step was to design and furnish plates for book- HOHENLOHE, prince de, a distinguished sellers; of which, those best known are 17 for general of the imperial army, in the wars against a duodecimo edition of "Hudibras," (with But-the French and Turks; he died in 1796 ler's head,) in 1726. The first piece in which HOLBACK, Paul Thierri, baron de, an emihe distinguished himself as a painter, was a re-nent mineralogist, and member of several of the presentation of Wanstead assembly, the por-academies of Europe; he died at Paris, in 1789. traits from life, without burlesque, and the co- HOLBEIN, John, better known by his GerYouring rather hetter than some of his later and man name, Hans Holbein, an admirable painmore highly finished performances. It was ter, born at Basil, in Switzerland, in 1498, died Hogarth's custom to sketch out on the spot any of the plague, in 1554. His most famous picremarkable face which particularly struck him,tures are, Our Saviour's Passion, in the townand of which he wished to preserve the remem-house, at Basil; and, in the fish-market of the brance; and this he frequently did with a pen- same town, a Dance of Peasants, and Death's cil on his nail. In 1730, Mr. Hogarth married Dance; which are exceedingly striking to the the only daughter of Sir James Thornhill; and connoisseur. Going to England. Holbein was soon after, having summer lodgings at South introduced by Sir Thomas More to Henry VIII., Lambeth, and being intimate with Mr. Tyers, in this manner. Sir Thomas invited the king to he contributed to the improvement of the Spring an entertainment, and hung up all Holbein's pieGardens, at Vauxhall, by the hint of embellish-ces, disposed in the best order, and in the best ing them with painting, some of which were the light, in the great hall of his house. The king, productions of his own truly comic pencil. In upon his first entrance, was so charmed with the 1733 his genius became conspicuously known.sight of them, that he asked "Whether such an His "Harlot's Progress" introduced him to the artist were now alive, and to be had for monotice of the great, and Hogarth rose complete-ney?"? Upon which, Sir Thomas presented ly into fame. Soon after the peace of Aix-la-Holbein to the king, who immediately took him Chapelle, he went over to France, and was ta-into his service, and brought him into great esken into custody at Caiais, while he was draw-teem with the nobility of the kingdom. Holing the gate of the town; a circumstance whichbein had the same singularity which Pliny menhe has recorded in his picture, entitled "O the tions of Turpilius, a Roman; namely, that of Roast Beef of Old England!" published 1749. painting with his left hand. HOLDEN, Henry, an excellent English commentator on the New Testament, and writer on Faith, died in 1662. He was actually carried before the governor as HOLBERG, Louis de, a distinguished Da- HOLDEN, Samuel, died in London, in 1740, and bequeathed 1,8471. in charity, for promoting the gospel, &c., in New England. HOLDER, William, an ingenious Englishman, who, among many other works, published a book entitled "The Elements of Speech; an Essay of Inquiry into the natural production of Letters: with an Appendix concerning Persons that are Deaf and Dumb, 1669." He died in 1697. HOLE, Richard, an English poet and divine, born at Exeter; he died in 1803. HOLINSHED, Raphael, an English historian, and famous for the chronicles that go under his name, died in 1581. His "Chronicles" were first published in 1577, in 2 vols. folio; and then HOLT, John, an English miscellaneous wrt in 1587, in 3; the two first of which are gene-ter, died near Liverpool, in 1801. At the time rally bound together. The continuations from of his death he was engaged in writing a histo1577, to 1587, were by Stow, Thin, Fleming, and ry of that city. others. HOLWELL, John Zephaniah, a governor of HOLL, Francis Xavier, a jesuit, professor Bengal, and one of the wretched prisoners conof belles letters, and of ecclesiastical law, in fined in the Black Hole, in Calcutta, 20th June, several German universities; he died at Heidel-1756, wherein a great number of gentlemen burg, in 1784. HOLLAND,Philemon, a very laborious translator, was born at Chelmford, Essex, and educated at Trinity college, Cambridge. He died in 1636, at the age of 85, having published translations of Livy, Pliny, Plutarch, Suetonius, Xenophon, and Camden's Britannia;" to which last he made additions. HOLLAR, Wentzel, or Wenceslaus, a most admired engraver of views and portraits, born at Prague, in Bohemia, in 1607, died in 1667. HOLLIS, Denzil, lord, second son of the earl of Clare, an eminent English patriot, born in 1597, died in 1680. He nobly maintained and defended the rights