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See also:SOUTHCOTT, See also:JOANNA (1750–1814) , See also:English religious fanatic, was See also:born at Gittisham in See also:Devonshire. Her See also:father was a See also:farmer and she herself was for a considerable See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time a domestic servant. She was originally a Methodist, but about 1792, be-coming persuaded that she possessed supernatural gifts, she wrote and dictated prophecies in See also:rhyme, and then announced herself as the woman spoken of in Rev. xii. Coming to See also:London at the See also:request of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Sharp (1749–1824), the engraver, she began to " See also:seal" the 144,000 elect at a See also:charge varying from twelve shillings to a See also:guinea. When over sixty she affirmed that she would be delivered of See also:Shiloh on the 19th of See also:October 1814, but Shiloh failed to appear, and it was given out that she was in a See also:trance. She died of See also:brain disease on the 29th of the same See also:month. Her followers are said to have numbered over 100,000, and only became See also:extinct at the end of the 19th See also:century.
Among her sixty publications, all equally incoherent in thought and See also:grammar, may be mentioned: See also:Strange Effects of Faith (18o1–1802), See also:Free Exposition of the See also:Bible (1804), The See also:Book of Wonders (1813–1814), and Prophecies announcing the See also:Birth of the See also:Prince of See also:Peace (1814). A See also:lady named Essam See also:left large sums of See also:money for See also:printing and See also:publishing the Sacred Writings of Joanna Southcott. The will was disputed by a niece on the ground that the writings were blasphemous, but the See also:court of See also:chancery sustained it.
See D. See also:Roberts, Observations on the Divine See also:Mission of Joanna Southcott (1807) ; R. Reece, Correct Statement of the Circumstances attending the See also:Death of Joanna Southcott (1815).
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