H.Habeas Corpus Act,8392Hale, Sir Matthew, his integrity, u.490391Halifax, Lord, a trimmer both by intellect and by constitution,87; compared with Shaftesbury,87; his political tracts,88; his oratorical powers,8990; the king's dislike to him,90; his recommendation of Addison to Godolphin,354355; sworn of the Privy Council of Queen Anne,301Hallam, Mr., review of his Constitutional History of England,433543; his qualifications as an historian,435; his style,435430; character of his Constitutional History,430; his impartiality,430439512; his description of the proceedings of the third parliament of Charles I., and the measures which followed its dissolution,450457; his remarks on tlie impeachment of Stratford,458405; on the proceedings of the Long Parliament, and on the question of the justice of the civil war,409495; his opinion on the nineteen propositions of the Long Parliament,480; on the veto of the crown on acts of parliament,487; on the control over tlie army,489; on the treatment of Laud, and on his correspondence with Strafford,492493; on tlie execution of Charles I.,497; his parallel between Cromwell and Napoleon,504510; his character of Clarendon,522Hamilton, Gerard, his celebrated single speech,231; his effective speaking in the Irish Parliament,372Hammond, Henry, uncle of Sir William Temple, his designation by the new Oxonian sectaries,14Hampden, John, his conduct in tlie ship-money attender approved by the Royalists, effect of his loss on the Parliamentary cause,496; review of Lord Nugent's Memorial of him,427; his public and private character,428429Baxtor's testimony to his excellence, his origin and early history,431; took his seat in the House of Commons,432; joined the opposition to the Court; his first appearance as a public man,441; his first stand for the fundamentals of the Constitution,444; committed to prison.444; set at liberty, and reelected for Wendover,445; his retirement,445; his remembrance of his persecuted friends,447; his letters to Sir John Eliot,447Clarendon's character of him as a debater,447; letter from him to Sir John Eliot,448; his acquirements,228450; death of his wife,451; his resistance to the assessment for ship-money,458Stratford's hatred of him,458; his intention to leave England,458; his return tor Buckinghamshire in the fifth parliament of Charles I.,401; his motion on the subject of the king's message,403; his election by two constituencies to the Long Parliament,407; character of his speaking,407408; his opinion on the bill for the attainder of Strafford,471Lord Clarendon's testimony to his moderation,472; his mission to Scotland,472; his conduct in the House of Commons on the passing of the Grand Remonstrance,475; his impeachment ordered by the king,477483; returns in triumph to the House,482; his resolution,489; raised a regiment in Buckinghamshire,481; contrasted with Essex,491; his encounter with Rupert at Chalgrove,493; his death and burial,494495; effect of his death on his party,490Hanover, Chatham's invective against the favor shown to, by George II.,219Harcourt, French ambassador to the Court of Charles II. of Spain,94Hardwicke, Earl of,13; his views of the policy of Chatham,20High Steward of the University of Cambridge,37Harley, Robert,400; his accession to power,130; censure on him by Lord Mahon,132; his kindness for men of genius,405; his unsuccessful attempt to rally the Tories in1703; his advice to the queen to dismiss the Whigs,381Harrison, on the condition of the working classes in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,175Hastings, Warren, review of Mr. Greig's Memoirs of his Life,1147; his pedigree,2; his birth, and the death of his father and mother,3; taken charge of by his uncle and sent to Westminster school,5; sent as a writer to Bengal, his position there,7; events which originated his greatness,8; becomes a member of council at Calcutta,9; his character in pecuniary transactions,11101; his return to England, generosity to his relations, and loss of his moderate fortune,11; his plan for the cultivation of Persian literature at Oxford,12; his interview with Johnson,12; his appointment as member of council at Madras, and voyage to India,13; his attachment to the Baroness Imhoff,13; his judgment and vigor at-Madras,15; his nomination to the head of the government at Bengal,15; his relation with Nucomar,192224; his embarrassed finances and means to relieve them,2574; his principle of dealing with his neighbors and the excuse for him,25; his proceedings towards the Nabob and the Great