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muft have been its appearance, fince the great linguift 
John Minfhew, in his Guide into Tongues, printed 1617, 
gives it the moft miferable character of which any libel 
can be capable : Mr. Minfhew fays, (and his words were 
quoted by lord-chief-juftice Holt,) a pamphlet, that is, 
opufculum Jlolidorum; ‘the diminutive performance of 
fools;’ from nav, all, and vrXriQu, I fill; to wit, all places. 
According to the vulgar faying, all things are full of 
fools, or foolifh things ; for fuch multitudes of pamphlets, 
unworthy of the very name of libels, being more vile 
than common fhores, and the filth of beggars, and being 
flying papers daubed over and befmeared with the foames 
of drunkardes, are tolled far and near into the mouths 
and hands of fcoundrels ; neither will the fham oracles 
of Apollo be efteemed fo mercenary as a pamphlet.” 
Under this firft etymological notion of pamphlets may 
be comprehended the vulgar Ifories of the Nine Worthies 
of the World, of the Seven Champions of Chriftendom, 
Tom Thumb, Valentine and Orfon, Sec. as alfo moft 
of apocbryphal lucubrations. The greateft collection of 
this firft fort of pamphlets are the rabbinic traditions in 
the Talmud, confifting of fourteen volumes in folio, and 
the popifli legends of the Lives of the Saints, which, though 
not finifhed, form fifty folio volumes, all which trails were 
originally in pamphlet forms. 
The fecond idea of the radix of the word pamphlet is, 
that it takes its derivation from 5rai>, all, and tpiXeu, 
Hove; fignifying a thing beloved by all ; for a pamphlet, 
being of a fmall portable bulk, and of no great price, is 
adapted to every one’s underftanding and reading. In 
this clafs may be placed all ftitched books on ferious fub- 
jefts, the belt of which fugitive pieces have been gene¬ 
rally preferved and even reprinted in colleftions of ftate- 
trafts, mifcellanies, fermons, poems, &c. and on the con¬ 
trary, bulky volumes have been reduced, for the conve¬ 
nience of the public, into the familiar fliapes of pamphlets, 
ftitched par un filet, with a thread. Both thefe methods 
have been thus cenfured by the majority of the lower 
■holife of convocation 1711. “They have re-publiflied 
and collefted into volumes, pieces written long ago on 
the fide of infidelity. They have re-printed together 
in the moft contrafted manner many loofeand licentious 
pieces, in order to their being purchafed more cheaply, 
and difperfed more eafily.” 
The other two branches of etymology are not worth 
our notice in this place, as we have already given thofe 
of Dr. Johnfon, See. The author then proceeds in praiie 
of pamphlets: “The fmallnefs of the iize of a book was 
always its own commendation ; as, on the contrary, the 
largenefs of a book is its own difadvantage, as well as 
terror of learning. In thort, a big book is a fcare-crow to 
the head and pocket of the author, ftudent, buyer, and fel¬ 
ler, as well as a harbour of ignorance; hence the inacceflible 
mafteries of the inexpugnable ignorance and fuperftition 
of the ancient heathens, degenerate Jews, and of the po- 
pifh fcholafters and canonifts,entrenched under the fright¬ 
ful bulk of huge, vaft, and innumerable, volumes ; fuch 
as the great folio that the Jewifti rabbins fancied in a 
dream was given by the angel Raziel to his pupil Adam, 
containing all the celeftial fciences; and the volumes 
writ by Zoroafter, intituled The Similitude, which is 
faid to have taken up more fpace than 1260 hides of 
cattle ; as alfo the 25,000, or, as fome fay, 36,000, vo¬ 
lumes, befides 525 lefler MSS. of his. The groll'nefs 
and multitude of Ariftotle and Varro’s books were both 
a prejudice to the authors, and an hindrance to learning, 
and'an occafion of the greateft part of them being loft. 
The largenefs of Plutarch’s Treatifes is a great caufe of 
his being neglefted ; while Longinus and Epiftetus, in 
their pamphlet Remains, are every one’s companions. 
Origen’s 6000 volumes (as Epiphanius will have it) were 
■not only the occafion of his venting more numerous er¬ 
rors, but alfo for the moft part of their perdition. Were 
it not for Euclid’s Elements, Hypocrates’s Aphori.fms, 
Juftinian’s Inftitutes, and Littleton’s Tenures, in fmall 
PAM 
-pamphlet-volumes, young mathematicians, frelh-water 
phyficians, civilian novices, and les apprentices en la ley 
d'Angleterre, would be at a lofs and ftand, and total dif- 
encouragement.” Curiofities of Literature, vol. ii. 
