Penzance
Penzance, Cornwall, A Mnrket And Sea-port Town, A Municipal Borough, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Union, In The Parish Of Madron, Is Situated On The North-western Shore Of Mount's Bny, Is 50° 7' N. Let., 31' W. Long., Distant 53 Miles S.w. From Bodtnin, And 281 Miles Wi:kw. From ...
Perambulation
Perambulation. A Perambulation Is A Walking Through Or Over Ground For The Purpose Of Settling Boundaries. A Perambulation Of A Parish For This Purpose Is Made By The Minister, Churehwardens, And Parishioners In Ascension-week, At Periods Varying From One To Three Years. Usage Will Justify The Parishioners In Following The ...
Perambulator
Perambulator, An Instrument In General Use For Measuring Distances On Roads, For Settling Disputes Concerning The Charges Of Tbo Drivers Of Hack.carriages, And For Other Purposes. It Consists Princi. Pally Of A Wheel Upon Which It Runs, And An Index Which Shows The Number Of Turns Of Such Wheel Reduced ...
Perception
Perception Is That Power Or Act Of The Mind By Which It Holds Communication With The External World. It Is Distinguished From Conception By The Circumstance That Its Objects Are In Every Instance Supposed To Have An Actual Existence. We May Conceive Things That Have No Reality, But We Aro ...
Percussion
Percussion, In Medicine, Is The Method Of Eliciting Sounds By Striking The Surface Of The Body, For The Purpose Of Determining The Condition Of The Organs Subjacent To The Parts Struck. This Means Of Diagnosis Was First Employed By Avenbrugger In The Middle Of The Last Century ; It Was ...
Perennial Snow
Snow, Perennial, Or L'eltl'etual. In The Article Climate (col 968-70), A General View Of This Subject Has Been Given, Together With Particulars Of The Elevation Of The Snow-line Under Different Latitudes And In Different Localities, Both As Indicated By Theory And Shown By Observation. We Are Now Enabled To Enter ...
Perfumery
Perfumery, Considered As A Branch Of Manufacture, Is Chiefly Chemical In Its Nature ; But Its Chemistry Is Of That Peculiar Kind Which Relates Almost Wholly To The Odour Of Substancea, Whether Animal, Vegetable, Or Mineral,—whether Natural Or Artificial. The Relations Of The Substances To Light And Colour, Or To ...
Periodic Functions
Periodic Functions. The General Consideration Of Periodio Magnitude, That Is, Of Magnitude Which Varies In Such Manner As To Go Through Stated Cycles Of Changes, Each Cycle Befog A Reiteration Of The Preceding One, Is The Subject Of Temosourser. Though That Science Derives Its Name From The Measurement Of Triangle. ...
Peripatetics
Peripatetics (ireporarntocot) Is The Name Given To An Ancient Philosophical Sect. It Was So Designated From The Circumstance Of Its Founder, Aristotle, Being Accustomed To Deliver His Doctrines While Walking In The Grove Of The Lyceum In The Suburbs Of Athens. [arm. Totle, In Moo. Div.] There Is Scarcely Any ...
Peritonitis
Peritonitis Is An Inflammation Of The Peritoneum. It May Exist Either As An Acute Or As A Chronic Disease. The Chief Symptoms Of The Acute Form Are Pain, Swelling, And Tenderness Of The Abdomen, Accompanied With Fever And A Frequent, Small, And Hard Pulse. The Pain In Peritonitis Is Usually ...
Perjury
Perjury, By The Common Law Of England, Is The Offence Of Falsely Swearing To Facts In A Judicial Proceeding. To Constitute This Offence The Party Must Have Been Lawfully Sworn To Speak The Truth By Some Court, Judge, Or Officer, Having Authority To Administer An Oath ; And, Under The ...
Perm
Perm, An Extensive Government Of Russia, Is Situated Partly In Europe And Partly In Asia, Between 56° 30' And 61° 30' N. Let., 53° 20' And 64° 10' E. Long. It Is Bounded N. By Wologde And Tobolsk, E. By Tobolsk, S. By Orenburg, And W. By Viatka. The Arca ...
Pernambuco
Pernambuco. A Seaport In Brazil, Situated In 8' 3' S. Lat., 34' 51' W. Long. It Is The Collective Name Of Two Town., Recife And 011inda, Nearly 3 Miles Distant From One Another. It Gives Title To A Bishop, And Is The Capital Of The Province Of The Same Name. ...