anu privileges of the house of commons, of which he was a most worthy member, against the arbitrary measures of Charles I. and his favourites, falsely styled "The King's Friends." His lordship was also a political writer. were suffocated; but Mr. Holwell, with a few others, surviving, he published a "Narrative" of the dreadful affair. He also wrote a great number of tracts, chiefly on Indian affairs, and died, aged near 90, in 1798. HOLYDA, Barten, an ingenious and learned English divine, poet and philosopher, born at Oxford, in 1593, died in 1661. He wrote "Technogamia, or the Marriage of the Arts," a comedy, acted by some Oxford scholars, at Woodstock, in 1621, before king James; and a "Survey of the World," in 10 books, a poem, in 1661; but the work that he is known and esteemed for now, is his "Translation of the Satires of Juvenal and Persius;" for though his poetry is but indifferent, yet his translation is generally allowed to be faithful, and his notes good. HOLYOAKE, Francis, a learned Englishman, memorable for having made an "Etymological Dictionary of Latin Words," born in War HOLLIS, Thomas Felham, duke of Newcas-wickshire, in 1567, died in 1633. tle, was employed in several high offices during HOLYOAKE, Thomas, an officer in the Engthe reign of George II. He retired from the ad-lish army, afterwards a clergyman, and author ministration soon after the accession of George of a Latin and English Dictionary; he died in III., and died in 1768. 1675. HOLLIS, Thomas, born in London, in 1720, died in 1774. He was possessed of a large fortune; more than half of which he devoted to charities, to the encouragement of genius, and to the support and defence of liberty. His studious hours were devoted to the search of noble authors hidden by the rust of time, and to do their virtues justice by brightening their actions for the review of the public. A new edition of "Toland's Life of Milton" was published under his direction, in 1761; and in 1763, he gave an accurate edition of Algernon Sidney's "Discourses on Government;" on which the pains and expense that he bestowed are almost incredible. HOLLIS, Thomas, a benefactor of Harvard college, and founder of a professorship of mathematics and theology, in that seminary; he died in England, in 1731. HOLMES, George, a distinguished English antiquary, employed to arrange the valuable papers in the Tower; he died in 1749. HOLMES, Dr. Nathaniel, an English divine, eminent for his knowledge of the Hebrew languages; he died in 1678. HOLMES, Robert, D. D., an English divine, successively canon of Salisbury and dean of Winchester, distinguished as a poet and scholar, and for his devotion to biblical criticism; he died at Oxford, in 1805. HOLSTEN, Cornelius, an eminent painter, of Haerlem, who lived about the end of the 17th century. HOLSTEINIUS, Lucas, a German commentator, on Greek and Latin authors, born at Hamburg, in 1596, and died in 1661. HOLYOAKE, Edward, president of Harvard college, died in 1767. HOLYWOOD, John, an English mathematician, died at París, in 1256. HOMBERG, William, a native of Batavia, in Java; he went to Europe, and settled at Paris, where he became a distinguished chymist, and physician to the duke of Orleans; he died in 1715. HOME, David, a celebrated Scotch divine and writer, the time of his death is unknown. HOME, Henry, lord Kaimes, one of the senators of the college of justice in Scotland, and eminent as a critical and philosophical writer, born in Scotland, in 1696, died in 1782. His principal works are, "Sketches of the History of Man," "Elements of Criticism," and "The Gentleman Farmer." HOME, John, was born in the city of Ancrum, in Roxburgshire, in 1724, and died at Merchiston House, near Edinburgh, in 1808, Mr. Home was originally educated for the church of Scotland, inducted into a living in the Lothians, the duties of which he discharged with the greatest propriety. As soon, however, as it was known that he was the author of the excellent tragedy of "Douglas," he became very unpopular, from the puritanical spirit of the times, which rendered it criminal in the eyes of the multitude, that a clergyman should even read a play, far less be the author of one On this, Mr. Home gave in his resignation, and contented himself with the income of a small paternal estate. He was always, as far as his means would admit, the friend and patron of merit; and under his fostering hand, many sparks of literary genius, that would otherwise HOLT, sir John, chief justice of the court of king's bench, in the reign of king William, was born in 1642, died in 1708. He published have lain dormant, were brought to light. Ho chief justice Kelynge's Reports, with annotations upon them, by himself; and his integrity and