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AUCKLAND. GEORGE EDEN, KABL OF (1784-1849), English statesman, was the second son of the ist Baron Auckland. He completed his education at Oxford, and was admitted to the bar in 1809. His elder brother was drowned in the Thames in the following year ; and in 1 ...

AUCKLAND, a city and seaport on the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, in Eden county; capital of the province of its name, and the seat of a bishop. Pop. (1906) 37,736; including suburbs, 82,101. It is situated at the mouth of an arm of Hauraki Gulf, an ...

AUCKLAND ISLANDS, a group in the Pacific Ocean, discovered in 1806 by Captain Briscoe, of the English whaler " Ocean," in 50° 24' S., 166° 7' E. The islands, of volcanic origin, are very fertile, and are covered with forest. They were granted to the Messrs End ...

GEORGE JOHN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL, 8th duke (1823-1900), the second son of the 7th duke, was born on the 3oth of April 1823, and succeeded his father in April 1847. He had already obtained notice as a writer of pamphlets on the disruption of the Church of Scotland, ...

... general field marshal in the Prussian army, was the only surviving son of John George II. , prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and was born on the 3rd of July 1676 at Dessau. From his earliest youth he was devoted to the profession of arms, for which he educated himsel ...

... account of the journey, called Round the World with a King. ARMSTRONG. WILLIAM GEORGE ARMSTRONG. BARON (1810-1900), British inventor, founder of the Elswick manufacturing works, was born on the 26th of November 1810, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and was educated at ...

... tury, a brilliant attempt was made to patch up the flaws in Ptolemaic doctrine. George Purbach (1423-1461) introduced into Europe the method of determining time by altitudes employed by Ibn Junis. He lectured with applause at Vienna from 1450; was joined there ...

... his time were the liberating philosophy of Coleridge, the mystical visions of Swedenborg, the intimate poetry of Wordsworth, and the stimulating essays of Carlyle. On Christmas Day 1832 he took passage in a sailing vessel for the Mediterranean. He travelled th ...

... dammensis or Roterodamus, in accordance with a story to which he himself gave credence. His first schooling was at Gouda under Peter Winckel, who was afterwards vice-pastor of the church. In the dull round of instruction in " grammar " he did not distinguish h ...

... sorts, though, so far as monumental representations go, they always yielded precedence to the latter. Candace appears to be found as the name of a queen for whom a pyramid was built at Meroe. A great builder was Netekamane, who is represented with his queen Am ...

... oast of that gulf a rise has taken place in recent years on the east coast of Sweden from about 57° 20' N. increasing in amount towards the north up to 62° 20' N., where it reaches an average of about two-fifths of an inch annually.2 Our information is natural ...

... was illustrated by a sketch showing a diaphragm with a metal patch in the 1 See George B. Prescott, The Speaking Telephone (London, 1879), pp. 151-205. ! Scientific American, i8th June 1881. 3 Electrostatics and Magnetism, p. 236. 'See Tel. Journ., 1st August ...

... ng des Shakespeareschen Theaters nach dem zeitgenossischen drama (Halle, 1907); George F. Reynolds, Some Principles of Elizabethan Staging (Chicago University, 1905); E. K. Chambers, " The Stage of the Globe," in vol. x. of the Stratford Shakespeare (1904) ; V ...

... in Sabellianism. And the name Sabellianism is often loosely applied (e.g. to Swedenborgianism) to any modalistic Monarchianism (Christ one phase of God. Not three persons in the Godhead, but a threefold revelation of a God strictly one in person). completely ...

... e course of these rivers has given rise to the suggestion that they are of antecedent origin; but there are many objections to this over-simple, Gordian explanation. The south-east course of the middle-section rivers is the result of many changes from the init ...

... hief town of an administrative district, comprising the islands of Terceira, St George and Graciosa. Pop. (1000) 10,788. Angra is built on the south coast of Terceira in 38° 38' N. and in 27° 13' W. It is the headquarters of a military command, and the residen ...

... ), Swedish physicist, was born on the i3th of August 1814 at Logdo, Medelpad, Sweden. He was educated at Upsala University, where in 1839 he became privat docent in physics. In 1842 he went to Stockholm Observatory in order to gain experience in practical astr ...

... am, ist earl of Douglas, who had married Mar's sister, she became the mother of George Douglas, ist earl of Angus (c. 1380-1403), and secured a charter of her estates for her son, to whom in 1389 the title was granted by King Robert II. He was taken prisoner a ...

... e family had been divided in 1396, and after the acquisition of Bernburg Prince George I. made a further partition of Zerbst. Early in the i6th century, however, owing to the death or abdication of several princes, 'the family had become narrowed down to the t ...

... d civic rights in 1 244 and joined the Hanseatic league. In 1648 it passed to Sweden, but in 1676 was retaken by Frederick William I. of Brandenburg, and after being plundered by the Russians in 1713 was ceded to Prussia by the peace of Stockholm in 1720.