Mogul,27; his sale of territory to the Nabob of Oude,28; his refusal to interfere to stop the barbarities of Sujah Dowlah,33; his great talents for administration,34; his disputes with the members of the new council,40; his measures reversed, and the powers of government taken from him,40; charges preferred against him,4243; his painful situation, and appeal to England,44; examination of his conduct,4951; his letter to Dr. Johnson,52; his condemnation by the directors,52; his resignation tendered by his agent and accepted,54; his marriage and reappointment,50; his importance to England at that conjuncture,5770; his duel with Francis,70; his great influence,7374; his financial embarrassment and designs for relief,74; his transactions with and measures against Cheyte Sing,71; seq.: his perilous situation in Benares,8283; his treatment of the Nabob vizier,8580; his treatment of the Begums,8792; close of his administration,93; remarks on his system,93102; his reception in England,103; preparations for his impeachment,104110; his defence at the bar of the House,110; brought to the bar of the Peers,123; scq.; his appearance on his trial, his counsel and his accusers,120; his arraignment by Burke,129130; narrative of the proceedings against him,131139; expenses of his trial,139; his last interference in politics,141142; his pursuits and amusements at Daylesford,142; his appearance and reception at the bar of the House of Commons,144; his reception at Oxford.145; sworn of the Privy Council and gracious reception by the Prince Regent,145; his presentation to the Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia,145; his death,145; summary of his character,145147Hatton, Lady,308; her manners and temper,308; her marriage with Sir Edward Coke,368Havanna, capture of,32Hawk, Admiral, his victory over the French fleet under Conflans,245Hayley, William,223; his translation of Dante,78Hayti, its cultivation,305306; its history and improvement,390400; its production,395,398; emigration to, from the United States,398401Heat, the principle of, Bacon's reasoning upon,90"Heathens" (the), of Cromwell's time,258Heathfield, Lord,125Hebert,459409470473481Hebrew writers (the), resemblance of Æschylus to,210; neglect of, by the Romans,414Hebrides (the), Johnson's visit to,420; his letters from,423Hecatare, its derivation and definition,281Hector, Homer's description of,303Hedges, Sir Charles, Secretary of State,302Helvetius, allusion to,208Henry IV. of France,139; twice abjured Protestantism from interested motives,328Henry VIII.,452; his position between the Catholic and Protestant parties,27Hephzibah, an allegory so called,203Heresy, remarks on,143153Herodotus, his characteristics,377382; his naivete,378; his imaginative coloring of facts,378379420; his faults,379; his style adapted to his times,380; his history read at the Olympian festival,381; its vividness,381382; contrasted with Thucydides,385; with Xenophon,394; with Tacitus,408; the speeches introduced into his narrative,388; his anecdote about Mæandrius of Samos,132; tragedy on the fall of Miletus,333Heroic couplet (the), Drvden's unrivalled management of,300; its mechanical nature,333334; specimen from Ben Jonson,334; from Hoole,334; its rarity before the time of Pope,334Heron, Robert,208Hesiod, his complaint of the corruption of the judges of Asera,420Hesse Darmstadt, Prince of, commanded the land forces sent against Gibraltar in170110; accompanies Peterborough on his expedition,112; his death at the capture of Monjuieh,110High Commission Court, its abolition,409Highgate, death of Lord Bacon at,434Hindoo Mythology,306Hindoos, their character compared with other nations,1920; their position and feeling towards the people of Central Asia,28; their mendacity and perjury,42; their view of forgery,47; importance attached by them to ceremonial practices,47; their poverty compared with the people of England,64; their feelings against English law,6567Historical romance, as distinguished from true history,444445History, Essay upon,470442; in what spirit it should be written,197199; true sources of,100; complete success in, achieved by no one.470; province of,470477; its uses,422; writer of a perfect,377427442252,250,201; begins in romance, and ends in essay,377400Herodotus, as a writer of,377482; grows more sceptical with the progress of civilization, 385; writers of, contrast between, and writers of fiction,3854803830044444; comparison of, with portrait-painting,380488Thucydides, as a writer of,385303Xenophon, as a writer of,304304Eulybius