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£60 
du Livre qui porte pour Titre, Prejitg-ez Legitimes contre 
Us Cnlvinijles ,” 1673, in 2 vols. unio. in which his learn¬ 
ing, zeal, and judgment, are advantageoufly difplayed. 
Mii/heini's Hiji. Eccl. 
PAJO'T (Louis Leo), Count d’Anfembray, a French 
nobleman, celebrated for his fcientific knowledge, was 
born at Paris in the year 1678. He received the advan¬ 
tages of a liberal education ; and, having early difcovered 
an inclination for mathematical and philofophical ftudies, 
was inllrufled in the philofophy of Des Cartes. After¬ 
wards he took a tour to Holland, where he formed an 
acquaintance with Huygens, Ruyfch, Boerhaave, and 
others diftinguilhed by their eminence in literature and 
fcience. He was appointed direftor-general of the polls 
in France ; and conduced the bufinefs of that department 
in fuch a manner as entitled him to the elteem of the 
public, and at the fame time fecured the confidence and 
favour of Louis XIV. That prince lent for him in his 
laft illnefs to feal up his will, before it was fent to be 
depofited with the parliament. After the death of his 
father, the count came into the poffeflion of a country- 
feat at Bercy, where he determined to eftablilh a fcienti¬ 
fic mufeum ; and he fpared neither trouble nor expenfe 
to furnilh it with curiofities of nature and art, and with 
philofophical and mechanical inllruments and machines 
of every defcription. So famous did this colle6lion be¬ 
come, that it induced Peter the Great of RufTia, the em¬ 
peror of Germany, and prince Charles of Lorraine, &c. 
to pay vilits to the count d’Anfembray. It was perhaps 
the moll curious mufeum in Europe ; and was particularly 
unrivalled in articles connected with the fcience of me¬ 
chanics. In this department of the mathematics, the 
count furnilhed feveral papers to the Memoirs of the 
Academy of Sciences, of which he was a member. The 
principal of them are, On an Inftr-ument for the Mea- 
furement of Liquids ; On an Aerometer, or Wind-gage; 
and, On a Machine for beating regular Time in Mufic. 
So much at heart had he the interefts of fcience, that he 
bequeathed his mufeum to the academy, upon the con¬ 
dition that it Ihould be rendered ufeful to the public. He 
died in the year 1753, at the age of feventy-five, deeply 
regretted by the poor parilhioners of Bercy and St. Ger¬ 
main l’Auxerrois, to whom he was a moll kind and libe¬ 
ra! benefactor, and univerfally refpeiled among his ac¬ 
quaintance for his integrity, humanity, and other excel¬ 
lent qualities. Gen. Biog. 
PAJOU', a town of France, in the department of the 
Cantal : 2 miles from Aurillac. 
PAIPARiE'A, / in botany. See Grewia. 
PAIR, /. [paire, Fr. from par, Lat.] Two things 
Pitting one another; as, a pair of gloves, Ihoes, &c. 
A man and wife : 
Oh ! when meet now, 
Such pairs in love and mutual honour join’d ? Milton. 
Baucis and Philemon there 
Had liv’d long tnarry’d, and a happy pair ; 
Now old in love. Dryden, 
Two of a fort; a couple ; a brace..—The many pairs of 
nerves branching themfelves to all the parts of the body, 
are wonderful to behold. Ray. 
All his lovely looks, his pleafing fires, 
All his fvveet motions, all his taking fmiles, 
He does into one pair of eyes convey. Suckling. 
Pair is alfo ufed in compound things, for two parts 
alike to each other, though they only make one whole 5 
as, a pair of fciffars, fnuffers, See. 
To PAIR, v. 71. To be joined in pairs; to couple ; as 
male and female.—Your hand, my Perdita; fo turtles 
pair. Shakejpeare.— To fuit; to fit as a counterpart.—My 
heart was made to fit and pair with thine. Rowe. 
Had our prince feen the hour, he had pair'd 
Well with this lord; there was not a full month 
Between their births. Skakefpeare's Wint.'Tale. 
