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AUCHMUTY. SIR SAMUBL (1756-1812). Hritish general. was born at New York in 1756, and served as a loyalist in the American War of Independence, being given an cnsigncy in the royal army in 1777. and in 1778 a lieutenancy in the 45th- Foot, without purchase. Whe ...

... ed. The burial-place of his priests in later time* was in 1904 discovered at Abusir el Meleq.

... ays of the same refrangibility as those which it can absorb. This statement, as Sir E. Sabine remarked when awarding him the Rumford medal of the Royal Society in 1872, contains a fundamental principle of spectrum analysis, and though for a number of years it ...

... ce. Angus had been chiefly guided in his intrigues with England by his brother, Sir George Douglas of Pittcndriech (d. 1552), master of Angus, a far cleverer diplomatist than himself. His life and lands were also declared forfeit, as were those of his uncle, A ...

... of the whole Prussian contingent at the front, and in 1712, at the particular desire of the crown prince, Frederick William, who had served with him as a volunteer, he was made a general field marshal. Shortly before this he had executed a coup de main on the ...

... , directly or indirectly, valuable dyestuffs. The discovery of mauve in 1858 by Sir W. H. Perkin was the first of a series of dyestuffs which are now to be numbered by hundreds. Reference should be made to the articles DYEING, FUCHSINE, SAFRANINE, INDUUNES, fo ...

... m, due either to unity of function or to a philosophic unification, (vi.) the desire to do honour to the species in the person of one of its members, and possibly other less easily traceable causes. (B) Treating cults according to their meaning, which is not n ...

... elaborate system of sacrifice; even where ancestor- worship is not found, the desire lo provide ihe dead wilh comforts in the future life may lead to the sacrifice of wives, slaves, animals, &c., to Ihe breaking or burning of objecls al ihe grave or to the pro ...

... o clearly proved, and on political grounds there were such urgent reasons for desiring a termination of the affair, that it was accepted without protest by the majority of moderate men. The rehabilitation of Dreyfus, however, did not pass without another effor ...

... eech, you are dumb; when present, you wish to be absent, and when absent, you desire to be present; in peace you are for war, and in war you long for peace; in council you descant on bravery, and in the battle you tremble." Antithesis is sometimes double or al ...

... position, extensive experience, a well-trained intelligence and the sincerest desire for the welfare of his subjects. Instead of plundering to support his prodigality, he emptied his private treasury to assist distressed provinces and cities, and everywhere ex ...

... he resumed relations with Cleopatra. His treatment of Octavia, her brother's desire to get rid of him, and the manner in which he disposed of kingdoms and provinces in favour of Cleopatra alienated his supporters. In 32 the senate deprived him of his powers a ...

... ward II. (early i4th century), and when the shiring of Ulster was undertaken by Sir John Perrot in the i6th century, Antrim and Down were already recognized divisions, in contradistinction to the remainder of the province. The earliest known inhabitants were o ...

... ainst the English government, participating in his brother James's victory over Sir John Chichester at Carrickfergus in November 1597, and joining in O'Neill's rebellion in 1600. But on the i6th of December he signed articles with Sir Arthur Chichester and was ...

... ovisions of the Salic law (see du Cange, Glossarium, s. " trustis "). Any one desiring to enter the body of Antrustions had to present himself armed at the royal palace, and there, with his hands in those of the king, take a special oath or trustis and fidelit ...

... took a leading place in them. In the scene of the weighing of the soul before Osiris, dating from the New-kingdom onwards, Anubis attends to the balance while Thoth registers the result. Anubis was believed to have been the embalmer of Osiris: the mummy of Os ...

... of attoniti and siderati, as if they were thunder-stricken or planet-struck " (Sir Thomas Watson). The attack, however, may be less sudden and, not infrequently, attended by a convulsion; while occasionally, in the condition termed ingravescent apoplexy, the ...

... s " after the apostolic stamp " (ad Trail. inscr.), while yet disclaiming all desire to emulate the apostolic manner in other respects, being fully conscious of the gulf between himself and apostles like Peter and Paul in claim to authority (ib. iii. 3, ad Rom ...

... 73, the society established a botanic and physic garden at Chelsea, and in 1722 Sir Hans Sloane, who had become the ground owner, gave it to the society on the condition of presenting annually to the Royal Society fifty dried specimens of plants till the numbe ...

... of living in captivity in good condition. Some of them even increase at an undesirable rate, and it sometimes happens that young Mytilus or Ciona stop up the pipes; in laying these, therefore, due regard must be had to the arrangements for cleaning. For the c ...

