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P E R
¡ti
are fu .lilhahle
LJy
(ine, imprifon;ncnt, pillory, tranf ..
ponadon,
&c.
See
LA\V ,
~r¡t.
x xxiii.
~4 .
PERMEABLE: a term appli,d tO bodies of fo loofe and
Forous a n,uéhue, as to Jet
fome1hin¡!
pa(s rhrough lhem .
PERMUTATION, iD commerc<, the eJlne with barterillg.
See
CO~lM¡;'RC'E.
PERNAMHUCO, a province ofRr.G I, in America, bound·
ed .by the province of- T.m<ra Con the north, by the At·
l¡mtie oceap on
lhe
caO,
by
the provioce
or Sereglppa
on
Ihe routh, and by' ,he country of ,he
T.puyers ,on the
wefl; being tlVO hundred mtles long, and one hundred
.nd fifl)' broad.
pERONiEUS, iD an..omy. See AHATOMY, p.
009.
P ERORATION, in ,hetoric, , he epilogue, or lafl pan of
an oroHioo. wherein whílt the orator had
infined
on through
hi. who)e die, ourfe, i. urged afrelh w:th greater vehe–
menee and paffioo.
PEROUSA, a town of l taly, in the profince of Piedmont,
c.pital of one of the . alleys of,he V audois, fitu.ted ¡welve
mil<s foUth .wefl of Turin.
PERPENDICULAR, in geOOletry,
~ lin~
f.¡Jling direélly
on another linlt, fo as
tO
lDake equal angles on c3eh (jde.
See
GEOMETRY.
P ERPETUAL MOTlON. See MOV EMENT.
PERP.IGNAN, a city o[
Sp.in, in ,he province of Cata–
Jonia, capital of the territOry of ROl:lffillon, Gtuattd on
the rifer L ate' : in E long.
2°
35',
N . I.,.
4'°.
PERRUKE, o, PE
R R
I
W
tG, "'as ancier.t1y uCed for
a
head
of long Datural hair, particularly Cuch
.s
was curled and
adjufled with grea, careo BUI il i. now uCed for a fe,
o( borrowed hair. curled, baked, interwoven between
Cour threads, and Cewed tog«her on a ca..
!.
-
PERRY,
a
drink made of pearo, iD the Came manner as
cyoer is made from apples. See CV,DER.
PERSECUT¡ON, is any pain or allliélion which a per–
fon defignedly ioRiéls upoo another; ,nd, in
a
more re'
firaiDed fenC
e,
,he euffering. of Chriflian.
00
aceount of
.he;r
refigiaD.
H,ifloriaos uCually «ckon ten genenl perCceution.: the
firfl of whieh was under the emperor Nero, ,hirty one
years
afeer
our L ord', aCcenfton; when th;lt emperor ha·
~ing
fe, fire lO Ihe eity of Rome, thr". ,he odium of
Ihat execrable aétion on tbe Chní1:i.lns, who uoder
,hat
pmeoce were IVrapped up in ,he Ocin. of wild beafls. IDd
worried and devoured
by
does :
others were crucified,
aolJ other. burpt . Iive. The feeond was under D omi_
tian, in the ye"
95.
In this pereecution SI J ohn the
.pollle w.s CeDt to ,he i/le of Patmos, in order to be em–
ployed in digging in Ihe mines. The thid began in rhe
third year of Tr.:j.lll, in the yeat
100.
and was
c~rried
on wilh gre" .iolence for feveral year"
Tbe fourth
w., under Antoninu, Ihe philoCQpher, when the Chri–
niaDS were banilhed from ,heir hODCe., Corbi¡lden 'O Ihew
p
E
R
s
p
E
P
ERSPFCTIVE teaches how 'o repreCent objeél, on a
.
plane
Cupr~firie> ,
Cu: h a, ,bey would appear at a
cert.ind
,n.o.ceaod beighl, upon
a
tranCparent plane perpeDdi-
P E R
thcit hctlds, (eproached, beaten , huíticd
rro;n'
place to
pl. ce, plunderco, impri lcneo, and (Joned T he 61th be–
gan in the
yedr
J
97, under the empetor
S~verüs .
