Manning, James, D.D., a Baptist minister, was born at Elizabethtown, N.,J., Oct. 22, 1738, and was edu- cated at Princeton College (class of 1762). Soon after the completion of his collegiate course he was ordained jvastor of a Baptist Church in Morristown, N. J., but he remained only a year, and then became pastor of tlie Baptist Church in Warren, R. I. During his minis- try there he instituted a Latin school, which seems to have been the germ of the great Baptist College, now tlie Brown University, he having been chiefly instru- mental in the procuring of the charter in 1764. He was appointed its first president and professor of lan- guages in 1765, when the college went into operation at Warren, whence it was removed to Providence in 1770, and was given the name it now bears. President Man- ning remaineil connected with the college until his death, July 29, 1791. During his residence at Provi- dence, however, he was also pastor of a church for twen- ty years, absenting himself only for some six months in 1786, when he was chosen member of Congress for Rhode Island. "Dr. i\Ianning was ecpially known in the re- ligious, political, and literary world. Nature had given him distinguished abilities. The resources of his genius seemed adequate to all ehities and occasions. He was of a kind and benevolent disposition, social and commu- nicative in habit, and enchanting in manners. His life was a scene of labor for the benefit of others. His piety, and his fervent ze.al in preaching the (iospel, evinced his love to (Jod and man. With a most graceful form, a dignified and majestic appearance, his atldrcss Avas manly, familiar, and engaging, his voige harmonious, and his eloquence irresistible. In the government of the college he was mild, yet energetic. He lived be- loved and died lamented, beyond the lot of ordinary men. The good order, learning, and respectability of
the Baptist churches in the Eastern States, imder God, are much owing to his personal influence, and assiduous attention to their welfare" (Benedict, ii, 346). See (juild (R. H.), Life, Times, and Correspondence of I)r. James Manning (1864, 8vo); Sprague, ^4?ina^s, vi, 89.
Manning, OTwen, an English clergyman, was born at Orlingburg, Northamptonshire, in 1721 ; was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, of which he became fel- low in 1741; became prebend of Lincoln in 1760; in 1763, vicar of Godalming, Surrey ; in 1 769, rector of Pep- perharrow, and died in 1807. Mr. INIanning published Two Occasional Sei-mons : — Sermons on Impoi-tant Sub- jects (1812, 2 vols. 12mo) : — Discourse on Justification, Rom. Hi. 28; published by Rev. J. H. Todd, with a dis- course of Abp. Sharp's (1829, 8vo) ; and several works of a secular character. — Allibone, Diet. Brit, and Amer. A uth. s. V. ; Thomas, Diet, of Biog. s. v.
Mannus, according to Tacitus, the name given by the Germans to the son of the earth-born god Tuisco. From his three sons they derived their three great tribes, the Ingavones, the Iskavones, and the Herminones, Mannus belongs, not to the Teutonic people alone, but to the great mythus of the origin of the human race, common to the whole Aryan famih', and,Uke the Hindu Munu or Manus, stands forth as the progenitor of the inhabitants of earth endowed with reason. The name is derived from the Aryan root num, to think. Com- pare Wackernagel, in Haupt's Zeitschrift fur Deutsches Alterthum, vol. vi. — Chambers, Cyclop, s. v.
Mano'ah (Heb. Jlfano'dch, '112'^, rest, as in Gen. viii, 9, and often; Sept. Mavws ; Josephus Mavioxn^i A nt. v, 8, 2 [where the Biblical narrative is greatly em- bellished] ; Vulg. Manue}, the father of Samson, of the tribe of Dan, and a native of Zorah (Judg. xiii, 2-22; xvi,31). B.C. 1185. " The narrative of the Bible (xiii, 1-23), of the circumstances which preceded the birth of Samson, supplies us with very few and faint traits of Manoah's character or habits. He seems to have had some occupation which separated him during part of the day from his wife, though that was not field-work, because it was in the field that'his wife was found by the angel during his absence. He was hospitable, as his forefather Abraham had been before him ; he was a worshipper of Jehovah, and reverent even to a degree of fear. We hear of Manoah once again in connection with the marriage of Samson and the Philistine of Tim- nath. His father and his mother remonstrated with him thereon, but to no purpose (xiv, 2. 3). They then accompanied him to Timnath, both on the preliminary visit (ver. 5, 6) and to the marriage itself (ver. 9, 10). Manoah appears not to have survived his son : not he, but Samson's brothers, went down to Gaza for the body of the hero, and bringing it up to the family tomb be- tween Zorah and Eshtaol, reunited the father to the son (xvi, 31) whose birth had been the subject of so many prayers and so much anxiety. Milton, however, does not take this view. In Samson Af/oni^tes ]Manoah bears a prominent part throughout, and lives to bury his son" (Smith). See S.vjisox.
Manse, the Scottish name synonymous with our word jnirsonage. In Scotland the manse, with unen- dowed churches, is the property of the Church, erected and maintained by it. In the Established Church it is built and maintained by law, and belongs to the heritors. Dunlop says, '• While manses and houses which had be- longed to the pojiish clergy were still standing, these, of course, fell to be first designed for a manse, and an order of designation, similar to that prescribed by the act of 1593 as to glebes, seems to have been followed. See Gleue. A minister accordingly was not allowed to have a man«e designed to him within the precincts of an abbey or bishoji's palace if there was a parson's or vicar's manse in the parish ; nor was he entitled to any house which, though erected on Church lands, had not of old belonged to any kirkman, or incumbent serving at the chiu-ch. Where there is no manse in a parish