HUN 
HUN 
cle of bis waggons; his defperate courage urged him to 
invade the ealtern empire ; he fell in battle, and his head, 
ignominioufly expofed in the Hippodrome, exhibited a 
grateful fpettacle to the people of Conftantinople. Attila 
had fondly or fuperftitioully believed that Irnac, the 
• youngeft of his Tons, was deltined to perpetuate the glo¬ 
ries of his race. The character of that prince, who at¬ 
tempted to moderate the rallinefs of his brother Dengilich, 
was more fuitable to the declining condition of the Huns ; 
and Irnac, with his i'ubjeft hords, retired into the heart of 
Teller Scythia. Thus the overgrown and unwieldy empire 
of Attila melted away like an evening lhadow, after which 
Ills fucceffors eftablilhed the firft dynafty of kings in Hun¬ 
gary, and embraced the Chriftian religion, as noticed un¬ 
der that article. 
HUNS'DEN, [of hunte, Sax. a hound, and Sure, a 
laill, q. d. the hounds town, becaufe formerly a place of 
great refort for hunting.] A town in Herefordfhire. 
To HUNT, v. a. [huntian, Sax. from huno, a dog.] 
To chafe wild animals.—Wilt thou hunt the prey for the 
lion, or fill the appetite of the young lions ? Job. xxxviii. 
39.—We Ihould Angle every criminal out of the herd, and 
hunt him down, however formidable and overgrown ; and, 
on the contrary, Ihelter and defend virtue. Addifon. —To 
purfue ; to follow dole.—Evil lliall hunt the violent man 
to overthrow, him. Pf. cxl.—To fearch for.—Not certainly 
affirming any thing, but by conferring of times and monu¬ 
ments, I do hunt out a probability. Spenfcr'. —To diredt or 
manage hounds in the chace.—He hunts a pack of dogs 
better than any, and is famous for finding hares. Addifon. 
To HUNT, v. n. To follow the chafe.—Efau went to 
the field to hunt for venifon. Gen. xxvii. 5.—To purfue or 
fearch.—Very much of kin to this is the hunting after argu¬ 
ments to make good one fide of a queftion, and wholly to 
neglect and refufe thofe which favour the other fide. Locke. 
HUNT,./! A pack of hounds: 
The common hunt, though from their rage reftrain’d 
By fov’reign power, her company dildain’d ; 
Grinn’d as they pafs’d. • Dryden. 
A chace: 
The hunt is up, the morn is bright and gray; 
The fields are fragrant, and the woods are green. Shahefp. 
Purfuit: 
I’ve heard myfelf proclaim’d; 
And by the happy hollow- of a tree 
Efcap’d the hunt. Shakefpeare. 
HUNT (Jeremiah), a learned Englilh nonconformift 
divine, born at London in 1678. After being inftruded 
in grammar-learning, he was fent to Edinburgh, and from 
thence removed to the univerfity of Leyden, where he 
ftudied ecclefiaftical hiftory and facred geography under 
the celebrated Frederic Spanheim ; and attended the lec¬ 
tures of profeffor Perizonius upon univerfal hiftory. He 
preached occafionally while he was in Holland to a finall 
Englilh congregation at Amfterdam. Upon his return to 
England, he officiated for three years as alliftant preacher 
to a congregation at Tunftead, near Norwich, where he w-as 
greatly efteemed. He afterwards removed to London ; 
where, in 1707, he was chofen paftor of the congregation 
of Proteftant Diifenters at Pinner’s-hall; and, he dif- 
. charged the duties of that office, with great fidelity and 
reputation, for more than feven-and-thirty years. In 
1729, the univerfity of Edinburgh, out of regard to his 
diftihguiffied merit, complimented him with the diploma, 
of doiftor of divinity. He died in 1744, in the fixty-fe- 
venth year of his age. Excepting feveral fingle fermons, 
the only publication which he committed to the prefs, 
was a valuable Elfay towards explaining the Hiftory and . 
Revelations of Scripture in the feveral Periods; to 
which is annexed a Dillertation on the Fall of Man; 8vo. 
After his death, four volumes of his Sermons, with fome 
tracts, in octavo, were publilhed in 1748. 
