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the Hill, is a pleafant village in Effex, but bad formerly a 
market on Saturday, and a fair on the 29th of June. It 
lies in the direCt road from Chelmsford through Billericay 
to Tilbury-fort, and the other road from London to South 
End: twenty-fix miles from London, and two miles from 
thofe hills, lb much noted for the fine profpects both by 
lea and land, called Laindon-hil/s. 
HORNE, (George), a learned prelate of the church of 
England, born at Otham, in Blent, in 1730. His father, 
who was reCtor of Otham, fent him early to Maidftone 
fchool, where he fucceeded in obtaining a Maidftone 
fcholarlhip in Univerfity-college, Oxford,, to which lemi- 
nary he removed at only fifteen years of age. In 1749, 
he was admitted to the degree of B. A. and in the follow¬ 
ing year, upon a vacancy taking place in a Kentilh fel- 
lowlhip at Magdalen college, he was eleCted to fill it. At 
an early period of life, it is remarkable that this young 
lludent became deeply tinCtured with the Hutchinfonian 
plfilofophy; for particulars of which fee the article Hut¬ 
chinson, in this volume. After having been drawn into 
a long and injudicious controverfy in lupport of this un- 
ftable philofophy, Mr. Horne faw his error, and turned 
from it. In 1752, he was admitted to the degree of M. A. 
and in 1753, he took orders, and foon obtained high re¬ 
putation as a preacher, on account of the excellence of 
his compofitions, and the gracefulnefs of his elocution. 
In 1751, he was chofen junior proCtor of the univerfity : 
an office which he adorned by attempering mildnefs with 
authority. At the expiration of his proCtorlhip, he was 
admitted to the degree of bachelor of divinity, and, in 
1764, to that of doCtor of divinity. On the death of Dr. 
Jenner, prefident of Magdalen college, he was eleCted to 
iucceed him, in January 1768. Soon after Dr. Horne 
had obtained this preferment, he entered into the marriage 
Hate. In 1769, he publilhed, for the improvement of the 
younger members of his college, Confiderations on the 
Life and Death of St. John the Baptift, 8vo. which were 
the fubfiance of feveral ferraons preached by him before 
the univerfity, in Magdalen chapel, on St. John Baptift’s 
day. In 1771, he was appointed chaplain in ordinary to 
his majefty, and officiated in that capacity for ten years. 
In 1772, when a number of the clergy were about to 
apply to parliament for relief in the matter of fubfcription 
to the liturgy and the thirty-nine articles of the church 
of England, Dr. Horne exerted his abilities to defeat 
their objeCt, by publilhing Confiderations on the projected 
Reformation of the Church of England ; in a Letter to 
Lord North. From this time, his attention appears to 
have been chiefly employed in finiffiing his greatefi work, 
which had been in hand nearly twenty years; this was 
his Commentary on the Book of Plalms : which made its 
appearance in 1776, 2 vois. 4to. This is certainly a work 
which difplays great learning, and much fervent piety ; 
and will ever be perufed, by devout Chriftians, with ad¬ 
vantage and fatis faCtion. In the fame year Dr. Horne 
was appointed vice-chancellor of the univerfity of Ox¬ 
ford, in which ftation he continued till October 17 80. In 
3779, he publilhed Difcourfes on feveral Subjects and Oc¬ 
casions, in 2 vols. 8vo. which have been highly approved. 
Dr. Horne’s vice-chancellorlhip introduced him to the 
acquaintance of lord North, then chancellor of the uni- 
verfity; and, owing to his recommendation, he was pro¬ 
moted to the deanery of Canterbury in 1781. He now 
divided his time between Oxford and Canterbury; and in 
the latter fituation was highly venerated by the chapter, 
and held in the greatefi refpeCt by the citizens, whom he 
frequently gratified by preaching in the cathedral and 
metropohtical church. In 1784, he p-ubliflied Letters on 
Infidelity, nmo. The books againft which thele were 
levelled are, An Apology for the Life and-Writings of 
David Hume, efq. by Adam Smith, LL.D. Hume’s Dia¬ 
logues on Natural Religion; An Eflay on Suicide, by the 
lame writer; and a treatife entitled Doubts of the Infi¬ 
dels, or, Queries relative to fcriptural Inconfiftences, &c. 
’ In May 1790, upon the traiillation of Dr. Bagot to. the 
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fee of St. Afiiph, Dr. Horne was advanced to the epifcopal 
dignity, by being nominated fucceil’or to that prelate at 
Norwich ; foon after which he religned hrs prefidentlhip 
of Magdalen college. His laft literary performances were,. 