uprightness as a judge are celebrated by the author of the "Tattler," No. 14, under the character of Verus, the magistrate. was, in early life, a very kind patron to Macpherson, the translator of Ossian, who had afterwards an opportunity of manifesting his gratitude by a bequest of 20007. Though Mr. Home wrote several tragedies besides "Douglas” HONORIUS, son of Theodosius the Great, and emperor of the West, died at Ravenna, in 423. HONORIUS I., pope after Boniface V., died in 638. HONORIUS II., Lambert, bishop of Ostia, and pope in 1124, died in 1130. HONORIUS III., Censio Savelli, succeeded Innocent III., as pope, and died in 1227. HONORIUS IV., James Savelli, was elected pope in 1285, and died in 1237. were successful on the stage. HOMER, the most ancient of the Greek poets, was the father of poetry, as Herodotus was of history, and Hippocrates of physic. As much as he has celebrated the praises of others, he has been so very modest about himself, that we do not find the least mention of him throughout his poems: so that where he was born, who were his parents, what age he lived in, and almost every circumstance of his life, remain, at this day, in a great measure, if not wholly, un- HONTAN, baron de, author of a volume of known. The on incontestable works which travels in North America, filled with improba Homer has left behind him are the "Iliad" and bilities; he lived in the 17th century. the "Odyssey." It was by these poems that HONTHEIM, John Nicholas de, suffragan to all the wortnies of antiquity were formed. the archbishop of Treves, died in 1790. Hence the lawgivers, the founders of monar- HONTHORST, Herard, an eminent and ad chies and commonwealths, took the model of mired painter, of Utrecht, died in 1660. their politics; hence the philosophers drew the HOOD, Samuel, viscount, a celebrated British first principles of morality which they taught admiral, K. B., and governor of Greenwich the people; hence physicians have studied dis-Hospital, born in 1724, died at Bath, in 1816. eases and their cures; astronomers have learn- HOOFT, Petrus Cornelius Van, an eminent ed the knowledge of the heavens, and geome-Dutch poet and historian, born at Amsterdam: tricians of the earth: kings and princes, the art he died in 1647. to govern; and captains, to form a battle, to HOOGEVEEN, Henry, an eminent Dutch encamp an army, to besiege towns, to fight, and philologist, born at Leyden, in 1712, died in 1794. gain victories. "Homer (says Sir William His "Doctrina Particularum Linguæ Græcæ,' Temple) was, without doubt, the most universal 2 vols. 4to, in 1796, is executed with a prodigenius that has been known in the world, and gious abundance of learning, and is a lasting Virgil the most accomplished. To the first must foundation for his well-earned fame. be allowed the most fertile invention, the richest HOOGSTRAETEN, Theodore Van, an advein, the most general knowledge, and the most mired landscape painter, of Antwerp, died in lively expressions: to the last, the noblest ideas, 1640. the justest institution, the wisest conduct, and the choicest elocution. The colouring of both seems equal, and indeed in both is admirable. Homer had more fire and rapture, Virgil more light and sweetness; or, at least, the poetical fire was more raging in the one, but clearer in the other; which makes the first more amazing, and the latter more agreeable. In short, these two immortal poets must be allowed to have so much excelled in their kinds as to have exceeded all comparison, to have even extinguish-matician and philosopher, born in the Isle of ed emulation, and, in a manner, confined true poetry, not only to their two languages, but to their very persons." The first appearance of Homer's works in Greece, was about 120 years before Rome was built; that is, about 200 years after the supposed time of Homer. The ArunA marbles give 907 years before Christ, as period when he flourished. HOMMEL, Charles Frederic, a voluminous writer, of Leipsic, died in 1781. HOOGSTRAETEN, James, a Dominican, and inquisitor general, known for the virulence with which he wrote against Luther and Erasmus, He died at Cologne, in 1527. HOOGSTRATEN, David Van, a celebrated Dutch critic, lexicographer, and poet, born at Rotterdam, in 1658, died in 1721. HOOGUE, Romain de, a Dutch engraver and designer, whose works are highly esteemed. HOOKE, Robert, an eminent English mathe Wight, in 1635, died in 1702. He distinguished himself by many noble inventions and improvements in mechanics; invented pendulum watches, and several astronomical instruments for making observations both at sea and land; and was particularly serviceable to Mr. Boyle in completing the air pump. His writings are numerous and valuable. HOOKE, Nathanael, author