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with much fine timber, a large piece of water near the 

 foiith front of the houfe ; and at the weftern extremity, ad- 

 joining the great North road, is a ftately lodge of entrance, 

 which was erected in 1 80 1, from the defigns of Mr. Legg, 

 architeft. An interelling account of this feat, with a par- 

 ticular catalogue of the piftures, was pubhihed at Staaford, 

 in 1815, entitled "A Guide to Burghley-Houfe," &c.— 

 Survey of the Town of Stanford, by Butcher, 8vo. 17 17. 

 An Effay on the ancient and prefent State of Stanford, by 

 Howgrave, 410. 1720. Antiquarian Annals of Stanford, 

 by Peck, folio, 1727. The Antiquities of Stanford and 

 St. Martin's, by W. Harrod, 2 vols. lamo. 178J. An 

 Account of the public Schools, Hofpitals, and other cha- 

 ritable Foundations, in the Borough of Stanford, by 

 Thomas Blore, 8vo. 1813. This is a very interelting and 

 iifeful work, as calculated to preferve and give publicity to 

 thofe benevolent inltitutions, which were originally intended 

 to afford fupport to the aged poor, and inltruftion to the 

 lower claffes of youth. 



Stanford, a poft-townfhip of Duchefs county. New 

 York, about 18 miles N.E. of Poughkeepfie; incorporated 

 in 1793, and containing 2335 inhabitants. This townfhip 

 is well watered and cultivated ; has many able farmers, fe- 

 deral mills, three houfes for worfhip, viz. for Quakers, 

 Baptifts, and Methodilts. In 1810, its houfehold looms 

 produced 12,680 yards of cloth. Its Iheep were 5564, 

 horfes 811, and cattle 2898. — Alfo, the capital of Lincoln 

 county, Kentucky; fituated on a fertile plain, about 10 

 miles S.S.E. of Danville, containing a Hone court-houfe, a 

 gaol, and about 40 houfes. 



STANG, a river of Sweden, which runs into lake 

 Roxan, near Linkioping. — Alfo, a town of Norway; 24 

 miles N. of B^rga. 



Stang, in Rural Economy, a word provincially fignifying 

 a long pole, or other piece of wood in the fame form. 

 Stangs are ufeful for a variety of difl'erent purpofes in the 

 praftice of farming. 



SrAKG-Carf, in Agriculture, that fort of ftang which 

 conflitutes the (hafts of a cart, or the poles between which 

 the horfe draws. See Cart. 



STANGENBERG, in Geography, a town of Pruffia, 

 in Pomerelia ; 15 miles S.E. of Marienburg. 



STANGENGRUN, a town of Saxony, in the circle 

 of Erzgebirg ; 9 miles S.W. of Zwickau. 



STANGENROD, a town of Weltphalia, in the county 

 of Mansfeld ; 13 miles N.N.W. of Eifzleben. 



STANGS KAR, a fmall ifland in the gulf of Finland. 

 N. lat. 59'' 45'. E. long. 26° 15'. 



STANGWYK, a town of Norway, in the province of 

 Drontheim ; 80 miles S.W. of Drontheim. 



STANHOPE, George, in Biography, an eminent divine 

 of the church of England, was born at Hartfhorn, in Derby- 

 Ihire, in 1660. He was educated at Eton, and King's col- 

 lege, Cambridge ; and after taking his degrees, and bear- 

 ing fome offices in the univeriity, he was prefentcd by lord 

 Dartmouth, in whofe family he had been chaplain and tutor, 

 to the reftory of Lewilham, in Kent. He was appointed 

 one of the chaplains to king William and queen Mary, and 

 retained the fame office in the following reign. In 1697 he 

 proceeded doftor in divinity, and being at the fame time 

 diflinguilhed for his pulpit eloquence, he was chofen, in 

 1 701, to preach Boyle's lecture ; and in 1703 he was pro- 

 moted to the deanery of Canterbury. He foraetimes 

 preached the letture at St. Laurence Jewry, in which he 

 attained to great eminence, though he followed many per- 

 fons of much celebrity. In 1705 he preached the Latin 

 fermoo before the convocation, of which body he was thrice 

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chofen prolocutor. He died in 1728, at the age of 68^ 

