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contained are quoted in an old English ecclesiastical history, and appear to have been written by a zealous, godly, and understanding woman, disgusted with the vices of her own age, and foreseeing that they would still bring forth more. Shocked that crimes and hypocrisy should pollute that holy religion in which her hope was grounded. She wrote also a poem upon medicine, and a book of Latin poems.



HIPPARCHA, a celebrated Lady, who flourished in the time of Alexander,

Addicted herself to philosophy, and wrote some things which have not been transmitted down to us; among which were tragedies, philosophical hypotheses, or suppositions; some reasons and questions proposed to Theodorus, surnamed the Atheist, &c. She married the philosopher Crates, notwithstanding his poverty, deformity, and the opposition of her parents, conforming, from her love to learning, cheerfully to his way of life. She had a son by him, named Pasicles.



HIPPO,

The daughter of Chiron the centaur, is numbered with the most celebrated Grecian philosophers.

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HOPTON (SUSAN), of the Family of the Hoptons, in Staffordshire, Wife of Richard Hopton, of Kingston, in Hereford, one of the Welsh Judges in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. Born 1627; died 1709, aged 82.

She, when very young, was induced by the argu-

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