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kp-eb0717-023403-4129 | PERIPATETICS, philosophers, followers of Aristotle, and supporters of the peripatetic philosophy, called also Aristotelians. Cicero says that Plato left two excellent disciples, Xenocrates and Aristotle, who founded two sects, which only differed in name; the former took the appellation of Academics, being those who co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023404-4129 | PERIPATON, in Antiquity, the name of that walk in the Lyceum where Aristotle taught, and whence the name of Peripatetics was applied to his followers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023405-4129 | PERIPETEIA, in the drama, is that part of a tragedy in'which the action is turned, the plot unravelled, and the whole concludes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023406-4129 | PERIPHERY, in Geometry, the circumference of a circle, ellipsis, or any other regular curvilinear figure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023407-4129 | PERIPHRASIS, or circumlocution (formed from πεg∕, about, and ^gαζω, I speak), in Rhetoric, a circuitous form of words, much affected by orators, to avoid common and trite modes of expression. The periphrasis is of great use on some occasions; and it is often necessary, to make things be conceived which it is not proper... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023408-4129 | PERIPNEUMONY, Aεgιπνευμοvια (formed from τrεgι, about, and πνευμων, lungs), in Medicine, an inflammation of some part of the thorax, properly of the lungs, attended with an acute fever, and a difficulty of breathing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023409-4129 | PERIRPHANTERIUM, a vessel of stone or brass fill ed with holy water, with which all those were sprinkled who were admitted by the ancients to their sacrifices. Beyond this vessel no profane person was allowed to pass. We are told by some that it was placed in the adytum, or inmost recess of the temple; but others say t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023410-4129 | PERISCII, in Geography, the inhabitants of either frigid zone, between the polar circles and the poles, where the sun, when in the summer signs, moves only round about them, without setting; and consequently their shadows in the same day turn to all the points of the horizon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023411-4129 | PERISTALTIC, a vermicular spontaneous motion of the intestines, performed by the contraction of the circular and longitudinal fibres of which the fleshy coats of the intestines are composed; by means of which the chyle is driven into the orifices of the lacteal veins, and the faeces are protruded towards the anus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023412-4129 | PERISTYLE, in Ancient Architecture, a building encompassed with a row of columns on the inside. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023413-4129 | PERITROCHIUM, -in Mechanics, denotes a wheel or circle, concentric with the base of a cylinder, and moveable together with it round its axis. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023414-4129 | PERJURY is defined by Sir Edward Coke to be a crime committed when a lawful oath is administered, in some judicial proceeding, to a person who swears wilfully, absolutely, and falsely, in a matter which is material to the issue or point in question. In ancient times it was in some places punished with death; at other p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023501-4142 | PERIZONIUS, James, one of the most learned philologists and most judicious critics whom Holland has produced, was born at Dam, in the province of Groningen, in the year 1651. His father, who was both pastor and rector of the school of that place, having, in 1664, been appointed professor of theology at Deven ter, young... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023502-4142 | PERIZZITES, the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, who were mingled with the Canaanites. There is some probability that they themselves were Canaanites; but having no fixed habitations, being sometimes dispersed in one country and sometimes in another, they were for that reason called Perizzites, which signifies “scatte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023503-4142 | PERM, a town and very extensive government of Russia. The province is situated chiefly in European, but partly also in Asiatic Russia, and is bounded by the government of Viatka on the west, and that of Tobolsk on the east. It has an area of 116,000 square miles, with a population of not more than 1,100,000. It is of a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023504-4142 | PERMACOIL, a small town and fortress of the south of India, in the province of the Carnatic, situated on a rock from two to three hundred feet in height, but at its base not more than five hundred yards broad. It is exceedingly steep and difficult of access, but was taken by the British, in 1760, under Colonel Coote, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023505-4142 | PERMEABLE, a term applied to bodies of so loose a texture as to let something pass through them.