 Of the publications of this learned divine, fome were tranf- 

 lations : thele were " Thomas a Kempis de Imitatione 

 Chrifti ;" « Charron de la Sageffe ;" " The Meditation* 

 of Marcus Antoninus ;" " EpiAetus, with the Commentary 

 of Simphcius ;" " Rochefoucault's Maxims ;" " St. Au- 

 gulline's Meditations." His mod confiderable original 

 work was " A Paraphrafe on the Epiilles and Gofpels," 

 4 vols. 8vo. feveral times reprinted. He alfo publifhed 

 three fets of "Sermons on feveral Occafions ;" befidei 

 " Sixteen Sermons preached at Boyle's Ledlures." 



Stanhope, Philip Dormer, earl of Chefterfield, a 

 nobleman celebrated as a great wit, Uatefman, and a man 

 of letters, was the eldelt fon of Philip, third earl of Chefter- 

 field, by lady Elizabeth Saville, daughter of George, mar- 

 quis of Hahfax. He was born in London, in September, 

 1694. He had the misfortune to lofc his mother while he 

 was very young, and being negletled by his father, he was 

 educated under the care of his grandmother, lady Halifax, 

 who proved herfelf quite adequate to the tafk. His ele- 

 mentary inllruftions were received at home from able maf- 

 ters, who had the advantage of finding in their pupil ad- 

 miiable qualities, and an ardent defire of excelling in what- 

 ever he undertook, and a refolution to perfevere in thetraft 

 in which he entered, without any regard to the obflacles 

 that might oppofe themfelves to his progrefs. It is faid 

 that lord Galway, difcerning in him, when very young, a 

 ftrong inchnation for political diftinftion, and at the fame 

 time a great love of pleafure, with a propenfity to faunter- 

 ing, gave him a friendly Icffon on the abfolute neceffity of 

 riling early, in order that he might become a man of bufi- 

 nefs. The admonition produced fuch an effeft on his mind, 

 that he immediately adopted the praftice recommended, and 

 adhe.-ed to it during the whole of his life. He was after- 

 wards, by a trifling incident, permanently cured of an im- 

 patience of temper, which he was fenfible would difqualify 

 him for the charafter and duties of a ftatefman. In his 

 1 8th year he was entered of Trinity^hall, Cambridge, where 

 he applied himfelf with great affiduity to the itudies pur- 

 fued in that feat of learning. He was particularly attentive 

 to eloquence, which he was aware was a principal requifite 

 in a free fenate ; and with the view of becoming a good and 

 a forcible fpeaker, he marked down all the fineil fpeeches 

 of the ancients that came in his way, in the courfe of his 

 reading, and formed his own ftyle and manner by tranflating 

 them ; a praftice which cannot be too warmly recommended 

 to young men likely to come into public life. On quit- 

 ting the univerfity, this young nobleman made the ufual 

 tour of Europe ; and it was at the Hague that he tirft be- 

 gan the cultivation of that enlarged acquaintance with man- 

 kind, which has been denominated feeing and knowing the 

 world ; but with this knowledge he acquired certain per- 

 nicious propenfities, which adhered to him through life : 

 among others was that of gaming. A vifit of fome length 

 to Paris further contributed to fafhion his manners, and to 

 render him at length that model of true politenefs, which he 

 exhibited in after-life to his admiring countrymen. This 

 was about the time of the demife of queen Anne, and he 

 did himfelf high honour by the affertion of thofe principles 

 of freedom which effefted the fucceffion of the houfe of 

 Hanover, and which, during the whole of his political life, 

 he fteadily maintained. On his return to England in 17 15, 

 he was prefented to the new fovereign, and appointed one 

 of the gentlemen of the bed-chamber to the prince of Wales. 

 He was elefted member of parliament for one of the Cornifb 

 boroughs, in the firft parliament of George I., and com- 

 menced a fpeaker in the debate refpefting the impeachment 