H.UN'TEBEP,G, a town of Germany, in Weftphalia, 
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and bilhopric of Ofnabruck, fityated on the Hunte : eigh¬ 
teen miles north-eaft of Vorden. 
HUN'TER, f. One who chafes animals for paftime or 
food: 
Bold Nimrod firft the favage chafe began ; 
A mighty hunter, and his game was man. Pope. 
A dog that feents game or beafts of prey; 
Of dogs, the valu’d file 
Diftinguilhes the fwift, the flow, the fubtle, 
The houfekeeper, the hunter. Shakefpeare, 
A horfe trained for the amufement of the chace.—For the 
qualifications of a good hunter, fee the article Horse, 
p. 383 of this volume. 
HUN'TER (Henry), an eminent divine of the church 
of Scotland, born at Culrofs in the year 1741. When 
he was thirteen years, of age, he was lent to the univer¬ 
fity of Edinburgh. In 1764 he w-as licenced to preach 
by the Prelbytery of Dumferline, having palled the feve-, 
ral trials before them with applaufe. Soon after this he 
began to preach in public, and acquired confiderable ce¬ 
lebrity by the popularity of his pulpit-talents, while he' 
was courted by perfons of all ranks as a fociable and en¬ 
tertaining companion. After having refufed other offers 
of lettlement, he accepted of an unanimous invitation to 
become minifter of South Leith, and was ordained in 
1766. When he had refided in this fituatiou about three 
years, he made a vifit to London, where he received an 
invitation to the paftoral office an the Scotch church in 
Swallow-ftreet, which he declined. In 1771, however, he 
was induced to remove to London, by an unanimous in¬ 
vitation to the paftoral office in the Scotch church at 
London-WalL About this time, he was admitted to the 
degree of doftor of divinity, by the univerfity of Edin¬ 
burgh. In 1783 he fent into the world the firft volume 
of his.Sacred Biography, which was afterw-ards extended 
to the number of feven volumes, and is the raoft impor¬ 
tant of his performances. It confifts of a feries of dif- 
courfes on the lives of the moll eminent charafters of the. 
Old and New Teftament, which met with a favourable re¬ 
ception from the public, both on account of the novelty 
of their plan, the animated fentiments and reflections 
which occur in them, and the popular and fpirited ftyle 
in which they are. written. 
Soon after the publication of the firft two or three vo¬ 
lumes of this work, Dr. Hunter accidentally met with a 
French edition of Lavater’s Effays on Phyliognomy, and 
foon determined to tranflate the work into Englilh, In or¬ 
der to render his tranflation as complete as poffible, he paid 
a vifit to Swifferland in 1787, for the foie purpofe of pro¬ 
curing information from Lavater himfelf. In this vifit he was 
not received w-ith the cordiality which he expefted. Lava¬ 
ter coniidered that the Englilh tranflation would be likely 
to prove injurious to the fale of a French edition in which 
he w-as concerned. It is laid, however, that Dr. Hunter 
procured at length fome information, which greatly con¬ 
duced to the improvement of the Englilh verfion. In 
1789 the firft number of this work was publilhed ; and the 
whole in point of typography, and more particularly the 
illultrative engravings, is entitled to a diftinguilhed rank 
in every library. In 1790, he was elected fecretary to the- 
correfponding board of the Society for propagating- Chrifi- 
tian Knowledge in the Highlands and Iflands of Scotland^. 
In 1795, he publilhed, Sermons, preached at different 
Places, and on various Occafions, republilhed in their re- 
1'peflive order; to which are fubjoined Memoirs, Anec¬ 
dotes, and Uluftrations, relating to the Perl'ons,Tnftitu- 
tions, and Events; in 2 vols. 8vo. In 1798, he publilhed 
eight Lectures on the Evidences of Chriftianity, accom¬ 
panying four lectures by the reverend John Fell. During 
the latter years of his life, his conftitutior. fuffered fevere 
lhocks from the lofs of three of his children ; and, being 
feized with an inflammation on the lungs in the autumn 
of 1802, it terminated in a rapid decline, to which he fell a. 
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