Pai'one, Fran'cksco, an Italian painter, was born about 16U0 at IMilan. According to Baglioni he was the son of an obscure artist, who taught him the rudi- ments of the art. At an early age lie went to Rome, where he had the good fortune of being taken under the protection of the marquis Giustiniani, for whom he painted several pictures. He studied the works of the best masters with great assiduity, and had already be- gun to distinguish himself when he died, in 1634, in the flower of his life. His principal work is an altar- piece in the church of the monastery of St. Eomualdo at Rome, representing the martyrdom of that saint — a grand composition of many figures, executed in the style of Caravaggio. — Spooner, Bioij. Hist, of the Fine Arts, ii, 055.
Paros, one of the larger islands of the Grecian Archipelago. See Greece.
Parosli. See Flea.
Pa'iosh (Heb. Parosh', Tl" ""15, ./?<?« ; Sept. ^vpoc, but ^aptQ in Ezra ii, 3 ; A. V. " Pharosh," in Ezra viii, 3), a Jew whose retainers or descendants, in number 2172, returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra ii, 3 ; Neb. vii, 8). Another detachment of 1 50 males, with Zechariah at their head, accompanied Ezra (Ezra viii, 3). Seven of the family had married foreign wives (Ezra X, 25). They assisted in the building of the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. iii, 25), and signed the covenant with Nehemiah (Neh. x, 11), either individually, or per- haps representatively in the person of Parosh himself, if then surviving. B.C. ante 535-445.
Paroy, Jacques de, a French painter on glass, was born at St. Pour(;'aiu-sur-Allier, towards the close of the 10th century. After acquiring the elements of design and painting, he visited Kome for improvement, and studied under Domenichino. It is probable that he gained his knowledge of glass painting in his native country, as that art had already been practiced in the south of France in great perfection by Frere Guillaume, or Guglielmo de Marcilla. Paroj- executed several flne works in Venice, and then returned to France. At Paris he painted the windows in the choir of St. Marie, and designed the Judfjment of Susanna for the chapel of the same church, executed on glass by Jean Nogare. There are four beautiful paintings by Paroy in the par- ish church of St. Croix at (iannat, representing St. Am- brose, St. Jerome, St. A uf/nstine, and St. (Jregortj. — Spooner. Biog. Hist, of the Fine A7-ts, ii, 650.
Parr, EInathan, D.D., an eminent English divine, flourished in the reign of king James I. Parr was edu- cated at King's College, Cambridge; after taking holy orders he became rector of Palgrave, Suffolk. His ex- position of the Epistle to the Konians is a useful work, "equally remarkable," says Dr. Williams, " for soundness of sentiment, familiarity of illustralio)i, and want of taste
in style and composition." His Works were repeatedly published (4th edit., corrected and enlarged, Lond. 1051, fol.). They contain. Exposition on the Epistle to the Romans (on ch. i, on the first two verses of ch. ii, and on ch. viii-xvi) : — The Grounds of Divinity exjiounded and applied (8th edit. Lond. 1636, 12mo) : — Abba, Father, or a plain and short Direction concerning the Framing of Private Prayer.
Parr, Richard (1), an English prelate, flourished in the flrst half of the 17th century. He was made bishop of Sodor and Man in 1635. He died in 1643. He published a Sermon preached at the burial of Sir Robert Spencer (Oxf. 1628, 4to), and Concio ad Cltrum (1628, 8vo).
Parr, Richard (2), D.D., an exemplary Irish divine of note, was born at Fermoy, Ireland, in 1017. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. After taking holy orders he held several minor appointments, and in 1053 became vicar of Camberwell. He remained in this po- sition for thirty' -eight years. He died in 1691. In doctrine he was a Calvinist. He wrote Life and Let- ters of Archbishop Usher: — The Christian Reformation (Lond. 1600, 8vo); and published many Sermons. See Chalmers, Gen. Biog. Diet. s. v.
Parr, Samuel, LL.D., a learned English divine noted as a profound scholar, was born in 1747, at Har- row-on-the-IIill, Jliddlcsex. He was educated at the grammar school of that place, and at Emanuel Col- lege, Cambridge. He accepted in 1707 the situation of usher at Harrow, under Dr. Sumner; at whose death in 1772 he offered himself as a candidate for the mas- tership, but without success. He first opened an acad- emy at Stanmore, which began under very promising appearances; but which, ultimately falling, he gave up in 1776, and then became master of the grammar school at Colchester; whence, in 1778, he removed to that of Norwich. In 1780 he was presented to the recton,- of Asterby, Lincolnshire. In 1783 he obtained the perpet- ual curacy of Hat ton, in Warwickshire, and a prebend in St. Paul's Cathedral. In 1790 he exchanged Hat- ton for the rectory of Wadenhoe, in Northam[>tonshire, though he still continued to live at the former place, to which he was much attached, and the parish church of which he greatly ornamented. In 1802 Sir Francis Bur- dett gave him the rectory of Graff ham. in the county of Huntingdon, and this completed the course of his Church preferment. He died in 1825. As an elegant classical scholar Dr. Parr stood pre-eminent among his contemporaries; his prodigious memory and extent of research rendered him astonishingly powerful in con- versation ; and it is to be regretted that the greater part of his labors as an author had reference to topics which were of a temporary nature, and therefore, though writ- ten with vigor, are fast sinking into oblivion. Dr. Parr has not left a single great work, nor will his name go down to posterity associated with any important prin- ciple or extensive literary undertaking. His fame rests upon a learning which, whatever may have been its accuracy and extent, has bequeathed to the world no memorable results. Parr was a man of great talents, of very extensive learning, and of pre-eminent conver- sational powers; but he was vain, arrogant, and over- bearing. His friends uniformly represent him as pos- sessing much benevolence and kindness of feeling; but he required the utmost submission, and exacted the most devoted attention from all who approached him. In his literary and political disputes he argued and declaimed witli the fierceness of party feeling and the petulance of self-love, and forgot alike both the equities and the decencies of controversy. Though of inKjues- tionable ability, he spoke and wrote with the fluency of ready knowledge, rather than with the profoundness of original thought or the compass of a philosophic spirit. He was determined and violent in his social views, as his opinions on the slave-trade and Test-Act questions fidb' testify. It must be stated, however,