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tions out of the Koran and the Bible. She was regard- ed by the Arabs with superstitious reverence as a sort of prophetess. Her permanent abode was in Mount Lebanon, about eight miles from Sidon, where she died in June, 1839. Her Memoirs (1845,3 vols.) and Seren Years' Travels (1846, 3 vols.) were published by her physician, Dr. Meryon. See Thomson, Land and Book, i, HI.
Stanislas, St., a Polish prelate, was born July 26, 1030, at Szczepanow in the diocese of Cracow, of rich and noble jiarents, who sent him to continue his studies at Gnesne, and afterwards at Paris, where he applied himself to canon law and theology. Through modesty he refused the honor of doctor, and on his return to Po- land (1059) he distributed his patrimony to tlie poor. Lambert Zula, bishop of Cracow, conferred on him the priesthood and named him as canon of his cathedral (1062). On the death of Lambert, Nov. 25, 1074, pope Alexander II, at the instance of the clergy and of Bo- leslas II, king of Poland, appointed him to the ofiice. Stanislas thereupon redoubled his zeal, vigilance, and austerity. His remonstrances with Boleslas on account of the tyranny of the latter being resented, he excom- municated the king, who, in revenge, assassinated him in the chapel of St. Michael, May 8, 1079. He was can- onized in 1253 by Innocent IV, and the Order of St. Stanislas was instituted in his honor, May 7, 1765. See Stanislai Vita (Ignol. 1611; Col. 1616); Ropell, Gesch. Polens (Hamb. 1840), i, 199.
Stanislas, Kostka, St., was born in 1550 at the castle of Rostkom of a senatorial family, and distin- guished himself by his early piety. After studying in the college of the Jesuits at Vienna, he desired to enter their order; but, being prevented b}' his father and brother, he went to Dillingen, where the provincial Ca- nisius appointed him to the personal care of the pen- sioners of his college. He was afterwards sent to Rome, where he assumed the monastic habit, Oct. 28, 1567, and died Aug. 15, 1568. He was beatified by Clement VIII in 1604, and canonized l)y Clement XI, his festival being fixed on Nov. 13. His life has been written in Latin by Sacchini (Colon. 1617) and Zatti (Ingols. 1727), and in French by D'Orleans (Paris, 1672).
Stanley, Charles T., a Jlcthodist Episcopal min- ister, was born at Cazenovia, N. Y., May 22, 1810. In earh' youth he was blessed with pious parental training, was converted in his twentieth year, received on trial by the Oneida Conference in 1835, and after travelling four years, in which he was appointed successively to the Cayuga, Bridgewater, Brooklyn, and Canaan circuits, where he labored with marked success, his health failed, and he died Jan. 17, 1841. As a Christian, he exempli- fied the principles of the Gospel ; as a scholar, he culti- vated a thirst for knowledge; as a minister, he was faithful to every duty. Sec Minutes of Annual Con- ferences, iii, 238.
Stanley, Edward, D.D., an English prelate, was born in London, Jan. 1, 1779. He was sent to St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1798, where he graduated in 1802, and was sixteenth wrangler of his yiar. lie took the degree of A.M. in 1805. In that year — having meanwhile travel- led on the Continent, and liaving had for some time the curacy of Wcndles- ham, in Surrey — he was presented bj' his father to the family living of Al- derley, of which he continued rector for thirty-two years. He turned his attention (hiring this period to the study of natural history, especially ornithology, and in 1836 was vice- president of the British Association. He was also a fellow of the Royal Society, and president of the Lin-
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mean Society. In 1837 he accepted the bishopric of Norwich, to "which was conjoined the appointment of clerk of the closet of the Chapel Hoyal. He died at Brahan Castle, in Ross-shire, Scotland, Sept, 6, 1849, He wrote. -1 Senes of Questions on the Bible (Lond. 1815, r2nu>): — .1 Feic Words in Favor of our lioman Ctitholic Brethren (1829, 8vo) : — /I Familiar IJistory of liirds; their Xutiire, Habits, and Instincts (1835, 2 vuls.l8ni(.; 8th ed. 18('.5, fcp. 8vo) :— .1 Few Notes on Reli'/wn and Education in Ireland (1835, 8vo) :— Charge to the Clergy (1845, 8vo; 1858, 8vo) :— ^Jennon*. After his death appeared. Addresses and Charges, with a Me- vu>ir by his son, Arthur I'enryhn Stanley, A.M. (1851, 8vo; 2d ed. 1852). See AUibone, Diet, of Brit, and A tner. A ulhors, s. v. ; English Cyclop, s. v.
Stanley, Julius A., a minister of the Methodist Einscopal Church, Soutli, was born in Lagrange, Ga., in 1834. He received license to preach in Camden, Ark., in 1858, and was admitted into the travelling ministry. He was a superainiuate in the Little Kock Conference from 18()7 until his death, Nov. 9, 18(58. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 18G9, p. 372.
Stanley, Thomas, an accomplished English schol- ar, sciii of Sir 'I'humas Stanley, of Laytonstone, Essex, was born in Ul'Jo. He graduated from Pembroke Hall, Cam- bridge. Having spent some time in foreign travel, he took up his residence in the Middle Temple. He died at his lodgings, Suffolk Street, parish of St. Martin's-in- the-Fields, April 12, 1G78. Mr. Stanley owed his repu- tation as a scholar principally to his History of Philos- ophy, containing the IJces, etc., of the Philosophers of Every Sect (1655, in parts; 1G60, 1687, 1743, 4to). It was also translated into Latin (Leipsic, 1711). Among his manuscripts was A Critical Essay on the First-fruits aiul Tenths <f the Spoil. See Chalmers, Biog. Did. s, v.