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kp-eb0717-033701-5468 | PEZENAS, a city of France, in the department of Hérault and arrondissement of Beziers. It is situated in a fine district on the river Peine, near to its junction with the Hérault. It contains 1600 houses, with 8640 inhabitants, who are employed in silk-mills, in tanneries, and in making brandy, soap, and other commodit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033702-5468 | PFKOW, or Pleskow, a government or s tad th old crate of the empire of Russia. It is formed out of a part of what was formerly Great Russia, or rather of the grand principality of Novogorod. It extends in north latitude from 55. 55. to 58. 4., and in east longitude from 27. 15. to 32. 1., having a superficies of 22,990... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033703-5468 | PHAEDO, a native of Elis, was the founder of the Eliac sect of philosophy, and the person whose name Plato inscribed in one of his most celebrated dialogues. The exact date of his birth and death is unknown, but he flourished B. c. 399. By the fortune of war he was taken prisoner, and reduced to a state of slavery. He ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033704-5468 | PHAEDRA, in fabulous history, was a daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, who married Theseus, by whom she became the mother of Acamas and Demophoon. They had already lived for some time in conjugal felicity, when Venus, who hated all the descendants of Apollo, because he had discovered her amours with Mars, inspired Phaedra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033705-5468 | PHAEDRUS, the author of five books of fables, in Latin iambic measure, was a native of Thrace or Macedonia, and-brought at a very early age to Rome, where he became the slave of Augustus, and from whom he subsequently received his freedom. The few facts that we know respecting his personal history are to be collected f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033801-5481 | PHAENOMENON, in philosophy, denotes any remarkable appearance, whether in the heavens or in the earth, and whether discovered by observation or by experiment. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033802-5481 | PHAETON, in fabulous history, was the son of Phoebus, and Clymene, one of the Oceanides. According to Hesiod and Pausanias, he was son of Cephalus and Aurora; or, according to Apollodorus, of Tithonus and Aurora. He is, however, more generally acknowledged to have been the son of Phoebus and Clymene. He was naturally o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033803-5481 | PHAK, a district of Afghanistan, in the province of Cashmere. It is a romantic country, containing a beautiful lake, on which are some artificial islands. It is bounded on the west by the river Jhylum, and is situated in the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033804-5481 | PHALANX, in Grecian antiquity, a dense military formation, originally invented by the Greeks, but finally perfected by the Macedonians, under whom it became an invincible order of battle. See the article Army, in which the leading characteristics of this remarkable formation are fully explained. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033805-5481 | PHALARIS, the tyrant of Agrigentum, of whom only a few facts have been transmitted to us, upon which any dependence can be placed. Ancient writers are not agreed as to the precise period when he began to reign, but Eusebius fixes the commencement of it b. c. 570, and his death b. c. 555. His father’s name was Leodamas,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033806-5481 | PHALERAE, amongst the ancient Romans, were military rewards bestowed for signal acts of bravery. Authors are not agreed whether the phalerae were a suit of rich trappings for a horse, or golden chains something like the torques i but so formed as to hang down to the breast, and display a greater profusion of ornament.'... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033807-5481 | PHALEUCIAN Verse, in ancient poetry, a kind of verse consisting of five feet; the first of which is a spondee, the second a dactyl, and the three last trochees. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033808-5481 | PHANTASIA was the daughter of Nicarchus of Memphis in Egypt. It has been supposed that she wrote a poem on the Trojan war, and another on the return of Ulysses to Ithaca, compositions from which Homer is supposed to have copied the greater part of his Iliad and Odyssey when he visited Memphis, where they were deposited... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033809-5481 | PHANTASM, a term sometimes used as synonymous with the idea or notion retained in the mind, of an external object. See Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033810-5481 | PHANTASY, or Fancy, the imagination, one of the powers of the mind, by which the species of objects received through the external organs of sense are retained, recalled, further examined, and either compounded or divided. See Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033811-5481 | PHANUEL, of the tribe of Asher, the father of a holy widow and prophetess called Anna, who was in the temple when our Saviour was presented there by his parents (Luke, ii. 36, 37, 38). | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033812-5481 | PHAON, a young man of Mitylene, in the island of Lesbos, who received from Venus, as fable reports, an alabaster vase filled with an essence which had the virtue of conferring beauty. He had no sooner anointed his body [7:17:339]with it than he became the most beautiful of men. The ladies of Mitylene fell desperately i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033901-5494 | PHARAMOND is the name given by the generality of historians to the first king of France. He is said to have reigned at Treves, and over a part of France, about the year 420, and to have been succeeded by his son Clodion; but the account which is given of these two princes is very-uncertain. It is probable that Pharamon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-033902-5494 | PHARAOH, a generic name of the kings of Egypt, belonging to the ancient native dynastics. Josephus says, that all the kings of Egypt, from Menes the founder of Memphis, who lived several ages before Abraham, always bore the name of Pharaoh, down to the time of Solomon, that is, for more than three thousand years. He ad... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034001-5507 | PHARAON, or Pharo, is the name of a game of chance. The principal rules of pharo are as follow: The banker holds a pack, consisting of fifty-two cards; he draws all the cards, one after the other, and lays them down alternately at his right hand and his left; then the ponte may at his pleasure set one or more stakes up... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034002-5507 | PHARISEES, a famous, sect amongst the Jews, who distinguished themselves by their zeal for the traditions of the elders, which they derived from the same fountain with the written word itself; pretending that both were delivered to Moses from Mount Sinai, and were therefore of equal authority. From their rigorous obser... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034101-5520 | PHARMACI were two persons employed in the lustration or purification of cities. Some say that they were both men; but others maintain, that a man to represent the males, and a woman to represent the females, performed this office. They offered sacrifice, and wore figs about their necks; those of the men being blackish,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034102-5520 | PHARMACEUTICAL, any thing connected with pharmacy, or the processes employed in the preparation of medicines. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034103-5520 | PHARMACOCHEMIA, an obsolete term, denoting that part of the chemical art which treats of the preparation' of medicines, and used in contradistinction to that of chemistry, which was wholly employed about the transmutation of metals by means of the philosopher’s stone, and hence called spagirwo-chemia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034104-5520 | PHARMACOPOEIA (from <ραgμακον, remedy, and πo∕≡∕y, to make), means a dispensatory, or a treatise describing the preparations of the several kinds of medicines, with their uses, modes of application, and so forth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034105-5520 | PHARMACOPOLA, or Pharmacopeius, an apothecary, or a person who prepares and sells medicines. This word, which is rarely used except in the way of ridicule, is composed of φαξμακοv, medicine, and ∙κο ∖ ειν, to sell. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034106-5520 | PHARMACUM, φαζμακον, a medicine or medicament, either of a salutary or deleterious quality. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034107-5520 | PHARMACY, the art of preparing, preserving, and compounding medicines. See Materia Medica, and Therapeutics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034108-5520 | PHAROS, a small oblong island, adjoining the continent of Egypt, and over-against Alexandria. On this island stood a lighthouse of the same name, having four sides, each a stadium in length, and a tower so elevated as to be seen nearly a hundred miles off. Some affirm that each of its four corners rested on a large sea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034109-5520 | PHARSALIA, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Phthiotes, a district of Thessaly, near Pherae and Larissa. To this last place Pompey fled from the plains of Pharsalus; it is watered by the river Enipeus, which falls into the Apidamus, and both together unite with the Peneus. Between Pharsalia and Enipeus Pompey drew up... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034110-5520 | PHASES, in Astronomy, a word formed from the Greek verb φαινω, to appear, are the several appearances or quantities of illumination of the moon, Venus, Mercury, and the other planets. See Astronomy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034111-5520 | PHEBE, a deaconess of the port of Corinth, called Cenchrea. St Paul had a particular esteem for this holy woman; and Theodoret thinks the apostle lodged for some time at her house, whilst he continued at or near Corinth. It is thought that she brought to Rome the epistle he addressed to the Romans, in which she is reco... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034112-5520 | PHEGOR, or Peor, a deity worshipped at a very early period by the Midianites and Moabites, and probably by all the other tribes who then inhabited Syria. Much has been said concerning the functions of this god, and the rank which he held amongst the Pagan divinities; and many conjectures have been formed concerning the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034113-5520 | PHENGITES, amongst the ancients, the name of a beautiful species of alabaster. It is a rude irregular mass, very brittle and friable, but of a brightness superior to that of most other marbles, and excelling them all in transparency. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034114-5520 | PHEONS, in Heraldry, the barbed heads of darts, arrows, or other weapons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034115-5520 | PHERECRATES, a writer of the ancient comedy, was [7:17:342] a native of Athens, and contemporary of Plato, Aristophanes, Phrynichus, and Eupolis. According to Suidas, he was a soldier in his youth, but afterwards attached himself to the stage, and became one of the most successful dramatic writers. We know that he exhi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034201-5533 | PHERECYDES, a Greek philosopher of the island of Syros, one of the Cyclades, was the son of Badys, and the pupil of the celebrated Pittacus of Mitylene. The exact date of his birth and death is unknown,* but he flourished B. c. 544, being a contemporary of Thales, Anaximenes, Anacreon, and Hipponax. There is some doubt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034202-5533 | PHIDIAS, a celebrated Greek statuary, was the son of Charmidas, a native of Athens, and flourished b. c. 444, in the age of Pericles, being the contemporary of Alcamenes, Critias, Hegias, and Nestocles. In his representations of the gods he was so successful that it was said he must either have visited heaven, or the g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034203-5533 | PHIDITIA, in Grecian antiquity, feasts celebrated with great frugality at Sparta. They were held in the public places and in the open air. Rich and poor assisted at them equally, and upon the same footing; their design being to keep up peace, friendship, good understanding, and equality amongst the citizens, great and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034204-5533 | PHILA, in Mythology, one of the attributes of Venus, which distinguished her as the mother of love; from ^ικειν, to love. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034205-5533 | PHILADELPHIA, in Antiquity, were games instituted at Sardis to celebrate the union of Caracalla and Geta, the sons of Septimius Severus.
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kp-eb0717-034401-5559 | PHILADELPHUS, vaAntiquity, was a title or surname borne by several ancient kings, being formed from the Greek φι ∖ ος, friend, and αδελφος, brother ; that is, one who loves his brother or brethren. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034402-5559 | PHILAENI, were two brothers, citizens of Carthage, who sacrificed their lives for the benefit of their country. At the time when the Carthaginians ruled over the greater part of Africa, the Cyrenians were also a great and wealthy people. The intervening country being all sandy, and of an uniform appearance, there was n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034403-5559 | PHILANTHROPY is compounded of two Greek words signifying the love of mankind. It is therefore of nearly the same import with benevolence, and differs from friendship, as the latter affection subsists only between a few individuals, whereas philanthropy comprehends the whole human race.
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kp-eb0717-034404-5559 | PHILEMON, a writer of the new comedy, was bornât Soli, in Cilicia, but the precise date of his birth and death is unknown. He began to exhibit his plays at Athens in the reign of Alexander, b. c. 336-323, and died in the reign of the second Antigonus, son of Demetrius, probably about B. c. 280, at the age of ninety-six... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034501-5572 | PHILETAS, a Greek poet and grammarian, belonging to the island of Cos, flourished under Philip and Alexander the Great, and was preceptor of Ptolemy Philadelphus. He was the author of some Elegies, Epigrams, and other works, which have not come down to us, and is celebrated in the poems of Ovid and Propertius as one of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034502-5572 | PHILIBEG, called also a kilt, is a sort of short petticot reaching nearly to the knees, which is worn by the Scotch Highlanders. It is a modern substitute for the lower part of the plaid, being found to be less cumbersome, especially in time of action, when the Highlanders used to tuck the brechtan into their girdle. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034503-5572 | PHILIP, one of the apostles, was a native of Bethsaida in Galilee. Jesus Christ having seen him, said to him, “Follow me.” Philip obeyed, and soon afterwards finding Nathaniel, said to him, “We have found the Messiah, of whom Moses and the prophets have spoken, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” Nathaniel, however,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034701-5598 | PHILIPPI, a town of European Turkey, in Macedonia, at the foot of Mount Pangaeus, eight miles from the seashore, and twenty-six leagues to the eastward of Salonica. On the plain near it was decided the fate of Rome in the battle fought by Augustus and Marc Antony on the one side, against Brutus and Cassini on the other... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034702-5598 | PHILIPPICS, Φ∕λ∕ππ∕κo∕ aoyo∕, in literature, is a name applied to the orations of Demosthenes against Philip king of Macedonia. The Philippics are reckoned the masterpieces of that great orator. This name is likewise applied to the fourteen orations of Cicero against Marc Antony. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034703-5598 | PHILIPPINES. This archipelago, in the Eastern Seas, extends from the fifth to the twentieth degree of north latitude, and consists of a great number of islands of various sizes, and many of which are but little known. The largest of the group is Luzon or Luconia; and to the south lie the other principal islands, namely... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034901-5624 | PHILIPPISTS, a sect or party amongst the Lutherans, who followed Philip Melancthon. He had strenuously opposed the Ubiquists, who arose in his time; and the dispute growing still hotter after his death, the members of the university of Wirtemberg, who espoused Melancthon’s opinion, were called by the Flacians, who atta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034902-5624 | PHILIPPOPEL, a city of Turkey in Europe, in the government of Rumelia, and in the department of Sofia, the Turkish name of which is Filibé. It stands upon a plain, watered by the river Maritza, which is to a certain extent navigable, in a beautiful situation, on the great road from the’frontiers to Constantinople. It i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-034903-5624 | PHILIPS, Fabian, the author of several books relating to ancient customs and privileges in England, was born at Prestbury in Gloucestershire, on the 28th of September 1601. When very young, he spent some time in one of the Inns of Chancery, and went from thence to the Middle Temple, where he became learned in the law. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-035001-5637 | PHILISTINES were the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, well known in sacred history. These people are sometimes called in Scripture Cherethites and Caphtorim. The earlier part of their history is, like that of most other nations, very obscure and uncertain. The authors of the Universal[7:17:351] History inform us that ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-035201-5663 | PHILISTUS, a celebrated historian of Syracuse, who was an active partisan of Dionysius the elder, and was by him made governor of the citadel, b. c. 406. Having dared to marry a relation of the tyrant without his knowledge, he was compelled to fly, and took refuge in the city Adria, in the north of Italy, where he empl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-035202-5663 | PHILO, an ancient Greek writer, descended of a noble family amongst the Jews, flourished at Alexandria during the reign of Caligula. He was the chief of an embassy sent to Rome about the year forty-two, to plead the cause of the Jews against Apion, who had been sent by the Alexandrians to charge them with neglecting th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-035301-5676 | PHILOLAUS, of Crotona, was a celebrated philosopher of antiquity, of the school of Pythagoras, to whom that philosopher’s Golden Verses have been ascribed. As he made the heavens the principal object of contemplation, it has been idly supposed that he was the author of the true system of the world, which Copernicus aft... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-035401-5689 | PHILOLOGY.
Philology is compounded of the two Greek words φιλos and λoγos∙ and imports the desire of investigating the properties and affections of words. The sages of Greece were, in the most ancient times, denominated σοφοι, that is, wise men. Pythagorus renounced this pompous appellation, and assumed the more humbl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-042401-6599 | PHILOMATHES, a lover of learning or science. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-042402-6599 | PHILOMELA, in fabulous history, was the daughter of Pandion king of Athens, and the sister of Procne, who had married Tereus king of Thrace. Procne separated from Philomela, to whom she was much attached, and spent her time in great melancholy, until she prevailed upon lier husband to go to Athens and bring her sister ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-042403-6599 | PHILOPOEMEN, a celebrated general of the Achaean league, was born in Megalopolis, a city of Arcadia, in Peloponnesus, and from his very infancy discovered a strong inclination to the profession of arms. Having been nobly educated by Cassander of Mantinea, a man of great probity and uncommon abilities, he was no sooner ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-042501-6612 | PHILOSOPHER, a person versed in philosophy, or one who makes profession of, and applies himself to, the study of wisdom or real knowledge.