'r ile
{ixlh, bcgi n
with
(he reign of
the
cmpl'ror
Ml xinlious,
in
235 .
The C,venth, \Vhich was the
01011
dre>.dful p'r.
fe:ution
thi\t ever
had
been known in
{he church,
bcg3~
in (he
ye.tr'5°, .in
the
reign
of
{he
emperor b c;cius..
when
{h~
Chrillians were in all places drino from 'their
habitatiQ,.ns, flripped of lheir eUales, tOrroented 'witb
racks,
&c.
The eigh,h begao in ,he ye"
257,
in ,he
founh ye. r of the reign of the emp"or V.lerian . The
ointh was uoder the emperor Aurelian A, D. 274, bUl:
this was
v~ry
inconfiderable: and the tenth
began j o
the
nineteeDth year of Dioe/efian, A. D .
3° 3.
In ,hi. dread.
fui paCecution, which lafled ten years, houCes 611ed wilh
Chrinians
were
(et on
fjre; and whole droves were
tied
tOgether with
ropes, and
thrown
iotO
the
Cea.
PERSEPOLIS, f.ormerly a ciry of Perfia, but now iD
ruins.
Here are the
mofi magoificent
remains
of a pa..
lace,
or temple, that are no)V
io
being
oo·
the
[ace
oC
the
earth: E . long .
54°,
N . la..
30° 30'.
PERSEUS, in allronomy. See ASTRONOMV, p.
486 .
PERSIA, a large kingdom of Afia,
120 0
",iles long, and
~Imofl
as mueh broad; fituated between 45 and
67°
of
E . long. and between
25°
aod
45°
ofN. la.. bouaded
by Circaffian T artary, the Cafpian Sea,
~nd
the river
Oxu" on the north; by I ndia, on·. the cafl; by the lIT–
diap Ocean, .nd the gulphs of UrJOu, and
Perfi~,
on lh.
fou th; and by the Turkilh eAlpire on the wel!.
PERSICA. in botany. See AMYGDALUS.
PERSICARL'\, in bo..ny. S<:e POLVGÓNUM.
PERSON, an individual eubflanc<rof a ralion.1 or intelligent
nature. Thus we {ay,
an
3mba{fador reprefeots
the per.,
fon of hi! prince;
and
char,
in
Jaw,.
the
father
and
(on
are
reputed the f.nie perCon.
P ERSON,
in grammar,
a
term·applied
to fuch
nouns or pro ...
nouns,
as.
being eilher prefixed or uDdtrClood. are'the
no–
mioatives in aJl inAeétions
of
a verb
j
or it is the ag.ent
or patient in all finite aod perCona!. verb.. See G R
A.M_
MI. R.
PERSONALRJGHT, in Seotslaw. See LAw, T i!.
xx.
1_
PERSONA.L VERB"io
grammar,
a
verb conjugated
in
all
che three perfons;
thus
caBed.
in
oppo(ition to
an
imp-er..
fonal.erb, or that ·which has the third perCon only.
PERSON ALITY, in ,he fehorus, thal,which conilitutes
ao
indi. idual or dininél perCon.
PERSONIFYlNG, rhe giving ao inanimate b,iog the figure ,
feotim en'" and language of
a
perCon.
Perfonifying - is e!feotial 'o poetry, eCpeciaIly 'o the
epop",i.: the pocts h, ve rhereCore perConifi, d aJl the
paffions. and even
reprereated them
as
dei
ti
es
i
as tbe
goddcC. PerCuafioo,. the god Sleep ; the Furies, En.y,
DiCcord,
~nd
Fame, Fonune, Vtélory, ' Sin, Death,
&<i
e
T
1
v
E.
cular
10
the horizo., plat<d betw..n the objeéls and the eye.
In order
10
uoderfland this Cubjc<t, a general knowledge
of.lhe priociples of Optic. i, abfolutely necc!fary. The fauD–
datiDo.