What false Italian As poysonous tongu'd, as handed) hath preuail'd Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iii. sc. 2. 'faith, I would faine see that Dæmon, your cutpurse, u talke of, that delicate handed Diuell. B. Jonson. Bartholomew Fayre, Act iii. sc. 5. Now, O thou sacred muse, most learned dame, Faire impe of Phoebus, and his aged bride, The nurse of time, and euerlasting fame, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11. Te durst not for offending God & his owne conscience, though he had occasion, and opportunity) once lay his ada on God's high officer the king. Homilies. Sermon of Obedience, pt. ii. About him exercis'd heroic games There's 20 duckats in hand, at my return Beaum. & Fletch. Fair Maid of the Inn, Act iv. Because the work might in truth be judged brainish, if hing but amorous humour were handled therein, I have erwoven matters historicall. Drayton. England's Heroical Epistles. To the Reader. Il vessels are best handled by their ansæ or ears, on at part soever they stand; he that handleth them othere, handleth them but aukwardly so it is with men's ids: there are in every man's opinion or affections certain or ears, whereon a wise perswader should lay his 1, to draw men unto him. Mede. On Texts of Scripture, Dis. 35. ursue and use your swiftest speed, that we may take for prise he shield of old Neleides, which Fame lifts to the skies, Quen to the handles, telling it, to be of massie gold. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. viii. hat my frayle eies these lines with teares do steepe, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 3. t Ariminum, there were two infants both of free conon borne without eies and nose, and another in the Picene ntrey handelesse and footelesse.-Holland. Livivs, p. 879. Artegall at length him forst forsake His horses backe for dread of being drown'd, nd to his handy swimming him betake. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 2. nd can it be, that this most perfect creature, his image of his Maker, well squar'd man, hould leave the handfast, that he had of grace, o fall into a woman's easie armes. Beaum. & Fletch. The Woman Hater, Act iii. Te that tooke him [Sir James of Desmond] was a smith, seruant to Sir Cormac, who foorthwith handfasted him. Holinshed. Chronicles of Ireland, an. 1580. The which if the Scottes would most holilie and handlie promise, the English would foorthwith depart with a et armie.-Id. History of Scotland, an. 1546. ohn Speed was born at Farrington in this county, as his n daughter hath informed me. He was first bred to a idicraft, and as I take it to a taylor. Fuller. Worthies. Cheshire. Having gathered to them a multitude of artisanes and adicraftsmen, whom in hope of spoile they had called th, they purpose and prepare to besiege the cittie also, ich aforetime had been altogether unacquainted with the e sturres.-Holland. Livivs, p. 146. And so covering his head, and holding an handkerchiefe fore his face, to horseback hee went. Holland. Suetonius, p. 205. VOL. I. My Delia hath the waters of mine eyes, The ready hand-maids on her grace t'attend; That never fall to ebb, but ever dries; For to their flow she never grants an end. Daniel. Sonnets to Delia, s. 45. In this text, 'tis evident it [Hell] cannot be understood in that signification, [the state of the damned.] For, that David was not condemned to that place of torment, is agreed on all hands.—Sharp, vol. v. Ser. 14. He shall have 501. for such discovery aforesaid of the printer, or the publisher of it from the press, and for the hander of it to the press 1007. &c. Life of Marvell. Proclamation, an. 1678. The enemy took here, and in the town, as also of those who pursued them in the night contrary to my orders, fourscore prisoners: and had taken more, if they had not received a check upon their first arrival in the town by a handfull of men.-Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 124. Therefore it was fit to proceed slowly, that the world might see with what moderation as well as justice the matter was handled.-Burnet. History of the Reformation, an. 1529. An olive's cloudy grain the handle made, Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xiii. Afterwards, his innocency appearing, he was delivered, and escaped those severe handlings that some of the duke's Strype. Life of Sir T. Smith, c. 4. friends and retainers underwent. And so much for the explanation of my text, wherein I have been of necessity so large, that I have little time left me for the handling of the useful observations that may be drawn from it.-Bp. Bull. Works, vol. i. Ser. 5. Of all their treatises on this subject which the ancient ages furnished, and the succeeding ones have handed down to us, the best, without dispute, is that which Cicero wrote concerning the Offices or Duties of men. Pearce, vol. i. Ser. 15. I, for one, as a member of this House, and as a Bishop of this realm, lay my hand upon my heart, and say in the most solemn manner, That, in my judgment, we shall best promote these great ends by appointing his royal highness the Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the crown, regent, with full regal power. Bp. Watson. Speech on the Regency Bill, Jan. 22, 1789. Were they then to be awed by the super-eminent authority and awfull dignity of a handfull of country clowns, who have seats in that assembly, some of whom are said not to be able to read or write?-Burke. On the French Revolution. A common smith, who, though accustomed to handle the hammer, has never been used to make nails, if, upon some particular occasion, he is obliged to attempt it, will scarce, I am assured, be able to make three hundred nails in a day. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 1. A very learned and polite author, whose just esteem for Cicero's writings has betrayed him, perhaps, into some partiality towards his actions, acknowledges that "the defence of Vatinius gave a plausible handle for some censure upon Cicero."-Melmoth. Cicero, b. ii. Let. 17. Note 5. It will prove, that some degree of care and caution is required in the handling such an object; it will show that you ought not, in reason, to trifle with so large a mass of the interests and feelings of the human race. Burke. On Conciliation with America. A good man, who chances to be present, is often backward to rebuke him because he is at a loss about the manner of doing it, and fears to expose a good cause by his method of handling it.-Pearce, vol. iii. Ser. 15. HANDSELL, v. A. S. Hand-selen, or sylen, HANDSELL, n. mancipatio, a putting over into another's hand, or possession. Hence our handsell, (Somner.) And Junius, that it is a word of Saxon origin, composed of hand and sellan, the latter signifying not only vendere but dare; and that handsell is equivalent to hand-gift. And see Jamieson, and Tooke. A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; a taking or receiving in hand; applied to the first delivery or receiving; to a first using; to a delivery or receiving as a pledge, or earnest, of something to follow. To handsell,-to use or try the use, to try ex- For consecrating after popes Warner. Albion's England, b. xii. c. 75. For earst I had obseru'd this arte, Delay giues men desier: Yeat lothe to hurt my haste, and least I was not ouer coye, nor he Warner. Albion's England, b. ix. c. 47. And Eutropius reporteth, that even unto this time, when a new Emperour came to be received of the Senate, among the cries of good handsell, and the wishes of good luck that were made unto him, one was, Happier be thou than Augustus, and better than Trajan. North. Plutarch. Amiot to the Readers. Neither as yet is it for certaine knowne, why he first and above all others was counted a meet man to take hansell, or take sey of this new dignitie and promotion. HAND-SOME. HANDSOMING. HANDSOMELY. HANDSOMENESS. Holland. Livivs, p. 188 Hand, and term. some, hoc est aliquid, (Wallis.) See SOME. Dut. Hand-saem, dexter, manu promptus, dexterous or handy, prompt or ready with the hand; and thus Clever, skilful; cleverly or skilfully done; and thus, further, suitable or well adapted, convenient or becoming; suiting the state, or condition, or rank; graceful, liberal, noble. He is very desyrus to serve yor Grace, and seymes to me to be a very handsome man.-Lodge. Illustrat. vol. i. 178. p. Gresham to the Duke of Northumberland. At theyr comming, forasmuche as they had not so handsome horses, he toke the horses frō the Marshals and Romane horsmen, and from such as he had raised vpon the sodeine, and distributed them among ye Germanes. Goldynge. Cæsar, fol. 220. But in making them [engines of war] hereunto, they have chief respect that they be both easy to be carried, and handsome to be moved and turned about. More. Utopia, by Robinson, b. ii. c. 10. Phauorinus the Philosopher (as Gellius telleth the tale) did hit a yong man ouer the thumbes very handsomely, for vsing ouer old, and ouer straunge words. Wilson. Arte of Rhetorique, p. 3. There are many townes and villages also, but built out of order, and with no hansomeness. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 248. Saying, "Him, whom I last left, all repute To judge of lace, pink, panes, print, cut, and plait, But first I'll tell you, by this honest ale, Drayton. The Moon-Calf. And his design there was plainly no other, than to reduce the civil and poetical theologies of the Pagans into some handsome conformity and agreement with that philosophical, natural, and real theology of theirs, which derived all the Gods from one supreme and universal Numen. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 498. But the gravity which was usually found in the Lacedemonians, hinder'd them (perhaps) from playing their game handsomely against so nimble a wit. Ralegh. History of the World, b. iii. c. 8. s. 6. We met with one ship more loaded with linnen, China-silk, and China-dishes, amongst which we found also a faulcon of gold, handsomely wrought with a great emerald set in the breast of it.-Sir F. Drake. The World Encompassed, p. 61. Yet if there be a lady not competently stock'd that way, she shall not on the instant utterly despair, if she carry a sufficient pawn of handsomeness. Carew. Cœlum Britannicum. The Romans were so fully convinced of the power of beauty, that the word fortis, strong or valiant, signifies, likewise, fair or handsome.—Fawkes. Cupid Benighted, Note. We should never, at least with much earnestness, meddle with affairs more properly belonging to others, and which we do not, or may not, handsomely pretend to understand so well as others; such are affairs beside our profession. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 21. By a life spent in abject servility, in courting a capricious world, in deceiving the credulous, in contriving schemes of advantage or pleasure, and in hardening his conscience, he has, at last, in his fiftieth year, obtained some promotion, and accumulated a handsome sum of money. Knox. Essays, No. 102. No more could Augustin, when upon second thoughts, but not the wisest, he contended for the doctrine of persecution, in some letters which Bayle has taken to pieces very handsomely, in his philosophical commentary. Jortin. Remarks on Ecclesiastical History. 