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ERSKINE. JOHN (1721-1803), Scottish divine, son. of John Erskine of Carnock, was born on the 2nd of June 1721. He studied law for a time after completing his course in arts at the university of Edinburgh, but was eventually licensed to preach in 1743; and was ...

ERSKINE. HENRY (1746-1817), lord advocate of Scotland, the second son of Henry David, loth earl of Buchan and brother of the lord chancellor Erskine, was born in Edinburgh on the ist of November 1746. He was educated at the universities of St Andrews, Glasgow ...

ERSKINE, EBENEZER (1680-1754), Scottish divine, the chief founder of the Secession Church (formed of dissenters from the Church of Scotland), was born on the 22nd of June 1680, most probably at Dryburgh, Berwickshire. His father, Henry Erskine, who was at one ...

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, ...

AUBREY. JOHN (1626-1697), English antiquary, wu born at Easlon Picrscor Perry, near Malmcsbury, Wiltshire, on the I2th of March 1626, his father being a country gentleman of considerable fortune. He was educated at the Malmcsbury grammar school under Robert La ...

JOHN CAMPBELL, 2nd duke of Argyll and duke of Greenwich (1678-1743), was born on the loth of October 1678. He entered the army in 1694, and in 1701 was promoted to the command of a regiment. On the death of his father in 1703, he was appointed a member of the ...

JOHN TRENCHARD (1662-1723), erroneously referred to by Macaulay as a son of Sir John Trenchard. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Trenchard inherited considerable wealth and was thus able to devote the greater part of his life to writing on political subjec ...

... the Logos, made a place for Christ in terms of philosophy within the Godhead. (John i. i may or may not be affected by Philo; it is almost or quite solitary in the N.T.) Similarly, the immortality of the soul may be maintained on Platonic or quasi-Platonic li ...

... art, afterwards the regent Murray, the sth earl of Argyll became an adherent of John Knox about 1556, and like his father was one of the most influential members of the party of religious reform, signing what was probably the first " godly band " in December 1 ...

... ing made defendant instead of D. The names used for the fictitious parties were John Doe, plaintiff, and Richard Roe, defendant, who was called " the casual ejector." The explanation of these mysterious fictions is this. The writ de ejectione firmae was invent ...

... rived from the New Testament phrases " the last day " (tt> TJ ecrxarj) rintpq., John vi. 39), " the last times " (eir' to~x.6.TUv T&V \povuv, i Peter i. 20), " the last state " (TO. e<rx.a.Ta, Matt. xii. 45), a conception taken over from ancient prophecy (Is. ...

... r preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers, founded by John Reeves, the historian of English law. No one was safe from these zealous and too often credulous defenders of the established order; and a few indiscreet words spoken in a cof ...

... he then holder of the title being summoned to the English parliament. Meanwhile John Stewart of Bonkyl, co. Berwick, had been created earl of Angus in a new line. This third creation ended with Margaret Stewart, countess of Angus in her own right, and widow of ...

... princes of Anhalt-Dessau. Ernest I. of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1516) left three sons, John II., George III., and Joachim, who ruled their lands together for many yean, and who, like Prince Wolfgang, favoured the reformed doctrines, which thus became dominant in Anha ...

... uer), 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 h ...

... Worm and Cold Blooded Animals.— by numerous observations upon men and animals, John Hunter showed that the essential difference between the so-called warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals lies in the constancy of the temperature of the former, and the variabi ...

... followed at Wadham, New and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford, in the new chapel of St John's College, Cambridge, and in Eton College. In Jesus College, Cambridge, the transept and a short nave constitute the ante-chapel; in Clare College an octagonal vestibule serve ...

... lish writers who have made the most abundant use of antithesis are Pope, Young, Johnson, and Gibbon; and especially Lyly in his Euphues. It is, however, a much more common feature in French than in ANTITYPE— ANTOFAGASTA '47 English; while in German, with tome ...

... 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 of Ce ...

... t 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 gra ...

... oing vessels with American and foreign ports. The city has a monument (1900) to John Gorrie (1803-1855), a physician who discovered the cold-air process of refrigeration in 1849 (and patented an ice-machine in 1850), as the result of experiments to lower the t ...