To PAM'PHLET, v.n. To write fmall books.—I put 
pen to paper, and fomething I have done, though in a 
poor pamplileting way. Howell. 
PAMPHLETEE'R, /. A fcribbler of fmall books.— 
The fquibs are thofe who in the common phrafe are called 
libellers, lampooners, and pamphleteers. Tatler. 
Small pains can be but little art; 
Or load full drie-fats from the forren mart 
With folio volumes, two to an ox-hide ; 
Or elfe, ye pamphleteer, go ftand afide. Bp. Halt's Sat . 
Acolleftion of pamphlets. The title of a periodical work 
now publilhing. 
PAM'PHOS, a Greek poet, fuppofed to have lived be¬ 
fore Hefiod’s age. Lempriere. 
PAM'PHYLA, a Greek woman, who wrote a General 
Hiftory in thirty-three books, in Nero’s reign. This hif- 
tory, fo much commended by the ancients, is loft. 
PAMPHYL'IA, in ancient geography, a confiderable 
province of Alia Minor, and which included Pifidia, that 
occupied the northern part. Pamphylia was bounded on 
the fouth by the Mediterranean, and extended along the 
coaft from Mount Climax, which feparated it on the welt 
from Caria, as far as the chain of mountains which fepa¬ 
rated it on the eaft from Cilicia ; to the north it had 
Phrygia. The principal towns of Pamphylia, commen¬ 
cing weft ward, were Olbia, at the mouth of the Cata- 
raftes ; Perga (Karahilar) towards the eaft, at a lmall 
diftance from thence, on the Ceftrus; Afpendus to the 
fouth-eaft, on the Eurymedon ; Sede (Cordeloro) direftly 
fouth, on the fea-coaft ; Cibyra (Ibuzar) fituated to the 
north-eaft ; Lyrbe to the north-eaft; and Corybrafius on 
the Melas. Towards Phrygia were Tormeffus (Eftenaz), 
a principal town of the people called Solymi, and of the 
fmall country called Cabalia ; Cormofa ; Cremna (Ka- 
briaez) to the north-eaft ; Sandalium, a fortrefs north- 
weft of Cremna ; Baris, fouth-eaft of Cremna, in which 
the Romans eftablifhed a colony; Lyfinoe (Ag-Jafon), 
eaft of Cormofa ; Trogitis (Egrida), fouth of a lake, and 
fouth-eaft of Cremna ; Oroanda (Haviran), north of the 
lake; Seleucia Ferrea (Eulhar), at fome diftance eaft of 
the lake; and Petnelilfus, fouth-eaft of Selga and Ca- 
tenna, upon the Eurymedon, towards the north-eaft. Ifau- 
ria is found within the limits afllgned by M. d’Anville to 
Pamphylia. 
PAMPILHO'SA, a town of Portugal, in Eftrema- 
dura : thirty-four miles north-north-ealt of Thomar. 
PAMPINA'TION, J’. [from pampinvs.\ The a£l of 
pruning the young fhoots of the vine. Cole. 
PAMPIN'EAN, adj. Belonging to the vine leaf. Cole. 
PAMPIN'IFORM, adj. [from the Lat. pampimis, a 
vine, and forma, a form.] Having the form of a vine-leaf; 
belonging to a veflel formed by the fpermatic veins. 
PAMPI'NUS, f. [Latin.] The tender Ihoot of a vine. 
PAM'PISFORD, in Domefday Pampesworde, now 
commonly called Pansay, a fmall village in the hun¬ 
dred of Chilford, and deanery of Camps, and lies about 
eight miles nearly fouth of Cambridge, and nine north- 
eaft of Royfton. When the furvey of Domefday was 
taken, there were two manors in Pamplworth, one of 
which belonged to the abbot and convent of Ely, having 
been given to that monaftery by duke Brithnoth, in the 
year 991 ; the other was held by two knights, whofe 
names are not mentioned, under Alan earl of Britanny 
and Richmond : the former manor was alienated from 
the church of Ely, by Hervey the firft bifhop, and given 
to his nephew William de Laventon, chaplain to. king 
Henry I. to be held by him under the abbey by knight’s 
fervice : in the reign of Edward I. it was in the family 
of Fitz-ancher, or Fitz-anger, afterwards (temp. Ed. III.) 
in the Shardelowes. The other manor, being held of 
