in the province of Aurungabad, sixty-eight miles east from Poonah. Long. 75. 2. E. Lat. 18. 32. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017107-3310 | PEGASUS, amongst the poets, a horse imagined to have had wings, being that on which Bellerophon was fabled to have mounted when he engaged the Chimaera.
Pegasus, in Astronomy, the name of a constellation of the northern hemisphere, in the form of a flying horse. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017108-3310 | PEGAU, a city of the kingdom of Saxony, situated in the circle of Leipsich, and bailiwick of Borna. It is built on the banks of the White Elster, and contains two churches, 420 houses, and 2680 inhabitants, employed in making various kinds of linen goods, and also as shoemakers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017109-3310 | PEGMARES, a name by which certain gladiators were distinguished, who fought upon moveable scaffolds called pegmata, which were sometimes unexpectedly raised, and by this means surprised the people with gladiators in hot contention. These scaffolds were sometimes lifted up so suddenly as to throw the combatants into the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017110-3310 | PEGU, formerly an independent kingdom of Asia, now incorporated with the Birman empire, by whose sovereign it was subdued, after long wars. The limits of this state were never very accurately defined, and it probably varied with the fate of war. It included a large tract of country, about 350 miles in length from north... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 10' N 96 12' E | PEGU |
kp-eb0717-017301-3336 | PEIHO, a considerable river of China, in the province of Pe-che-lee. It has its rise on the borders of Tartary, and in its course northwards passes within a few miles of the capital, maintaining its communication, by the great canal, with the Yellow Sea, into which it discharges itself in lat. 39. 3. N. The country thr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017302-3336 | PEINA, a city of the kingdom of Hanover, in the province of Hildesheim, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, situated on the river Fuse. It is surrounded with walls, and contains a castle used now as a workhouse, a Catholic and a Lutheran church, a capuchin monastery, 440 houses, and 3460 inhabitants, employed ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017401-3349 | PEINE Forte et Dure (Lat. paena fortis et dura) signifies a special punishment inflicted on those who, being arraigned of felony, refuse to put themselves on the ordinary trial, but stubbornly stand mute. It is vulgarly called pressing to death. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017402-3349 | PEINGHEE, a town in the Birman empire, on the western side of the Irrawaddy. The teak timber grows in the western mountains, which are in sight, in great abundance, and is carried to Rangoon, whence it is exported to the British territories. Here also ships are built, although the distance from the Rangoon, including t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017403-3349 | PEIRCE, James, an eminent dissenting minister, born at Wapping, London, in the year 1674. He was educated at Utrecht and Leyden; after which he spent some time at Oxford, in,order to enjoy the benefit of frequenting the Bodleian Library. He then for two years preached the Sunday-evening lecture at the meeting-house in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017404-3349 | PEIRESC, Nicoas Claude Fabri, born in 1580, was descended from an ancient and noble family, which had been originally established at Pisa in Italy. At ten years of age he was sent to Avignon, where he spent five years in the Jesuits’ college, studying what in Scotland and on the Continent is called humanity. From Avign... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017501-3362 | PEKIANGHO, a considerable river of China, in the province of Quangtong, having its origin on the southern side of the mountains by which that province is divided from Kiangsee. It forms part of the great navigable communication between Peking and Canton. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017502-3362 | PEKING, or Pekin, a celebrated city of Asia, and capital of the great empire of China. It is built in the form of an oblong square, of which the four walls face the cardinal points, and enclose an area of about fourteen square miles, independently of the suburbs, which are very extensive. The walls are built of brick, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 55' N 116 28' E | PEKING |
kp-eb0717-017601-3375 | PELAGIANS, a Christian sect who appeared about the end of the fourth or beginning of the fifth century. They maintained that Adam was by nature mortal, and, whether he had sinned or not, would certainly have died; that the consequences of Adam’s sin were confined to his own person; that new-born infants are in the same... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017602-3375 | PELAGIUS was a native of Great Britain, but whether of England, Scotland, or Wales, is as uncertain as it is immaterial. He was born towards the close of the fourth century, and educated in the monastery of Bangor, in Wales, of which he became a monk, and afterwards abbot. In the early part of his life he passed over t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017603-3375 | PELAIGHE, a town of Hindustan, tributary to the Mahrattas, and situated in the province of Agra, twelve miles north from Narwar. Long. 78. 8. E. Lat. 25. 51. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017604-3375 | PELANDAH, a large village of Hindustan, in the Rajpoot territories, and province of Ajmeer, said to contain 1000 houses. It is seventy miles east-south-east from Jyenagur. Long. 76. 45. E. Lat. 26. 36. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017605-3375 | PELANGY, a river in the island of Magindanao, on which the capital is situated, and here as broad as the Thames at London bridge. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017606-3375 | PELASGI, or Pelasgians, a very ancient people, of whom the historical inquirers in the Augustan age could find no trace amongst any race then subsisting, and about whom so many opposite opinions have been confidently maintained, and so much learning unprofitably accumulated, that it is difficult, if not impossible, to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017901-3414 | PELATAE were those free-born citizens amongst the Athenians, who by poverty were reduced to the necessity of serving for wages. During their servitude they had no vote in the management of public affairs, from having no estate to qualify them; but this restriction was removed whenever they had released themselves from ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017902-3414 | PELAUDAH, a large village of Hindustan, in the Rajpoot territories, and province of Ajmeer, containing 1000 houses. It is seventy miles east-south-east from Jyenagur. Long. 76. 