and Arrian, as writers of, 355; Plutarch and his school, as writers of,305402Livy, as a writer of,402404404400Tacitus, as a writer of,400; writers of, contrast between, and the dramatists,40; writers of, modern, superior to the ancient in truthfulness,400410; and in philosophic generalizations,410411410; how affected by the discovery of printing,411; writers of, ancient, how Directed by their national exclusiveness,410; modern, how affected by the triumph of Christianity,410417; by the Northern invasions,417; by the modern civilization,417418; their faults,410; to:421; their straining of facts to suit theories; their misrepresentations,420; their ill success in writing ancient history,421; their distortions of truth not unfavorable to correct views in political science,422; but destructive to history proper,423; contracted with biographers,423; their contempt for the writers of memoirs,423; the majesty of, nothing too trivial for,4241922; what circumstantial details of the life of the people history needs,424428; most writers of, look only on the surface of affairs,426; their errors in consequence,420; reading of history compared in its effects with foreign travel,420427; writer of, a truly great, will exhibit the spirit of the age in miniature,427428; must possess an intimate knowledge of domestic history of nations,432Johnson's contempt for it,421History of the Popes of Rome during the16th and17th centuries, review of Ranke's,299350History of Greece, Clifford's, reviewed,172201Hobbes, Thomas, his influence on the two Succeeding generations,409Malbranche's opinion of him,340Hohenfriedberg, victory of,178Hohenlohe, Prince,301Holbach, Baron, his supper parties,348Holderness, Earl of, his resignation of office,24Holkar, origin of the House of,59Holland, allusion to the rise of,87; governed with almost regal power by John de Witt,32; its apprehensions of the designs of France,35; its defensive alliance with England and Sweden,4044Holland House, beautiful lines addressed to it by Tickell,423; its interesting associations, Addison's abode and death there,424412Holland, Lord, review of his opinions as recorded in the journals of the House of Lords,412426; his family,414417419; his public life,419422; his philanthropy,6465422423; feelings with which his memory is cherished,423; his hospitality at Holland House,425; his winning manners and uprightness,425; his last lines,425426Hollis, Mr., committed to prison by Charles I.,447; his impeachment,477Hollwell, Mr., his presence of mind in the Black Hole,233; cruelty of the Nabob towards him,234Home, John, patronage of by Bute,41Homer, difference between his poetry and Milton's,213; one of the most "correct" poets,338Pope's translation of his description of a moonlight night,331; his descriptions of war.356358; his egotism,82; his oratorical power,141; his use of epithets,354; his description of Hector,363Hooker, his faulty style,50Hoole, specimen of his heroic couplets,334Horace, Bentley's notes on,111; compared poems to paintings whose effect varies as the spectator changes his stand,141; his comparison of the imitators of Pindar,362; his philosophy,125Hosein, son of Ali, festival to his memory,217; legend of his death,218Hospitals, objects for which they are built,183Hotspur, character of,326Hough, Bishop,338House of Commons (the), increase of its power,532536540; change in public feeling in respect to its privileges,537; its responsibility,531; commencement of the practice of buying votes in,168; corruption in, not necessary to the Tudors,168; increase of its influence after the Devolution,170; how to be kept in order,170Huggins, Edward,318311Hume, David, his characteristics as a historian,420; his description of the violence of parties before the Devolution,328Humor, that of Addison compared with that of Swift and Voltaire,377378Hungarians, their incursions into Lombardy,206Hunt, Leigh, review of his edition of the Dramatic works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Karquhar,350-411; his merits and faults,350351; his qualifications as an editor,350; his appreciation of Shakspeare, Spenser, Dryden, and Addison,351Huntingdon, Countess of,336Huntingdon, William,285Hutchinson, Mrs.,24Hyde, Mr., his conduct in the House of Commons,463; voted for Strafford's attainder,471; at the head of the Constitutional Loyalists,474; see also Clarendon, Lord.Hyder Ali, his origin and character,71; his invasion of the Carnatic, and triumphant success,71; his progress arrested by Sir Eyre Coote,74
Habeas Corpus Act,8392
