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de Buren, for the Charles, V. and in 1572, the comte de 
Bergh took pofTeflion of it for the confederates. In 
1672, the French made themfelves mailers of it, and 
abandoned it two years after ; but not before they had 
deltroyed the fortifications. The church of St. Martin 
is much admired for its tower and architecture ; the 
Zuyder See has made confiderable encroachments at 
different times, which obliges them to keep the town 
defended with dykes : twenty-five miles north-eaft of 
Utrecht, and nineteen weft of Deventer. Lat. 52.22. N. 
Ion. 23. 5. E. Ferro. 
HAR'DI (Alexander), a French poet, born at Paris 
in the reign of Henry IV. and died about 1630. He was 
the moil copious dramatic writer France ever produced ; 
the number of his pieces being eftimated at fix hundred. 
Fertility of invention, rather than literary acumen, was 
his great quality; and he is praifed for having adopted the 
true rtyle of dramatic poetry, and written in heroic verfe, 
though rude and unpolilhed. Before the time of Cor¬ 
neille, he was accounted the principal French tragedian. 
His feleft works are publilhed in 5 vols. 8vo. 
HARDICANU'TE, king of England. See the article 
England, vol. vi. p. 555. 
HAR'DIED, adj. Emboldened; encouraged. Obfolete. 
HAR'DIHEAD, or Har'dihood,/. Stoutnefs; bra¬ 
very. Obfolete. 
En flam’d with fury and fierce hardyhead , 
He leem’d in heart to harbour thoughts unkind, 
And nourifh bloody vengeance in his bitter mind. Spenfer. 
Boldly aflault the necromancer’s hall, 
Where if he be, with dauntlefs hardihood. Milton. 
HAR'DIMENT, f. [from hardi, hardiment, adv. Fr.] 
Courage ; ftoutnefs; bravery. Not in vfe. —Zeal was the 
fpring whence flowed her hardiment. Fairfax. 
On the gentle Severn’s fedgy bank, 
In fingle oppofition, hand to hand, 
He did confound the beft part of an hour 
In changing hardiment with great Glendower. Shakefpeare. 
HARDIME'NT, adj. [French.] In mufic books, with 
life and fpirit. 
HAR'DIN, a county of the American States, in Ken¬ 
tucky, bounded north-eaft by Walhington and Lincoln, 
north-weft and weft by Nelfon and Greene, and fouth-eaft 
by Logan, counties. 
HAR'DINESS,/. [ hardieffe, Fr. from hardy. ] Hard- 
Ihip ; fatigue.—They are valiant and hardy ; great en- 
durers of cold, hunger, and all hardinefs. Spenfer. —Stout- 
hefs ; courage; bravery : 
If we, with thrice fuch powers left at home, 
Cannot defend our own doors from the dog. 
Let us be worried; and our nation lofe 
The name of hardinefs and policy. Shakefpeare. 
Effrontery; confidence. 
HAR'DING (Thomas), a learned Englifh catholic 
divine, born at Beckington in Devonlhire, in 1512. He 
was educated in grammar learning at Winchefter, whence 
he was fent to New-college, Oxford. In 1536 he was 
cholen fellow of his college, and in 1542 was admitted 
to the degree of mailer of arts. He acquired fo high a 
reputation for his Ikill in the learned languages, that 
Henry VIII. appointed him profeffor of Hebrew in the 
univerfity ; foon after which he became chaplain to 
Henry Grey, marquis of Dorchefter, afterwards duke of 
Suffolk. During the reign of Edward VI. he profeffed 
himfelf a proteftant, and feemed zealous for the refor¬ 
mation. When, however, queen Mary had afeended the 
throne, and begun to prepare meafures for reftoring the 
Romifh religion, he fpeedily renounced his proteftant- 
ifm, and returned into the bofom of the catholic church. 
For his conformity he was rewarded with a prebend in 
the church of Winchefter; foon after which he pro¬ 
ceeded doctor of divinity at Oxford. Some time after 
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the acceflion of queen Elizabeth, forefeeing the altera¬ 
tion that was about to take place in religion, he refigned 
his prebend and fellowfliip, withdrew into the Low'- 
countries, and took up his relidence at Louvain. He 
died in that city in 1572, when fixty years of age. He 
was the author of fome very interefting ecclefiaftical 
trafts, written in a controverfy with bifliop Jewel. 
HAR'DINGHEN, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Straits of Calais, and .chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftrift of Boulogne: three leagues north- 
eaft of Boulogne. 
HAR'DION (James), a French hiftorian, born at 
Tours, in 1686. He ftudied at the Jefuits’ college in 
that city, and, removing to Paris in 1704, attended the 
Greek courfe at the College-royal, and devoted himfelf 
to a literary life. He was admitted, in 1711, into the 
Arademy of Iiifcriptions as a pupil, became an affociate 
in 1713, and a penfionary in 1728. In 1730, he was elec¬ 
ted into the French Academy. In the following year 
he began a Hiftory of the Origin and Progrefs of Rhe¬ 
toric in Greece, on which fubjedt he had publilhed 
twelve dillerfations, when he was appointed, in 1748, 
preceptor to the princeffes of France. For their ufe he 
compofed his Hifoire Poetique , with a treatife On French 
Poetry and Rhetoric, 3 vols. 121110. and an Univerfal 
Hiftory, 18 vols. 121110. to which M. Linguet added two 
more. He had the office of keeper of the royal library, 
and died in 1766. He wrote feveral papers in the Me¬ 
moirs of the Academy of Iiifcriptions. 
HARDISLE'BEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and principality of Weimar: two 
miles north of Buttftadt. 
HARD'LY, adv. With difficulty; not eafily.—God 
hath delivered a law as Iharp as the two-edged fword, 
piercing the very clofeft and moll unfearchable corners 
of the heart, which the law of nature can hardly, human 
laws by no means, poflibly reach unto. Hooker. 
Recov’ring hardly what he loft before, 
His right endears it much, his purchafe more. Dryden. 
Scarcely; fcant; not lightly; with no likelihood.—The 
filh that once was caught, new bait will hardly bite. Spenf. 
They are worn, lord conful, fo 
That we fhall hardlyJin our ages fee 
Their banners wave again. Shakefpeare. 
Almoft not ; barely : 
The wand’ring breath was on the wing to part. 
Weak was the pulfe, and hardly heav’d the heart. Dryden » 
Grudgingly; as an injury : 
If I unwittingly 
Have aught committed that is hardly borne 
By any in this prefence, I defire 
To reconcile me. Shakefpeare. 
Severely; unfavourably.—If there are fome reafons in¬ 
ducing you to think hardly of our laws, are thofe reafons 
demonftrative, are they neceffary, or mere pofiibilities 
only? Hooker. —Rigoroufly ; oppreflively.—Many men 
believed that he was hardly dealt with. Clarendon. —Un. 
welcomely; harlhly.— ; Such information comes very hardly 
and harlhly to a grown man; and, however foftened, 
goes but ill down. Locke. —Not foftly; not tenderly; not 
delicately: 
Heav’n was her canopy; bare earth her bed, 
So hardly lodg’d. Dryden. 
IIARD'MARK, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of 
Chriftianfand : eleven miles fouth-fouth-weft of Chrif- 
tianfand. 
PIARD'NESS, f. Durity ; power of refiftance in bo¬ 
dies. ■^-Hardnefs is a firm cohefion of the parts of matter 
that make up maffes of a fenfible bulk, fo that the 
whole does not eafily change its figure. Locke. —From the 
various combinations of tliefe corpufcles happen all the 
varieties 
