Payn (pan), James. Payne (pan), John Howard. Peabody (pe bod i), Andrew Preston. Peck (pek), George Washington. Penn (pen), William. Pepys (peps or pips or pep'is), Samuel. Percival (pér'si val), James Gates. Perrault (pā rō'), Charles. Perry (per'i), Nora. Persius (per'shi-us). Pestalozzi (pes tä lot'sē) Johann Heinrich. Peter Parley (pē'tèr pärʼli). See Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. Peter Pindar (pē'ter pin'dar). See Wolcot, John. Petrarch (pe'trärk). Petroleum V. Nasby (naz'bi). See Locke, David Ross. Peyton (pa'ton), Thomas. Phelps (felps), Elizabeth Stuart. See Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) Pfeiffer (pfif'er), Emily. Piatt (pi'at), John James. Piatt, Sarah Morgan (Bryan). Pierre Loti (pē är lō tē'). See Viaud, Louis Marie Julien. Piers Ploughman (pērs plou'man) (author, William Langland). Pignotti (pen-yot'tē), Lorenzo. Pike (pik), Albert. Pindar (pin'där). Pindar, Peter. See Wolcott, John. Pinkney (pingk'ni), Edward Coate. Pliny (pli'ni) the Elder. Ponce de Leon (pōn'thā dã lã on'), Luis. Poole (pöl), William Frederick. Pope (pop), Alexander. NORRIS, JOHN, an English clergyman, metaphysician, and poet, born in Collingbourne, Kingston, Wiltshire, in 1657; died at Bemerton in 1711. He took his degree at Oxford in 1680. His work An Idea of Happiness (1683) gave him a foremost place among the Platonists of his time. In 1684 he took orders, and in 1693 was made rector of Bemerton. Among his works, many of which have passed through several editions, are An Idea of Happiness (1683); Poems and Discourses (1684); The Theory and Regulation of Love (1688); Reason and Religion (1689); Two Treatises Concerning the Divine Sight (1692); Letters Concerning the Love of God (1695); An Essay Toward the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World (1704); The Natural Immortality of the Soul (1708). Hallam, in his Literary History of Europe, says that Norris "is more thoroughly Platonic than Malebranche, to whom, however, he pays great deference and adopts his fundamental hypothesis of seeing all things in God. He is a writer of fine genius and a noble elevation of moral sentiments, such as predisposes men for the Platonic schemes of theosophy. He looked up to Augustin with as much veneration as to Plato, and respected more perhaps than Malebranche, certainly more than the generality of English writers, the theo |