6 G HANG, v. Goth. Hahan; A. S. HangHA'NGER. an, pendere, suspendere. Dut. HA'NGING, n. and Ger. Hang-en; Sw. Hanga. HA'NGBY. Junius derives from Goth. HA'NGMAN. Hauh, high. Wilkins, speaking of the several kinds of actions or gestures, positions or postures of material substance, which do refer to the weight being incumbent upon something, first, below it,-second, above it, classes hanging in the second division. To append, depend, impend, or suspend; to fix or fasten to, in a dependent, a pendulous state or position; to rest, or remain in a dependent state; in a pendulous, or hovering, or elevated state; as if incumbent upon, or supported by, something above. Vor hor wiues & hor dogtren the king ofte uor lay & hangede men gultles vor wraththe al longe day. R. Gloucester, p. 509. First was he drawen for his felonie, & as a thefe than slawen, on galwes hanged hie. R. Brunne, p. 247. And hope hongeth ay ther on. to have that treuthe deserveth. Piers Plouhman, p. 241. An haywarde and an heremyte. the hangman of Tyborne Dauwe the dyker. with a dosen harlotes. Id. p. 106. And Claudius, That servant was unto this Appius, Chaucer. The Doctoures Tale, v. 12,205. Their heare hanged about their eares.-Gower. Con. A. b. i. And the Sonday after Bartelmew daye, was one Cratwell hangman of London, and two persones more hanged at the wrestlyng place on the backesyde of Clerkenwell besyde Londo.-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 30. I am blacke (O ye doughters of Jerusalem) like as the tentes of the Cedarenes, and as the hagings of Salomon. Bible, 1551. Salomon's Ballettes, c. 1. Me thinke if then their cause be rightly scande, Thou chafes at me For payring of my nayle Amisse, at me thy frinde, and eke An' hangeby at thy tale.-Drant. Horace, Ep. 1. Show your sheepe-biting face, and be hang'd an houre. Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Act v. sc. 1. Though he had lost his place, his pow'r, his pains; Yet held his love, his friends, his title fast; The whole frame of that fortune could not fail; As that which hung by more than by one nail. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vii. Lys. Hang off thou cat, thou bur; vile thing let loose, Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent. Shakespeare. Mids. Night's Dream, Act iii. sc. 2. With that two sumpters were discharg'd, In which were hangings braue, Warner. Albion's England, b. viii. c. 42. Being affrighted at the rumour of that murder, [Claudius] slily crept forth and conveied himselfe into a Solar (solarium) next adioyning, and there hid himselfe betweene the hangings that hung before the dore. Holland. Suetonius, p. 157. And though his face be as ill As theirs, which in old hangings whip Christ, still He strives to look worse, he keeps all in awe. Donne, Sat. 4. Though divers creditable witnesses deposed that Gregory Bandon, who was common hangman, had confessed and owned to have executed the King, yet the jury found him [Capt. Wm. Howlet] guilty of the indightment. Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 74. The nest of the Guira tangeima, the Icterus minor, and the Jupujuba, or whatever other name the American hangnests may be called by, are of this kind. Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 13. Note 10. That thieves are hanged in England, I thought no reason why they should not be shot in Otaheite; because, with respect to the natives, it would have been an execution by a law ex post facto.-Cook. Voyages, b. i. c. 14. I'd hangings weave in fancy's loom, Mason. Ode to Sir Fletcher Norton. This indeed may be the height of the hangman's charity, who waits for your clothes; but it could never be St. Paul's. Warburton. Commentary on the Essay on Man. But now her wealth and finery fled, Goldsmith. On Mrs. Mary Blaze. HANGER. A weapon. Dut. Hangher, pugio de zonâ pendens: hangherken, gladiolus qui a femore suspenditur, (Kilian.) And Skinner "A short sword, so called because it is hanged to the side." I hapned to enter into some discourse of a hanger, which I assure you, both for fashion and work-manship, was most peremptory-beautifull, and gentleman-like. B. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act i. sc. 5. Finding himself attacked at the same time in the rear by Jowler, and fearing Cæsar might recover, he drew his hanger, and wheeled about, and by a lucky stroke severed Jowler's head from his body. Smollett, Roderick Random, c. 3. HANK, n. Lye thinks may be from the Isl. HANK, v. Hank, vinculum; Skinner, from to hang; and Tooke (who produces the examples of the verb from Hoper) that, "to have a hank upon any one, is, to have a hold upon him; or to have something hank, hankyd, hanged, or hung upon him." To hantch, in the passage from the Bible, seems to be the same word, k softened into tch. See HAUNCH. And a hank of thread as much as is hankyd or hanged together. teache them his death. He hankyd not the picture of his body upon the crosse to Johan Hoper. Declaration of Christe, c. 5. The same bodye that hankyd upon the crosse.-Id. Ib. c. 8. They shall roare, and hantche vp the praye, [lay hold of] and no man shall recover it or get it from them. Bible, 1551. Esay, c. 5. Lady. But had I known this, had I but surmiz'd it, you should have hunted three trains more, before you had come to th' course, you should have hankt o' th' bridle, Sir, i' faith. Beaum. & Fletch. The Scornful Lady, Act v. Others had no certainty of their holds, which were wont to be let by copy for lives, or otherwise for years; so that their landlords might have them upon the hank at no time, nor in any thing, to offend them. Strype. Memorials. Edw. VI. an. 1549. I love a friendship free and frank, And hate to hang upon a hank.