... New Bake about Shakespeare, 1850), by a poet who says he was vicar of Wimborne; John Gower uses the tale as an example of the seventh deadly sin in the eighth book of his Confessio Amantis;. Robert Copland translated a prose romance of Kynge A pollyne of Thyre ...

... Christian and " taught exactly," he could hardly have been acquainted only with John's baptism or have required to be taught Christianity more thoroughly by Aquila and Priscilla. Martin Luther regarded Apollos as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, and m ...

... who assaulted Christian on his pilgrimage through the Valley of Humiliation in John Bunyan's great allegory. The name (Gr. 'AToXXwov), which means " destroyer " (diroXXwii', to destroy), is taken from Rev. ix. n, where it represents the Hebrew word Abaddon (l ...

... the Gr. curo^ty no.) , a short and pointed utterance. The usual spelling up to Johnson's day was apothegm, which Webster and Worcester still prefer; it indicates the pronunciation— i.e. " apothem " — better than the other, which, however, is more usual in Eng ...

... n apostles existed among the Twelve also. There were " pillars," like Peter and John (and his brother James until his death), who really determined matters of grave moment, as in the conference with Paul in Gal. ii. 9 — a conference which laid the basis of the ...

... tely extinct, or being confounded with other sects (see St Augustine, Haer. 40; John of Damascus, Haer. 61). Failing a more exact designation, the name of Apostolici has been given to certain groups of Latin heretics of the 1 2th century. It is the second of t ...

... as's friends, gives no hint of foul play. Aquinas was canonized in 1323 by Pope John XXII., and in 1567 Pius V. ranked the festival of St Thomas with those of the four great Latin fathers, Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome and Gregory. No theologian save Augustine ha ...

... tructed and maintained by the abbots, by an agreement between the burgesses and John Gedy, the abbot in 1304, was replaced by one more commodious in 1725, which in turn was enlarged and improved in 1844. The older portion was con verted in to a wet dock in 187 ...

... istoric a (still in MS.), of which an English continuation, by the father of Dr John Arbuthnot, is preserved in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. The praise of the fair sex in the first poem is exceptional in the literature of his age; and its geniality may h ...

... which rested direct on the capital without any intervening FIG. 2. — Arcade, St John's, Devizes. FIG. i. — Arcade, Westminster Abbey. entablature or impost block. The term is also applied to the galleries, employed decoratively, on the fagades of the Italian c ...

... Constantinople to the emperor. The struggle between the court and the patriarch John Chrysostom (?.».), who assumed an independent attitude and gravely offended the empress by his sermons against the worldliness and frivolity of the court, with open allusions ...

... art, afterwards the regent Murray, the sth earl of Argyll became an adherent of John Knox about 1556, and like his father was one of the most influential members of the party of religious reform, signing what was probably the first " godly band " in December 1 ...

... tremely complicated, special interest attaches to some experiments conducted by John Trowbridge and T. W. Richards, in which the source of power was a secondary battery of 5000 cells. At a pressure of i mm. the red glow of argon was readily obtained with a vol ...

... hand, the MacDonalds, remained loyal to Scotland in spite of the persuasions of John of Argyll, appointed admiral of Edward II. 's western fleet; and, under their chief Angus Og, they contributed much to the victory of Bannockburn. The alliance of John, earl o ...

ARGYROPULUS, or ARGYROPULO, JOHN (c. 1416-1486), Greek humanist, one of the earliest promoters of the revival of learning in the West, was born in Constantinople, and became a teacher there, Constantine Lascaris being his pupil. He then appears to have crossed ...

... rdness. The precise date of the invention is not known; but in 1767 he employed John Kay, a watchmaker at Warrington, to assist him in the preparation of the parts of his machine, and he took out a patent for it in 1769. The first model was set up in the parlo ...

... e county was made shire ground in 1586, and called Armagh after the city by Sir John Perrott. When James I. proceeded to plant with English and Scottish colonists the vast tracts escheated to the crown in Ulster, the whole of the arable and pasture land in Arm ...

... hem to the side of France. The complaint against the English prince which Count John I., in defiance of the treaty of Breiigny, himself carried to Paris, was the principal cause of the resumption of hostilities of 1369, and of the incessant defeats sustained b ...

... and annotated by I. L. Mosheim in 1725; and translated into English by the Rev. John Guthrie, 1854. James Nichols also wrote a life (London, 1843).