HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. 



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HKBER, Reginald, 1783-1826, Eng. prelate 

 and author. 



HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770- 

 1831, Ger. philosopher, metaphysician, and 

 pantheist. 



HEINE, Heinrich, 1799-1850, Ger. lyric 

 poet and author. 



HF.LOISE, 1101-64, Fr. nun; pupil and 

 friend of Abelard. 



HELVETIUS, Claude Adrian, 1715-71, Fr. 

 philosopher. 



HEMANS, Felicia Dorothea (rite Brown), 

 1794-1835, Eng. poetess. 



HENDRICKS, Thomas Andrews, 1819-86, 

 Am. statesman. 



HEXGIST, -488 Jutish chief; founded 



kingdom of Kent. 



HENNEPIN, Louis, 1640-1702 ?, Fr. Catho- 

 lic missionary and explorer of the Mississippi. 



HENRY I. (Beauclerc), 1068-1135, king of 

 England ; defeated his brother Robert and 

 usurped the throne; IT., 1133-89; first of the 

 Plantagenets ; issued constitutions of Claren- 

 don, which were, however, repealed about ten 

 years later ; conquered Ireland ; during his 

 reign Thomas a Becket was killed. 



HENRY VI., 1421-71 ; his reign was made 

 memorable by the War of the Roses. 



HENRY VII., 1456-1509 ; founded the Tudor 

 dynasty. 



HENRY VIII., 1491-1547 ; defeated the 

 French at Guinegaste and the Scotch at Flod- 

 den, 1513 ; made Thomas Wolsey prime min- 

 ister ; applied unsuccessfully to the pope for 

 a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his wife ; 

 favored the Reformation ; deposed Wolsey and 

 elevated Thomas Cranmer ; had himself de- 

 clared head of the church ; married Anne 

 Boleyn after the convocations of York and 

 Canterbury had declared his marriage with 

 Catherine invalid ; declared the English church 

 independent of the papal see and abolished 

 the monasteries ; had Anne Boleyn executed 

 in 1536, and married Jane Seymour the day 

 after the execution ; excommunicated by the 

 pope, 1538; his third wife having died in 

 1537, he married Anne of Cleves-in 1540 ; was 

 divorced from her the same year and married 

 Catherine Howard, who was executed on a 

 charge of adultery in 1542; married Catherine 

 Parr in 1543, she surviving him. 



HENRY, Patrick, 1736-99, Am. patriot and 

 orator ; member of the Continental Congress ; 

 governor of Virginia. 



HERACLITUS, fl. 500 B.C., Gr. philosopher.- 



HERBERT, George, 1593-1632, Br. poet and 

 divine. 



HERDER, Johann "Gottfried von, 1744-1803, 

 Ger. author. 



HEROD (the Great), B. C. 73-A. D. l,king 

 of Judea. 



HKRODOTUS, 484?-408 B. C., Gr. historian; 

 " the father of history ;" his work covers the 

 period of 240 years preceding his own time. 



HERSCHEL, Sir John Frederick William, 

 1790-1871, Eng. astronomer and philosopher. 



HERSCHEL, Sir William, 1738-1822, father 

 of preceding ; Ger. astronomer ; born in Han- 

 over, but moved to England at 21 ; discovered 

 Uranus. 



HESIOD, fl. 800 B. C., Gr. poet. 



HEZEKIAH, 750-698 B. C., king of Judah. 



HICKS, Elias, 1748-1830, Am. Quaker 

 preacher. 



HILDRETH, Richard, 1807-65, Am. journal- 

 ist and historian. 



HILL, Sir Rowland, 1795-1879, authorof the 

 Eng. penny post system. 



. HIPPOCRATES, 460-360? B. C., Gr. physi- 

 cian ; " the father of medicine"; many dis- 

 eases still bear the names he gave them. 



HOBBES, Thomas, 1588-1679, Eng. philos- 

 opher. 



HOE, Richard March, 1812-87, Am. inven- 

 tor of printing presses. 



HOFER, Andreas, 1767-1810, Tyrolese pa- 

 triot ; executed. 



HOGARTH, William, 1697-1764, Eng. paint- 

 er and engraver. 



HOLBEIN, Hans (the Younger), 1497-1554, 

 Ger. painter. 



HOLLAND, Josiah Gilbert, 1819-81, Am. 

 author. 



HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, 1809-94, Am. 

 physician, author, and poet. 



HOMER, fl. 1000 B. C., Gr. poet ; " the father 

 of poets ' ' ; about his life scarcely anything is 

 known ; supposed to have been blind and poor ; 

 some maintain that the " Iliad" 'and " Odys- 

 sey," the two great epics ascribed to him, are 

 collections of songs from various poets, and 

 that Homer never existed. 



HOPKINSON, Francis, 1738-91, Am. author; 

 signed the Declaration of Independence. 



HORACE (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), 65-8 

 B. C., Latin poet. 



HOUSTON, Sam, 1793-1863. Am. general 

 and statesman ; governor of Tennessee, 1827- 

 9 ; passed a number of years with the Chero- 

 kee Indians ; commander-in-chief of the Texan 

 forces in revolt against Mexico, and defeated 

 and captured Santa Ana in 1836 ; elected 

 president of Texas same year, and re-elected 

 1841 ; elected senator from Texas after its ad- 

 mission to the Union, in 1845, and governoi' 

 in 1859. 



HOWE, Elias, 181.9-67, Am. inventor. 



HUDSON, Henry (or Hendrik), . . . .-1611, 

 Eng. navigator. 