-Byrom. Careless Content. HANKER. Skinner says, hank, in LinHA'NKERING, n.colnshire, is used for an inXerxes out of Asia into Greece, in all kinds, rise to the clination, or propensity of mind, from the verb to hang, q.d. to hang or hanker after. Met. Then will the whole number of them which followed number of 2317610 thousand [1817610] men, besides horseboyes and other servants, hangers on, &c. Usher. Annals, an. 3524. The most part of Nicias' riches was in ready money, and thereby he had many cravers and hangers on him, whom he gave money unto.-North. Plutarch, p. 452 Lady. They do slander him. Orl. Hang them, a pair of railing hangbies. Beaum. & Fletch. The Honest Man's Fortune, Activ. Amo. Enter none but the ladies, and their hang-bies; welcome beauties, and your kind shadowes. B. Jonson. Cynthia's Revells, Act v. sc. 3. He said then nodding with the fumes of wine, So, in some well-wrought hangings, you may see Waller. To a Friend. To hang about, stay, or remain, hanging or loitering as in suspense; to loiter or linger, as unwilling to quit; to long after or for, to keep or continue in a state of longing. Besides the Scriptures, there hath been so full an attestation given to them [wizards and magicians] by persons unconcerned in all ages, that those our so confident exploders of them, in this present age, can hardly escape the suspicion, of having some hankring towards Atheism. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 703. Are these barbarians of man-eating constitutions, that they so hanker after this inhumane diet, which we cannot imagine without horror.-Bentley, Ser. 1. And as for sensuality, though it cannot be supposed that a soul should retain the appetites of the body, after it is separated from it; yet having wholly abandon'd itself to corporeal pleasures while it was in the body, it may, and doubtless will retain a vehement hankering after the reunion with it, which is the only sensuality, that a separated soul is capable of.-Scott. Christian Life, pt. iii. c. 6. We shall be able to part both with it and them, without any great regret or reluctancy, and to live from them for ever, without any disquieting longings or hankerings after them.-Scott. Christian Life, pt. i. c. 3. [He is] content to sit still, and let his train of thought glide indolently through his brain, without much use, perhaps, or pleasure, but without hankering after any thing better, and without irritation. НАР. Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. i. c.6. Skinner says, a very common word in Lincolnshire, from A. S. Heapian, cumulare, q.d stragulis cumulare: and Ray To happe, to cover for warmth, from heap, I suppose, to heap clothes on me. Happing, a coarse covering, a rug for a bed. Hapharlat, a coarse covering made of divers shreds, (Baret's Alvearie.) Skinner doubts whe ther the word be nostræ linguæ civis. Hap harlot, a coverling for a servant, is a very oid word, (Brocket.) There one garment will serve a man most commonly two years for why should he desire more! seeing if he had them, he should not be the better hapt or covered from cold, neither in his apparel any whit the comelier. More. Utopia, by Robinson, b. I. c. The second is the great (although not generall) amen ment of lodging, for (said they) our fathers (yea, and we ourselues als) haue lien full oft vpon straw pallets, on react mats couered onelie with a sheet vnder couerlets made dagswain or hop-harlots, (I vse their owne termes and good round log vnder their heads in steed of a bolster t pillow.-Holinshed. Description of England, b. ii. c. 12. HAP, v. HAP, n. HA'PLESS. HA'PLY. HAPPEN, v. HAPPY. HA'PPILY. HA'PPINESS. HA'PPIOUS. Wachter has, Happen, which he interprets contingere, acc dere, bene vel male succedere: and remarks that the Engi preserve the word. The Go and Dut. have Happeres, pres dere, apprehendere, to seize take in the hand. Fr. Herper to catch; which latter Menage derives from the Lat. Capere. The suggestis of Skinner leave the English word quite uns tain. It probably is the Goth. and A. S. Hob to have or hold; and, consequentially, to ta or catch hold: and thus, hap will signify, a thing had; and (as luck also does) any t caught. See HABNAB. Any thing, something, that comes or falls int our hold or possession, any thing caught; chic accident, luck. Happy, applied to those, to whom, or it whose hold or possession, good comes or fals lucky, or having or causing good luck, success fortunate, or having or causing good success i good fortune; prosperous. Happy,-(in Prologue to Hen. VIII.) is equ valent to Lat. Felix, i. e. propitious, favourable In Cymbeline,.d. causing happiness. happily endowed; accomplished. Happily, as haply, was used without referee to good or bad fortune; accidentally, perhaps. He had bien in his courte, whan his happe was ma hard.-R.Brunne, p. 59. And whenne Brigheric was dede, as aboue is saide b poyson happeliche I dronke, atte Warham his body take to buriels.-Id. p. 13, Note. And hute after the fende. happe hou hit myghte For whan a man hath overgret a wit, Id. The Shipmannes Tale, v. 13.15 Certes (qd. she) if any wight definish hap in this man that is to saine, that happe is betidyng ybrought feerth foolish mouing, and by no knitting of causes, I ca that hap nys right naught in no wise, and I deeme terlie, that hap nis, ne dwelleth but a voyce, as who se but an ydell woorde, without any significacion of the committed to that voyce.