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fame height as Peru to the South. Abbot, —Summit; afcent; 
towering eminence ; high place: 
From Alpine heights the father firft defcends; 
His daughter’s hulband in the plain attends. Dryden. 
Elevation of rank; ftation of dignity; great degree of 
excellence : 
Ten kings had from the Norman conqu’ror reign’d. 
When Ertgland to hpr greatelf height attain’d, 
Of pow’r, dominion, glory, wealth, and date. Daniel. 
The utmoft degree; full completion.—Defpair is the 
height of mad.nefs. Sherlock. 
Hide me from the face 
Of God, whom to behold was then my height 
Ofhappinefs! Milton. 
Utmoft exertion.—-Come on, fir; I fhall now put you to 
the height of your breeding. Shakefpeare. —State of excel¬ 
lence ; advance towards perfection.—Social duties are 
carried to greater heights, and enforced with ftronger mo¬ 
tives, by the principles of our religion. Addifon. 
HEIGHT of LAND, a range of mountains in North 
America, which extends from fouth-weft to the north- 
eaft, and Separates the diftridt of Maine from Lower Ca¬ 
nada, giving rife to many rivers which fall into St. Law¬ 
rence river, and others which fall into the Atlantic 
Ocean. The principal growth between the Height of 
Land and St. Francis river is beech, maple, birch, hem¬ 
lock, and fir, very few white pines, and no oak of any fort. 
Some of the rivers pafs through fine rich fertile vales. 
To HEI'GHTEN, v. a. To raife higher. To im¬ 
prove ; to meliorate. To aggravate.—Foreign dates 
nled their endeavours to heighten our confufions, and 
plunge us into all the evils of a civil war. Addifon. —To 
improve by decorations.—As in a room, contrived for 
ilate, the height of the roof ihould bear a proportion to 
the area ; fo in the heigktenings of poetry the ftrength 
and vehemence of figures ihould be fuited to the occa- 
fion. Dryden. 
HEIGHT'ENINGf f. The aft of raiding higher ; an 
improve rfient. 
HEI'LA, a town of Pruflian Pomerelia, at the mouth 
of the Viftula, on the Baltic: eight leagues north-north- 
eaft of Dantzic. Lat. 54. 53. N. Ion. 37. E. Ferro. 
FIEIL'BRONN, an imperial town of Germany, in 
Swabia, fituated on the Neckar, on the frontiers of the 
Palatinate, in a country celebrated for its vineyards. 
It is well built, and contains three churches, two con¬ 
vents, a fentinary, a library, and public baths. Its afleflT- 
ment in the matricula was 104 florins, and the tax to the 
chamber of Wetzlar iof rixdollars 71 kruitzers. It is 
twenty miles north of Stuttgart, and twenty-fix fouth- 
eaft of Heidelberg. Lat. 49. 40. N. Ion. 26. 52. E. Ferro. 
v HEIL'GELAND, an illand in the North Sea, belong¬ 
ing to Denmark, about nine miles in circumference, with 
a -light-houfe : about eleven leagues north-weft from 
the mouth of the Elbe. Lat. 54.22. N. Ion. 7. 57. E. 
Greenwich. 
HE I'Ll BERG, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Stiria : five miles north-eaft of Rein. 
HEFLIG-CREUTZ, a town of Germany, in the 
duchy of Stiria : eight miles fo,uth-eaft of Landfperg. 
HEI'LIGE-LINDE (Die), a town of Pruftia, in the 
province of Natangen: tix miles weft-fouth-weft of Raf- 
tenburg. 
HEI'LIGEN, a town of the duchy of Courland: forty- 
fix'miles fouth-fouth-weft of Goldingen. 
HEI'LIGENBEIL, a town of Pruftia,, in the pro¬ 
vince, of Natangen: twenty-eight miles fouth-eaft of 
Konigfberg. „ 
I1E I'LIGENBERG, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria : one mile north of Rotz. 
HEPLIGENBERG, a town of Germany, in Swabia, 
and capital of a county belonging to the prince of Furf- 
teriburg: twelve miles north-nonh-eaft of Conftance. 
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HEI'LIGENHAFEN, a fea-port town of Germany, 
in Lower Saxony, and duchy of Holftein, fituated near 
the Baltic, opjaofite the illand of Femern. The harbour 
is at fome diftance eaftward from the town. Lat. 54. 30. 