Peron I Placeas
Pe:ron I Placeas. (" Imlay You Conquer, Oh. Ursue I Olympius, Conquer; Petrenium, May You Please"). They Are Supposed To Have Been Struck From The Time Of Uratian, A.d. 375, To The Reign Of Anthcrnius, A.d. 472, The Last Emperor Represented On Thorn. The Object For Which They Were Struck ...
Perpetuation Of Testimon Y
Perpetuation Of Testimon Y. A Party Who Has An Interest In Property, But Not Such An Interest As Enables Him Im. Mediately To Prosecute His Claim, Or A Party Who Is In Possession Of Property And Fears That His Right May At Some Future Time Be Dis Puted, Is Entitled ...
Perpignan
Perpignan, Capital Formerly Of Rousillon, Now Of The Department Of Pyrdn6ea-orientales, In The South Of France, Is Situated At The Junction Of The Basso With The Tet, 5 Miles W. From The Mediterranean, 525 Miles S. From Paris, In 42° 41' 55' N. Lat., 2° 54'18" E. Loug., 1196 Feet ...
Persephone
Persephone (iltperepdrn), Or Persephoneia. (tirperscpbtra), Called By The Romans Proserpina, Wad The Daughter Of Zeus And Demeter. (hesiod. Theog.' 913.) She Was Carried Off By Pluto While Gathering Flowers In The Nysian Plain (homer, ' Hymn In Dernet.;l7),and Made The Queen Of ,the Regions Of The Dead. Demeter, Inconsolable For ...
Persia
Persia, Called Iran By The Natives, Lies Between 25° And 40° N. Lat., 44' And 70' K Long., Constituting An Elevated Table-land, Sur Rounded By Mountain Ranges, Which Mark The Edges Of The Table-land, And Separate It Either From The Sea, Or From The Low Couutries Which Inclose It On ...
Persian
Persian °vlf, A Large Closed Us, Forming A Kind Of Inlet Of The Indian Ocean. The Entrant's From The Indian Ocean Is By The Strait Of Ormuz. Which In The Narrowest Point, Between Rae Koli (or Cape Kell), In Persia, And Has Mussendom, Iu Arabia, Is About 33 Mile. Wide. ...
Persian Architecture
Persian Architecture. Looking At The Scanty And Imperfect Remains Of The Architecture Of Ancient Persia, Architects And Arehreo Logien' Were Unable To Trace In Them The Evidence Of A Wholly Independent Style, Yet Found Many Difficulties In Reconciling Their Characteristics With Those Of The Buildings Of Ancient Egypt, The Only ...
Persiigre
Persiigre, Worcestershire, A Market-town, And The Seat Of A Poor Law Union, Is Situated On The Right Bank Of The River Avou, In 52° 7 N. Lat.„ 2' 4' W. Distant 10 Miles S.f.. From Worcester, And 102 Miles W.n.w. From London. The Population Of The Town Of L'erahore In ...
Perspective
Perspective, A Term Popularly Given To An Application Of Geometrical Principles, By Means Of Which A Pictorial Outline Of A Certain Class Of Objects May Be Delineated On A Plane Surface. Thus Understood It Has Been Defined To Be The Art Of Representing On A Plane Surface The Outlines Of ...
Perth
Perth, The Chief Town Of Perthshire, Scotland, And A Royal And Parliamentary Burgh, Is Situated On The Right Bank Of The Tay, 41 Miles N. By W. From Edinburgh, In 56° 24' N. Lat., 3° 25' W. Long. The Population Of The Municipal Burgh In 1851 Was 14,681 ; That ...
Perthshire
Perthshire, A Central Connty In Scotland, Bounded N. By The Counties Of Inverness And Aberdeen ; E. By Forfarshire; S.e. By Fife Shire, The Frith Of Tay, And Kinross-shire • S. By Clackmannan And Stirling Shires; S.w.by Stirling And Dumbarton Shires; W. By Argyle Shire; And N.w. By Inverness-shire. The ...
Perugia
Perugia, The Chief Town Of The Province Of Perugia, In The States Of The Church, Is Built On A High Hill Which Forms Two Summits, On The Left Bank Of The Tiber, 82 Miles N. From Rome, And Has About 19,000 Inhabitants, Including The Suburbs. It Is Surrounded By Walls ...
