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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt:...inconsiderable, but it is generally held by persons who are possessed of benefices and other preferments in the church. There were formerly 60 archdeacons in England and Wales, but by 6th and 7th Will. IV., c. 97, seven new archdeaconries were established. Archdeacos's Court is the lowest court in the ecclesiastical polity. It is held, in the archdeacon's absence, before a judge appointed by himself, and called his official; and its jurisdiction is sometimes in concurrence with, sometimes in exclusion of, the bishop's court of the diocese. But, by statute 24th Henry VIII., c. 12, there lies an appeal from this court to that of the bishop. By the act of Will. IV., above cited, it is now, however, enacted that all archdeacons throughout England and Wales shall enjoy full and equal jurisdiction within their several archdeaconries. ARCHDUKE, a title peculiar to the imperial house of Austria, all the sons of which are archdukes, and the daughters archduchesses. A RCHEL A US, a celebrated Greek philosopher, born probably at Miletus about 470 B.c. He succeeded his master Anaxagoras in the school which he had founded at Lampsacus, from whence he afterwards removed to Athens. He was the last representative of the Ionian school, between which and the more practical philosophy that followed, his teaching formed a link of transition. His speculations were chiefly, but not exclusively physical, on which account he received the name of the Physician (6 £wucds), in contradistinction to his contemporaries the Sophists, and his illustrious disciple Socrates. His opinions were, for the most part reproductions of the ideas of Anaxagoras. The following are some of the peculiar physical doctrines ascribed to him. He taught that there was a double...