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 420 PHILLIMORE PHILLIPS and Ashdod. Derceto was probably identical with Asherah, whose image was a wooden statue or column, improperly rendered grove in the English Bible. Ekron was the principal seat of the worship of Baal-zebub, and to the oracle there Ahaziah, king of Israel, sent when he became sick. They had numerous priests and soothsayers, and in war carried about with them the images of their gods. PHILLIMORE. I. John George, an English ju- rist, born at Shiplake house, Oxfordshire, in 1809, died there, April 27, 1865. He was for some time a professor in the Middle Temple, London, and in 1852 he was elected to parlia- ment. His principal works are : "Introduction to the Study of Roman Law " (London, 1848) ; "History of the Law of Evidence" (1850); " Principles and Maxims of Jurisprudence " (1856) ; " Private Law among the Romans from the Pandects" (1863); and "History of Eng- land during the Reign of George III." (1863). II. Sir Robert Joseph, an English jurist, brother of the preceding, born in London, Nov. 5, 1810. He graduated at Oxford in 1831, and in 1862 became advocate general in admiralty, in 1867 judge of the high court of admiralty, and in 1871 judge advocate general. He was in par- liament from 1853 to 1857. He has published " Study of the Civil and Canon Law " (1843) ; an edition of Lord George Lyttelton's "Me- moirs and Correspondence" (1845); "Law of Domicile" (1847); "Commentaries on Inter- national Law " (4 vols., 1854-'61) ; and " The Ecclesiastical Law' of the Church of England" (2 vols., 1873). PHILLIP, John, a Scottish painter, born in Aberdeen in May, 1817, died in London, Feb. 27, 1867. He studied at the royal academy in London, was a portrait painter in Edinburgh, removed to London in 1841, and in 1857 be- came a member of the royal academy. His works include " The Presbyterian Catechising," " A Scotch Fair," " Baptism in Scotland," "Scotch Washing," "The Spaewife of the Clachan," " A Visit to the Gypsy Camp," " The Spanish Letter Writer," " The Marriage of the Princess Royal," and "The House of Com- mons." He lived in Spain from 1852 to 1856. PHILLIPS. I. An E. county of Arkansas, sepa- rated from Mississippi by the Mississippi river, and intersected in the N. E. by the St. Francis and L'Anguille rivers; area, 725 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 15,372, of whom 10,501 were colored. It has a level surface, swampy in parts, and a fertile soil. The chief productions in 1870 were 3,180 bushels of wheat, 293,849 of In- dian corn, and 18,002 bales of cotton. There were 1,267 horses, 1,605 mules and asses, 1,178 milch cows, 2,387 other cattle, and 8,830 swine. It is traversed by the Arkansas Central rail- road. Capital, Helena. II. A N. county of Kansas, bordering on Nebraska, and intersect- ed by the N. fork of Solomon river ; area, 900 sq. m. It is not included in the census of 1870. It has a rolling surface, consisting chiefly of fertile prairies. Capital, Phillipsburgh. PHILLIPS, Adelaide, an American singer, born in Bristol, Eng., in 1833. She came to Amer- ica when seven years of age, and has since lived in Boston and its vicinity. Her first professional engagement was at the Boston museum, where she remained for eight years. While a member of the dramatic company of this theatre her voice, a contralto, began to develop under the instruction of Madame Ar- nault, and in 1852 she was enabled to go to Europe by a subscription headed by Jenny Lind. She studied for a year in London un- der Garcia, then went to Italy, and in Novem- ber, 1853, made her debut at Brescia. In De- cember, 1855, she sang at the Carcano in Milan in the " Barber of Seville." She appeared at the Boston music hall in concert in October, 1855, and at the New York academy of music in opera in March, 1856. In October, 1861, she was heard at the Italian opera in Paris, and subsequently in Madrid, Liege, Antwerp, and other continental cities. In 18*69 she took part in the great Boston peace jubilee. PHILLIPS, Charles, an Irish barrister, born in Sligo in 1787, died in London, Feb. 1, 1859. He was educated at Trinity college, Dublin, was called to the Irish bar in 1811, and to the Eng- lish bar in 1821, at which time he had acquired a considerable reputation as an effective though florid speaker. For some years he was regard- ed as the leading counsel at the Old Bailey. In 1842 he was appointed by Lord Lyndhurst commissioner of bankruptcy in Liverpool, and in 1846 commissioner of the court of insolvent debtors, which oflSce he filled till his death. As an author he is best known by his " Recol- lections of Curran and some of his Contem- poraries " (2 vols. 8vo, 1818), of which several editions have been published, and by a volume of speeches (1817), one of which, in the crim. con. case of Guthrie v. Sterne, had several editions. He also published " An Historical Sketch of Arthur, Duke of Wellington " (1852), "Napoleon III." (1854), and "Vacation Thoughts upon Capital Punishments" (1856). PHILLIPS, Georg, a German historian, born in Konigsberg, Jan. 6, 1804, died near Salzburg, Sept. 6, 1872. His parents were Protestants of English descent. He was educated at Mu- nich and Berlin, and became a member and an ardent defender of the Roman Catholic church. In 1833 he was appointed professor of civil law at Munich, in 1849 of canon law and legal history at Innspruck, and in 1851 of legal histo- ry at Vienna. In 1838 he founded with Gorres the Historisch-pplitische Blatter, an ultramon- tane organ. He published Grundsatze des ge- meinen deutscJien Privatrechts (3d ed., 2 vols., Berlin, 1846); Englische Beichs- und Rechts- gescUcJite (2 vols., 1827-'8); Deutsche Ge- schicJite (2 vols., 1832-'4) ; Das KirchenrecJit (7 vols., Ratisbon, 1845-'69) ; Deutsche ReicJis- und RechtsgescliicJite (2 vols., Munich, 1845- '50; 5th ed., 1875); LeJirluch des Kirchen- n^fc(2vols., 1861-'2; 2ded., 1871); and Ver- miscJite Schriften (3 vols., Vienna, 1856-'60).