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PATHOPOI'EA,/. [from the Greek n-stfloc, paflion, 
and tronu, to caufe.] The aCl of moving the paflions; the 
method made ufe of to move the paflions ; an addrefs to 
the paflions. 
PA'THOS, f. [Greek.] Paflion; vehemence; warmth; 
affeCtion of mind; energy; that which excites the paf- 
fions : long fince introduced into our language, but parted 
over by Dr. Johnfon.—“Lord, if thou wilt pardon this 
people !” It was a vehement ■pathos; “If thou wilt pardon 
it!” He faith no more, but, “ If thou wilt not, put me 
out of the book of life.” Here is a vehement prayer; and 
with this he flacks the wrath of God, and quencheth it. 
Dr. Wejifeild's Difc. 1646.—By the fimplicity of its con- 
duCl, it diminifhes the pathos of the fable. Mafon's Pref. 
to Elfrida. —Before thefe books became common, affeCling 
fituations, the combination of incident, and the pathos of 
cataftrophe, were almoft unknown. Wharton's Hiji. of 
E. P. 
PA'THROS, [Heb. the fpread of ruin.] A city and 
canton of Egypt, of which the prophets Jeremiah and 
Ezekiel make mention ; Jerem. xliv. 1. 15. Ezek. xxix. 
14. xxx. 14. We do not very well know its fituation, 
though Pliny and Ptolemy the geographer fpeak of it by 
the name of Phaturis; and it appears to have been in 
Upper Egypt. Ifaiah (xii. 2.) calls it Pathros; and it is 
the country of the Pathrufim, the pofterity of Mizraim, 
of whom Mofes fpeaks, Gen. x. 14. Ezekiel threatens 
them with an entire ruin. The Jews retired thither not- 
withftanding the remonftrances of Jeremiah ; and the 
Lord fays by Ifaiah, that he will bring them back from 
thence to their own land. Ifaiah, xi. 11. 
PA'TI. See Patta. 
PA'TIA, a river of South-America, which rifes near 
Popayan, and runs into the Pacific Ocean in lat. 2. 15.N. 
PATIA'LA, a town of Hindooltan, in the circar of 
Sirhind : twelve miles fouth-weft of Sirhind, 130 north- 
weft of Delhi. Lat. 30. iB. N. Ion. 76. 5. E. 
PAT'IBLE, adj. [from potior, Lat. to fuffer.] Suffer¬ 
able; tolerable; to be borne. 
PATIB'ULARY, adj. [from patihulum, Lat.] Belong¬ 
ing to the gallows. 
PATIB'ULATED, adj. Hung on a gibbet. Cole. 
P A'TIENCE, J'. [Fr. from patientia, Lat.] The power 
of fuffering; calm endurance of pain or labour.—Chrif- 
tian fortitude and patience have their opportunity in times 
of affliction and perfecution. Sprat’s Sermons. 
The king-becoming graces, 
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude; 
I have no reliffl of them. Shakefpcare’s Macleth. 
The quality of expediting long without rage or difcon- 
tent; long-fuffering.—Neceffary patience in feeking the 
Lord, is better than he that leadeth his life without a 
guide. Ecdus. xx. 32.—Have patience with me, and I will 
pay thee all. St. Matthew. —Perfeverance; continuance 
of labour: 
He learnt with patience, and with meeknefs taught; 
His life was but the comment of his thought. Harte. 
The quality of bearing offences without revenge or anger: 
The hermit then affum’d a bolder tone, 
Kis rage was kindled, and his patience gone. Harte. 
Sufferance: permiffion.—By their patience be it fpoken, 
the apoftles preached as well when they wrote, as when 
they fpake the gofpel. Hooker. —A fpecies of Rumex.— 
Patience, an herb, makes a good boiled fallad. Mortimer. 
Patience is thatcalm and unruffled temper with which 
a good man bears the evils of life, from a conviCHon that 
they are at leaft permitted, if not fent, by the beft of 
Beings, who makes all things work together for good to 
thofe who love and fear him. 