-Id. Boecius, b. v. At sondrie seasons, as fortune requireth But the fortunes of warre be ryght peryllous, and so it oped to hym, for he was putte downe feersly with a glayue, that he fell downe to the botome of the dyke, and with the brake his necke, and there he dyed. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 321. Who would haue thought that my request But now is hapt that I feard least, And al thys harme comes by my sute. uch happes which happen in such haplesse warres, Gascoigne. The Fruites of Warre. hou wilt happely say: the subiectes euer chose the ruler make hym sweare to keepe their law and to mainteine r priuilegies and liberties; and vpon that submit their es vnto hym: Ergo, if he rule amisse they are not ade to obey.-Tyndal. Workes. esides these aduersities of the Carthaginienses, to the or thee I longde to liue, for thee nowe welcome death: ote therfore howe playnlye ye kinge here describeth his Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 4. euertheles it pleased God to bring the wind more wes,& so in the moneth of May, 1592, we happily doubled Comori without sight of the coast of India. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. ii. p. 105. ie si quid nobis forte aduersi euenerit, tibi erunt parata 1. If any thyng shall happily chavunce vnto vs in this er otherwise than well, thou shalt percase heare of it. Udal. Flowers for Latine Speakinge, fol. 138. a, many a time the nymphs, which happ'd this flood to see, ed from him, whom they sure a satyr thought to be. His bare thin cheekes for want of better bits, Spenser. Faerie Queene b. i. c. 8. id in the bosom of his courtly press unteth the hap of this victorious day, hilst the sick land in sorrow pines away. Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. i. Isample make of him your haplesse ioy, hat Troians then were to their deaths, by Teucer's shafts aplesse Orsylochus was firste. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. viii. et did he attain to no higher preferment in the church than Deanry of Winchester; haply because he did not consent the Church of England concerning some things indifat.-Camden. Elizabeth, an. 1589. often happeneth, althings commonlie from a good being fall into woorse estate. Holinshed. Historie of Scotland, an. 1219. h. God help (quoth he) what a world is this; that Greeks ald all of them know well enough what is good and est; but the Lacedemonians only practice it! Some e, that the same hapned in Athens also, at the festival mnity called Panathenæa.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 390. Why, the law makes a man happy, without respecting any er merit: a simple scholler, or none at all may be a yer.-B. Jonson. Poetaster, Act i. sc. 2. And sure, had not his massie yron mace Betwixt him and his hurt bene happily, The thrusting of the Bible out of the house of God, is Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 20. Bap. Not in my house Lucentio, for you know Shakespeare. Taming the Snrew, Act iv. sc. 4. What to be great? what to be gracious? But sleepes in dust dead and inglorious, and all that opposition of interests, you had that action and The above account of human happiness will justify the two following conclusions, which, although found in most books of morality, have seldom, I think, been supported by sufficient reasons. First, that happiness is pretty equally distributed amongst the different orders of civil society. Secondly, that vice has no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. i. c. 6. One who knew him not so well as I do, would suspect this was done to serve a purpose. No such matter; 'twas pure hap-hazard.-Warburton. Divine Legation, b. vi. Notes. HARA'NGUE, v. Skinner writes Harang. It. Aringa, arringo; Fr. Harangue; Fr. verb ha ranguer. Skinner thinks it may be from the Eng. Ring, because assemblies of auditors were held in Spenser. The Ruines of Time. rings or circles. "The word (says Tooke) is Him, to whose happy-making sight alone And the hope that I conceive of this good opportunitie and To brandish it [tongue] wantonly, to lay about with it Oft he resolves the ruins of the great, Rowe. To the Earl of Godolphin. Meantime for others of heroic note, Fenton. Homer. Odyssey, b. xi. In Milton's Style. Atterbury, vol. iv. Ser. 4. O Happiness! our being's end and aim! Though the proposition (to be careful for nothing) be so Butler. Satire to a Bad Poet. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Gay. Elegy written in a Country Church-yard. The word happy is a relative term; in strictness, any condition may be denominated happy in which the amount or aggregate of pleasure exceeds that of pain; and the degree of happiness depends upon the quantity of this excess. Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. i. c. 6. In your old states you possessed that variety of parts corresponding with the various descriptions of which your community was happily composed; you had all that combination, merely the pure and regular past part. Hrang, of the A. S. verb, Hring-an, to sound, or make a great sound. (As hrino is also used.) And M. Caseneuve alone is right in his description of the word, when he says, 'Harangue est un discours prononcé avec contention de voix.' (Diversions of Purley, ii. 274. And see Menage on the Fr. and It. nouns; and Junius, in v. rank.) To harangue, then, is To speak aloud, in a loud, sounding voice. The author of the Ecclesiastical Politie had in so many books of his own indeavoured to harangue up the nation into fury against tender consciences. Marvell. Works, vol. ii. p. 307. Anon Grey-headed men and grave, with warriours mixt, Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xi. And though amongst the antient Romans, men were not forbidden to deny, that which in the poets is written of the pains and pleasures after this life; which divers of great authority and gravity in that state have in their harangues openly derided; yet that belief was always more cherished than the contrary.