HOME RULE 



HOMILY 



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lii- verse: grateful nature SIM-MIS t<> give to liiiu 



sponta iiisly tlir pcrfeetitin l<i which great men 



like \ irgil and Milton had to ,-iii.iin only liy ellort 



intense ami sustained. In the high offloe of dia\\ 

 ing human character in its multitude of forms anil 

 colours In- seems to liiiM- no M-rioiiH rival except 

 Shakespeare. We call him an epic ioct. Inn In- is 

 instinct from Iteginuiiig toi-ml with tin- spirit of the 

 ilraina, while we liml in him the seeds anil rudiments 

 even uf its form. His function as a reciting minstrel 

 !y aiileil him herein. Again, he hod in his 

 language an instrument unrivalled for its facility, 

 suppleness, and versatility, for the large range of 

 what would in music lw called its register, so that it 

 emliraced every form and degree of human thought, 

 feeling, and emotion, and clothed them all, from 

 tin- lowest to the loftiest, from the slightest to the 

 most intense and concentrated, in the dress of 

 exactly appropriate style and language. His metre 

 also is a perfect vehicle of the language. If we 

 think the range of his knowledge limited, yet it 

 w:i- all that his country and his age possessed, and 

 it was very greatly more than has been supposed 

 1>\ readers that dwelt only on the surface. So long 

 as the lamp of civilisation shall not have ceased to 

 hum, the Iliail and the Oifi/wi/ must hold their 

 forward place among the brightest treasures of our 

 race. 



It is impossible to give any satisfactory account of the 

 Homeric bibliography, not only from its extent, but trom 

 the fragmentary manner in which for the most part the 

 subject has been handled, and through the rapid exten- 

 sion of the field by the importation of new knowledge 

 from sources apparently remote, which brings with it new 

 lights. The works of Blackwell and Wood, the latter of 

 which attained to celebrity, will show how slender was 

 the apparatus criticus of their time. Thirlwall, Grote, 

 and Mitford, who is now antiquated, contain good ideas, 

 but Grote condemns as pure myth or fable much that is 

 now gradually taking historic form, and vivisects the 

 If /'"I by resolving it into an Achilleis mid an Ilias. The 

 first English writers who indicated a study of the text at 

 once comprehensive and appreciative were Keble in his 

 Prtelectiunea Pottuxe, and Colonel Mure in his History of 

 the Literature of Greece. Mr Robert Brown's I'oseidon 

 is a good example of method in tracing the origin of the 

 < ilympian deities. Niigelsbach rendered an essential 

 service by dividing for the first time the Homerische from 

 the \nc.hkomerisckf Tkcoltxiie. Mure first, I think, taught 

 the need of large and careful collection of matter from 

 the text; and this process has been carried to its con- 

 summation by Dr Buchholz of Berlin, whose collection 

 of the reiilien or contents of the poems must have been 

 the work of at least twenty years. This, however, is a 

 m. ,i_'iv notice of a literature- which might of itself form 

 tlie study of a life. 



EDITIONS : Dindorf ; Nauck ; Bekker ; La Roche ; 

 Am. is; Monro (Iliad) ; Paley ( Iliad ) ; Leaf ( Iliad) ; 

 Merry ( Odyssey) ; Hayman ( Odysxey). DIALECTS, GRAM- 

 MAKS, DICTIONARIES, CONCORDANCES, &c. : Delbriick's 

 Xi/nt<irtisrhe Forschunym ; Monro's Homeric Grammar; 

 Diklerlein's, Autenrieth's, and Ebeling's Dictionaries; 

 Liddell and Scott, capital for Homer though not Homeric 

 ex profeao ; Prendergast's Concordance to the Hind ; 

 Dunbar's Concordance to the Odyssey and the Hymns ; 

 Seberus, Jndex. Homericus. HELP-BOOKS : Nagelsbach's 

 Ji:>nieri*cke Theoloyie ; Gladstone's >7u<//r.< on Ilium r, 

 Primer, and other Homeric works ; Jebb's In trot I action 

 t Homer ; Matthew Arnold's Lectures on Translation 

 of Homer. TRANSLATIONS INTO ENGLISH: Iliad ( verse ) 

 Chapman, Pope, (>>wpor, Lord Derby, Blackie, Wors- 

 ley and Conington, Way, Wright, Green; Iliad (prose) 

 Leaf, with Myers and Lang; Odyssey (verse) Pope, 

 Chapman, William Morris, Woreley, Lord Carnarvon, 

 Way, Schomberg, ' Avia;' Odyssey (prose ) Butcher and 

 Lang. For information on various matters connected 

 with Homer and the Homeric poems, see the articles in 

 this work on ACHILLES, HELEN, TROY, ULYSSES, &c. ; also 

 CKKKCE, VoL V. p. 390. 



