About the Book
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...performed by the deacon. See Harnack, Die Quellen der apostolischen Kirchenordnung, Giessen, 1886. C. P. lies, Ann, founder of the American Shakers; b. in Manchester, Feb. 29, 1736; d. at Watervliet, near Albany, N. Y., Sept. 8,1784. The daughter of a blacksmith, in early life she served in a cotton-mill and an infirmary kitchen; married A. Standley, and buried 4 children. Connected in 1758 with Wardley's " Shaking Quakers," she began in 1770 to have visions and revelations, which brought her for a time into a jail and a lunatic asylum. She left her husband, believed herself a second incarnation of Christ, and was called "Mother Ann" and " Ann the Word." She led her followers to America, 1774; settled at Watervliet, 1776; was twice imprisoned for alleged treason and witchcraft, but gained many converts; removed her headquarters in 1780 to New Lebanon, Columbia County, and travelled and preached through New England, 1788-84. See Shakers. F. M. B. Lee, Samuel, D.D. (Halle, 1822; Cambridge, 1888), Orientalist; b. at Longnor, Shropshire, 152 m. n.n.w. of London, May 14,1788; d. at Barley, Somersetshire, Dec. 16, 1852. He learned 6 dead languages while apprentice to a carpenter; taught at Shrewsbury, 1810-13; entered Queens College, Cambridge, 1818; graduated, 1817, and took orders; professor of Arabic, 1819, and of Hebrew, 1831; rector of Barley. He translated Trarelt of Ibn Batuta, London, 1829, and The Book of Job, 1837, and produced, besides other books, a Hebrew grammar (1830) of wide acceptance, and a Hebrew and Chaldee lexicon, 1840. F. M. B. Legates and Nuncios. Papal representatives, legati, nvneii, mild, etc., are spoken of as present at the first councils held in the East, and when the Council of Sardica, 343, gave the bi...