-Hobbs. Of Man, pt. i. c. 12. What act is more instructive to the people, than any arguments drawn from the title of sovereign, and, consequently, fitter to disarm the ambition of all seditious haranguers for the time to come.-Id. Behemoth, pt. iv. For he at any time would hang, Hudibras, pt. iii. c. 2. There ought to be a difference of style observed in the speeches of human persons, and those of deities; and again, in those which may be called set harangues, or orations, and those which are only conversation or dialogue. Pope. Postscript to the Odyssey, b. xvi. Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel. I was then asked, How long I intended to stay? on my saying, Five days, Taipa was ordered to come and sit by me, and proclaim this to the people. He then harangued them in a speech mostly dictated by Feenou. Cook. Voyage, b. ii. c. 5. Having come pretty near us, a person in one of the two last stood up, and made a long harangue, inviting us to land as we guessed by his gestures.-Id. Ib. b. v. c. 13. There be enthusiasts, who love to sit Byrom. Enthusiasm. HARBINGER, prodromus, (an avantcoureur, or forerunner,) q.d. Ger. and Dut. Herberger, i.e. qui alicui de hospitio prospicit, one who looks out for a harbour, or lodging for another, (Skinner.) (See HERBER.) Applied, generally, to A forerunner, that which comes before; and by consequence, announces the approach of something else. Souldiours behold, and Captaynes marke it well, Gascoigne. The Fruites of Warre. A starr which did not to our nation Corbet. Elegy on the Death of Queen Anna. His father Antigonus perceiving that they had lodged his son Philip on a time in a house, where there were three young women, he said nothing to Philip himself, but before he sent for the harbinger, and said unto him, wilt thou not remove my son out of this straight lodging, and provide him, a better?-North. Plutarch, p. 740. Light'ning and thunder (Heaven's artillery) HARBOUR, v. HARBOURER. HARBOURLESS. Dryden. The Character of a Good Parson. Think not, however, that success on one side is the harbinger of peace: on the contrary, both parties must be heartily tired to effect even a temporary reconciliation. Goldsmith. Citizen of the World, Let. 17. Fr. Herberge; It. Albergo; Sp. Alvergue ; Dut. and Ger. Herberg; Sw. Herberge, herbergera; Low Lat. Herebergium. (See HERBER.) Vossius derives from her, or HA'RBOROUS. heir, exercitus, an army, and berg-en, custodire, servare, continere. The A. S. Beorg-an, byrg-an, is to defend, to secure, to fortify. 'Here-berga is (Somner) statio, mansio, a station or standing where the army rested in their march," i. e. in security, protected; and herebyrigan, to harbour, to abide, to lodge, to quarter. To harbour is, generally,— HA'RBOROUGH. To secure or protect; to receive or take under protection; to stay, remain, or abide, in security; to shelter, to lodge; to afford or grant shelter or lodging. Also charge Charity. a churche to make In thyn hole hte. to herborghwen alle Treuthe I was herbarweles, and ye herboriden me. And the eleventh day at sixe of the clocke at night we saw land which was very high, which afterward we knew to be Island and the twelfth day we harboured there, and found many people.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 109. Then went foorth our pinnesse to seeke harborow, & found many good harbours, of the which we entered into one with our shippes.-Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 235. Haue a better eye and care to all suspitious and miscon- Then if by me thou list aduised be, Forsake thy soyle, that so doth thee bewitch: Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. June. bouroughes for shippes.-Stow. Descript. of Engl. &c. Halos harbor-towne, that Neptune beats upon. Now stern Æneas waves his weighty spear Dryden. Virgil. Æneis, b. xii. Walsh. Loving one I never saw. [Love] like the soul its harbourer, But struggles out, and flies away.-Hudibras, pt. iii. c. 1. Strype. Life of Abp. Grindal. an. 1582. In this, however, I acted contrary to the opinion of some persons on board, who in very strong terms expressed their desire to harbour for present convenience, without any re For of an harbourer of deuils, was he sodainly made a dis- gard to future disadvantages.—Cook. Voyage, b. ii. c. 7. ciple, and scholar of Jesus.-Udal. Luke, c. 8. Whether she haue to her smal power ben herberous to the sainctes, lodged them and washen their fete. Id. 1 Timothye, c. 5. An other sorte promyseth their howse to be herbourouse to the household of fayth, and a great vowe do they make. Bale. Apology, fol. 38. If they wolde vse but a fewe nombre of houndes, onely to harborowe or rouse the game. Sir T. Elyot. Governour, b. i. c. 18. Eke the vndaunted Numides compasse thee; Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv. The ground we were on grewe to bee streight, and not aboue fiftie paces ouer, hauing the maine sea on the one side of it, and the harbour-water, or inner sea (as you may tearme it) on the other side. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 541. There were many commodious havens and fair baies for ships to harbour, and ride in with safety. Holland. Plutarch, p. 802. O, in what safety temperance doth rest, Drayton. Matilda to King John. Base quean, and rivel'd witch, and wish'd she could be Upon the whole, Rio de Janeiro is a very good place for Yet here, ev'n here in this disastrous clime, HARD, v. HA'RDIHOOD. HA'RDIMENT. Goth. Harau; A. S. Heard; bent, broken, as, steel is hardest; (met.) impene trable, insensible, stupid. 