of a valuable "Roman History," and other works; he died HOMMOND, Charles Francis l', an instruct-in 1764. er of youth, at Paris, author of an Epitome HOOKER, John, an eminent English antiHistoriæ Sacræ, and "De viris Illustribus Urbis Romæ," &c., died in 1794. HONDEKOETER, Gilles, a landscape and flower painter, at Utrecht, born in 1583. HONDEKOETER, Gysbrecht, son of the precoding, was also a painter, and was born in 1613. HONDEKOETER, Melchior, a landscape painter, of Utrecht, died in 1695. quary, born at Exeter, in 1524. He afterwards represented his native place in parliament, and died in 1601. HOOKER, Richard, an eminent English divine, author of an excellent work, entitled "The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, in 8 books," was born in 1553, and died in 1600. Of Hook er and this work, pope Clement VIII. said, HONDIUS, Abraham, an eminent painter, of" This man indeed deserves the name of an Rotterdam, died in 1695.' author. His books will get reverence by age; HONDIUS, Jesse, an eminent selftaught en-for there are in them such seeds of eternity, graver on copper and ivory, and a writer of that they shall continue till the last fire shall dedistinction, in Flanders; he died in 1614. vour all learning.' HONE, George Paul, a lawyer, of Nuremberg, and counsellor to the duke of Meimingen, died in 1747. HOOKER, Thomas, first minister of Cambridge, Mass., and one of the founders of Connecticut; he published several sermons, and died in 1647. HONESTIS, Petrus de, or Petrus Damiani, an Italian, made bishop of Ostia and a cardinal HOOKER, John, minister of Northampton, by pope Stephen, and afterwards his ambassa-Mass., was able and faithful in his office; he dor at France; he died in 1072. died in 1777. HOOLE, Charles, an English teacher and di-brated grammarian, of Egypt, flourished about vine, prebendary of Lincoln cathedral; he died||A. D. 380. There are extant under his name in 1856. two books "Concerning the Hieroglyphics of the Egyptians." HOOLE, John, a poet and translator of considerable reputation, was born in London, 1727, HORATII, three Roman brothers, who and educated in Hertfordshire, under Mr. James fought and conquered the three Curiatii of Alba, Bennett, the publisher of Roger Ascham's 667 B. C. works. In 1744, he was placed as a clerk in the HORATIUS, Cocles, a renowned Roman India House, in which establishment he remain-knight, who saved the city by his noble defence ed till the end of the year 1785, when he resign-of a wooden bridge, attacked by Porsenna. ed his office of auditor of Indian accounts, and While he and two associates opposed the enemy soon after retired to the neighbourhood of Dor-at the entrance, he desired his fellow-citizens to king, in Surrey, where he died in 1803, having cut away the bridge behind him; this being exeproduced elegant translations of the works of cuted, he fell into the Tyber; but, though woundTasso, Ariosto, and Metastatio, and writtened, and oppressed by heavy armour, he gained three tragedies. He was a very amiable charac- the shore. He flourished 500 B. C. ter, and greatly esteemed by Dr. Johnson. HORATIUS, Quintus Flaccus, or Horace, an HOOPER, or HOPER, John, bishop of Glou-ancient Roman lyric and satiric poet, who flourcester, was born in Somersetshire, in 1495. In the ished in the age of Augustus, was born at Venupersecution under Mary, refusing to recant his sium, about 65 B. C. His poetical talents soon opinions, he was burned in the city of Glouces-made him known to some of the greatest men in ter, and suffered death with admirable constan- Rome. Virgil, as he has told us, was the first who cy, in 1555. recommended him to Mæcenas; and this celeHOOPER, George, D. D., a distinguished En-brated patron of literature and learned men grew glish prelate, bishop of St. Asaphs, and after-so fond of him, that he became a suitor for him wards of Bath and Wells; he died in 1727. to Augustus, and got his estate (which had been HOOPER, William, a member of the conti- forfeited) to be restored. Augustus was highly nental congress, from North Carolina, and a taken with his great merit and address; admitted signer of the declaration of Independence; he him to a close familiarity with him in his private died in 1790. hours, and afterwards made him no small offers HOORNBECK, John, an eminent Dutch di- of preferment. The poet had the greatness of vine, professor of divinity at Utrecht, and after-mind to refuse them all; the life he loved best, wards at Leyden, and a theological writer; he died in 1666. HOPKINS, Ezekiel, a learned prelate, bishop of Raphoe, and afterwards of Londonderry; he died in 1690. HOPKINS, Charles, son of the preceding, was distinguished in England as a poet and dramatic