Obfervations on the Cafe of the Proteftant Difienters, with 
Reference to the Corporation and Teft Adds, 1790, 8vo. 
and A Charge intended to have been delivered to the 
Clergy of the Diocefe of Norwich, at his firft vifitation, 
1791, 4to. At the'time of Dr. Horne’s advancement to 
the fee of Norwich, his health, naturally delicate, was but 
in a very precarious ftate ; and after he had taken pofl’ef- 
fion of the bifliopric, his friends faw with forrow that he 
declined very rapidly. He made three vifits to Bath, 
where he died on the 17th of January-1792, in the fixty- 
fecond year of his age. Bifliop Horne was'diftingufjhed 
by a confiderable fhare of various learning, which he con- 
fecrated to the caufe of truth, and the beft interefis of 
mankind. His piety was fincere and ardent, and his life 
exemplarily virtuous. The gcodnefs and fimplicity of his 
heart were unafFeCted ; and he was a mod agreeable, as 
well as inftructive, companion. In his intercourfe with 
his own family, .while the treafures of his mind- afforded 
them fome daiiy opportunities of improvement, the fweet- 
nefs of his temper, and his great good humour, became a 
perennial fountain of entertainment to them. He had the 
rare and happy talent of difarming all the little vexatious 
incidents of life of their power to meleft, by giving fome 
unexpected turn to them. And occurrences of a more 
lerious nature, even fome of a frightful afpect, were treated 
by him with the like eafe and pleafantiy; thus removing 
every anxiety, and every caufe of alarm, from thofe about 
him. To molt of the public charities which immortalize the 
generality of this nation, he was a liberal fubfcriber; and 
his private charities alfo were large and extenfive. He 
laid up nothing from his preferments in the church ; and, 
if he was no lofer at the end of the year, he was perfectly 
fatisfied. Befides the articles already enumerated, he was 
the author of Difcourfes on feveral Subjects and Occa- 
fions, Vols. III. and IV. publilhed after his death in 1794, 
8vo. and feveral fingle Sermons, which were collected into 
1 vol. Svo. in 1793. 
Dr. Horne was one of thofe divines who received with 
aiarm Dr. Kennicott’s propolals for collating the text of 
the Hebrew Bible with fucli manuferipts as could be 
found, for the purpofe of correcting the text, and pre¬ 
paring it for a new tranllation into the Englifh language. 
He entertained the groundlels apprehenfion, that luch a 
meafure would prove the means of letting in an inundation 
of licentious criticiim upon the facred text. Under the 
influence of this alarm, which experience has lhown to 
have been without foundation, in the year 1760, he pub? 
lilhed A View of Mr. Kennicott’s Method of correcting 
the Hebrew Text, with three Queries formed thereon, and 
humbly fubmitted to the Confideration of the learned and 
Chrifiian World, 8vo. But, though the acquaintance be¬ 
tween thefe two controverfiaiifts commenced in lioftiiity, it 
deferves to be recorded, to the honour of both thofe gen¬ 
tlemen, that they afterwards contracted for each other an 
intimate friendlhip, which lafted to the end of their lives. 
HORNE (John Van), a very able Dutch anatomift, na¬ 
tive of Amlterdam. He was a difciple of Henry Regius, 
profelfor at Utrecht; and he alfo ftudiedat Leyden, and 
in Italy. He became profelfor of anatomy and furgery.in 
the univerfity of Leyden, where he died about the year 
1668. He was a man of great ikill in anatomy, in which 
fcience he wrote the following works : 1. .Epijlola de Ane.it- 
ryfmate, printed with T. Bartholine’s Hijloria Anatom. Dif- 
fcEli. Aneuryfmatis, Panorrn. 1644. 2. Exercitatio Anatomica, 
I. & II. 1649. 3. Novus Duchis Ckyliferus , nunc primum de - 
lineatus, 1652 ; though Pecqrjet is confidered as the difeb- 
verer of the thoracic duct, yet Van Horne made great ad 
ditions to the knowledge of the courfie of the chyle, and 
the ftruCture of the laCteal veflels... 4. Dc DuBibus Saliva- 
Hints, Difp. III. 1656-57. 5. Microcojmus, fiu Manuduflio ad 
Hijloriam .Cerfor. Humani, 1660. 6. Microtec/ma, f. MeUiodka 
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