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miffion for this addrefs, and encouraged me by your pe- 
rufal and approbation. Dryden. 
With thy permijfion then, and thus forewarn’d, 
The willinger I go. Milton's P.L. 
PERMIS'SIVE, adj. [from permitto, Lat.] Granting li¬ 
berty; not favour; not hindering, though not approving. 
—When evil deeds have their permijfive pafs. Shakefpeark's 
Meafurefor Meafure. 
Kypocrify, the only evil that walks 
Invifible except to God alone, 
By his permi/Jive will, through heaven and earth. Milton. 
Granted; fuffered without hindrance; not authorized or 
favoured.—If this doth authorize ufury, which before was 
but permijfive , it is better to mitigate ufury by declaration 
than to fuffer it to rage by connivance. Bacon's Efj'ays. 
Thus I embolden’d fpake, and freedom us’d 
Permi/Jive, and acceptance found. Milton's P.L. 
PERMIS'SIVELY, adv. By bare allowance; without 
hindrance.—As to a war for the propagation of the Chrif- 
tian faith, I would be glad to hear fpoken concerning 
the lawfulnefs, not only permiffively, but whether it be 
not obligatory to Chriftian princes to defign it. Bacon's 
Holy War. 
PERMIS'TION, f. [ permijlus , Lat.] The aft of mixing. 
To PERMIT', v. a. [permitlo, Lat. permettre, Fr.] To 
allow without command.—What things God doth neither 
command nor forbid, the fame he permitteth with appro¬ 
bation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. —To 
fuffer, without authorizing or approving.—To allow ; to 
fuffer.—Age oppreffes us by the fame degrees that it in- 
flrudfs us, and permits not that our mortal members,which 
are frozen with our years, thou hi retain the vigour of our 
youth. Dryden. 
Ye gliding ghofts, permit me to relate 
The myftick wonders of your lilent Hate. Dryden. 
To give up ; to refign.— Not ufed. —If the courfe of truth 
be permitted unto itfelf, it cannot efcape many errours. 
Brown's Vu/g. Err. 
Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou liv’d, 
Live well ; how long or fhort, permit to heav’n. Milton. 
Whate’er can urge ambitious youth to fight, 
She pompoufly dilplays before their fight; 
Laws, empire, all permitted to the fword. Dryden. 
Let us not aggravate our forrows, 
But to the gods permit th’ event of things. Addifon's Cato. 
PERMIT', J'. A written permiflion from an officer for 
tranfporting of goods from place to place, ffiowing the 
duty on them to have been paid. 
PERMIT'TANCE, f. Allowance; forbearance of op- 
pofition ; permiflion. A bad word.—When this fyftem 
of air comes, by divine permittance, to be corrupted by 
poifonous acrimonious fleams, what havock is made in all 
living creatures ? Derham’s Phyf. Theol. 
PERMIX'TION, J\ [from permijlus, Lat.] The aft of 
mingling ; the ftate of being mingled.—They fell into the 
oppofite extremity of one nature in Chrift, the divine and 
human natures in Chrift, in their conceits, by permixticn 
and confufion of fubftances, and of properties growing 
into one upon their adunation. Brerewood. 
PERM'SKOE, a government of Ruffia, including the 
provinces of Perm and Ekaterinburg; bounded on the 
north by the government of Vologda and Tobollk, on the 
eaft by the government of Tobollk, on the fouth by Up- 
himlkoe, and on the welt by Viatlkoe; about 360 miles 
from north to fouth, and from 24.0 to 260 ealt to weft. 
Lat. 35. 15. to 61. 15. N. Ion. 52. to 63. E. The province 
of Perm extends from lat. 55. 30. to 61. 14. N. Ion. 52. to 
58. E. 
PERMUTA'TION, f. [Fr. from permutatio, Lat.] 
Exchange of one for another.—If you can, by per¬ 
mutation , make the benefices more compatible. Bacon on 
ike Ch. of England. — Gold and filver, by their rarity, are 
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wonderfully-fitted for this ufe of permutation for all forts 
of commodities. Ray. — [In algebra and arithmetic.] 
