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ANA, a Latin termination of the neuter plural form. It appears in 

 our language, divested of the sign'of gender, number, and case, in such 

 words as subterranean, metropolitan, Christian, Anglican, Ciceronian, 

 Johnsonian. The Latin ana is the form appropriated to the neuter 

 plural ; and, therefore, derrmiana, for instance, would signify matters, 

 or things of any sort, about or appertaining to Cicero. Cicero, hi one 

 of his epistles, mentions an ana (book vii. ch. 32), in which he com- 

 plains of having all sorts of sayings attributed to him, even the 

 Sextiana. 



In modem times this termination lias been used to denote e-ill, .- 

 tions, either of remarks made by celebrated individuals in conversation, 

 or of extracts from their note-books, letters, or even published works, 

 or generally, of particulars respecting them. 



The earliest recorded modern ana were certain manuscript collec- 

 tions in the possession of Guy Patin. in 1659, relating to Gmtius, 

 Nicholas Bourbon, and Gabriel Nando", which he called Grotiana, 

 Borboniana, and Naudeana. They were never published ; those 

 published as 'Naudeana' at Paris in 1701, being, as is generally 

 acknowledged, a mere forgery. 



The first printed Ana was the collection of the colloquial remarks 

 of Joseph Scaliger, now distinguished as the ' Scaligerana Secunda.' 

 Two brothers, Jean and Nicholas de Vassan, having gone to study at 

 Leyden, carried with them letters of recommendation from Casaubon 

 to Scaliger, who was then one of the professors in that university. In 

 consequence they were much at his house, and heard a great deal of his 

 conversation, both in company and in private. Such of his observa- 

 tions upon all sorts of subjects as they considered to be most valuable 

 or remarkable they wrote down till the collection at last formed a 

 thick octavo volume. The book was published in 1666, with the title 

 of ' Scaligeriana, sive Excerpta ex ore Josephi Scaligeri : ' per FF. 

 PP. (contraction for ' Fratres Puteanos '). 



It happened, however, that the Vassons were not the only persons 

 by whom Scaliger's conversations had been noted down. A physician 

 of the name of Francois Vertunien, who attended the family of the MM. 

 Chateigners de la Rochepozai, in whose house Scaliger resided, had 

 been in the habit for seventeen years, namely, from 1575 to 1592, ol 

 keeping a record of the remarks that dropped from the lips of the 

 great scholar. After his death they were published along with the 

 former collection, in 1669, bearing the following title, ' Prima Scali- 

 gerana, nusquam antehac edita, cum Prefatione T. Fabri ; quibus 

 adjuncta et altera Scaligerana, quatn antea emendatiora, cum notis 

 cujusdam V.D. anonymi.' 



The next of the Ana which appeared was the ' Perroniona,' being 

 notes (in French) of the conversations of Cardinal du Perron. It 

 appeared in 1669. In the same year, the same person gave to the 

 world another of these collections, the ' Thouana,' or remarks of the 

 President de Thou. These works had extraordinary success ; and the 

 avidity with which they were read, produced a long succession ol 

 similar productions. It was in France, or at least in the French 

 language, that most of the Ana ap|>eared ; and their popularity may 

 be said to have lasted for fully .half a century. One of the most 

 valuable of this class of publications is the ' Menagiana,' a record of the 

 conversations of Menage, who was a man of distinguished wit am 

 talent, as well as a great scholar. He died in 1692, and the follow-in; 

 year the ' Menagiana ' appeared in a 12mo volume, both at Paris ant 



Of our English Ann, by far the most celebrated is the ' Walpoliana, 

 being a collection of the conversational remarks of Horace Walpole, 



There are many works, which, without bearing the characteristii 

 title of such collections, belong in all other respects to the class of the 

 Ana. One of the earliest and most celebrated of such works in 

 modem time* is the ' Colloquia,' or 'Table-Talk' of Luther, first 

 published in Herman at Eisleben, in 1565. Another very celebrate* 

 work of this kind is the ' Table-Talk of John Seldcn,' which is stated to 

 have been collected by Richard Milward, and was first published in 

 1689. Boswell's ' Life of Johnson' is undoubtedly the most remark 

 able work of this description in existence. 



ANABAPTISTS, a religious sect. The word, composed of tw 

 Greek terms, properly signifies those who baptise a second time, c 

 insist upon the necessity of a second bnptixm in persons whom they 



admit to their communion. It U sometime* applied to designate that 

 arge body of Christians in our own and other Protestant countries, one 



of whose articles of belief U, that baptism ought only to be adminis- 

 ered to adults, and who, accordingly, rebaptise those who seek to join 



them. But this application of the name U quite unwarranted, and one 



against which the community in question have always protested. They 

 lo not maintain the necessity of a new or second baptism, nor are 

 hose who have been born and brought up in their persuasion ever 

 laptised twice. Others, who may have been previously baptised in 

 nfancy, are indeed baptised onoe again when they have grown up ; Imt 

 his is done on the principle that the former ceremony was no baptism 



at all. Baptiitt is the designation assumed by those wh thus hoi. I the 

 {outlines of the non validity of infant, and the necessity of adult, 

 apt ism; and they will accordingly be properly noticed under that 



lead. 



