HABITS, low and immoral, how far likely to be corrected by foreign
travel, iv. 157.
HALE’S CASE, afforded an alarming proof of the influence of the
dispensing power, iv. 55.
HAMPDEN, Mr. his allegation in the great cause of ship-money, 78. n.
HARRINGTON, Sir James, his opinion on the statutes against retainers,
in Henry VII.’s reign, 184. n.
HARRISON, his account of the progress of learning in Queen Elizabeth’s
reign, iii. 237. n.
HELMET, used as a signal of hospitality in the ages of chivalry, iii.
182.
HENRIADE, why not long-lived, iv. 331.
HENRY III. issued a prohibition against the teachers of the Roman law
in London, iii. 357, 358.
HENRY VII. his character, iv. 19.
increased his own authority and diminished that of his nobles, 25.
filled the great offices with churchmen only, 26.
exercised the dispensing power, contrary to act of parliament, 53.
HENRY VIII. favoured the study of the civil law, though constrained to
abolish it, iii. 380.
his character, iv. 19.
advantageous circumstances on his accession, 29.
his rupture with the court of Rome, _ib._
obtained of his parliament to have his proclamations pass for laws,
34.
HELVIDIUS, PRISCUS, a fine trait in his character, as given by
Tacitus, iii. 142.
HENTZNERUS, PAULUS, praises Queen Elizabeth’s skill in languages,
iii. 257. n.
HERBERT, Mr. GEORGE, commended king James as a greater orator than
any of the ancients, iii. 240. n.
HERCULES, a knight errant, iv. 266.
HEROIC POETRY, why it has survived the Gothic, iv. 333.
HIGH COMMISSION COURT, iii. 381.
in what originating, iv. 49.
HISTORY, ENGLISH, study of it essential to a young senator, iv. 142.
HOBBES, Mr. assisted in establishing a new sort of criticism, iv. 311.
his notion of poetical truth, 324.
HOMER, correspondence of his descriptions with those of Gothic
romance, iv. 266.
his two poems intended to expose the evils arising from the
political state of old Greece, 277.
felicity of his age, for poetical manners, 280.
HOSPITALITY, much practised by the great, in former times, iii. 181.
species of it peculiar to the purer ages of chivalry, 182. n.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, its origin, iii. 340.
generated by the constitution, 346.
HUMAN NATURE, how to be studied, iv. 197.
HUME, ground of his apology for the House of Stuart, iii. 391. n.
his account of the feudal times the best part of his history of
England, iv. 80. n.
his zeal for the house of Stuart a disgrace to his work, 82.