HAR 
pe are. the. refult of the ftudies of his youth, and their 
ads us to lament that the labours of eee deprived 
us of the Hine rches of more mature age. publithed fix 
different treatifes between the years 1671 wait? 68%, ei al 
ne to anatomy and phyfiology. See Eloy. Did. 
Prinses, in ile Cn ae See Gostus Gronovii. 
HARDERWYCK, or Harpewicx, in Geography, a 
fea-port town of Holland, in the ftate of Guelderland, fitu- 
pat pel e Zuyder fea. It was taken by the French in 
1795 $ ve shiles NSE, of Utrecht. N. lat. 52°24" E. long. 
} fARDT, ALEX ANDER, in Biogrepiy who prope in 
France during the reigns of Hen > and is XIIL., 
was a moft copious dramatic ery and is faid. to have 
ed more than 600 pieces: but his feleét works were 
publithed i in five large volumes oftavo. Fertility of inven- 
tion was his great quality, and he is praifed for having 
of Cornell the true ftyle of dramatic poetry. Before the time 
orneille, he was oh tee if the Bate a atc ers trage- 
bi iging the nation to pay a great 
0 the fleet which brought him from Denmark. 
rcefter the 
ae rofe and pit to death two of the colleGors of 
‘The king, enraged at this oppofition, hag ven- 
ae the city, and ordered three of his en to 
ae) t government of Hardicanute was o 
dubstion ; he diéd as he was joining in the ecbtatil of the 
Muptials of a Danith lord. “He had fucceeded his father to 
PS throhé of Denmark in the year. 10355 to that hat of 
Pagtand ia ia apd and he died in 1041. vime. - 
ve ay » in Geography, a county of America, in Ken- 
Law? containing 3597 inhabitants, of whom 310 are 
HARDING, Tyom Catholic 
AS; in Biography, a zealous 
divine, was born at Beckington, i in “graphy, 3 2 about the year 
512. He was ‘educated in grammar léarning at Barnftaple 
New wichetter, and from the latter place he was fent to 
ge ey ae » Oxford: Hé took his’ degrees, ‘and was ap- 
Pointed Ww of his Collegé with great applaufe. He had 
jo eg high _Teputation fo 
or his {kill in the learned Ian- 
Tl re Ea of 
HAR - 
was rewarded e a beh? in the church, of bidipseece' 
tries. 
defender of his principles, and was regarded as one of thé 
ableft advocates of fhe Catholic caufe. He was author of 
many tea of which the titles are enumerated in Wood’s 
Athen. iog. 
HARD ION, Thiele, was born at Tours in 1686. He 
was chiefly educated among ri Jefuits at Paris. In 1711 
he was gees into the Academy of Infcriptions as a pupil, 
in 1713, ecame an affociat, in 28, a pen da 
and in 17 Pan he was eleéted into the French academy. 
now began a “ Hiftory of the Origin and Progrefs of Rhe- 
toric in Greece,’”” on ‘hich fubjeét he publifhed twelve dif- 
fertations, when he was nsw in 1748, to inftru€t the 
princeffes of Fra eography,:hiftory, &c. For theit 
ufe he publifhed coat extant pieces, eg in a puré 
and unaffeéted ftyle, and drawn from the moft authenti¢ 
urces. He was,appointed keeper of the pee library, and 
died in 1766, Fis principal work was an Univerfal Hittory, 
im 18 vols. 12m 
HARDMARK, in Geography, a town of Norway, in 
= diocefe of Chriftianfand ; 11 miles $.S.W.-of Chriftian- 
; “HA RDNESS, Durrirres, in Philofophy, that Sela in 
bodies whereby their parts cohere firmly together, fo a: 
refift the touch ; or it denotes that degree of Cobitanae chicks 
bodies prefent to out power that may be applied in order to 
feparate their 
In this fenfe, Saskeoke coincides with what, on | other 0c- 
bei we call frrmme/s, and fometimes /olidity ; in oppofition 
uidity. 
*° Prove iiGay 1 apenss a body is faid to be hard, when 
its parts mutually cobere, fo as not to yield inwards, or wd 
way to an externalimpulfe ; and therefore are not fubjee 
any motion in refpect of each other, without breakin ee 
In which fenfe hardnefs ftands oppofed 2 foftnefs, 
where the parts do readily on differe grees 
of the attraction both o aggregati 
tween the particles of the fame fibeaties, or of different 
fubftances, feem to form the whole gradation from the moft 
fitid to the moft folid body, whether fimple or compound. 
The fiates intermediate Between thefe extremes are exprefled 
ame 
ario oO i ee ; foft, glutinous, 
nt hard, pri rig - dy Be. uit as ss names 
sae mea 
but wot t 
concretions ; in the c1 
fulion, &c. a regular atrangement of parts is ge 
bferved ; the particles of bodies ipatifetting a ag A to 
Tt has likewife been obfe 