2. Difficult; or that cannot (easily) be done or performed by labour or skill; be understood, be learned, as Greek is hardest to come by: a hard task, a hard road or way;-difficult, laborion, toilsome. 3. Difficult; to be borne or suffered, as a hard saying, a hard season, a hard case; harsh, rough, rigorous, severe, unjust; hard beer, harsh, rough; a hard trot, harsh, violent. 4. Difficult; to be moved, or acted upon; as a hard man, a hard heart; a 'man not easily acted upon or moved by kind or good feelings; and therefore, unkind, harsh, severe, austere, grinding, oppressive. Hard is sometimes used as equivalent to hardy, or rather hardily; as he died hard, i. e. resolutely, obdurately; or, sometimes, with difficulty. Hard by, joined hard to, i. e. close to. To strive hard; i. e. laboriously, vehemently. To harden, to confirm, to fortify, to strengthen. stout, strong, resolute, bold, daring, confident, as Hardy, adj.,-enduring, or able to endure, fire, sured; hence hardily, assuredly, or as Mr. Tywhitt, certainly. To hard, and to hardy; i. e. to harden, to courage. Hardise is used by old writers with fool pro fixed,—fool-hardize, i. e. hardiness. Corineus ther with harde smot and stured hym a hote stod, And dredde of hys hardynesse, & thougte yt was not Lucye, to hardye ys men, pryked her and ther.-14. p. 23 Edward told William of Alfred alle the case, & if he wild it wynne with dynt, als duke hardie God shal take veniaunce, in alle swiche preestes Piers Plosimas,& Honger was nat hardy, on hem for to loke.-Id. p. 1 But he lepe vp on heigh, in hardenesse of herte. Id. Cred But he that hadde takun oo besaunt, came and seide Lore Y woot that thou art an harde man, (durus home,) then s rare, indurare, durescere, w indurescere. "Hard, as ap- thou hast not spred abrood.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 25. Then he whiche had receaued the one talente care, and sayde: Master, I considered that thou waste anerest wa which repest where thou sowedst not, and gatherest whe thou strawedst not.-Bible, 1551. Ib. And Jhesus seynge him maad sorye seyde, how har figure by the pressure of any c. 18. (quam difficile) thei that han money schulen entre into t part of our bodies; and that, on the contrary, soft, which changes the situation of its parts upon any easy and unpainful touch. Hard But moneste ghousilf bi alle daies the while to dai But exhorte one an other daylye, whyle it is called to deve ness consists in a firm cohesion of the parts of least any of you waxe hardherted thorow the deceitfulness matter making up masses of a sensible bulk, so of synne.-Bible, 1551. Ib. Hence its word is hard, who may here it -Wiclif. Jon, c. 6. Many therfore of his disciples: when they hearde th or resisting the motion of its own parts; generally, sayde: this is an harde sayinge: who can abvde the heary as opposing or resisting, bearing, suffering or en- of it ?-Bible, 1551. Ib. And he seide to hem, for Moyses for the herdnesse of 1. Difficult; or that can or may not (easily) be herte suffride you leve youre wyues, but fro the begyny Moses because of the hardnes of youre hertes suffered you to put awaye youre wyfes: but from the begynnyng it was not so.-Bible, 1551. Matthew, c. 19. Therfor we ben hardi [audentes] algatis and witen, that the while we ben in this bodi we goon in pilgrimage fro the lord, for we walken by feith, and not bi cleer sight. Wiclif. 2 Corynth. c. 5. Olitel child, alas! what is thy gilt, That never wroughtest sinne as yet parde? Why wol thin harde father have thee spilt. Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5277. They speken of sondry harding of metall, Id. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,557. For loue me youe such hardiment The miller shuld not stele hem half a pecke Id. The Reves Tale, v. 4008. A wifis Goddes yefte veraily; All other maner yeftes hardely, As londes, rentes, pasture, or commune, Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9186. She toke her leaue at hem ful thriftely As she wel could, and they her reuerence O noble markis, your humanitee Assureth us and yeveth us hardinesse, Id. The Clarkes Tale, v. 7969. Now cometh slouthe, that wol not suffre no hardnesse ne And how asseged was Ipolita Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 884. I wolde haue hym lerne Greke and Latine authours bothe one tyme, or els to begyn with Greke, for as moche as at is hardeste to come by. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 10. But when the braine is cold and drie, things are therfore e faster holden, because it is the propertie of colde and ought, to thicken all things, and to harden them fast gether.-Wilson. Arte of Rhetorique, p. 213. And I wyl nowe onely speake of those exercises, apte to e furniture of a gentyll mannes personage, adaptynge his dy to hardenesse, strengthe, and agilitie. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 16. My woundes are wide, yet seme they not to bleed, Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew of Bathe. The Bactrians bee the most hardyest people amongst those acios vnciuill men, and much abhorring from the delicatees of the Persians.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 66. And he departed thence, & entred into a certayne mannes ouse, named Justus, a worshypper of God, whose house yned harde to the synagoge.