To PAIR, v. a. To join in couples: 
Minds are fo hardly match’d, that e’en the firft, 
Tho’ pair'd by heav’n, in Paradife were curs’d. Dryden. 
To unite as correfpondent or oppofite •. 
Turtles and doves with differing hues unite, 
And gloffy jet is pair'd with fliining white. Pope. 
To PAIR, v. a. [psepan, Sax. The original form of 
impair. Wicliffe ufes pairing in the fenfe of hurt : “ What 
profitith it to a man, if he wynne al the world, and do 
peyrynge to his foul ?” St. Mark, viii.] To impair ; 
No faith fo fall, quoth the, but fleth does paire. 
Flefh may empaire, quoth he, but reaton can repaire. 
Spenfer. 
PAIR OF CARDS, /. [an old name for] A pack of 
cards.—-A pair of cards, Nic’las, and a carpet to cover the 
table. Where’s Sis’ly with her counters and her box ? 
T. Heyiuood's Wumu7i killed with Kindnefs. 
PAIR-ROYAL,/ [at fome games at cards] Three of 
a fort. 
Each one prov’d a fool, 
Yet three knaves in the whole, 
And that made up a pair-royal, Butler's Remains. 
PAI'RA, a river of Perfia, which lofes itfelf in a lake 
n ear Tadivan, in the province of Farfiftan. 
PAIRAN', a town of Sibu, one of the Philippine 
Iflands, inhabited chiefly by Chinefe merchants and 
artificers. 
PAIRI'ER, a town of France, in the department of the 
Vendee: ten miles fouth of Beauvoir. 
PAIRUMBAU'CUM, a town of Hindooftan, in the 
Carnatic : thirty miles weft of Madras. 
PAIS,/ [Fr. country.] The pebple out of whom a 
jury is taken.—The fubjeCt of our next enquiries will be 
the nature and method of the trial by jury; called alfo 
the trial per pais, or by the country. Blackjlone. 
PAI'SAGE, / [French.] A kind of landfcape, the 
reprefentation of fome part of a country in painting. 
Philips. 
PAISHA'WITR, a city of Candabar, and capital of a 
diftriCl, in Cabuliftan, iituated on the Kameh : 125 miles 
fouth-eaft of Cabul, and 170 north of Moultan. Lat. 
33. 18. N. Ion. 70. 36. E. 
PAI'SLEY, a town of Renfrewfhire, Scotland, fituated 
about fix miles and a half weft of Glafgow, on the river 
White Cart, over which there are two ftone bridges of. 
two arches each, and one which confifts of three arches. 
The town is very ancient; but was of much lefs confer 
quence formerly than it is at prefent. No fatisfaftory 
etymology has hitherto occurred of the name Paijley, 
The following has been fuggefted by a good Gaelic fcho- 
lar : A ridge of rocks that runs acrofs the river, and forms 
a beautiful cafcade, would, prior to the building of the 
town, be undoubtedly the moft ftriking object that the 
place would prefent. The brow or face of a rock is in 
Gaelic Pais-licht. A church in front of the rock would 
be the church in Pais-licht. A church did Hand here 
previous to 1160: it is named in the foundation-charter 
Ecclefia de Pafelet , Latinized, in the records of the mo- 
nailery, Pajlatum, an eafy derivative from Pais-licht, and 
in al! probability the original of the modern Paifey. 
Paifley was ereCted into a burgh of barony by James 
IV. in the year 1488, at that time probably deriving all 
its importance from the rich monaltery which had been 
eftablilhed there for feveral ages ; for George Shaw, who 
was then abbot of that monaltery, obtained this privilege 
from the king. Under this grant it enjoys all the privi¬ 
leges of a royal borough, except the right of being re- 
prefented in parliament, and of fending delegates to tile 
general convention at Edinburgh, The corporation or 
magiftracy confifts of three bailies, and feventeen coun- 
fellors, who are elected annually, befides a treafurer, 
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