Peruvian Architecture
Peruvian Architecture. Remains Of Ancient Peruvian Buildings Are Dispersed Over The Western Parts Of South America, From The Equator To 15• S. Lat., Especially Over The /ilontaila. Nothing Certain Is Known Of Their Date, But The Oldest Is Attributed To ,panto Capac, The Traditional Founder Of Ancient Peruvian Civilisation, Who ...
Pesaro E Urbpno
Pe'saro-e-urbpno, A Legation Or Province Of The States Of The Church, Is Bounded E. By The Province Of Ancona, N. By The Adriatic, W. By The Province Of Forli And Tuscany, And S. By The Province Of Perugia. The Area Is 1353 Square Miles : The Population In 1850 Wag ...
Pesth
Pesth, The Most Populous City In Hungary, Is Situated In 47' 30' N. Lat., E. Long., On The Left Or East Bank Of The Danube, About 20 Miles From The Spot Where The Course Of The River, Till Then Nearly From West To East, Makes A Sudden Bend To The ...
Pestilence
Pestilence Is A General Term Applied To Those Diseases Of An Epi Demic Character Which Affect Large Masses Of A Population, And Are Remarkable For Their Destruction Of Human Life. The Two Forms Of Disease To Which This Term Is Most Frequently Applied, Are Plague And Asiatic Cholera. Plague Is ...
Peter Andreas Heiberg
Heiberg, Peter Andreas, A Danish Dramatic And Miscel Laneous Writer Of Considerable Reputation, The Husband Of A Lady Whose Novels Are Of Great Excellence, And The Father Of A Dramatic Writer Rieman, Jonas( Lvnwso) Whose Works Have Been More Successful Than His Own. Peter Andreas Was Born On The 16th ...
Peter Camper
Camper, Peter, A Physician And Anatomist, Was Born At Leyden On The 11th Of May 1722. His Father, Florent Camper, Was A Clergy Man, Who Numbered Among His Friends Boerhaave, 'soravesande, Musschenbroeck, And Moor ; And In The Society Of These Celebrated Men Camper Imbibed His Strong Love Of Science ...
Peter Cornelius 1100ft
1100ft, Peter Cornelius, One Of The Most Eminent Poets And Prone Writers Of Holland, Was Born On The 16th Of March 1581, At Amsterdam, Where His Father Was An Eminent Burghermaster. After Studying At The High-school At Leyden He Travelled To Italy, The Study Of Whose Literature And Poetry Chiefly ...
Peter Cunningham
* Cunningham, Peter, The Eldest Son Of Allan Cunningham, Was Born In Pimlico, April 7, 1816. He Was Educated At A Private School, And When Only Eighteen Years Of Age He Entered The Public Service As A Junior Clerk In The Audit Office, A Situation Bestowed Upon Him By Sir ...
Peter Daniel Huet
Huet, Peter Daniel, Bishop Of Avranches, Was Born At Caen On The 8th Of February 1630. He Was Originally Intended For The Profession Of The Law ; But Ho Is Said To Have Been Induced To Devote His Attention To Subjects Of General Literature By The Perusal Of The Principles' ...
Peter Elmsley
Elmsley, Peter, Was Born Lu 1779, And Educated At West Minster And Oxford. In 1793 Ho Was Presented To The Ehapelry Of Little Ilorkealey, In Essex. By The Death Of His Undo Elmeley, The Well-known Bookseller, He Succeeded To A Competent Fortune, Which Enabled Him To Live In Independence, And ...
Peter King
King, Peter, Lord, Was Born In 1669 At Exeter, In Which Town His Father, Mr, Jerome Kiug, Though Said To Bo Descended From A Good Family In Somereetshire, Carried On The Business Of A Grocer And Salter. To This Business He Brought Up His Son, And The Future Lord Chancellor ...
Peter Paul Dobree
Dobree, Peter Paul, Was Born In The Island Of Guernsey In The Year 17s2. At An Early Age Ho Was Sent To Dr. Valpy's School At Reading, And Stayed There Till Ha Became En Under-graduate Of Trinity College, Cambridge, In 1800; And Took His B.a. Degree In 1804. Having Been ...