Change, or different combination, of numbers or quanti¬ 
ties.— Permutation of proportion hath place only in ho- 
mogeneals. Wallis. —See Algebra, vol. ii. and Numbers, 
vol. xvii. 
To PERMU'TE, v. a. [permuto, Lat. permuter, Fr.] To 
exchange. 
PERMU'TER, f An exchanger; he who permutes. 
PERN ABIACA'BA, or Paranonbiacuba, a moun¬ 
tain of Brazil, near the city of St. Paul. 
PARNAL'LA, a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Guzerat: thirty-eight miles fouth of Surat, thirty weft 
of Durrampour. Lat. 20. 35. N. Ion. 72. 53. E. 
PERNAMBU'CO. See Fernambuc, vol. vii. In that 
place w>e fpoke very briefly of a province which is now 
dated to contain 550,000 fouls, and its chief town of the 
fame name 60,000. But circumftances havefince occurred 
to make the place better known, as well as more intereft- 
ing to an Englilh public. In faft, the great jealoufy 
which the Portuguefe have obferved from time immemo¬ 
rial in all their commercial dealings, had induced them 
to prohibit foreigners vifiting this coaft; and, before the 
year 1807,when the prince regent emigrated with his court 
to Rio Janeiro, if any foreign veffel was difeovered upon 
it, flie was liable to confifcation, and her crew to impri- 
fonment. But, foon after that had taken place, as man¬ 
kind in general go from one extreme to the other, we 
had free accefs to all their ports; and, to fay the truth, 
were allowed, like the Jews in Turkey, to monopolize 
nearly the whole of their trade, even the coafting part of 
it. Previous to this event, we were fo little acquainted 
with the Brazils, that in moft of our maps, the town is 
called “ Olinda, or Pernambuco,” though thofe are in fad: 
two feparate and diftin<ft places; the firft a city, and the 
fecond a populous town, diftant at leaft three miles. 
Pernambuco is a large town, containing 60,000 people, 
and carrying on a great foreign and domeltic trade. The 
coaft near it is very low, and the country well clothed 
with woods in perpetual verdure, which, contrafted with 
the white cottages fcattered along the ftiore, the Indians 
filhing in their jungadas, or canoes, and the beautiful fe- 
rene fky, affords to the European, as he approaches it, a 
moft pleafing profped. 
The town Hands on a great extent of ground, and 
many of the houfes are well built, chiefly of Hone. The 
ftreets are wide and fpacious, the churches are truly mag¬ 
nificent, and the images they contain are itnmenfely va¬ 
luable. It is luppofed that the religious form one-eighth 
part of the population ; and of the continual crowd 
palling through the ftreets, they make no fmall portion. 
Nearly half of the inhabitants are flaves, who are hu¬ 
manely treated by the Portuguefe, and make good and 
faithful lervants. There is a market appropriated pur- 
pofely for thefe unfortunate beings, where two or three 
hundred are commonly feen huddled together, fquatted 
on their hams like monkeys, and completely in cuerpo. 
They are thus expofed for fale, having been previoufly 
rubbed over with a fpecies of oil, which gives them a 
gloffy Ihining appearance ; and, in addition, are decorated 
with bead necklaces and bracelets, to fet them off to ad¬ 
vantage. 
Pernambuco Hands on two iflands, and is conne&ed 
together by two bridges, one of which is a moft beautiful 
ft ru ft lire, built by the Dutch when they took this place 
from the Portuguefe in 1630. It confifts of fifteen arches, 
under which runs a ftrong and rapid river, that comes 
many hundred miles down the country. On each fide of 
this bridge are (hops full of European merchandife, par- 
ticularlyEnglifli manufactures, or, as they are called by the 
Portuguefe “ fazendas Inglefas.” It is only in the middle 
that a perfon knows he is on a bridge; he then beholds 
an opening, which during the day is often full of paffen- 
gers, enjoying the cool refrelhing breeze that comes down 
the river, and gratifying themfelves with the profped, 
which from this lpoc is truly delightful. The river feen 
. winding 
