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•in its turn, dries up all the moisture, converts every substance 
into its own nature, and at last, by an universal conflagration, 
reduces the world to its pristine state. At this period, all 
material forms are lost in one chaotic mass: all animated 
nature is re-united to the Deity, and nature again exists in 
its original form, as one whole, consisting of God and 
matter. From this chaotic state, however, it again emerges, 
by the energy of the efficient principle, and gods and men, 
and all the forms of regulated nature, are renewed, to be 
dissolved and renewed in endless succession. 
As a necessary consequence of the doctrine of the con¬ 
flagration, and subsequent restoration of all things, the 
Stoics maintained, that the human race will return to life. 
Hence it appears in what sense we are to understand the 
Stoic doctrine of resurrection, upon which Seneca has 
written with so much elegance; and what meaning we are 
to annex to his words, when he says, “ Death, of which 
we are so much afraid, and which we are so desirous to 
avoid, is only the interruption, not the destruction, of our 
existence; the day will come which will restore us to life.” 
This tenet is not to be copfounded with the Christian doc¬ 
trine of the resurrection of the body ; for, according to the 
Stoics, men return to life, not by the voluntary appointment 
of a wise and merciful God, but by the law of fate, and are 
not renewed for the enjoyment of a better and happier 
condition, but drawn back into their former state of imper¬ 
fection and misery. 
Concerning the duration of the soul of man, the Stoics 
entertained very different opinions. Cleanthes thought that 
all souls would remain till the final conflagration. Chrysip- 
pus was of opinion, that this would only be the lot of the 
wise and good; and Seneca seems to have entertained the 
same notion. 
The soul, conceived by the Stoics to have been material, 
was represented by them as consisting of eight distinct parts, 
viz., the five senses, the productive faculty, the power of 
speech, and the ruling part, to yyeyoviKov, or reason. 
STO'ICAL, or Sto'ic, culj. [stoique , Fr.] Of or be¬ 
longing to Stoics; cold: stiff; austere; affecting to hold 
all things indifferent. 
O foolishness of men ! that lend their ears 
To those budge doctors of the Stoick fur. 
And fetch their precepts from the Cynick tub, 
Praising the lean and sallow abstinence! Milton . 
STOICALLY, ado. After the manner of the Stoics; 
austerely; with pretended indifference to all things. Min- 
sheu. —-Be not stoically mistaken in the equality of sins. 
Brown. 
STO'ICALNESS, s. The state of being stoical; the 
temper of a Stoic. Scott. 
STO'ICISM, s. [stoicisme, Fr.] The opinions and 
maxims of the Stoics.—To pretend to virtue and holiness 
without reference to God and a life to come, is but to fall 
into a more dull and flat kind of Stoicism. More .— 
Stoicism, which was the pedantry of virtue, ascribes all 
good qualifications of what kind soever to the virtuous man. 
Addison. 
STOKE, or Stoak. Stoke, in composition, comes from 
the Sax. jeoc, locus, place : hence the names of many of 
our towns, &c., as, Basingstoke. See Lye in V. beoc. 
STOKE. 1. A township in Cheshire; 5 miles north-by¬ 
east of Cheshire.—2. A hamlet in Derbyshire; 2 miles north¬ 
east of Stony Middleton.—3. A parish in Kent ; 6 miles 
north-east of Rochester.—4. A township in Leicestershire; 
2 miles from Hinkly.—5. A parish in Warwickshire; H 
mile east of Coventry.— 6 . A parish in Norfolk with a ferry 
over the river Stoke, which is navigable to it from the Ouse; 
6 miles north-east of Rochester.—7. A parish in Suffolk; 2 
miles south-west-by-west of Clare.— 8 . Another parish in 
the above county. It has a church situated on a hill, the 
tower of which is 120 feet high, and the steeple serves as a 
landmark to ships passing the mouth of the Orwell, at the 
distance of 15 miles; 4 miles wes*-south-west of Ipswich 
and 59 north-east of London.—9. A parish of England, in 
Surrey in the vicinity of Guildford.—10. A parish in Sussex .5 
2 miles from Arundel.—11. Another parish in the above 
county, on the opposite side of the Avon, commonly called 
North Stoke.—12. Another village in the same county; 3 
miles from Chichester. 
STOKE, Abbot’s or Abbas. 1. A parish in Dorset¬ 
shire; 2| miles west-by-south of Beaminster. — 2. Stoke, Al¬ 
bany, a parish in Northamptonshire; 4| miles south-west- 
by-west of Rockingham. —3. Stoke, Ash, A parish in 
Suffolk; 3j miles south-west of Eye.—4. Stoke, Bardolph, 
A township in Nottinghamshire ; 5 miles east-north-east of 
Nottingham. — 5. Stoke, Bishop's, A parish in South- 
amptonshire; 5| miles west-north-west of Bishop’s Waltham. 