45. E. Lat. 26. 36. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017903-3414 | PELEG, son of Eber, was born in the year of the world 1757. The Scripture says his father gave him the name of Peleg, signifying division, because in his time the earth began to be divided (Gen. xi. 16; x. 25); whether it was that Noah had begun to distribute the earth amongst his descendants, some years before the bui... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017904-3414 | PELETHITES. The Pelethites and Cherethites were famous under the reign of David. They were the most valiant men in the army of that prince, and guarded the person of the king. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017905-3414 | PELEUS, in fabulous history, a king of Thessaly, son of Aeacus, and Endeis, the daughter of Chiron. He married Thetis, one of the Nereids, and was the only mortal man who had ever married an immortal. He was concerned in the murder of his brother Phocus, and was therefore obliged to leave his father’s dominions. He fle... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-017906-3414 | PELEW Islands, or Palaos, a cluster of islands, mostly small, in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, situated between the Philippine and the Caroline Islands, and chiefly between the seventh and eighth degrees of north latitude, and the 134th and 135th of east longitude. These islands are eighteen in number, and the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018101-3440 | PELIAS, in fabulous history, the twin-brother of Neleus, was son of Neptune by Tyro, daughter of Salmoneus. His birth was concealed by his mother, who wished her father to remain ignorant of her incontinence. He was exposed in the woods, but his life was preserved by shepherds; and he received the name of Pelias, from ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018102-3440 | PELICONDAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of the Circars, and district of Cicacole. Long. 84. 10. E. Lat. 18. 33. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018103-3440 | PELIME, a river of Asiatic Russia, which falls into the Taudo, near the town of the same name. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018104-3440 | PELING, an island in the Yellow Sea, near the coast of Corea, ten miles in length and four in breadth. Long. 124. 28. E. Lat. 38. 24. N.
Peling Isle, an island in the Eastern Seas, near the east coast of the island of Celebes, between the 123d and 124th degrees of east longitude. It is fifty miles in length by fifteen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018105-3440 | PELION, a mountain of Thessaly, near Ossa. It rises majestically over the Sinus Pelasgicus, having its top covered with pines, and its sides with oaks. From this mountain was cut the spear of Achilles, called pelias, which none but himself could wield. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018106-3440 | PELLA, in Ancient Geography, a town situated on the confines of Emathia, a district of Macedonia. It was the royal residence, and being situated on an eminence verging to the south-west, was encompassed with impassable marshes summer and winter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018107-3440 | PELLETIER, Bertrand, a celebrated chemical philosopher, was born at Bayonne in the year 1761. He very soon discovered a strong predilection for the sciences, to cherish which he had every thing in his father’s house that could reasonably be desired, and there acquired the elements of that art for which he was afterward... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018201-3453 | PELLEW, Sir Edward’s Group, a cluster of islands on the north coast of New Holland, which occupy a space of thirty-four miles east and west, by twenty-two north and south, on the western coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. These islands are far from being fertile, and when the surface is not bare rock, it consists of san... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018202-3453 | PELLISSON, or Pellisson Fontanier, Paul, was the son of James Pellisson, counsellor at Castres. He was born at Beziers in 1624, and educated in the Protestant religion. He studied with success the Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, and Italian tongues, and applied himself to the perusal of the best authors in these languag... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018203-3453 | PELOPIA, a festival observed by the Eleans in honour of Pelops. A ram was sacrificed on the occasion; but priests and people were both prohibited from partaking of it, on pain of excommunication from Jupiter’á temple; the neck only being allotted to the officer who provided wood for the sacrifice. This officer was call... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018204-3453 | PELOPONNESUS, a large peninsula to the south of the continent of Greece. It was called the island of Pelops, though properly not an island, but a peninsula, ending in a point like the leaf of the plane-tree. Anciently called Apia and Pelasgia, this peninsula was second to no other country for nobleness, being situated ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018205-3453 | PELOPS, in fabulous history, the son of Tantalus, king of Phrygia, went into Elis, where he married Hippodamia the daughter of CEnomaus, king of that country, and became so powerful, that all the territory which lies beyond the isthmus, and composes a considerable part of Greece, was called Peloponnesus, from his name ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018206-3453 | PELTA, a small, light, manageable buckler, used by the ancients, and also worn by the Amazons. The pelta is said by some to have resembled an ivy leaf in form; by others it is compared to the leaf of an Indian fig-tree, and by Serbius to the moon in her first quarter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018207-3453 | PELUSSIN, a town of France, in the department of the Loire, and arrondissement of St Etienne. It has some considerable manufactories of silk; and the neighbourhood is remarkable for the great quantity of chestnuts which are collected annually for exportation. It contains about 460 houses, with 3350 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018208-3453 | PELUSIUM, in Ancient Geography, was a strong city of Egypt, without the Delta, distant twenty stadia from the sea, and situated amidst marshes, from which circumstance it derived its name. It was called the key or inlet of Egypt, because, if taken, the rest of Egypt lay quite open and exposed to an enemy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-018209-3453 | PEMBA, a low, well-wooded, and extremely fertile island, fourteen leagues in length, near the eastern coast of Africa. It exports both corn and cattle to a considerable amount. Long. 41. E. Lat. 5. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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