Phillips (WENDELL an American orator)
WENDELL, an American orator and abolitionist; born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 29, 1811. He was graduated at Harvard in 1831, studied law there, and was called to the bar in 1834. A timely speech in Faneuil Hall in 1837 made him at once the principal orator of the anti-slavery party, and henceforth, WENDELL PHILLIPS till the President's proclamation of Jan. 1, 1863, he was Garrison's loyal and valued ally. He also championed the cause of temperance, and that of women, and the rights of the Indians. In 1870 he was nominated governor by the Prohibitionists and the Labor party. His speeches and letters were collected in 1863 (new ed. 1884). He died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 2, 188. For his life see "Wendell Phillips, Orator and Agitator" (New York, 1909).
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Phillips Academy
a school for boys located at Andover, Mass., and often called Phillips Andover. The school was chartered in 1780 and was founded as the result of a gift by the Phillips family. In 1901 an archæological department was added as the gift of two members of the alumni. The endowment is a large one, being close to two million dollars, while the grounds, buildings and equipment are valued at nearly three million. The work is entirely college-preparatory; Yale and Harvard being the colleges most frequently selected by the students. Among its alumni have of the famous names of Amerbeen some ican history.
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Phillipsburg
a city in Warren co., N. J., on the Delaware river, and on the Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley, the Central of New Jersey, and the Pennsylvania railroads; 50 miles N. N. W. of Trenton. Two fine railroad bridges cross the river here and connect with Easton, Pa. Phillipsburg is in a limestone and iron-ore region; has several iron foundries, machine shops, railroad shops, a rolling mill, and manufactories of boilers, locomotives, mowers and reapers, and a pop. (1910) 13,903; (1920) 16,923.
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Phillpotts
EDEN, an English novelist, born in India in 1862. He was educated at Plymouth, England, and at the age of eighteen became a clerk in an insurance office, a position which he held for ten years. His first published novel was " Lying Prophets, " 1896. This was followed in regular succession by a large number of books, mostly depicting Devonshire life. His works include "Sons of the Morning" (1900); "The Good Red Earth" (1901); "The Secret Woman" the Hill" "The Forest (1905); on (1912); and "Brunel's Tower" (1915). He also published several plays.
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Philo
A Jewish writer of Alexandria, A. D. 40. His works related to the creation of the world, sacred history, and the laws and customs of the Jewish nation. 2026 Editor's Note: Philo 's only securely dated biographical event was his representation of Alexandrian Jews in a delegation to the Roman emperor Caligula in 40 CE, following civil strife between Jewish and Greek communities. He pioneered the use of philosophical allegory to harmonize the Hebrew Bible with Greek Platonic philosophy, a method that profoundly influenced Christian Church Fathers despite minimal reception within Rabbinic Judaism. (Ed: BR 2026-07-01)
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Philoctetes
One of the Argonauts. He received from Hercules the arrows which had been dipped in the gall of the Hydra . The Greeks, in the tenth year of the Trojan war, were informed by the oracle that Troy could not be taken without these arrows. Philoctetes repaired to the Grecian camp, where he destroyed a number of the Trojans, among whom was Paris, with the arrows. The adventures of Philoctetes are the subject of one of the best tragedies of Sophocles . 2026 Editor's Note: According to Greek tradition, Philoctetes killed three men at Troy, not the unspecified 'number' described here. Sophocles' Philoctetes , first performed in 409 BC, won first prize at the City Dionysia and is the only complete surviving tragedy about Philoctetes; plays by Aeschylus and Euripides are lost except for fragments. (Ed: BR 2026-07-02)
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Philological Association
AMERICAN, a society whose object is the advancement of the study of philology. Founded in 1869, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., under the leadership of Prof. William D. Whitney of Yale University. The original members were from the classical section of the Oriental Society. It has annual meetings in different cities of the United States and publishes its " Proceedings " or annual minutes of these meetings. In addition to these the Association publishes the " Transactions " which are composed of learned papers on philology submitted to the society and selected by the executive committee.
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Philology
in a popular sense: (1) Etymology, or the science of the origin of words. (2) Grammar, or the science of the construction of language in general and of individual languages. (3) Literary criticism, or the investigation of merits and demerits in style and diction. Of late years, however, a new and very extensive province has been added to the PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 227 domain of philology. The term compre hends: ( 1) Phonology, or the knowledge of the sounds of the human voice; which appears to include orthography, or the system to be adopted when we endeavor to render, by our own alphabet, the sounds of a foreign language; (2) Etymology; (3) Ideology, or the science of the modification of language by grammatical forms, according to the various points of view from which men contemplate the ideas which words are meant to express.
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Philomela
fil-o-me'la, in Greek mythology, daughter of Pandion, a king of Athens. Procne, her sister, married Tereus, a Thracian king. Tereus, however, preferred Philomela. He therefore pretended that Procne was dead, having cut out her tongue that she might tell no tales, and thus won Philomela. Procne wove the story of her wrongs into a web and thus acquainted her sister with the truth. The two women in revenge slew the child of Tereus and served him to his father at table. In punishment for so terrible a crime the gods transformed Philomela into a nightingale; Procne into a swallow. Then Tereus, who was to blame in the beginning, was changed into a hawk who should ever pursue the other two birds. See Nightingale
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