Patti
ADELINA MARIA CLO- RINDA, a popular operatic singer of Italian extraction; born in Madrid, Spain, in 1843. After a course of professional study she sang at an early age in London took in New York. Her début place in 1861 as Amina in "La Sonnamafterward was looked bula," and she ever upon as one of the first singers of her soprano, of time. Her voice was a high rich bell-like quality and remarkable style evenness of tone, with purity of and high artistic finish. She won golden opinions on the Continent wherever she appeared, receiving, in 1870, the Order . of Merit from the Emperor of Russia Her greatest success was generally in Gounod's considered to be Marguerite "Faust." In 1868 she was married to the Marquis de Caux, from whom, divorced in 1876. however, she was She subsequently married M. Nicolini, States, and appeared in the United various South America, and Mexico at times from 1880-1892. M. Nicolini died in 1898. In 1899 she married her third husband, Baron Rolf Cederstrom. ADELINA PATTI In 1903 Madame Patti made a successful concert tour of the United States. She died in 1919.
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Pattison
MARK, an English writer; born in 1813; was educated at Oriel College, Oxford; received a fellowship in 1839; and two years subsequently was ordained and won the Denyer theological prize. In 1853 he was appointed tutor of his college, and in 1861 became rector (or head) of Lincoln College. He devoted himself to university reform. He was a contributor to the famous "Essays and Reviews," and published "Pope's Epistles and Satires" (1869), "Isaac Casaubon" (1875), a memoir of Milton in the Men of Letters Series (1879), the "Sonnets of Milton" (1883), and numerous articles in reviews, etc. He died in 1884.
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Patton
FRANCIS LANDEY, an American educator; born in Warwick Parish, Bermuda, Jan. 22, 1843. Educated at Knox College, University of Toronto, and graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1865. In 1865-1871 he was pastor of several churches; was then chosen McCormick Professor in the Theological Seminary of the Northwest; and in 1881 Professor of Relations of Philosophy and Science to the Christian Religion in Princeton University, the chair having been especially created for him. In 1888 he was chosen president of the university. He resigned in 1902 and soon after was appointed President of the Princeton. Theological Seminary. Publications: "The Inspiration of the Scriptures" (1869); "Summary of Christian Doctrines" (1874), etc.
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Pau (Chief town of the French)
the chief town of the French department of Basses-Pyrénées, on the right bank of the Gave-de-Pau, 66 miles E. S. E. of Bayonne and 143 S. S. E. of Bordeaux. It occupies a rocky height, 623 feet above sea-level, and commands toward the S. most magnificent views of the serrated Pyrénées. The ancient capital of the kingdom of Béarn and French Navarre, it has a noble five-towered castle, rising to a height of 110 feet, rebuilt about 1363 by Gaston Phœbus, Comte de Foix, and restored by Louis- Philippe and Napoleon III. Linen and chocolate are its chief manufactures; and in the vicinity Jurançon wine is grown, and many swine are fed, whose pork supplies the famous hams of Bayonne. Pop. about 40,000.
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Paul
ST., EPISTLES OF. There are 14 epistles in the New Testament usually ascribed to Paul, beginning with that to the Romans and ending with that to the Hebrews. Of these the first 13 have never been contested; as to the latter many good men have doubted whether Paul was the author, though the current of criticism is in favor of this opinion. These epistles, in which the principles of Christianity are developed for all periods, characters, and circumstances, are among the most important of the primitive documents of the Christian religion, even apart from their inspired character.
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Paul (II)
ST. VINCENT DE, a Roman Catholic philanthropist; born of poor parents in southern France in 1576; was educated at Dax and Toulouse; ordained a priest in 1600; in 1605 he was captured by pirates; remained in slavery in Tunis for two years, and finally escaped to France. He afterward visited Rome, from whence he was sent on a mission to Paris, where he became almoner to Queen Margaret of Valois. In 1616 he began the labors which occupied so large a portion of his life, and which included the foundation of the institution called the "Priests of the Mission or Lazarists," the reformation of the hospitals, the institution of the Sisterhood of Charity, the instruction of idiots at his Priory of St. Lazare, etc. Among the last acts of his life was the foundation of an asylum for aged working people of both sexes, and a hospital for all the poor of Paris, which was opened in 1657. He was canonized in 1737. He died in 1660.
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Paul (ST one of the apostles)
ST., one of the apostles of Jesus Christ; originally called Saul; a Hebrew of the tribe of Benjamin, and a native of Tarsus, the capital of Cilicia, and was born at the beginning of the Christian era. His father was a Pharisee of the most rigid cast, and Paul himself, up to the time of his conversion, was a most bitter and intolerant persecutor of the Christian sect; even assisting at the martyrdom of St. Stephen. The mode of his conversion is fully detailed in the New Testament. After his conversion, he was baptized at Damascus by Ananias; from whence, after a brief sojourn, rn, he proceeded to Arabia, where he is supposed to have been fully instructed in the duties and doctrines of the new faith by special revelation. He was martyred about A. D. 66.
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Paul and Virginia
a story by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, a French author. It was published in 1787. It is a pretty, pathetic tale of almost idyllic character, but somewhat morbid in tone. Paul and Virginia are two children who grow up together. After reaching manhood and womanhood they are betrothed, but Virginia loses her life in a shipwreck and Paul dies of grief. Several operas have been written with this story as a basis.
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Paulding
JAMES KIRKE, an American author; born in Dutchess co., N. Y., Aug. 2, 1779. Self-educated, he early showed a tendency to literature, and, being a friend of Washington Irving, wrote a portion of "Salmagundi." During the War of 1812 he published the "Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan"; and in 1814, "The United States and England," a defense against articles in the "Quarterly Review." This gained him an appointment on the Board of Naval Commissioners. He still continued to write minor satires and humorous sketches, and in 1831 published the very successful novel, "The Dutchman's Fireside," and in 1832 "Westward Ho!" "Life of Washington" (1835) and "Slavery in the United States" (1836), in which the institution is defended on social, economical, and physiological grounds. In 1837 Van Buren appointed him Secretary of the Navy. He died at Hyde Park, N. Y., April 6, 1860.
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