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kp-eb0717-023601-4155 | PERNAMBUCO, a large and important province of Brazil, in South America. It is separated on the south from the provinces of Seregipe and Bahia by the river St Francisco, and from Minas Geraes by the river Carinhenha; on the west it touches on Goyaz; and Paraiba, Seara, and Piauhy bound it on the north. This province is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023801-4181 | PERNICIOUS Islands, a group of islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean, about fifteen miles in circumference, and which were so called by Raggemein, one of whose vessels was wrecked there in 1712. They are supposed to be the Palliser Islands of Captain Cook. Long. 140. 45. W. Lat. 16. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023802-4181 | PERONNE, an arrondissement of the department of the Somme, in France. It is 465 square miles in extent, and is divided into eight cantons, which are subdivided into 184 communes, containing 98,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Somme, in a position marshy and almost inacces... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023803-4181 | PERONES, a sort of high shoes, which were worn not only by country people, but also by men of ordinary rank at Rome. In the early times of the commonwealth, they were worn even by senators; but at last they were disused by persons of note, and confined to ploughmen and labourers. They were very rudely formed, consistin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023804-4181 | PERORATION, in Fhetoric, the concluding portion of an oration, in which all that the orator had insisted on throughout his discourse is urged afresh with greater vehemence and passion. The peroration consists of two parts; recapitulation, in which the substance of what was diffused throughout the speech is briefly coll... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023805-4181 | PERPENDICULAR, in Geometry, is a line falling directly upon another line, so as to make equal angles on each side. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023806-4181 | PERPIGNAN, an arrondissement of the department of the Eastern Pyrenees, in France, extending over 557 square miles. It comprehends seven cantons, divided into eighty-five communes, and containing 57,800 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, the see of a bishop, and the seat of the departmental courts o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023807-4181 | PERRAULT, Claude, a celebrated architect, was born at Paris in the year 1613. His father, an advocate of the parliament, caused him to study medicine, anatomy, and the mathematics; and he even took the degree of doctor of physic in the faculty of Paris. But Colbert, the celebrated French minister, having advised him to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023901-4194 | PERRON, Jaques Davy du, a cardinal, distinguished by his abilities and learning, was born in the canton of Berne in the year 1556. He was educated by Julian Davy, his father, a learned Calvinist, who taught him Latin and the mathematics; after which, by his own exertions, he became acquainted with the Greek and Hebrew,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023902-4194 | PERRUKE, Peruke, or Periwig, was anciently a name for a long head of natural hair, particularly such as great care had been taken in adjusting and trimming. Ménage derives the word rather fancifully from the Roman word pilus, hair. The Latins called it coma, and hence part of Gaul took the denomination of Gallia Comata... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-023903-4194 | PERRY, Captain John, a repectable engineer, who resided long in Russia, having been recommended to the Czar Peter whilst in England, as a person capable of serving him on a variety of occasions relating to his new design of establishing a fleet and improving inland navigation. His salary in this service was L.300 per a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-024001-4207 | PERSAIM, or Bassein, a town of the Birman empire, and province of Pegu, situated on the river Irrawaddy, which is here called Persaim, and is navigable for ships up to the town. Owing to the inundation of the river, the town is built on piles of wood eight feet from the ground, which admit the tide under them to wash t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 16 50' N 95 0' E | PERSAIM |
kp-eb0717-024002-4207 | PERSAUMAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, and district of Tirhoot, ninety miles north east by east of Patna. Long. 86. 32. E. Lat. 26. 1. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-024003-4207 | PERSECUTION means any pain or affliction which one person designedly inflicts upon another; and, in a more restricted sense, it includes the sufferings which the Christians underwent on account of their religion.
Historians usually reckon ten general persecutions; the first of which took place under the Emperor Nero, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-024004-4207 | PERSEES, or Parsees, the descendants of a colony of ancient Persians, who took refuge in Bombay, Surat, and the vicinity of those cities, when their own country was conquered by the Mahommedan Arabs. They are a gentle, quiet, and industrious people, beloved by the Hindus, and living in great harmony amongst themselves.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-024005-4207 | PERSHORE, a market-town of Worcestershire, in the hundred of the same name, 103 miles from London, on the great road to Worcester. It stands on the river Avon, near its junction with the Bow, by which some internal navigation contributes to the extension of its trade. It is well built, and has a good market, which is o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-024101-4220 | PERSIA.
From the remotest period of antiquity Persia has been celebrated as one of the most powerful empires of the East, the seat of wealth and luxury when Europe was in a state of barbarism. The conquest of Babylon was the commencement of her future greatness; and her warlike monarchs continued their victorious cour... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-027201-4623 | PERSICUS Sinus, in Ancient Geography·, a part of the sea which the Romans called Mare Rubrum, and the Greeks Mare Erythraeum. On the east it is bounded by Arabia Felix, between which and Caramania it runs into the land, and washes Persia on the south. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-027202-4623 | PERSIUS Flaccus (Aulus), a celebrated Roman satirist, was a native of Volaterra in Etruria, and descended of an equestrian family of considerable eminence in the state. The little that we know respecting his personal history is chiefly derived from a slight sketch commonly ascribed to the pen of Suetonius. He was born ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-027203-4623 | PERSON, an individua! of a rational and intelligent nature. Thus we say, an ambassador represents the person of his prince; and that, in law, the father and son are reputed the same person.
