Perfian

OsjMO,: 'n ancient town of Italy, in ihe marquilatc of Ancona, with a rich analogy with that of the Perfian.

The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland 1797

XVe arc rather tin - willing to re/ign the opinion of its being a Perfian game.

The Monthly Review 1796

She then rode a Perfian horfe, and was drefTed in a man's habit, of the faftiion of that na - tion.

Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek; with Notes Critical & Historical, & a New Life of ... 1795

In another part of the book we fee a different etymology of the name, allotting it rather a Perfian origin.

The Monthly Review 1795

Had he our pits, the Perfian would admire No fun, but warm's devotion at our fire:

The Lives of the English Poets: and a criticism on their works 1795

Of all his eaflern paramours: iiis Perfian luvers all ihall leave him,

The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical Anderson, Robert, 1750-1830. cn 1795

Our world has indeed been op - prefled in former times with what mortals call univerfal monar - chies; fuch v/ere the Babylonian, the Perfian, the Grecian, and cfpecially the Roman.

Sermons on important subjects, by the late Reverend and pious Samuel Davies, A.M., sometime President of the College in New-Jersey ... to which are now added, three occasional sermons ... memoirs and character of the author, and two sermons on occasion of his death, by the Rev. Drs. Gibbons and Finley 1794

In the Perfian war, 6fte part of the army of Xerxes laid wade with fire an whofe image I have feen in the Prytanenm at Athens, and Eteonicjis a Spartan.

The Description of Greece 1794

Amafis was fucceeded by his fon Pfammeticus, in whofe reign, Egypt was conquered by Cambyfes, the fon of Cyrus, who made it a province of the Perfian empire.

The spirit of general history : in a series of lectures, from the eighth, to the eighteenth century : wherein is given a view of the progress of society, in manners and legislation during that period Thomson, George, Rev., fl. 1791-2 1792

If he is placed under the warm Perfian fun, he robs the filk-worm; and here he ftrips the Bear and Sable of the only coat they are poffefied of.

Travels into Norway, Denmark, and Russia, in the years 1788, 1789, 1790, and 1791 1792