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kp-eb0717-042601-6625 | PHILOSOPHY.^[1. This article, which was written by the late Professor Robison for the third edition of the present work, has, after some slight alterations, been retained, as well on account of the frequent references to it from the article Physics, contributed by the same distinguished author, as on account of the ela... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-044601-6885 | PHILOSTRATUS, Flavius, was an ancient Greek author. Eusebius calls him an Athenian, because he taught at Athens; but Eunapius and Suidas always speak of him as a Lemnian; and he himself hints, in his Life of Apollonius, that when he was young he used to reside at Lemnos. He frequented the schools of the sophists; and h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-044701-6898 | PHILOXENUS, a celebrated dithyrambic poet, a native of the island of Cythera, flourished b. c. 398, being contemporary with Timotheus and Telestes, and died at the age of sixty, b. c. 380. He was a son of Euletidas, and, when Cythera was taken by the Lacedaemonians, he was carried off as a slave. He was sold to Hegesyl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-044702-6898 | PHILTER, or Philtre (philtrum), in Pharmacy or Chemistry, a strainer. This term is also used for a drug or preparation, which, it is pretended, will excite love. The word is formed from the Greek p∕λsw, I love, or p∕λoς, lover ; because philters were given by the Greeks and Romans to excite love. Many grave authors bel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-044703-6898 | PHILYRA, in fabulous history, was one of the Oceanides, whom Saturn met in Thrace. The god, to escape from the vigilance of Rhea, changed himself into a horse, and by Philyra had a son half a man and half a horse, called Chiron. Philyra was so ashamed of having given birth to such a monster, that she entreated the gods... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-044704-6898 | PHINEHAS, or, as the Jews pronounce it, Pinehas, was the son of Eleazar, and the grandson of Aaron. He was the third high priest of the Jews, and discharged this office from the year of the world 2571 till towards the year 2590. He appears in Scripture chiefly as distinguished by pious zeal for the faithful discharge o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-044801-6911 | PHLEBOTOMY, the opening of a vein with a proper sharp-edged and pointed instrument, to let out a certain quantity of blood, either for the preservation or recovery of a person’s health. See Surgery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-044802-6911 | PHLEGON, a Greek historian, was a native of Tralles, in Lydia, and the freedman of the Emperor Hadrian (a. d. 117-138); and he is said to have published under his own name some works which were really the production of the emperor. He was the author of a history or chronicle, in sixteen books, which ended a. d. 141; an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-044803-6911 | PHLOGISTON, a term employed by chemists to denote a principle which was supposed to enter into the composition of various bodies. The bodies which were thought to con-, tain it in the largest quantity are such as are inflammable; and the property which these substances possess of being susceptible of inflammation was t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-044901-6924 | PHOCAEA, the most northern of the cities of Ionia, was situated on the coast, about two hundred stadia from Smyrna. It was founded by a colony of Phocians, led by two Athenians, Philogenes and Damon, and was not admitted into the Ionian confederacy till it had received, from Teos and Erythrae, kings of the race of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-044902-6924 | PHOCION, a very celebrated Athenian general, was descended from a family which at no time had been particularly distinguished in the political transactions of their country. He was born b. c. 402, and died b. c. 317, at the age of eighty-five. His early years were spent under the direction of Plato and Xenocrates, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045001-6937 | PHOCIS, a country of Greece, contained between Boeotia in the east and Locris in the west, but extending formerly from the Sinus Corinthiacus on the south to the Sea of Euboea on the north, and, according to Dionysius, as far as Thermopylae; though it was reduced afterwards to narrower dimensions. The Phocenses were th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045002-6937 | PHOCYLIDES, a Greek poet, was a native of Miletus, in Ionia, and flourished b. c. 544, being the contemporary of Theognis. He was the author of some epic poems and elegies; but, of all his works, only a poem (Carmen Nutheti-con), of two hundred and seventeen verses, has been preserved. As it is only alluded to by an an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045003-6937 | PHOEBUS, one of the names applied by the ancient mythologists to the Sun, Sol, or Apollo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045004-6937 | PHOENICIA, or more properly Phoenice, the ancient name of a country situated between the thirty-fourth and thirty-sixth degrees of north latitude, being bounded by Syria on the north and east, by Judaea on the south, and by the Mediterranean on the west. How it obtained its name is not certainly known. Some derive it f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045201-6963 | PHOENIX, the great palm or date-tree. There is only one species, viz. the dactylifera, or common date-tree, a na tive of Africa and the eastern countries, where it grows to fifty, sixty, and a hundred feet in height. The trunk is round, upright, and studded with protuberances, which are the vestiges of the decayed leav... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045202-6963 | PHOLIS, an old name for gypsums or plaster-stones. It [7:17:453]is derived from φοKις, a scale or small fiake, because these stones are composed of particles of that form. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045301-6976 | PHONICS, the doctrine or science of sound, otherwise called acoustics. See Acoustics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045302-6976 | PHORMINX, a stringed instrument used by the ancient Greeks, and probably by the Egyptians. Its nature is not known; but it is mentioned by Homer, Euripides, and others. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045303-6976 | PHOSPHORUS, a name given to certain substances which shine in the dark without emitting heat. By this circumstance they are distinguished from the pyrophori, which, though they take fire on being exposed to the air, are yet entirely destitute of light before such exposure. Phosphori are divided into several kinds, know... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045304-6976 | PHOTINIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, were a sect of heretics in the fourth century who denied the divinity of our Lord. They derive their name from Photinus their founder, who was bishop of Sirmium, and a disciple of Marcellus. In the year 343 Photinus published his notions respecting the Deity, which were repugnant ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045305-6976 | PHOTINX, an ancient wind-instrument of Egypt, said to have been a kind of flute of a curved form. Several modem wind-instruments are curved. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045306-6976 | PHOTIUS, patriarch of Constantinople, was one of the most remarkable men of his time, and by his merit raised himself to the patriarchate. When Bardas had driven Ignatius from the see, Photius was consecrated by Asbestus in 859. He condemned Ignatius in a synod, upon which the pope excommunicated him; and, to balance t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045307-6976 | PHOTOMETER, an instrument for ascertaining the intensity of light. See Meteorology and Optics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045308-6976 | PHRASE, in Grammar, an elegant turn or manner of expression, peculiarly belonging to this or that occasion, this or that art, this or that language. Thus we say, an Italian phrase, an eastern phrase, a poetical phrase, a rhetorical phrase. Phrase is sometimes also used for a short sentence or small circuit of words con... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045309-6976 | PHRASEOLOGY, a collection of the phrases or the elegant expressions in any language. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045310-6976 | PHREATIS, or Phreattium, in Grecian antiquity, was a court belonging to the civil government of Athens, situated upon the sea-shore, in the Piraeus. The name is commonly derived απo row pgíaro¢, because it stood in a pit; or, as others suppose, it is formed from the name of the hero Phre-atus. This court heard such cau... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-045311-6976 | PHRENITIC, a term used to denote those who, without being absolutely mad, are subject to such strong sallies of imagination as in some measure pervert their judgment, and cause them to act in a way different from the more rational part of mankind.
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kp-eb0717-045401-6989 | PHRENOLOGY.
Phrenology, derived from φpnv, the mind, and λoγos, discourse, is a term which has been recently applied to denote a new doctrine of mental philosophy, founded on a presumed knowledge of the functions of different portions of the brain, obtained by comparing their relative forms and magnitudes in different... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-047401-7249 | PHRYGIA, a country in Asia. The origin of the name is uncertain; but some say that it was derived from the river Phryx, now Sarabat, which divides Phrygia from Caria, and empties itself into the Hermus; whilst others think that it was so called from Phrygia, the daughter of Asopus and Europa. The Greek writers inform u... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-047501-7262 | PHRYGIANS, a Christian sect. See Cataphhygians and Montanists. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-047502-7262 | PHRYNE was a celebrated courtezan, who flourished at Athens about 328 years before the Christian era. She was mistress to Praxiteles, who drew her picture, which was one of his best pieces, and placed in the temple of Apollo at Delphi. We are told that Apelles painted his Venus Anadyomene after he had seen Phryne on th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-047503-7262 | PHRYNICHUS, a tragic poet of Athens, was the son of Polyphradmon or Phradmon, and the disciple of the celebrated Thespis, being a little earlier than Aeschylus. He gained the tragic prize, b. c. 511, and is said to have introduced several improvements into the dramatic art, bringing on the stage female characters, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-047504-7262 | PHRYXUS, in fabulous history, was a son of Athamas, king of Thebes, by Nephele. When his mother was repudiated, he was persecuted with the most inveterate fury by his stepmother Ino, because he was to sit on the throne of Athamas, in preference to the children of a second wife. His mother, or, according to others, his ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-047505-7262 | PHUGWANA, a large walled town of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, belonging to the Sikhs. It is situated between the Beyah and the Sutelege Rivers, southeast from Jallinder, in a fertile and well-cultivated plain, which produces wheat and other grains, and also the sugarcane. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-047506-7262 | PHYLACTERY, in general, was a name given by the ancients to all kinds of charms, spells, or characters, which [7:17:476]they wore as amulets, to preserve them from danger or disease.
Phylactery particularly denoted a slip of parchment, on which was written some text of Scripture, generally of the decalogue, which the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0717-047601-7275 | PHYLLIS, in fabulous history, was a daughter of Sithon, or, according to others, of Lycurgus, king of Thrace, by whom Demophoon, the son of Theseus, at his return from the Trojan war, was received and hospitably entertained. Phyllis became enamoured of him, and did not find him insensible to her passion. After some mon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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