We ore not aware, indeed, that there has ever been a sect whii h 

 maintained the necessity of two successive baptisms. On the !,! 

 land, it is certain that there were various sects in the earlier ages of 

 the church which agreed with the modem Baptists in allowing no 

 validity except to adult baptism. But the epithet Anabaptists appears 

 A> have been first employed to describe a body of fanatics who made 

 .heir appearance in Germany soon after the commencement of the 

 information; and although it has been since frequently applied to 

 other religious bodies as being alleged to have sprung from these, such 

 a use of it can only be considered as one of those imputations with 

 which different sects have been in the habit of assailing each other. 



The Anabaptists were, no doubt, the growth of the Reformation 

 though Protestant writers have l.it>oure.l hard to make it appear that 

 such was not the case. They were the ultra-radicals <>f tin 1 lleforma- 

 i"u. Munzer, Stubner, and Storck, who were the first heads and 

 apostles of the sect, hod all been disciples of Luther ; although no 

 person could have more earnestly condemned their proceedings than 

 did that great reformer. They first began to preach their peculiar 

 doctrines in the town of Wittenberg, in Snxony. iti tin- y< -ar l.V_'l. Iu 

 1525, their followers, composed almost exclusively of the lowest ml 'Mr, 

 rose in a general rebellion against the established authorities through- 

 out that province, Suabia, Thuringia, and Franconia. But this insur- 

 rection, which it is but fair to remark was partly of a political 

 character, and occasioned by the oppression to which the peasantry 

 were subjected, was soon defeated ; and Munzer, himself, being taken, 

 was put to death. The novel notions, however, which he had preached, 

 spread as usual under persecution ; and, some years afterwards, tin 

 mischief broke out again with new fury. In 1532 a numerous molt of 

 these fanatics, conducted by John Matthias, a baker, of Haarlem, and 

 John Boccoldt, a tailor, of Leyden, suddenly attacked the city of 

 Minister during the night, and mode themselves masters of the place. 

 Their adherents immediately flocked thither from all quarters : and 

 elated by their success, the congregated enthusiasts are stated to have 

 given themselves up to extravagances far exceeding anything they 

 had before practised. Matthias named Minister Mount Zion, and pro- 

 claimed himself its king. Having madly undertaken, however, atu-iidcd 

 with only thirty followers, to attack and disperse the forces which 

 come to recover the town, he perished, with all who accomjxuu'ed him. 

 John of Leyden now assumed the royal dignity, and under his conduct 

 the multitude is said to have proceeded to wilder excesses than i-\cr. 

 The city, however, was at length recaptured by the army which the 

 Bishop had brought up against it on the 24th of June 1535 ; and Boc- 

 coldt, having fallen into the hands of the victors, was soon after ex. 

 with the most terrific cruelties that hatred and revenge could di< 



The most extravagant tenets, as well as conduct, have been com- 

 monly ascribed to the Anabaptists of Minister ; but the accounts of a 

 proscribed sect by their enemies, it is to be remembered, are scarcely 

 to be received with implicit credit. The doctrine which gave occasion 

 to their distinctive appellation was one of the least remarkable of all 

 their peculiar articles of belief, although they are said to have incul- 

 cated it with singular emphasis and vehemence, being in the habit of 

 declaring that infant baptism was an invention of the devil A much 

 more pernicious principle which they are accused of having held, at 

 least in so far as the peace of society was concerned, was that of the 

 unwarrantablcnesH of all civil KOTsTnOMnt, and the emancipation of Un- 

 faithful from subjection to cither laws or taxes. They are also said to 

 have maintained that, among the saints, all things ought to be in 

 common. Their speculative theology is described as having been much 

 the same with that which has been, and still is, patronised by various 

 other denominations of enthusiasts. It rested principally on the 

 notion that God mode his will known to them individually by special 

 inspirations, by way of enhancing the importance of which they are 

 said to have expressed themselves with some degree almost of contempt 

 or disparagement of the written word. Besides the internal in 

 sions which they called inspirations, they had dreams and visions in which 

 they put much confidence ; and some of them conceived themselves to 

 have the gift of prophecy, which they were especially accustomed to 

 exercise in predicting the speedy approach of the end of the world. 

 Akin to these delusions was another favourite and fundamental dogma, 

 that every true believer attained even in this life jvrfect freedom fiom 

 sin. This position soon led them a great way. Finding that what had 

 commonly been called sin could not be altogether extirpated from the 

 bosoms even of the stoutest believers, they found it necessary, in onler 