N. Ion. 28. 50. E. Ferro. 
HEI'LIGENRODE, a town of Germany, in Weft, 
phalia, and county of Hoyau fix miles fouth of Bremen. 
HEI'LIGENSTADT, a town of Germany, on the 
Lower Rhine, and territory of Eichfeld : fourteen miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Duderftadt, and forty-two north-weft 
of Erfurt. Lat. 51. 12. N. Ion. 27.40.-E. Ferro. 
HEI'LIGENGRAB, a town of Germany, in Upper 
Saxony, and Mark of Prignitz : fix miles eaft of Pritz- 
walk. 
HEI'LIGRITZ, a town and convent of Germany, in 
the archduchy of Auftria: eleven miles fouth-weft of' 
Vienna. 
HEILS'BERG, or Heils'perg, a town of Pruflsa, 
in the province of Ermeland : thirty-fix miles from 
Koniglberg. 
HEILS'BRUNN, a town of Germany, in Franconia, 
and principality of Anfpach,. with a medicinal fpring : 
ten miles eaft-north-eaft of Anfpach, and fixteen fouth- 
weft of Nuremberg. 
HEILTZ le MAU'RUP, a town of France, in the 
department of the Marne, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftridt of Vitry-le-Franyofs : three leagues and a 
half north-eaft of Vitry-le-Franyois, and fix and a half 
fouth of St. Manehould. 
HEIM'BACH, a town of Germany, on the Lower 
Rhine, and electorate of Mentz : eight miles north-weft 
of Bingen. 
HEINE'CIUS (John Gottlieb), an elegant juridical 
writer, born at Eifenberg, in 1681. He ftudied theology 
at the univerfity of Leipfic, and repaired to his brother 
at Goflar, where he exercifed himfelf in preaching ; but 
having a llrong attachment to jurifprudence, he entered 
upon that branch of ftudy at Halle, improving himfelf 
at the fame time in philofophy and the belles-lettres. 
In 1708 he became adjundt, and in 1713 profeflbr of phi¬ 
lofophy; in that univerfity; foon afterwhich-he obtained, 
the degree of dodlor of laws. In 1720 he was promoted^ 
to be public profeftor of law, with the title of eounfellor 
of ftate. In this fituation he remained three years, when, 
having become well known by his writings, he was in¬ 
vited by the dates of Weft Friefland to be public pro¬ 
feflbr of law at Franeker, to which he removed in 1724. 
At the end of three years he was recalled by his Pruflian 
majefty to Frankfort on the Oder ; to which place her 
removed in the autumn of 1727, and entered, on his office 
as profeflbr of moral philofophy. and logic. He now 
confidered.himfelf fettled for life; but,, in compliance 
with a requeft made by the king, he removed, though, 
much againft his will, to Halle, where he arrived in 1733, 
and died there in 1741, at the age of fixty. Heiriecius 
maybe clafled among thofe writers who poffefled the 
happy talent of enlivening and embellifliing the dry uni¬ 
formity of jurifprudence with-the flowers of polite lite¬ 
rature. His principal works are the following': 1. Syn¬ 
tagma Antiquitatum Jurifprudentiam illujlrantiumJecundum Or- 
dinem Injlitutionum JuJliniani digejlitm, Hula, 1718, 8vo. 
2. Fundamenta Sti/i cultioris, 1719, 8vo. 3. Elementa Juris ■ 
civilis, Jecfindum Ordinem Injlitutionum, Amjlelod. 1725, 8vo. 
4. Commentarius ad Legem Juliam & Papiam Poppaam, 1725, 
4to. 5, Elementa Juris civilis, Jecundum Ordinem PandeBa- 
rum, 1728, 8vo. 6. Elementa Philojophia rationalis & moralis, 
quibuspramijfa Hijioria Philqjophica, 1729, 8vo. 7. Hijlona 
Juris civilis Romani ac Gcrmanici, Hala, 1733, ,8vd. 8. Ele¬ 
menta Juris Naturee & Gentium , 1738, 8vo. of this there 
isan .Englifh tranflation by G. Turlibull, LI.. D. Lon¬ 
don, 1742, 8vo. 9. Jurifprudeniia Romana & Attica,\ ol. ni, 
Lugd. Bat. 1738^1741, folio. 10. Elementa Juris cambiahs. 
Am/}. 1743* 8vo. 
UEiNE'CIUS (John Michael), brother of the pre¬ 
ceding, born at Eifenberg, in 1674. He reqaived. the 
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