— 6. Stoke, Bliss, A parish in Herefordshire; 6| miles 
north of Bromyard.—7. Stoke, Bruerne, A hamlet in 
Northamptonshire; 3J miles east-north-east of Towcester.— 
8 . Stoke, Canon s, A parish in Devonshire; 4^ miles 
north-north-east of Exeter. — 9. Stoke, Charity, A parish 
in Southamptonshire; 6 miles south-by-east of Whitchurch. 
—10. Stoke, Clymeeland, A parish in Cornwall; 4 miles 
north of Callington.—11. Stoke, Courcy, A parish in 
Somersetshire ; miles north-west-by-west of Bridgewater. 
—12. Stoke, D' Ahern on, A parish in Surrey; 2 miles 
south-east-by-east of Cobham. — 13. Stoke, Damerell, 
A parish in Devonshire, lying near Plymouth.—14. 
Stoke, Doi/ly, A parish in Northamptonshire; H mile 
south-west of Oundle. — 15. Stoke, Dry, A parish in 
Rutlandshire; 3± miles south-west-by-south of Uppingham. 
—16. Stoke, East, A parish in Dorsetshire; 4 miles 
west-south-west of Wareham.—Also a parish in Notting¬ 
hamshire; 3j miles south-west of Newark.—17. Stoke, 
Edith, A parish in Herefordshire; 7| miles west-north-west 
of Ledbury.—18. Stoke, Ferry, a town and parish in 
Norfolk, standing on the river Wissey; 38 miles west-by¬ 
south of Norwich. — 19. Stoke, Fleming, a parish in Devon¬ 
shire, on the coast of the English channel; 2 miles south- 
south-west of Dartmouth. Population 620.—20. Stoke, Ga¬ 
briel, a parish in Devonshire ; 4 miles south-east-by-south 
of Totness. Population 572.—21. Stoke, Gay lard\ a parish 
in Dorsetshire; miles east-south-east of Sherborne.— 
22. Stoke, Gifford, a parish in Gloucestershire; 5 miles 
north-noith-east of Bristol.—23. Stoke, Golding, a ham¬ 
let in Leicestershire; 2| miles north-west of Hinckley.— 
24. Stoke, Goldington, a parish in Buckinghamshire; 4 
miles west-south-west of Olney.—25. Stoke, St. Gregory, 
a parish in Somersetshire; 5 miles west-by-north of Lang- 
port.—26. Stoke-under-Handen, a parish in Somerset¬ 
shire ; 54 miles west-by-north of Yeovil. — 27. Stoke, 
Hammond, a parish in Buckinghamshire; 3 miles south of 
Fenny Stratford.—28. Stoke, Holycross, or Crucis, a 
parish in Norfolk; 5 miles from Norwich. — 29. Stoke-in- 
Teignhead, a parish in Devonshire, on the shore ofBa- 
bicomb bay ; 3 miles from Newton Abbas.—30. Stoke, 
Lacy, a parish in Herefordshire; 3 miles south-west of 
Bromyard.—31. Stoke, Lane, a. parish in Somersetshire; 
3J miles north-east of Shepton Mallet.—32. Stoke, Lyni, 
a parish in Oxfordshire; 2\ miles north-by-west of Bicester. 
—33. Stoke, Mandeville, a parish in Buckinghamshire; 
2 j miles north-west-by-west of Wendover. — 34. Stoke, 
St. Alary, a parish in Somersetshire; 24 miles south-east- 
by-east of Taunton.—Also a parish in Suffolk, in the vici¬ 
nity of Ipswich.—35. Stoke, St. Ali/borough, a township 
in Salop; 7 miles north-east of Ludlow. Population 526. 
—36. Stoke, Newington. See Newington Stoke.— 
37. Stoke, North, a hamlet in Lincolnshire; 2^ miles 
north-west-by-north of Colsterworfh.—Also a parish in Ox¬ 
fordshire ; 12 miles west-nc.rth-west of Henley-upon-Thames. 
Also a parish in Somersetshire; 4 miles north-west of Bath. 
—38. Stoke, Orchard, a hamlet in Gloucestershire; 3| 
miles south-east of Tewkesbury.—39. Stoke, Pero, a pa¬ 
rish in Somersetshire; 6 miles west-south-west of Minehead. 
— 40. Stoke, Poges, a parish in Buckinghamshire; 2 
miles north-north-east of Slough. The church yard of this 
parish was made the scene of Gray’s beautiful elegy; and 
here the remains of the poet lie interred, without any memo- 
