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Gulosulus, his criminal indulgence in excessive feeding exposed, iii. 454.

Habits, their uncommon influences and effects, ii. 366.

Hacho, king of Lapland, his history, iv. 430.

Hale, sir Matthew, his prudent concern for securing the reputation of virtue, ii. 70.
  the mutilation which his pleas of the crown suffered, iv. 342.

Halifax, Charles Montague, earl of, his life, vii. 393.
  born at Horton in Northamptonshire, April 16, 1661, ibid.
  king's scholar at Westminster, ibid.
  solicited to be removed to Cambridge, on account of his friendship with Mr. Stepney, ibid.
  joined Prior in the City Mouse and Country Mouse, ibid.
  signed the invitation to the prince of Orange, and sat in the convention, 394.
  married the countess dowager of Manchester, ibid.
  chancellor of the exchequer, 1694, ibid.
  completed a recoinage, ibid.
  projected the general fund, and raised the credit of the exchequer, 395.
  impeached by the commons, but the articles were dismissed by the lords, ibid.
  dismissed from the council by queen Anne, ibid.
  again attacked by the commons, and protected by the lords, ibid.
  negotiated the union with Scotland, ibid.
  appointed one of the regents at the death of the queen, ibid.
  created earl of Halifax, by George the first, ibid.
  flattered by all the poets of the time, except Swift and Pope, ibid.
  fed with dedications, and no dedicator went unrewarded, 396.
  rather a pretender to taste than really possessed of it, viii. 263.
  story of Pope's reading his translation of the Iliad to him, ibid.

Hamet, the Indian, the moderation and modesty of his desires, ii. 188.

——, the poet, his ingratitude, iii. 386.

Hammond, Dr. Henry, his dispute with Cheynel in defence of the practical catechism, vi. 423.

——, James, his life, viii. 90.
  born about 1710, and educated at Westminster, ibid.
  equerry to the prince of Wales, ibid.
  a companion of Cobham, Lyttelton, and Chesterfield, 91.
  member of parliament for Truro, ibid.
  died in June, 1742, ibid.
  the preface to his elegies, written by the earl of Chesterfield, ibid.

Hamlet, observations on Shakespeare's tragedy of, v. 177.

Hampton's Polybius, review of, vi. 77.

Hanmer, sir Thomas, observations on his edition of Shakespeare's works, v. 138.
  epitaphium, i. 132.
  epitaph paraphrased by Dr. Johnson, 134.

Hanway, Jonas, review of his Eight Days' Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames, with an Essay on Tea, vi. 20.
  reply to a paper of his in the Gazetteer of May 26, 1757, 32.

Happiness, not promoted by fortune, rank, or capacity, viii. 96.
  our indulging chimerical wishes of it, often productive of great disappointment, ii. 20.
  when dependent upon external circumstances, precarious and delusive, 25.
  chimerical provision for it exploded, 26, 27.
  of mankind, dependant not upon opinion, but on practice, 131.
  the insufficiency of sensual pleasures to procure it, 259.
  the folly of repining at it in others, 300.
  the anxieties by which it is often disturbed in females, iii. 91.
  the fruition of it dependant on our own sensations, iii. 213.
  the highest we can enjoy in this life derived from self-approbation, and the applauses of conscience, 214.
  the methods by which it may be often destroyed, 325.
  distant and lasting, secured only by the forbearance of present gratifications, 335.
  human schemes of promoting it visionary and delusive, 437, 457.
  the general pursuit of it at a distance, iv. 47.
  to be acquired only by industry, 48.
  the folly of a tradesman seeking it in rural retirement, iv. 90.
  the folly of beholding it at a distance, 101.
  how advanced by comparison with misery, 107.
  not to be found in idleness, 108.
  generally found in labours of great and laudable undertakings, ibid.
  the happiest man who is in want of the fewest things, 114.
  inquiry into the value and importance of, vi. 58.
  not well enjoyed without a knowledge of the miseries of life, 225. inquiry into, ibid.
  not to be found in the company of young men of spirit and gaiety, 238.
  not in pastoral life, 242.
  not in the greatest prosperity, 243.
  not in a state of solitude, 244.
  not in living according to nature, 247.
  not in high stations, 250.
  not in private life, 252.
  not often found between parents and children, 254.
  not in the single life, 255.

Harcourt, honourable Simon, Pope's epitaph on him, viii. 351.