Person, in Grammar, a term applied to such nouns or pronouns as, being either prefixed or understood, are the nominatives in all ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-027204-4623 | PERSONAL, any thing that concerns, or is restricted to, the person.
Personal Action, in Law, is an action levied directly and solely against the person, in opposition to a real or a mixed action.
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kp-eb0717-027205-4623 | PERSONALITY, in the schools, is that which constitutes an individual a distinct person. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-027206-4623 | PERSONIFYING, the assigning to an inanimate object the sentiments and language of a living being.
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kp-eb0717-027301-4636 | PERSPECTIVE.
Perspective is the art of drawing upon a plane surface true resemblances or pictures of objects, as the objects themselves appear to the eye from any distance and situation, real or imaginary.
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kp-eb0717-028601-4805 | PERSPECTIVE, Aerial, is sometimes employed as a general denomination for that which in a more restricted sense is called aerial perspective, or the art of giving a due diminution or degradation to the strength of light, shade, and colour, accordingto the different distances of objects, the quantity of∙light which falls... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-028602-4805 | PERTH, the principal town of Perthshire, and the most central in Scotland, is situated on the banks of the river Tay, about twenty-five miles above its confluence with the German Ocean, in latitude 56. 23.40. north, and longitude 3. 26. 20. west. The situation of Perth is one of the finest that can be imagined. Two bea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-028901-4844 | PERTHSHIRE, one of the most extensive and beautiful counties in Scotland, being very compact and almost circular in form, is situated nearly in the centre of the kingdom. Its extreme length from east to west is about seventy-seven miles, and its greatest breadth from north to south is about sixty-eight miles. Its area ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-029101-4870 | PERTINAX, an illustrious Roman emperor, who succeeded the detested Commodus. He was descended of a mean family, and, like his father, who was either a slave or the son of a manumitted slave, he for some time followed the humble employment of drying wood and making charcoal. His poverty did not, however, prevent him fro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-029201-4883 | PERTUIS, a city of France, in the department of Vaucluse, and arrondissement of Apt. It is situated on the river Air, about three miles from its junction with the Durance, and contains about 540 houses, with 4280 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in spinning and weaving silk, and in the distillation of brandy. Long... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 44' N 5 30' E | PERTUIS |
kp-eb0717-029202-4883 | PERU.
Peru is the name of one of the republics of South America, but it likewise designates a large empire long since dismembered, yet still renowned for its wealth and ancient civilization. The limits of the present state do not comprehend much more than one third of the country over which the incas held dominion, fr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-030801-5091 | PERUGIA, a delegation or province of the States of the Church, in Italy, and a part of the ancient Umbria. It is 1793 square miles in extent, and contains seven cities, nineteen market-towns, with numerous villages, and 181,540 inhabitants. It includes a large portion of the Apennines, and is therefore very hilly; but ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 6' 46" N 12 16' 53" E | PERUGIA |
kp-eb0717-030802-5091 | PERUVIANA, a general name sometimes applied to the vast peninsula of South America, extending from the Isthmus of Panama to Cape Horn. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-030803-5091 | PERUWELS, a market-town of Belgium, in the province of West Flanders, and circle of Toumay. It is situated on the frontier towards France, and contains 5650 inhabitants, employed in making linen, in breweries, and distilleries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-030804-5091 | PERWUTTUN, a village on the southern shore of the river Krishna, in a wild tract of almost uninhabited country. Here is a remarkable pagoda, wherein there is an idol, which is shown by the reflected light of a brass speculum, and can only be seen as the flashes fall on it. The pagodas, chouttries, and courts, are enclo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 15 57' N 78 40' E | PERWUTTUN |