-Bible, 1551. Actes, c. 18. Hee is a great adventurer (said hee) That hath his sword through hard assay forgone, Besides, the Briton is so naturally infus'd Mir. Alas, now pray you Worke not so hard: I would the lightning had Is hard at study; pray now rest your selfe. But victuals being very straight and scant at that time even to find the men, the poor geese were so hard handled and so little regarded, that they were in manner starved for lack of meat.-North. Plutarch, p. 124. Upon his crest the hardned yron fell; Enflam'd with fury and fiers hardyhed, Come, come, my Lords, Shakespeare. 2 Pt. Hen. VI. Act i. sc. 4. At the first the Gaules and Spanyards, equall to their enemies both in force and courage, mainteined the conflict right hardily, and kept their order and arraies. Holland. Livivs, p. 461. But thankt be God, and your good hardiment! He did confound the best part of an houre Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. IV. Act i. sc. 3. The wingd-foot god so fast his plumes did beat, Spenser. Faerie Queene, c. 6. Of Mutabilitie. And thus I hang a garland at the dore; Ignoto. Verses to Spenser. Still so hard-hearted? what may be Brome. Songs. The Hard Heart. [They] had such affection for their religion, and the rights and liberties of their country, that, pro aris et focis, they were willing to undergo any hardships or dangers, and thought no service too much, or too great for their country. Whitelock. Memorials, an. 1643. It was to weet a wilde and salvage man; Whom when the Trojan hero hardly knew, Of all hardnesses of heart, there is none so inexcusable as that of parents towards their children. An obstinate, inflexible, unforgiving temper, is odious upon all occasions, but here it is unnatural.-Spectator, No. 181. To complete the sense of the words we must have recourse to the two precedent verses; which being compared with the text (Deut. xxix. 4.) present us with a description of such a brutish and irrational temper, such an invincible hardness, as is not to be found in any people mentioned throughout the whole book of God, or any history whatsoever.-South, vol. viii. Ser. 13. Heroes are always drawn bearing sorrows, struggling with adversities, undergoing all kinds of hardships, and having in the service of mankind a kind of appetite to difficulties and dangers.-Spectator, No. 312. Juba commands Numidia's hardy troops, Addison. Cato, Act ii. sc. 1. Have you been evil spoken of and your character injured? When you knew yourself innocent, this is hard to bear on worldly principles. But religion makes even calumny light. Gilpin, vol. i. Ser. 14. Tell such people of a world after this-of their being accountable for their actions; and of the gospel denunciations of damnation upon all who lead such ungodly lives, without repentance; they are hardened to every thing of this kindit has no effect upon them.-Id. vol. i. Ser. 5. My lords, I assert, confidently and hardily I make the assertion, and I challenge confutation; let any one, who will take the trouble to follow me in the calculations upon which I am about to enter, confute me if he can,-I do assert, my lords, that the healthiest of their ships are nothing better than pestilential gaols } Bp. Horsley. Speech, July, 1799. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove. Gray. Elegy in a Country Church-yard. Nor should it be forgotten, that he was the first who, in this dialogue, had the hardihood to displace Jonson from the eminence to which, by the unanimous voice of Dryden's contemporaries, he had most unjustly been elevated, and to set Shakspeare far above him.-Malone. Life of Dryden. That domestick grief is, in the first instance, to be thanked for these ornaments to our language, it is impossible to deny. Nor would it be common hardiness to contend, that worldly discontent had no hand in these joint productions of poetry and piety.—Johnson. Life of Young. Where works of man are cluster'd close around, And works of God are hardly to be found. Cowper. Retirement. Divines, with the best intentions, have said more than the scriptures have said concerning repentance, and have thereby precipitated men into despair, and consequent impenitence and hardness of heart. Anecdotes of Bp. Watson, vol. ii. p. 313. He suffered persecution gladly for the sake of Christ and his truth: he stripped himself of all the comforts of this life, and yielded himself up to all the hardships and evils that man can suffer.-Sherlock, vol. iii. pt. ii. Dis. 60. Though it [the life of Benvenuto Cellini] was read with the greatest pleasure by the learned of Italy, no man was hardy enough, during so long a period, to introduce to the world a book in which the successors of Saint Peter were handled so roughly. Johnson. Some Account of Benvenuto Cellini. HARE. To hare one, (says Skinner,) that is, to terrify, to throw into a consternation, to strike with terrour, from the Fr. Harier, to harass; and this, perhaps, from the A. S. Herg-ian, to Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xvi. harry, (qv.) Think not my judgment leads me to comply Dryden. The Hind and the Panther. Lord Ranelagh died on Sunday morning; he died hard as their term of art is here to express the woeful state of men, who discover no religion at their death. Swift. Letter to Dr. King, London, Dec. 8, 1712. For let the venal try Their every hardening stupifying art, Truth must prevail, zeal will enkindle zeal, And nature, skilful touch'd, is honest still. Thomson. To the Memory of Lord Talbot. They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king (whom they provoked) would sooner have been checked, and recovered their loyalty and obedience.-Clarendon. Civil Wars, vol. i. p. 465. |