Again he fails, and finally determines
"to know and to enjoy."--R. Browning, _Paracelsus_.

=Par'adine= (3 _syl._), son of Astolpho, and brother of Dargonet, both
rivals for the love of Laura. In the combat provoked by Prince Oswald
against Gondibert, which was decided by four combatants on each side,
Hugo "the Little" slew both the brothers.--Sir. Wm. Davenant,
_Gondibert_, i. (died 1668).

=Paradisa'ica= ("_the fruit of paradise_"). So the banana is called. The
Mohammedans aver that the "forbidden fruit" was the banana or Indian
fig, and cite in confirmation of this opinion that our first parents
used fig leaves for their covering after their fall.

=Paradise=, in thirty-three cantos, by Dant[^e] (1311). Paradise is
separated from Purgatory by the river Leth[^e]; and Dant[^e] was
conducted through nine of the spheres by Beatrice, who left him in the
sphere of "unbodied light," under the charge of St. Bernard (canto
xxxi.). The entire region is divided into ten spheres, each of which is
appropriated to its proper order. The first seven spheres are the seven
planets, viz. (1) the Moon, for angels, (2) Mercury, for archangels, (3)
Venus, for virtues, (4) the Sun, for powers, (5) Mars, for
principalities, (6) Jupiter, for dominions, (7) Saturn, for thrones. The
eighth sphere is that of the fixed stars for the cherubim; the ninth is
the _primum mob[)i]l[^e]_ for the seraphim; and the tenth is the
empyre'an for the Virgin Mary and the triune deity. Beatrice, with
Rachel, Sarah, Judith, Rebecca and Ruth, St. Augustin, St. Francis, St.
Benedict, and others, were enthroned in Venus, the sphere of the
virtues. The empyrean, he says, is a sphere of "unbodied light," "bright
effluence of bright essence, uncreate." This is what the Jews called
"the heaven of the heavens."

_Paradise_ was placed in the legendary maps of the Middle Ages, in
Ceylon; but Mahomet placed it "in the seventh heaven." The Arabs have a
tradition that when our first parents were cast out of the garden, Adam
fell in the isle of Ceylon, and Eve in Joddah (the port of Mecca).--_Al
Kor[^a]n_, ii.

=Paradise and the Pe'ri.= A peri was told she would be admitted into
heaven if she would bring thither the gift most acceptable to the
Almighty. She first brought a drop of a young patriot's blood, shed on
his country's behalf; but the gates would not open for such an offering.
She next took thither the last sigh of a damsel who had died nursing her
betro