... (Lorch) on the Danube, the road into Pannonia, leading to Emona (Laibach)1 and Sirmium (Mitrowitz), the road to Tarsatica (near Fiume) and Siscia (Sissek), and that to Tergeste (Trieste) and the Istrian coast. In the war against the Marcomanni in A.D. 167, th ...

... e, the British fleet bombarded the forts (nth July), and a British force, under Sir Garnet Wolseley, defeated Arabi on the i ?th of September at Tel-el-Kebir. Arabi fled to Cairo where he surrendered, and was tried (3rd of December) for rebellion. In accordanc ...

... the details of his apparatus, which utilized the revolving mirrors employed by Sir C. Wbeatstone in 183$ for measuring the velocity of the electric discharge; but owing to the great care required in the carrying out of the project, and to the interruption to ...

... iod of the formation of the Aral there were formerly two theories. According to Sir H^ C. Rawlinson (Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc., March 1867) the disturbances which produced the present lake took place in the course of the middle ages; while Sir Roderick Murchison c ...

... e, in 1704. He received little education at school, but manifested an intense desire for learning. While still young, he married and settled as a schoolmaster at Netherdale, and during the years he spent there, he taught himself both Latin and Greek. In 1734 h ...

... gardens at Kew were thrown open to the public in 1841 under the directorate of Sir William Hooker. Including the arboretum, their total area did not then exceed 1 1 acres. Four years later the pleasure grounds and gardens at Kew occupied by the king of Hanove ...

... had in a law-suit. Printed from a Manuscript found in the Cabinet of the famous Sir Humphrey Polesworth." This was the Srst of a series of five pamphlets advocating the conclusion of peace. Arbuthnot describes the confusion after the death of the Lord Strutt ( ...

... e by Liszt, does not seem to be traced to an earlier source than its edition by Sir Henry Bishop, which has possibly the same kind of origin in Arcadelt as the hymn tune " Palestrina " has in the delicate and subtle Gloria of Palestrina's Magnificat Quinli Ton ...

... artition. The line had been drawn east of Dalmatia. The ministers of Arcadius desired to annex Dalmatia to his portion, while the general Stilicho, who was supreme in the west, wished to wrest from the eastern realm the prefecture of Ulyricum or a considerable ...

... icism of the ist or 2nd century A.D., of which the chief characteristic was a desire to father later doctrines on the old masters. Such fragments as seem to be authentic are of small philosophical value. It is important to notice that Archytas must have been f ...

... ruggle and Clive took possession of the fortress. The expedition produced the desired effect; Chanda Sahib was obliged to detach a large force of 10,000 men to recapture the city, and the pressure on the English garrison at Trichinopoly was removed. Arcot was ...

... f the Arianes (Iranians), of godly origin, son of the god Papak the king." (See Sir R. Ker Porter, Trawls (1821-1822), i. 548 foil.; Flandin et Coste, Voyage en Perse, iv. 182; F. Stolze and J. C. Andreas, Persepolis, pi. 116; Marcel Dieulafoy, L' Art antique ...

... at first regarded as disposed of, until the thought occurred that it might be desirable to try also the more usual method of preparation in which the oxygen is removed by actual oxidation of copper without the aid of ammonia. Determinations made thus were equa ...

... he sea, and employed to drive mills before losing itself in caverns inland. See Sir C. Fellows's Journal of an Excursion in Asia Minor in 1838, and Wiebel's Die Insel Kephalonia und die Meermuhlen von Argostoli (Hamburg, 1873).

... ligious dispute between the king and Scotland in 1637 his support was eagerly desired by Charles I. He had been made a privy councillor in 1628, and in 1638 the king summoned him, together with Traquair and Roxburgh, to London; but he refused to be won over, o ...

... ady made the first step to supremacy through the marriage of Colin, grandson of Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochow, first Lord Campbell, with Isabel Stewart, eldest of the three co-heiresses of John, third lord of Lome. He acquired the greater part of the lands of ...

... composers soon found their chief musical interest in doing justice to both. In Sir Hubert Parry's work, The Music of Ike i?lh Century (Oxford History of Music, vol. in.), will be found numerous illustrations of the early development of aria forms, from their ...

... there arc two kinds of virtue. Moral virtue, which is that of the irrational desires so far as they are obedient to reason, is a purposive habit in the mean. The motive of the moral virtues is the honourable (rA «aA<W, hone stum). As the rational is either de ...

... e him to be a spiritual being who cannot be represented by an image, they may desire a symbolical expression of or, rather, a substitute for his presence. Accordingly the conception of the ark must be based in the first instance upon the beliefs of the particu ...

ARKWRIGHT, SIR RICHARD (1732-1792), English inventor, was born at Preston in Lancashire, on the 23rd of December 1732, of parents in humble circumstances. He was the youngest of thirteen children, and received but a very indifferent education. After serving hi ...