Hale, Sir Matthew, his integrity, u.490391
Halifax, Lord, a trimmer both by intellect and by constitution,87; compared with Shaftesbury,87; his political tracts,88; his oratorical powers,8990; the king's dislike to him,90; his recommendation of Addison to Godolphin,354355; sworn of the Privy Council of Queen Anne,301
Hallam, Mr., review of his Constitutional History of England,433543; his qualifications as an historian,435; his style,435430; character of his Constitutional History,430; his impartiality,430439512; his description of the proceedings of the third parliament of Charles I., and the measures which followed its dissolution,450457; his remarks on tlie impeachment of Stratford,458405; on the proceedings of the Long Parliament, and on the question of the justice of the civil war,409495; his opinion on the nineteen propositions of the Long Parliament,480; on the veto of the crown on acts of parliament,487; on the control over tlie army,489; on the treatment of Laud, and on his correspondence with Strafford,492493; on tlie execution of Charles I.,497; his parallel between Cromwell and Napoleon,504510; his character of Clarendon,522
Hamilton, Gerard, his celebrated single speech,231; his effective speaking in the Irish Parliament,372
Hammond, Henry, uncle of Sir William Temple, his designation by the new Oxonian sectaries,14
Hampden, John, his conduct in tlie ship-money attender approved by the Royalists, effect of his loss on the Parliamentary cause,496; review of Lord Nugent's Memorial of him,427; his public and private character,428429Baxtor's testimony to his excellence, his origin and early history,431; took his seat in the House of Commons,432; joined the opposition to the Court; his first appearance as a public man,441; his first stand for the fundamentals of the Constitution,444; committed to prison.444; set at liberty, and reelected for Wendover,445; his retirement,445; his remembrance of his persecuted friends,447; his letters to Sir John Eliot,447Clarendon's character of him as a debater,447; letter from him to Sir John Eliot,448; his acquirements,228450; death of his wife,451; his resistance to the assessment for ship-money,458Stratford's hatred of him,458; his intention to leave England,458; his return tor Buckinghamshire in the fifth parliament of Charles I.,401; his motion on the subject of the king's message,403; his election by two constituencies to the Long Parliament,407; character of his speaking,407408; his opinion on the bill for the attainder of Strafford,471Lord Clarendon's testimony to his moderation,472; his mission to Scotland,472; his conduct in the House of Commons on the passing of the Grand Remonstrance,475; his impeachment ordered by the king,477483; returns in triumph to the House,482; his resolution,489; raised a regiment in Buckinghamshire,481; contrasted with Essex,491; his encounter with Rupert at Chalgrove,493; his death and burial,494495; effect of his death on his party,490
Hanover, Chatham's invective against the favor shown to, by George II.,219
Harcourt, French ambassador to the Court of Charles II. of Spain,94
Hardwicke, Earl of,13; his views of the policy of Chatham,20High Steward of the University of Cambridge,37
Harley, Robert,400; his accession to power,130; censure on him by Lord Mahon,132; his kindness for men of genius,405; his unsuccessful attempt to rally the Tories in1703; his advice to the queen to dismiss the Whigs,381
Harrison, on the condition of the working classes in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,175
Hastings, Warren, review of Mr. Greig's Memoirs of his Life,1147; his pedigree,2; his birth, and the death of his father and mother,3; taken charge of by his uncle and sent to Westminster school,5; sent as a writer to Bengal, his position there,7; events which originated his greatness,8; becomes a member of council at Calcutta,9; his character in pecuniary transactions,11101; his return to England, generosity to his relations, and loss of his moderate fortune,11; his plan for the cultivation of Persian literature at Oxford,12; his interview with Johnson,12; his appointment as member of council at Madras, and voyage to India,13; his attachment to the Baroness Imhoff,13; his judgment and vigor at-Madras,15; his nomination to the head of the government at Bengal,15; his relation with Nucomar,192224; his embarrassed finances and means to relieve them,2574; his principle of dealing with his neighbors and the excuse for him,25; his proceedings towards the Nabob and the Great Mogul,27; his sale of territory