Saale , the name of several German rivers, the most important of which rises in the Fichtelgebirge, near Zell, in Upper Bavaria; flows northward, a course of m. Sabadell 18 , a prosperous Spanish town, 14 m. Sabaoth , name given in the Bible, and particularly in the Epistle of James, to the Divine Being as the Lord of all hosts or kinds of creatures.
Sabathai, Levi , a Jewish impostor, who gave himself out to be the Messiah and persuaded a number of Jews to forsake all and follow him; the sultan of Turkey forced him to confess the imposture, and he turned Mussulman to save his life Sabellianism , the doctrine of one Sabellius, who, in the third century, denied that there were three persons in the Godhead, and maintained that there was only one person in three functions, aspects, or manifestations, at least this was the form his doctrine assumed in course of time, which is now called by his name, and is accepted by many in the present day.
Sabine , a river of Texas which, rising in the extreme N. Sabine, Sir Edward , a noted physicist, born in Dublin; served in artillery in , maintained his connection with it till his retirement in as general, but owes his celebrity to his important investigations into the nature of terrestrial magnetism; accompanied as a scientist Boss and Parry in their search for the North-West Passage ; was President both of the Royal Society from to and of the British Association in Sabines , an ancient Italian people of the Aryan stock, near neighbours of ancient Borne, a colony of whom is said to have settled on the Quirinal, and contributed to form the moral part of the Roman people.
Numa, the second king of the city, was a Sabine. See Romulus. Sable Island , a low, sandy, barren island in the Atlantic, m. Sacerdotalism , a tendency to attach undue importance to the order and the ministry of priests, to the limitation of the operation of Divine grace.
Sacheverel, Henry , an English Church clergyman, born at Maryborough, who became notorious in the reign of Queen Anne for his embittered attack contained in two sermons in on the Revolution Settlement and the Act of Toleration; public feeling was turning in favour of the Tories, and the impolitic impeachment of Sacheverel by the Whig Government fanned popular feeling to a great height in his favour; was suspended from preaching for three years, at the expiry of which time the Tories, then in power, received him with ostentatious marks of favour; was soon forgotten; was an Oxford graduate, and a friend of Addison; a man of no real ability Sachs, Julius , a German botanist and professor, born at Breslau; has written several works on botany, and experimented on the physiology of plants; b.
