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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 ...

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, ...

ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, sth earl of Argyll (1530-' 573). was the elder son of Archibald, 4th earl of Argyll (d. 1558), and a grandson of Colin, the 3rd earl (d. 1530). His great-grandfather was the 2nd earl, Archibald, who was killed at Flodden in 1513, and this n ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... . EARLS AND DUKES OF. The rise of this family of Scottish peers, originally the Campbells of Lochow, and first ennobled as Barons Campbell, is referred to in the article ARGYLLSHIRE. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, sth earl of Argyll (1530-' 573). was the elder son of Arc ...

... och Etive; Lome, surrounding Loch Etive and giving the title of marquess to the Campbells; Argyll, in the middle of the shire, containing Inveraray Castle and furnishing the titles of earl and duke to the Campbells; Cowall, between Loch Fyne and the Firth of C ...

... he space of the 1 Observations of Comets, translated from the Chinese Annals by John Williams, F.S.A. (1871). i J. L. E. Dreyer, Proc. Roy. Irish A cad. vol. ui. No. 7 (December 1 F. K. Ginzel, " Die astronomischen Kenntnisse der Babylonier," C. F. Lehmann. Be ...

... ewart earl in 1595, the earldom reverting to the crown, had originated with Sir John Stewart of Balveny (d. 1512), who was created earl of Atholl about 1457 (new charter 1481). The 5th earl's daughter, Dorothea, married William Murray, earl of Tullibardine (cr ...

... by Philip Augustus (1180-1223), who took advantage of the weakness and folly of John of England, and before 1215 had united firmly to France Normandy, Maine, Anjou and Touraine. Louis VIII. and Louis IX. adhered firmly to the policy of Philip IV., and in 1258, ...

... the Democratic state platform, but the hostility of the legislature to Governor Campbell, who favoured the amendment, secured its defeat. Both husband and wife retain their separate title to the property which each owned before marriage and to that acquired af ...

... ce, and of Greek philosophers. I is possible that the epithet fleoXo-yos for St John may go bac as far as Papias. This is the first appearance of the term upo: Christian ground. The primitive application of BeoMyoi V the poets and myth-fanciers meets us again ...

... or south-east: they are the Connecticut, Merrimack, Kennebec, Penobscot and St John, the last being shared with the province of New Brunswick. The drainage of New England is unlike that of the middle and south-weste/n Appalachians in the occurrence of numerou ...

... 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 ...

... d, see N. W. Thomas in Hastings' Dictionary of Religions; Frazer, Golden Bough; Campbell's Spirit Basis of Belief and Custom; Maclennan's Studies (series 2) ; V. Gennep, Tabou et totemisme d Madagascar. For the serpent, see Ellis, Ewe-speaking Peoples, p. 54; ...

... iv. xiii., Suppl.; Andrew Lang, Making of Religion; Slceat, Malay Magic; Sir G. Campbell, "Spirit Basis of Belief and Custom," in Indian Antiquary, xxiii. and succeeding volumes: Folklore, iii. 289. xi. l6a; Spencer. Principles of Sociology; Mind (1877), 141. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ork, 1905); O. de B. Priaulx, The Indian Travels of Apollonius (1873); F. W. G. Campbell, Apoll. of Tyana (1908); see also NEO-PYTHAGOREANISM.

... 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 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...