... y indicating the tropical American anteaters of the family Uyrmecopkagidae (see EDENTATA). The typical and largest representative of the group is the great anteater or ant-bear (Myrmecopkagajubata) , an animal measuring 4 ft. in length without the tail, and 2 ...

... and the rapid payment of the enormous French war indemnity, had given an unprecedented impulse to industrial and financial activity throughout the empire. Money became cheap and speculation universal. A company mania set in which was favoured by the governmen ...

... ines Antwerpifnsium; Gens, Hist, de la ville d'Anvers; Mertens and Torfs, Geschiedenis van Antwerp; Genard, Anvers d travers les Ages; Annuaire statisque de la Belgique. (D. C. B.)

... of fever patients. The bay is well protected by St Vincent, Flag, Sand, and St George's islands; and the shipping of lumber, naval stores and cotton, which reach the city by way of the river, forms the principal industry. Before the development of railways in ...

... s was entered at Stationers' Hall in 1607, and was followed in the next year by George Wilkins's novel, The Painful! Adventures of Pericles, Prynce of Tyre (ed. Tycho Mommsen, Oldenburg, 1857), and George Lillo drew his play Marina (1738) from the piece associ ...

... Apology (as expression of regret for a fault) has tipped many a sarcasm besides George III.'s on the occasion of Bishop Watson's book, " I did not know that the Bible needed an apology 1" II. Apologetics in the BibU.—Tbe Old Testament does not argue in support ...

... stle of the Gentiles " (Rom. xi. 13); here lay both his qualification and his credentials, once the fruits of the divine inworking were manifest in the success of his missionary work (Gal. ii. 8 f . ; i Cor. xi. i f . ; 2 Cor. iii. 2 f ., xii. 1 2). But this n ...

... odety. He had the good fortune to be called in at Epsom to prescribe for Prince George of Denmark, and in 1705 he was made physidan extraordinary to Queen Anne. Four years later he became royal physidan in ordinary, and in 1710 he was elected fellow of the Roy ...

... ted the rattle. He took a prominent part in state affairs, and, contrary to precedent, was seven times elected commander of the army. Under his leadership, Tarentum fought with unvarying success against the Messapii, Lucania and even Syracuse. After a life of ...

... under them. Archbishops rank immediately after patriarchs and have the same precedence as primates. The right to wear the pallium is confined to those archbishops who are not merely titular. It must be applied for, either in person or by proxy, at Rome by the ...

... 514), the famous " Bell the Cat," was born about 1450 and succeeded his father, George the 4th earl, in 1462 or 1463. In 1481 he was made warden of the east marches, but the next year he joined the league against James III. and his favourite Robert Cochranc at ...

... night; and it gives us (from Constantinople) the first form of the story of St George which ever seems to have attracted notice in Britain. Thirteen MSS. of the original Arculf-Adamnan narrative exist, and fully 100 of Bede's abridgment : of the former, the m ...

... nt Plot . . . and a Brief Account of the Case of the Earl of Argyle (1682); Sir George Mackenzie's Hist, of Scotland, p. 70; and J. Willcock, A Scots Earl in Covenanting Times (1908). ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, ist duke of Argyll (?i65i-i7O3), was the eldest son of t ...

... ted in the Physics (i. 8, 191 b 29), and therefore ought to be regarded as antecedent. Zeller tries to get over this difficulty of cross-reference by detaching Metaphysics, Book A, from the rest and placing 'it before the Physics. But this violent and arbitrar ...

... when he presented a congratulatory address from the wapentakc of Wirksworth to George III., on his escape from the attempt on his life by Margaret Nicholson.

... and fever. But the summer of 1588 was marked by a succession of gales of unprecedented violence. The damaged and weakened Spanish ships, which were from the first greatly undermanned in sailors, were unable to contend with the storms. It is not possible to gi ...

... gnation for the small mail-clad Central and South American mammals of the order Edentata, constituting the family Dasypodidae. The armature consists of a bony case, partly composed of solid buckler-like plates, and partly of movable transverse bands, the latte ...

... of succeeding archbishops of the Beresford family, notably Archbishop Lord John George Beresford (1773-1862), made of Armagh one of the best built and most respectable towns in the country. As the ecclesiastical metropolis and seat of an archbishop (Primate of ...

... duchy of Gascony (q.v.). About the end of the gth century Fezensac (comitatus Fedentiacus) , in circumstances of which no trustworthy record remains, was erected into an hereditary countship. This latter was in its turn divided, the south-western portion beco ...

... played great valour in the field. In 1788 when the Danes unexpectedly invaded Sweden and threatened Gothenburg, it was Armfelt who under the king's directions organized the Dalecarlian levies and led them to victory. He remained absolutely faithful to Gustavus ...