Home Rule. See IRELAND. 



Homestead* By the Homestead Act of 1862 

 every citizen of the United States, native or natural- 



ised, who lias iea> h<-d the ;(- of t wentv one yeftni, 

 or is tin- head of a family, is entitled to claim one- 

 ijiiarter section < ll acres i of any of the public 

 lands that are surveyed and otherwise nn.-ippro 

 pi Sated. The sole condition attaching to uhat in 

 virtually a gift from the government to the settler 

 is live years re-ideu<->' upon the property, something 

 of course Ix-ing done to improve it. A title in then 

 granted by the general land oflice in Washington. 

 K\.-opt in the case of non-payment of the moderate 

 registration and other fees, the homestead i* al-<i- 

 lutely exempt from forced sale for delit ; the 

 object of this provision Iw-ing to guard the int. 

 of women and children. See PRE-EMPTION. 



Homestead, "n the Monongahela Hiver. in 

 Pennsylvania, 8 miles SE. of Pittsburgh by rail, in 

 the main seat of the great iron and steel works of 

 the Carnegie Company, employing 40,000 men. The 

 labour riots of isinj amounted almost to civil war. 

 1'op. of the borough ( 1SSO) .V.rJ ; i I'.HHl) l'_',.V>t. 



Homicide. See JTSTIKI \KI.K HOMICIDE, 

 MANSLAUGHTER, MURDER, INSANITY. 



Hoillildoil Hill, a battlefield in Northumber- 

 land, 1 mile NE. of Wooler. In 140*2 Earl Douglas 

 at the head of 10,000 Scots had ravaged England 

 as far as Newcastle, and was returning laden with 

 booty, when on 14th September he was intercepted 

 by an English army under Hotspur and the exiled 

 Earl of March and'Dunbar, so posted himself upon 

 Homildon (Humbleton) Hill. Hotspur was eagei 

 for a headlong charge, but, by March's advice, the 

 bowmen were set to play upon the Scots, who 

 ' stood long like deer in a park to be butchered,' 

 and, too late descending to come to close quarters, 

 sustained an irretrievable defeat. Douglas him- 

 self was wounded in five places, and was taken 

 prisoner, with four other earls, two barons, and 

 eighty knights. See HENRY IV. 



Homily (Gr. komiliu) primarily signifies a dis- 

 course held with one or more individuals, but in 

 ecclesiastical use it means a discourse held in the 

 church. The practice of explaining in a popular 

 form the lessons of Scripture read in the synagogues 

 had prevailed among the Jews, and appears to have 

 been adopted in the Christian churches from the 

 earliest times ; but we have no sample of this form 

 of composition earlier than the homilies of Origen 

 in the 3d century. The early Christian homily 

 may be described as a popular exposition of a por- 

 tion of Scripture, accompanied by moral reflections 

 and exhortations. It differs from the sermon (CJr. 

 logos, Lat. oratio) in following the order of the 

 scriptural text or narrative, instead of lieing thrown 

 into the form of a rhetorical discourse or a didactic 

 essay. The name homily is, however, very frequently 

 used almost as a synonym for sermon ; and Jlmm- 

 letics is that branch of theology which deals with the 

 rules for composing sermons and discourses of any 

 kind, sometimes called ' sacred rhetoric.' Ancient 

 collections of homilies or homiliuria are very numer- 

 ous ; the most notable being that compiled almut 

 782 by Paulus Diaconus, urder Charlemagne's 

 authority. 



The Homilies of the Church of England are a 

 collection of sermons, the first part of which was 

 published in 1547, the first year of the reign of 

 Edward VI., to be read in the churches, partly in 

 order to supply the defect of sermons, but partly, 

 also, to secure uniformity of doctrine, and to guard 

 against the heterodoxies, old and new, which at 

 that time threatened the unconsolidated church. 

 The second part was published in I."tti2. at the same 

 time with the Articles, under Elizabeth. The 35th 

 Article declares that ' the Book of Homilies doth 

 contain a godly and wholesome doctrine, and neces- 

 sary for these times.' The titles are enumerated 

 in the article, and are twenty -one in number. The 