The evils by which life is embittered may be reduced 
to thefe four : 1. Natural evils, or thofe to which we are 
by nature fubjeCl as men, and as perifhable animals. The 
greateft of thefe are, the death of thofe whom we love, 
and of ourfelves. 2. Thofe from which we might be ex¬ 
empted by a virtuous and prudent conduCl, but which 
are the infeparable confequences of imprudence or vice, 
which we call punifhments; as infamy proceeding from 
fraud, poverty from prodigality, debility and difeafe 
from intemperance. 3. Thofe by which the fortitude of 
the good are exercifed ; fuch as the perfecutions raifed 
againft them by the wicked. To thefe may be added,. 4. 
Theoppofition againft which we muft perpetually ftfuggle, 
arifing from the diverfity of fentiments, manners, and 
characters, of the perfons among whom we live. 
Under all thefe evils patience is not only neceffary but 
ufeful: it is neceffary, becaufe the laws of nature have 
made it a duty, and to murmur againft natural events is 
to affront providence ; it is ufeful, becaufe it renders our 
fufferings lighter, fhorter, and lefs dangerous. 
The man, therefore,who poflefles this virtue (patience), 
in this ample fenfe of it, (lands upon an eminence, and 
fees human things below him : the tempeft indeed may 
reach him ; but he (lands fecure and collected againft it 
upon the bafis of confcious virtue, which the fevereft 
florms can feldom (hake, and never overthrow. 
Men will have the fame veneration for a perfon who 
fuffers adverfity without dejection, as for demolifhed 
temples, the very ruins of which are reverenced and 
adored. 
Patience, however, is by no means incompatible with 
fenfibility, which, with all its inconveniences, is to be 
cherifhed by thofe who underftand and wifli to maintain 
the dignity of their nature. To feel our own mifery 
with full force is not to be deprecated. Affliction foftens 
and improves the heart. Tears, to fpeak in the ftyle of 
figure, fertilize the foil in which the virtues grow. And 
it is the remark of one who underflood human nature, 
that the faculties of the mind, as well as the feelings of 
the heart, are ameliorated by adverfity. But, in order to 
promote thefe ends, our fufferings muft not be permitted 
to overwhelm us. We muft oppofe them with the arms 
of reafon and religion; and to exprefs the idea in the 
language of the philofopher, as well as the poet, of Nature, 
every one, while he is compelled to feel-his misfortunes 
like a man, fliould refolve alfo to bear them like a man : 
Refign’d in ev’ry (late, 
With patience bear, with prudence pufh, your fate; 
By fuffering well our fortune we fubdue, 
Fly when fhe frowns, and when fhe calls purfue. 
PA'TIENCE, a fmall iftand near the coaft of America, 
in Naraganfett Bay, belonging to the Hate of Rhode 
Ifland. 
PA'TIENT, adj. [Fr. patiens, Lat.] Having the qua¬ 
lity of enduring : with of before the thing endured.—To 
this outward ftruCture was joined flrength of conflitution, 
patient of fevered toil and hardfhip. Fell. —Wheat, which 
is the beft fort of grain, of which the pureft bread is made, 
is patient of beat and cold. 1 lay. Calm under pain or af¬ 
fliction.—Be patient, and I will ttay. Shahejpeare’s Hen.VI . 
Griev’d, but unmov’d, and patient of your fcorn, 
I die. Drydcn’s Theocritus . 
Not revengeful againft injuries. Not eafily provoked.. 
—Warn them that are unruly, fupport the weak, be pa- 
tient toward all men. 1 The]]', v. 14.—Perfevering; calmly 
diligent.—Whatever I have done is due to patient 
thought. Neivton. —Not hafty ; not vicioufly eager or im¬ 
petuous : 
Too induftrious to be great, 
Nor patient to expeCt the turns of fate. Prior.. 
PA'TIENT, J\ That which receives imprefflons from 
external agents.—Malice is a paflion fo impetuous and 
precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the pa¬ 
tient. Gov. of the Tongue. —AClion and paflion are modes 
which belong to fubltances: when a fmith with a hammer 
ftrikes a piece of iron, the hammerand the fmith are both 
agents or fubjeCls of aClion ; the one fupreme, and the 
other 