to the Nabob of Oude,28; his refusal to interfere to stop the barbarities of Sujah Dowlah,33; his great talents for administration,34; his disputes with the members of the new council,40; his measures reversed, and the powers of government taken from him,40; charges preferred against him,4243; his painful situation, and appeal to England,44; examination of his conduct,4951; his letter to Dr. Johnson,52; his condemnation by the directors,52; his resignation tendered by his agent and accepted,54; his marriage and reappointment,50; his importance to England at that conjuncture,5770; his duel with Francis,70; his great influence,7374; his financial embarrassment and designs for relief,74; his transactions with and measures against Cheyte Sing,71; seq.: his perilous situation in Benares,8283; his treatment of the Nabob vizier,8580; his treatment of the Begums,8792; close of his administration,93; remarks on his system,93102; his reception in England,103; preparations for his impeachment,104110; his defence at the bar of the House,110; brought to the bar of the Peers,123; scq.; his appearance on his trial, his counsel and his accusers,120; his arraignment by Burke,129130; narrative of the proceedings against him,131139; expenses of his trial,139; his last interference in politics,141142; his pursuits and amusements at Daylesford,142; his appearance and reception at the bar of the House of Commons,144; his reception at Oxford.145; sworn of the Privy Council and gracious reception by the Prince Regent,145; his presentation to the Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia,145; his death,145; summary of his character,145147
Hatton, Lady,308; her manners and temper,308; her marriage with Sir Edward Coke,368
Havanna, capture of,32
Hawk, Admiral, his victory over the French fleet under Conflans,245
Hayley, William,223; his translation of Dante,78
Hayti, its cultivation,305306; its history and improvement,390400; its production,395,398; emigration to, from the United States,398401
Heat, the principle of, Bacon's reasoning upon,90
"Heathens" (the), of Cromwell's time,258
Heathfield, Lord,125
Hebert,459409470473481
Hebrew writers (the), resemblance of Æschylus to,210; neglect of, by the Romans,414
Hebrides (the), Johnson's visit to,420; his letters from,423
Hecatare, its derivation and definition,281
Hector, Homer's description of,303
Hedges, Sir Charles, Secretary of State,302
Helvetius, allusion to,208
Henry IV. of France,139; twice abjured Protestantism from interested motives,328
Henry VIII.,452; his position between the Catholic and Protestant parties,27
Hephzibah, an allegory so called,203
Heresy, remarks on,143153
Herodotus, his characteristics,377382; his naivete,378; his imaginative coloring of facts,378379420; his faults,379; his style adapted to his times,380; his history read at the Olympian festival,381; its vividness,381382; contrasted with Thucydides,385; with Xenophon,394; with Tacitus,408; the speeches introduced into his narrative,388; his anecdote about Mæandrius of Samos,132; tragedy on the fall of Miletus,333
Heroic couplet (the), Drvden's unrivalled management of,300; its mechanical nature,333334; specimen from Ben Jonson,334; from Hoole,334; its rarity before the time of Pope,334
Heron, Robert,208
Hesiod, his complaint of the corruption of the judges of Asera,420
Hesse Darmstadt, Prince of, commanded the land forces sent against Gibraltar in170110; accompanies Peterborough on his expedition,112; his death at the capture of Monjuieh,110
High Commission Court, its abolition,409
Highgate, death of Lord Bacon at,434
Hindoo Mythology,306
Hindoos, their character compared with other nations,1920; their position and feeling towards the people of Central Asia,28; their mendacity and perjury,42; their view of forgery,47; importance attached by them to ceremonial practices,47; their poverty compared with the people of England,64; their feelings against English law,6567
Historical romance, as distinguished from true history,444445