kp-eb0717-030805-5091 | PESANO, a city of the province of Saluzzo, in the kingdom of Sardinia, in Italy. It is situated on the river Po, and contains 720 houses, with 4600 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-030806-5091 | PESARO, a city of the pontifical dominions, in Italy, in the delegation of Urbino cum Pesaro. It stands on the river Foglia, at its embouchure, and is surrounded with walls. It is the see of a bishop, and has a cathedral and seven parish churches, with eight monasteries and four nunneries, which have also churches, som... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-030807-5091 | PESCIA, a city of the duchy of Tuscany, in Italy, the capital of a district, in the province of Florence, of its own name. It is situated on the river Pescia, is the see of a bishop, and has a cathedral and two other churches, with [7:17:309]4200 inhabitants, who subsist chiefly by spinning and weaving silk, and making... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-030901-5104 | PESCINA, a city of Italy, in the province of Principato Ulteriore II. of the kingdom of Naples. It stands on the north-eastern side of the Lake of Cellano, is the see of a bishop, has a cathedral, with several other churches and monasteries, and contains 4500 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-030902-5104 | PESHAWUR, or Peishare, a district and very ancient city of Afghanistan, in the province of Caubul, intersected by the Caubul River, and surrounded on all sides by a mountainous range, by which it is sheltered from the cold winds, and rendered very hot during summer. It is well watered by innumerable streams flowing dow... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 33 32' N 70 37' E | PESHAWUR |
kp-eb0717-030903-5104 | PEST, or Pesth, a city of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, the capital of a circle, extending over 4202 square miles, and which comprehends two cities, twenty markettowns, and 319 villages, with 380,000 inhabitants. The city is situated on the left bank of the Danube, opposite to Buda, with which it is connected by a b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 31' 40" N 25 57' 12" E | PEST |
kp-eb0717-030904-5104 | PETALISM, a mode of deciding on the guilt of citizens, similar to the Athenian ostracism. It was introduced into Syracuse about the year before Christ 460, to restrain the tyranny of the richer citizens, who about that time aimed at the supreme power. To prevent the evils daily arising from this source, and to bring do... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-030905-5104 | PETALNAIG, a town of Southern Hindustan, in the province of Tinnevelly, a hundred miles north-east from Cape Comorin. Long. 78. 15. E. Lat. 9. 13. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 9 13' N 78 15' E | PETALNAIG |
kp-eb0717-030906-5104 | PETAREE, a large village of Hindustan, in the province of Malwah, forty-eight miles north-east from Bilsah. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-030907-5104 | PETAU, Denis, or Dionysius Petavius, a French Jesuit of great erudition, was born at Orleans in the year 1583. His father, who was a man of learning, observing in his son strong parts and an excellent genius for letters, took every means in his power to improve them. He used to tell his son, that he ought to qualify hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-031001-5117 | PETCHELEE, a considerable and extensive province of China, in which Peking, the capital, is situated. Being one of the northerly provinces of China, its climate is cold, and the winter is severe, all the rivers being frozen during four months in the year, from November to March. It is in general of a sandy soil; a grea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-031002-5117 | PETER (originally Simeon or Simon, pjmir, called also, by a rendering of the Greek Ihτξος into the corresponding word in the Aramaic dialect spoken in Palestine in the days of our Lord, Cephas, xso, John, i. 42), one of the twelve apostles, and author of two epistles in the inspired canon. He was a native of Bethsaida ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-031401-5169 | PETERBOROUGH, one of the smallest English cities, situated in a corner of the county of Northampton, on the confines of Huntingdonshire, seventy-nine miles from London. The city is by the new municipal law governed by a mayor, with four aldermen and twelve councillors, and returns to parliament two members, who are cho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-031402-5169 | PETERHEAD, a parish of Scotland, situated on the east coast, in latitude 57. 34. N. and longitude 1. 35. W. in the district of Buchan, and county of Aberdeen. It extends along the coast in a straight line about four miles, bending along the sea-shore about five miles; and from east to west it extends from three to four... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-031501-5182 | PETERSBURG, St, a city, in the most northern situation of any large place in the globe, its observatory being in latitude 59. 56. 13. N∙, and in longitude 30. 17. 33. E. It was almost from its origin the second, and has of late become the first city of the Russian empire; its population having in the course of the last... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-032301-5286 | PETERSFIELD, a borough and market-town of the county of Hants, in the parish of Buriton, and hundred of Fincbdean. It was erected into a borough by Queen Elizabeth, and is governed by a mayor and common council. It returned two members to parliament before 1832, but since that year it has elected but one. The market is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-032302-5286 | PETERS le Port, a market-town of England, in the island of Guernsey. It is situated on the south-eastern part of the island, and consists of one long, narrow street. It is defended by two ports, one of which, called Castle Cornet, stands on a rock, separated by an arm of the sea from the land, and which commands both t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-032303-5286 | PETERSWALDAU, a city of the Prussian government of Reichenbach, in Silesia. It is finely situated, and has a large establishment of the United Brethren. It belongs to the family of Stolberg Wernigerode, and contains 510 houses, with 3080 inhabitants, who carry on extensive cloth manufactories. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-032304-5286 | PETERWARDEIN, a city of the Hungarian province of the Sclavonic military frontier. It is the capital of the limits of that regiment or circle, extending over 1244 square miles, comprehending four cities and towns, and sixty-one villages, with 91,618 inhabitants. The city is situated on the river Danube, is strongly for... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 15' 30" N 19 47' 11" E | PETERWARDEIN |
