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The two tones or femitones that conftitute the fliake 

 major or rainor, fhaiild be equally loud and dillinft ; but 

 above all, pcrfeftly in tune with the notes of the general 

 fcale and particular k'^y in which the performer is finding. 

 The Italians call a bad (hake, or no fhakc at all, but a 

 c^uivcring upon the fame note, toffe da capra, a goal's 

 cough. If the finger is not podeded of a true and good 

 fnake, he or fhe had bell refrain from ever attempting it ; 

 and if accuRomed to elegant melody, and poflefled of 

 good talle and ornamental embelli(hments, the (hake in 

 longs of expreflion and pathos may be avoided with advan- 

 tage. 



As the acquiring of a good (hake in fuiging is a work of 



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time, difficulty, and uncertainty of fucccfs, foveral ingeni- 

 ous and elegant cadences have been invented in order to 

 evade the fliake. A good (hake well applied is certainly 

 a great ornament ; but it is a matter of brilliancy more 

 than expre (Tion ; non due niente, it fays nothing — according 

 to modem Italian critics, and is feldom wanted except at 

 the end of a formal clofe. Thofe who have a good (hake, 

 like perfonj with a fine fet of teeth, are too ambitious of 

 letting you know it. The different kinds of (hakes are 

 exprefied in notes on the mufic-plates. The plain note 

 and trill are at prefent thought more elegant, and are more 

 frequently iifed than the fudden and long continued rapid 

 motion of the common (hake. 



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Shakes upon keyed inllruments arc bell praftlfed at firfl 

 with the fecond and third fingers ; holding down at the fame 

 time the fifth below with the thumb, to keep the hand 

 and the writt quiet. And we recommend, contrary to 

 the ufual praftice and precepts, beginning tlie (hake with 

 the lowelt note ; othcrwife, m rapid tranfient (hakes on 

 (emiquavcrs, there is not time for returning to the upper 

 note ; fo that the fliake is reduced to a mere appoggiatmra. 

 See Gkuppo and Trill. 



SHAKE R-PiGEO\, in Ornithology, a kind of pigeons, of 

 which there are tvio forts, the broad-tailed, and the narrow- 

 tailed. 



The firfl is the fined, and moll valued. It has a beau- 

 tiful long thin neck, which bends like the neck of a fwan, 

 leaning towards the back. It has a full bread, a v;ry 

 (hort back, and a tail confiding of a great number of fea- 

 thers, feldom lefs than four-and-twenty, which it fpreads 

 in an elegant manner, like the tail of a turkey-cock, and 

 bends it up fo, that it meets the head. It is commonly 

 all white, but fometimes is red, yellow, or blue-pied. 

 The longer the neck of this bird is, the more it is 

 valued. 



The fecond, or narrow-tailed fhaker, has a (horter and 

 thicker neck and a longer back. It is edeemcd by many 

 a different fpecies, but fecms only a mixed breed with 

 fome other pigeon. They are called fhakers, from a tre- 

 mulous motion which they have with their necks when 

 courting. 



SHAKERS, in Ecchjiajlical Hiftory, a feft which ori- 

 ginated in Lancafhirc, with fome deferters from the fociety 

 of Quakers, or Friends, about tlie year 1747, and which 

 continued for fome time unconnefted with every denomina- 

 tion of Chridians. During this period, their tedimony, 

 derived, as they fancied and pretended, from what they faw 

 by vifion and revelation from God, was, «' that the fecond 

 appearing of Chrift was at liand, and that the church was 

 rifing in her full and tranfcendant glory, which would e ffedt 

 the final downfall of Antichrift." From the (haking of 

 their bodies in religious excrcilcs, they were denominated 

 Shakers, and by (ome perlons they were called Shaking 

 Quaker.;. The feft fcems to have made no great prugrcis 

 until the year 1770, when the tedimony originally announced 

 was fully opened, accordmg to the fpccial gift and revelation 



of God through Ann Lee, who was born of obfcure pa- 

 rentage, at Mancheder, about the year 1736; and who, 

 having joined the fociety in 1758, became afterwards a dif- 

 tinguidied leader among them. Her cxercifes, both of 

 body and of mind, were Angularly trying and fevere for 

 about the term of nine years ; but (he was thus prepared for 

 receiving the tedimony of God, againll the whole corrup- 

 tion of man, in its root and every branch. Accordingly, 

 her tedimony vvas in the power of God, attended with 

 the word of prophecy, and fuch energy of the Spirit, 

 as penetrated into the fecrets of the heart, and was irre- 

 fillible, cfpecially in thofe with whom (he was united. 



And from the light and power of God which attended 

 her minidry, and the certain power of falvation tranfmitted 

 to thofe who received her tedimony, (he was received and 

 acknowledged as the frjl Mother, or fpiritual parent in the 

 line of th« female, and the fecond heir in the covenant 

 of life, according to the prefent difplay of the gofpel. 

 Hence among believers, fiie hath been dilUnguifhed by 

 no other name or title than that of Mother, from that 

 period to the prefent day. To fuch as addrelTed her with 

 the cudomary titles ufed by the world, flic would reply, 

 " I am jinn the Word ;" fignifying that in her dwelt tlie 

 Word. 



In 1774, Ann Lee, with foms of her followers, having 

 been thought mad, and forely perfecuted, fettled their tem- 

 poral affairs in England, and fet fail from Liverpool for New 

 York. .Tames Wardley and his wife remaining behind, were 

 nmoved into an alms-houfe, and there died. The others, 

 we are told, " being without lead or proteftion, lod their 

 power, and fell into the common courfe and prafticc of the 

 world I" Ann Lee and the brethren reached New York, 

 after working a fort of miracle, for the fiiip fprung a leak ou 

 the voyage, and it is more than hinted, that had it not been 

 for their exertions at the pump, the veflcl would have gone 

 down to the bottom of the ocean ! She, however, lelt 

 New York, and fixed her refidence up the Hudlon river, 

 eight miles from the city of Albany. In this retired fpot, 

 her followers greatly multiplied, but (lie was not without 

 bitter reproaches and manifold per(\ cutions. She and the 

 elders would delight in midionary journies, being out for 

 two or three ycara, and returning with wonderlul accounts 

 of their fuccefa. 



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