writer; he died in 1699. HOPKINS, John, brother of the preceding, was also celebrated as a poet; the time of his death is not known. and lived as much as he could, was the very reverse of a court life; a life of retirement and study, free from the noise and hurry of ambition. He died about 8 B. C. HORMAN, William, a native of Salisbury, distinguished as a divine and as a botanist, died in 1535. HORMISDAS, a pope of Rome, in 514, died in 523, and was afterwards canonized. HORMISDAS II., succeeded his father as king of Persia, in 578. His subjects revolted under his general, Varanes, who defeated him, and deprived him of sight. He died in 590. HOPKINS, Edward, governor of Connecticut, and a benefactor of Harvard college; he founded grammar schools in New-Haven and Hartford, Conn., and died in 1657. HOPKINS, Samuel, minister of West Spring-divine united, in a remarkable degree, depth of field, Mass., died in 1755, much esteemed. HOPKINS, Stephen, LL. D., chief justice and governor of the colony of Rhode Island, a member of Congress in 1776, and a signer of the declaration of Independence; he died in 1785. HORNE, George, bishop of Norwich, born at Otham, in Kent, in 1730, and died in 1792. This learning, brightness of imagination, sanctity of manners, and sweetness of temper. Four vo lumes of his incomparable "Sermons" are published. His "Commentary on the Psalms," in 2 vols. 4to, "will (as the writer of his epitaph expresses it) continue to be a companion to the HOPKINSON, Francis, a member of con- closet, till the devotion of earth shall end in the gress, from New-Jersey, and a signer of the hallelujahs of heaven." Dr. Horne also wrote a declaration of Independence; he was after-celebrated piece of irony, in reply to Adam wards a judge of the district court of the United States, for Pennsylvania, and died in 1791. He was distinguished also as a popular writer, and as a poet. HOPPNER, John, R. A., an eminent English portrait painter, and translator of "Oriental Tales" into English verse (1805), was born 1759, and died in Charles-street, St. James' square, in 1810. HOPTON, Arthur, a distinguished English mathematician, and writer ou mathematical subjects, died in 1614, aged 26. HOFTON, Ralph, lord, an English officer, distinguished for his valour, particularly during the civil wars; he died in 1652. Smith's Sketch of David Hume's Life. HORNECK, Dr. Anthony, an eminent English divine, born in the Lower Palatinate, în 1641, died in 1696. HORNER, Francis, an English lawyer, and a member of parliament, of some distinction, died in 1817. HORNIUS, George, professor of history in the university of Leyden, died in 1670. HORNSBY, Thomas, D. D., born in 1734, and died in 1810, at the Observatory, in the university of Oxford. He was Savilian professor of astronomy, professor of natural philosophy, reader in experimental philosophy, and librarian to the Radcliffe library; and his long and eminent services in the cause of science, and successful labours in completing the astronomical arrange ments at the Observatory, will ever be rememHORAPOLLO, or HORUS APOLLO, a cele-bered with gratitude by the university. HOPTON, Susanna, an English lady, author of" Daily Devotions" and other religious works; she died in 1709. HORREBOW, Peter, professor of astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy, at Copenhagen, and a writer on the Copernican system; he died in 1764. HORTENSIUS, Martin, an astronomer, of Delft; he died in 1639. HOSEA, the first of the minor prophets, flour. ished under the reigns of Jeroboam and Uzziah. HORROX, Jeremiah, an English astronomer, HOSIUS, Stanislaus, a native of Poland, was memorable from being the first, from the begin-secretary to the king of Poland, bishop of Culm ning of the world, who had observed the tran- and of Warmia, and afterwards a cardinal. He sit of Venus over the sun's disk. He was born died in 1579. in 1619, and died in 1641. HOSKINS, John, an eminent English por trait painter, died in 1664. HORSLEY, John, author of a very learned and excellent work, entitled, "Britannia Roma- HOSPINIAN, Rodolphus, a learned Swiss na;" being an ample account of the vestiges of writer, who has done prodigious service to the the Romans in Britain. He was born in North-protestant cause, born at Altdorf, in 1547, died umberland, and died in 1731. in 1626. He wrote an excellent work of vast extent, called, "A History of the Errors of Popery." HOSPITAL, William Francis Antony, marquis de l', a great mathematician, of France, born in 1661, died in 1704. HORSLEY, Samuel, bishop of St. Asaph, was born in the parish of St. Martin's in the Fields, where his father was clerk in orders, and was educated at Trinity hall, Cambridge. He became one of the most eminent