History, Essay upon,470442; in what spirit it should be written,197199; true sources of,100; complete success in, achieved by no one.470; province of,470477; its uses,422; writer of a perfect,377427442252,250,201; begins in romance, and ends in essay,377400Herodotus, as a writer of,377482; grows more sceptical with the progress of civilization, 385; writers of, contrast between, and writers of fiction,3854803830044444; comparison of, with portrait-painting,380488Thucydides, as a writer of,385303Xenophon, as a writer of,304304Eulybius and Arrian, as writers of, 355; Plutarch and his school, as writers of,305402Livy, as a writer of,402404404400Tacitus, as a writer of,400; writers of, contrast between, and the dramatists,40; writers of, modern, superior to the ancient in truthfulness,400410; and in philosophic generalizations,410411410; how affected by the discovery of printing,411; writers of, ancient, how Directed by their national exclusiveness,410; modern, how affected by the triumph of Christianity,410417; by the Northern invasions,417; by the modern civilization,417418; their faults,410; to:421; their straining of facts to suit theories; their misrepresentations,420; their ill success in writing ancient history,421; their distortions of truth not unfavorable to correct views in political science,422; but destructive to history proper,423; contracted with biographers,423; their contempt for the writers of memoirs,423; the majesty of, nothing too trivial for,4241922; what circumstantial details of the life of the people history needs,424428; most writers of, look only on the surface of affairs,426; their errors in consequence,420; reading of history compared in its effects with foreign travel,420427; writer of, a truly great, will exhibit the spirit of the age in miniature,427428; must possess an intimate knowledge of domestic history of nations,432Johnson's contempt for it,421
History of the Popes of Rome during the16th and17th centuries, review of Ranke's,299350
History of Greece, Clifford's, reviewed,172201
Hobbes, Thomas, his influence on the two Succeeding generations,409Malbranche's opinion of him,340
Hohenfriedberg, victory of,178
Hohenlohe, Prince,301
Holbach, Baron, his supper parties,348
Holderness, Earl of, his resignation of office,24
Holkar, origin of the House of,59
Holland, allusion to the rise of,87; governed with almost regal power by John de Witt,32; its apprehensions of the designs of France,35; its defensive alliance with England and Sweden,4044
Holland House, beautiful lines addressed to it by Tickell,423; its interesting associations, Addison's abode and death there,424412
Holland, Lord, review of his opinions as recorded in the journals of the House of Lords,412426; his family,414417419; his public life,419422; his philanthropy,6465422423; feelings with which his memory is cherished,423; his hospitality at Holland House,425; his winning manners and uprightness,425; his last lines,425426
Hollis, Mr., committed to prison by Charles I.,447; his impeachment,477
Hollwell, Mr., his presence of mind in the Black Hole,233; cruelty of the Nabob towards him,234
Home, John, patronage of by Bute,41
Homer, difference between his poetry and Milton's,213; one of the most "correct" poets,338Pope's translation of his description of a moonlight night,331; his descriptions of war.356358; his egotism,82; his oratorical power,141; his use of epithets,354; his description of Hector,363
Hooker, his faulty style,50
Hoole, specimen of his heroic couplets,334
Horace, Bentley's notes on,111; compared poems to paintings whose effect varies as the spectator changes his stand,141; his comparison of the imitators of Pindar,362; his philosophy,125
Hosein, son of Ali, festival to his memory,217; legend of his death,218
Hospitals, objects for which they are built,183
Hotspur, character of,326
Hough, Bishop,338
House of Commons (the), increase of its power,532536540; change in public feeling in respect to its privileges,537; its responsibility,531; commencement of the practice of buying votes in,168; corruption in, not necessary to the Tudors,168; increase of its influence after the Devolution,170; how to be kept in order,170
Huggins, Edward,318311
Hume, David, his characteristics as a historian,420; his description of the violence of parties before the Devolution,328
Humor, that of Addison compared with that of Swift and Voltaire,377378
Hungarians, their incursions into Lombardy,206
Hunt, Leigh, review of his edition of the Dramatic works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Karquhar,350-411; his merits and faults,350351; his qualifications as an editor,350; his appreciation of Shakspeare, Spenser, Dryden, and Addison,351
Huntingdon, Countess of,336
Huntingdon, William,285
Hutchinson, Mrs.,24
Hyde, Mr., his conduct in the House of Commons,463; voted for Strafford's attainder,471; at the head of the Constitutional Loyalists,474; see also Clarendon, Lord.
Hyder Ali, his origin and character,71; his invasion of the Carnatic, and triumphant success,71; his progress arrested by Sir Eyre Coote,74