kp-eb0717-032305-5286 | PETHERTON, North, a town of the county of Somerset, in the hundred of the same name, 137 miles from London and three from Bridgewater. It consists of one long street, tolerably built; but the parish is very extensive, comprehending seventeen villages. The population amounted in 1801 to 2346, in 1811 to 2615, in 1821 to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-032306-5286 | PETIT, John, a doctor of the Sorbonne, who very early gained to himself a name by his knowledge, and the eloquent orations which he pronounced before the university of Paris. He was employed in the famous embassy which was sent from France to Rome for the purpose of healing the schism in 1407; but he soon forfeited all... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-032307-5286 | PETITIO Principii, in Logic, is the assuming a thing [7:17:324]as true, and drawing conclusions from it on this assumption, when it is either really false, or at least requires to be proved before any inference can be drawn from it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-032401-5299 | PETIVER, James, a celebrated English botanist, contemporary with Plukenet. Of the precise time of his birth no notice has been preserved. He was by profession an apothecary, having served an apprenticeship under Mr Feltham, apothecary to St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He settled in Aldersgate Street, where he commenced bus... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-032402-5299 | PETLAD, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and district of Broach. It is sixteen miles north-east from Cambay. The inhabitants are here subjected to the servitude of acting as guides to travellers, from which only a certain caste, the Dhers, are exempted. Long. 73. E. Lat. 22. 27. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 27' N 73 E | PETLAD |
kp-eb0717-032403-5299 | PETLAHWAD, a town of Hindustan, belonging to the Mahrattas, in the province of Malwah. It is seventy miles west by north from Ooiain. Long. 74. 50. E. Lat. 23. 22. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 23 22' N 74 50' E | PETLAHWAD |
kp-eb0717-032404-5299 | PETRARCH, Francis, one of the greatest poets and most celebrated men of whom Italy can boast, was born at Arezzo on the 20th of July 1304. He saw the light amidst the rage of contending factions. His father, the friend of Dante, and, like him, of the Ghibelin party, had been banished from Florence, where he filled a re... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033101-5390 | PETREL Island, a small island in Dusky Bay, near the coast of New Zealand, a little to the north of the harbour in Anchor Island. It is also the name of a bay on the south coast of New Holland. Long. 133. 15. 30. E. Lat. 32. 33. 30. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033102-5390 | PETRIFACTION, in Natural History, denotes the conversion of wood, bones, and some other substances, whether animal or vegetable, into stone. These bodies are more or less altered from their original state, according to the different substances amongst which they have lain buried in the earth; some of them having suffer... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033201-5403 | PETROBRUSSIANS, a religious sect, which took its rise in France and the Netherlands about the year 1110. The name is derived from Peter Bruys, a Provençal, who made a most laudable attempt to reform the abuses and remove the superstition which disgraced the beautiful simplicity of the gospel. His followers were numerou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033202-5403 | PETROJOANNITES were followers of Peter John, or Peter Joannis, that is, Peter the son of John, who flourished in the twelfth century. His doctrine was not known until after his death, when his body was taken out of his grave and burned. His opinions were, that he alone had the knowledge of the true sense in which the a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033203-5403 | PETROLEUM, or Rock Oil, a thick oily substance exuding from the earth, and collected on the surface of wells, in many parts of the world. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033204-5403 | PETRONIUS Arbiter, C. the author of a kind of romance, the earliest with which we are acquainted, was born at Massilia, and is supposed to be the same of whom some account is given by Tacitus {Ann. xvi. 18). As proconsul, he administered the province of Bithynia with considerable ability, and on his return to Rome he b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033301-5416 | PETROPAULOSKAIA, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Irkoutsk, sixteen miles south-southwest of Selenginsk. Another fortress in the government of Oufa, 52 miles east-north-east of Verchouralsk. Also a town of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Tobolsk, on the Ischim, forty miles east of Ischim. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033302-5416 | PETROSOWODSK, a city of Russia, in the government of Olonez, and the capital of a circle of its own name. It is situated on a bay of the Lake of Onega, and by means of the Salma is connected with the Lake of Lagmosero. It is poorly built, but contains 390 houses, mostly of wood, and 3280inhabitants, who trade in pitch,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033303-5416 | PETSCHANOI, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Kolivan, 188 miles west-south-west of Kolivan. Also a cape on the northern coast of Asiatic Russia, in the Frozen Sea. Long. 165. 14. E. Lat. 75. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033304-5416 | PETTEIA, in the ancient music, a term to which we have no one corresponding in our language. The melo-poeia, or the art of arranging sounds in succession so as to produce melody, is divided into three parts, which the Greeks call lepsis, mixis, and chresis ; the Latins, sumptio, niixio, and usus ; and the Italians, pre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033305-5416 | PETTIPORE, or Pettapore, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, and district of Rajamundry, thirty-three miles east-north-east from the town of Rajamundry. Long. 82. 25. E. Lat. 27. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033306-5416 | PETTY, Sir William, a man eminently distinguished for his learning, mechanical ingenuity, and political writings, was the eldest son of Antony Petty, a clothier at Rumsey, in Hampshire, where he was born on the 16th of May 1623. Petty, when a boy, was noted for the pleasure he took in observing mechanics at work, and t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033501-5442 | PETTYCOTTA, a town of Hindustan, in the Southern Carnatic, and the province of Tanjore, thirty-two miles south by east from the town of Tanjore. Long. 79. 22. E. Lat. 16. 21. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033502-5442 | PETWORTH, a market-town of the county of Sussex, in the rape of Arundel, and hundred of Rotherbridge. It is situated on the river Arun, fifty miles from London, and has a market which is held on Saturday. The streets are irregular, but the whole appearance is clean. The church is a fine object, and has a very lofty spi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033503-5442 | PEWSEY, a town of the county of Wilts, in the hundred of Kinwardstone, seventy-six miles from London. The population in 1801 amounted to 1179, in 1811 to 1209, in 1821 to 1337, and in 1831 to 1588. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033504-5442 | PEWSUM, a town of the kingdom of Hanover, in the province of East Friesland, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, which extends over fifty-four square miles, and contains, besides the town, fourteen parishes, with 6320 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033505-5442 | PEWTER, a factitious metal, used in the making of domestic utensils. The basis of this metal is tin, united to small portions of lead, zinc, bismuth, and antimony. There are three sorts of pewter in common use, distinguished by the names of plate, trifle, and ley. The plate-pewter is used for plates and dishes; the tri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033601-5455 | PEYAUNG, a town of Hindustan, in the nabob of Oude’s territories, seventy miles north-north-west from Lucknow. Long. 80. 15. E. Lat. 27. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033602-5455 | PEYRERE, Isaac la, an individual remarkable for versatility in his religious opinions, was born at Bordeaux in 1594, being the son of Protestant parents. He entered the service of the Prince of Condé, who was much pleased with the singularity of his genius. From the perusal of St Paul’s writings, he took it into his he... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033603-5455 | PEYROUSE, or Perouse, John Francis Galoup de la, the celebrated but unfortunate French navigator, was born at Albi in the year 1741. His father intended to train him up to a maritime life, for which purpose he sent him, when very young, to the marine school, where he became enthusiastically attached to his profession, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033604-5455 | PEYRUSSE, a city of France, in the department of Aveiron and arrondissement of Villefranche. It stands on an elevation, at the base of which flows the river Diège. It has a hospital,and 910 houses, with 6350 inhabitants. Long. 1. 55. E. Lat. 44. 36. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033605-5455 | PEYTAHN, a district of Northern Hindustan, with a mountainous irregular surface, much covered with jungle. It is tributary to the rajah of Nepaul, and is situated about the twenty-ninth degree of north latitude. Also a town in the Nepaul territories, the capital of a district of the same name. Long. 82. 15. E. Lat. 29.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033606-5455 | PEZAY, N. Masson, Marquis de, born at Paris, where he early applied himself to the study of letters, and afterwards went into the army. He was made a captain of dragoons, and had the honour of giving some instructions in tactics to the ill-fated Louis XVI. Being appointed inspector-general of some coasting vessels, he ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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