a city of the kingdom of Bavaria, in the circle of the Lower Danube, being the capital of the circle, as well as that of the bailiwick, of the same name. It is situated on a peninsula, formed by the junction of the river Inn with the Danube. It is strongly fortified, and farther defended by a citadel and the castle of Oberhaus. There are handsome bridges over both the Danube and the Inn. It is the see of a bishop, who has a palace and a cathedral, and it contains 822 houses, with 10,350 inhabitants. Notwithstanding its very advantageous situation on two navigable rivers, it enjoys very little trade, and has only some small manufactures. Long. 12. 54. E. Lat. 48. 35. N.

**PASSION** is a word of which, as Dr Reid observes, the meaning is not precisely ascertained either in common discourse or in the writings of philosophers. In its original import, it denotes every feeling of the mind occasioned by an extrinsic cause; but it is generally used to signify some agitation of mind, opposed to that state of tranquillity in which a man is most master of himself. That it was thus used by the Greeks and Romans, is evident from Cicero's rendering *passio*, the word by which the philosophers of Greece expressed it, by *perturbatio* in Latin. In this sense of the word, passion cannot be itself a distinct and independent principle of action, but only an occasional degree of vehemence given to those dispositions, desires, and affections, which are at all times present to the mind of man; and that this is its proper sense, we require no other proof than that passion has always been conceived to bear an analogy to a storm at sea or to a tempest in the air. See MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

**PASSION-Week**, the week immediately preceding the festival of Easter, and so called because in that week happened our Saviour's passion and death. The Thursday of this week is called Maunday Thursday; the Friday, Good Friday; and the Saturday, the Great Sabbath.