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of fociety. He was the principal infti tutor of the Marine 
Society, for the purpofe of training friendlefs and, de¬ 
fected boys to tire fervice of the navy; and lie attended, 
in other refpedts, to the great national objedt of manning 
the Britifh fleet. The Magdalen charity, for the refor¬ 
mation of unfortunate females, firft planned by Mr. 
Dingley, was much indebted to his adfivity for its efta- 
bli fitment and fuccefs. Scarcely any thing occurred of 
a nature to excite the humane feelings, which did not 
call forth his benevolent efforts. His fellow-citizens 
entertained fuch a fenfe of his merits, that, in lord Bute’s 
adminiftration, a deputation of the principal merchants 
of London waited upon him, with a requeft that fome 
public favour might be conferred on a man. who. had 
done fo much fervice to the community at the ex pence 
of his private fortune. Mr, Hanway was in confequence 
made.a commiftioner of the navy, which, poll he held 
above twenty years; and when he refigned it, the fa- 
lary was continued to him for the refidue of his life. 
He died in 178,6, and a monument was raifed to his me¬ 
mory by fubicrip.tion. He was a man of feveral pecu¬ 
liarities in drefs and manners ; but eminently pious, up¬ 
right, and fincere. His knowledge was exteiifive; his 
writings were all ufeful, though they do not rank high 
as elegant literary compofitions. 
HAN'WAY’s POINT, a cape on the north coaft of 
Egmontlfland. Lat. 10.42.S. Ion,164.22.E. Greenwich. 
HAP, f. [ ankap , in Welflt, is misfortune.] Chance; 
fortune : 
Whether art it were, or heedlefs hap. 
As through the flow’ring foreft rafh lhe fled, 
In her rude hairs fweet flowers themfelves did lap, 
And nourilhing freflt leaves and blofloms did enwrap. 
Spenfer. 
That which happens by chance or fortune.—A fox had 
the hap to fall into the hands of a lion. VEf range. 
Curft be good haps , and curft be they that build 
Their hopes on haps, and do not make defpair 
For all thefe certain blows the fureft fliield. Sidney. 
Accident; cafual event; misfort.une : 
Nor feared file among the bands to ftray 
Of armed men ; for often had file feen 
The tragic end of many a bloody fray : 
Her life had full of haps and hazards been. Fairfax . 
To HAP, v. n. To happen ; to have the cafual confe¬ 
quence.—It will be too late to gather fhips or foldiers, 
which may need to be prefently employed, and whofe 
want may kap to hazard a kingdom. Clarendon. —To come 
by chance ; to befall cafually.—In deftruftions by de¬ 
luge the remnant which hap to be referved are ignorant 
people. Bacon. 
Run you. to the citadel. 
And tell my lords.and .lady what hath hap'd. Shahefpeare. 
HAP-HAZ'ARD, f. Chance; accident: perhaps ori¬ 
ginally hap-hazardc. —We take our principles at hap-ha- 
zard upon truft, and then believe a whole fyftem, upon 
a prefumption that they are true. Locke. 
To HAP, or Happe, v. a. '\_happer, Fr. to catch.] 
A term in law; as, to hap the rent, is where partition 
being made between two parceners, and more land al¬ 
lowed to one thaathe other, fhe. that has rnoft of the 
land charges it to the other, and fhe haps. the rent, where¬ 
on alfife is brought, &c. This word is ufed by Little¬ 
ton, where a perfon happetk the poffeflion of a deed poll. 
Lit. 8. 
HAPAE'E, a clufter of four ifiands among thofe 
called the Friendly Ifiands , in the South-Pacific Ocean : 
they are fertile and well cultivated, and the inhabitants 
hofpitable. They lie about lat. 19. 39, to 19. 53. S. Ion. 
185. 36. to 185. 45. E. Greenwich. 
HAPALAN'TFIUS, f. in botany. See Callisia. 
HAPH'ARAIM, a city of Palcftine, belonging to the 
HAP 
tribe of Iflachar, fituated upon the boundary of that 
province. JoJh. xix. 19. 
HAPIRCAN', a town of Chinefe Tartary, in the 
country of Hami: fifteen miles fouth-eaft of Houpatar 
Paitchang. 
HAPIRCAN' POULAC', a town of Afia, in Thibet: 
twenty-five miles weft-north-weft of Orto. 
HAP'LESS, ad). Unhappy; unfortunate; lucklefs; 
unlucky: 
Haplefs jEgeon, whom the fates have mark’d 
To bear th’ extremity of dire mifliap ! Shahefpeare. 
HAP'LINCOURT, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Straits of Calais, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftrift of Bapaume : one league and a quar¬ 
ter eaft of Bapaume. 
HAP'LY, adv. Perhaps; peradventure; it may be.— 
Let us fee what conclufions may be found for in ft ruc¬ 
tion of any other ftate, that may haply labour under the 
like circumftances. Swift. —By chance ; by accident: 
Leviathan, which God of all his works 
Created hugeft, that fwim the ocean ftream; 
Him haply flumb’ring on the Norway foam, 
The pilot of fome fmall night-founder’d Ikiff 
Deeming fome ifland oft, as feamen tell, 
With fixed ancjror in his lcaly rind, 
Moors by his fide. Milton. 
To HAP'PEN, v. n. To fall out ; to chance to come 
to pafs.—Bring forth your ftrong reafons, and fhew us 
what fhall happen. Ifaiah. —To light; to fall by chance. 
—I have happened on fome other accounts relating to 
mortalities. Graunt. 
FIAP'PERLET, or Hap'parlet,/. A fort of coarfe 
coverlet for a bed. 
HAP'PILY, adv. Fortunately; luckily; fuccefsfully. 
—Neither is it fo trivial, an undertaking to make a.tra¬ 
gedy end happily \ for’tis more difficult to fave than 
kill. Dryden. 
Preferr’d by conqueft, happily o’erthrown, 
Falling they rife to be with us made one. Waller. 
Addrefsfully ; gracefully; without labour: 
Form’d by thy converfe, happily to fteer 
From grave to gay, from lively to fevere. Pope. 
In a ftate of felicity ; as, he lives happily. By chance; 
peradventure. In this fenfe happily is written erroneoufly 
for haply. —One thing more I fhall wifh you to defire of 
them, who happily may perufe thefe two treatifes. Digby. > 
HAP'PINESS, f. Felicity; ftate in which the defires 
are fatisfied.— Happinefs is that eftate whereby we attain, 
fo far as poflibly-may be attained, the full pofleflion of 
that which fimply in itfelf is to be defired, and contain- 
eth in it after an eminent fort the contentation of our 
•defires, the higheft degree of all our perfection. Hooker. 
—The various and. contrary choices that men make in 
the world,.argue that the fame thing is not good to every 
man alike : this variety of purluifs thews, that every one 
does not place his happinefs in the fame thing. Locke. 
Oh ! happinefs oi fweet retir’d content, 
To be at once fecure, and innocent. Denham. 
Good luck; good fortune. Fortuitous elegance ; un- 
ftudied grace.—Certain graces and happinejjes , peculiar 
to every language, give life and energy to the words. 
Denham. 
Some beauties yet; no precepts can declare; 
For there’s a happinefs as well .as care.— 
Form’d by fome rule that guides, but not conftrains, . 
And finifh’d. more through happinefs than pains. Pope. 
HAP'PY, adj. [from hap-, as lucky for luck.] In a ftate 
of felicity ; in a ftate where the dfefire is fatisfied.— 
Though the.preferice of imaginary good cannot make us 
happy 7 the abfence of it may make us miferable, Addifon. 