men of his day, as a HOSPITAL, Michael de l', chancellor of theologist, a mathematician, and a profound France, to which office he was raised on the classic. He was many years rector of St. Mary's, death of Henry II., in the midst of turbulence Newington, the first parish to which he was ever and faction. He displayed great abilities, and promoted, and which preferment he held long was distinguished for the firmness, integrity, and after his episcopal elevation. His lordship's first mildness of his adininistration; he died in 1573. seat on the right reverend bench was in 1788, as HOSSCH, Sidronius, a Flemish jesuit, author bishop of St. David's. In 1793, he was trans-of some elegant Latin poems, &c., died in lated to the see of Rochester, with which he held ||1653. HOSTUS, Matthew, a German antiquary, HOTMAN, Francis, a learned French civilian, and commentator on Latin authors, born at Paris, in 1524, died in 1590. the deanery of Westminster; and, in 1802, ele- HOSTE, Paul la French jesuit, professor of vated to the more lucrative bishopric of St. mathematics at Toulon, and a mathematical Asaph. No man of the age, perhaps, possessed writer; he died in 1700. more of what is generally understood by the idea of recondite learning, or was more pro-died in 1587. foundly versed in classical chronology. He edited and illustrated some of the most important of Sir Isaac Newton's works, in 5 vols. 4to, and was himself the author of several esteemed ma- HOTTINGER, John Henry, a native of Zuthematical and theological productions. As a rich, distinguished for his great learning and tasenator, he was deservedly considered in the first lents. His abilities were so conspicuous, that class; there were few important discussions in he was educated at the public expense; he was the house of lords, especially when the topics re-professor of divinity and oriental languages at ferred to the hierarchical establishments of Eng-|Zurich, professor at Heidelberg, and ecclesiastiland, the French revolution, or the African slave cal counsellor to the elector Palatine. His writtrade, (of which he was a systematic opponent,)ings are very numerous. He died in 1667. in which his lordship did not participate. The HOTZE, an Austrian general, born in Zurich, reverend prelate was many years a leading mem-distinguished for his bravery, was killed in bat ber of the royal society; but withdrew from it, tle about 1799. as has been said, in consequence of a certain HOUARD DE LA MOTHE, Anthony, a high appointment taking place, of which he dis- French lawyer, skilled in the profession, and auapproved. His concluding words, on retiring,thor of several works connected with it; he were," I quit that temple where philosophy once died in 1803. presided, and where Newton was her officiating HOUBIGOUT, Charles Francis, a learned minister!" His lordship died at Brighton, Oct.divine, born at Paris, in 1686. He published an 4, 1806. excellent edition of the Hebrew Bible, with a HORSTIUS, James, a German physician, and Latin version, and notes, 4 vols. folio, 1753, and professor of medicine in the university of Helm-many other learned works, and died in 1783, in stadt; he died in 1600. the 98th year of his age. HORSTIUS, Gregory, of such reputation in HOUBRAKEN, Arnold, a Dutch painter, authe practice of physic, that he was usually cal-thor of the "Lives of the Flemish painters," led the Esculapius of Germany. He was born was born at Dordt, in 1660. in Torgau, in 1578, and died in 1636. HORTE, John, an English divine, bishop of Kilmore, and afterwards of Tuam, in Ireland; he died in 1751. HOUBRAKEN, Jacob, an eminent Dutch portrait and historical engraver, born in 1698, died at Amsterdam, in 1780. HOUCHARD, John Nicholas, a French general, who raised himself to the highest rank in the army during the revolution; he was guillo HORTENSIA, a celebrated Roman-matron, who, when the senate laid a heavy tax on the women of Rome, pleaded with so much elo-tined in 1793. quence in behalf of her sex, that the tax was considerably diminished. HOUDARD DE LA MOTTE, Anthony, a French writer. See MOTTE. HOUDRY, Vincent, a jesuit, distinguished as a popular preacher and writer, died at Paris, HORTENSIUS, Quintus, a celebrated Roman orator and poet, who, being eclipsed at the bar by Cicero, quitted it for a military life, and be-in 1730, aged 99. came military tribune, prætor, and consul. He died about 50 B. C. HORTENSIUS,Lambert, a Dutch philologist, poet, and historian, a native of Utrecht; he died in 1577. 248 HOUGH, John, bishop of Worcester, memorable for the noble stand he made, when president of Magdalen college, Oxford, against James ||II., who wanted arbitrarily to impose fellows and officers upon the college by his royal man |