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CHRIST, Dr. Hanna's Life of, 167; success of the two earlier volumes, 168; Dr. Young's "Christ of History," ib.; the problem as to the religious sig- nificance of the life of Christ, one of historical philosophy, 169; the idea of rewriting the life of Jesus a modern conception, ib.; Socrates and Christ, 170; psychological and critical study of the Gospels, 171; early efforts-Jeremy Taylor, ib.; Hess, Herder, Paulus, 172; Schleiermacher, Hase, ib.; Strauss's "Life of Jesus," 170, 173; his treatment of the supernatural, ib.; the mythi- cal theory, 174; the works of Neander, 175, and Renan, 175, 176; the latter replied to by Edmond de Pressensé, 176, 177; Ellicott's Bampton Lec- tures, 177; Dr. Kitto's Illustrations,-work of Rev. Isaac Williams,-and Ecce Homo, 177, 178; prerequisites to an adequate biography, 178; char- acteristics of Dr. Hanna's work, 178, 179; the influence of Nature on Christ, 179; Dean Stanley, ib.; break and sequences in the Evangelical nar- ratives, 179, 180; the soundings of moral evidence in Dr. Hanna's work, 180; indirect signs of the supernatural in Christ's life, 181; its consistent harmony shown, contrary to Renan, De Wette, Paulus, 181, 182; instances of Christ's unparalleled assumptions, if only human, 182, 183; the Great Commission, 184; problems underlying the nar- rative, 184, 185; the nature of our Lord's resur- rection body, 185; the fundamental feature which distinguishes this life from those by Strauss and Renan, 186; the question of the miraculous, 187; the natural and supernatural, ib.; the es- sential nature of a miracle, 188; the Ideal real- ized in One Human Life, 189.
DANISH Literature; see Holberg.
Tyndale, Bishop Bale, and others, 37, 38; early printers chiefly occupied with works in the vernacular, 38; translations from the classics, 39, and their influence on the language, 40; Shakespeare's dramatic works, ib., 44, 45; changes affecting the language during the period of the Revolution,--English literature after the Restoration, 40; fashionable Gallicisms, 41, 42; literature of Queen Anne's reign, 42; alleged re- finement of the language, 43; Dryden, and his criticism of the Elizabethan dramatists, 43,45; Addison and his writings, 45; his criticism of Milton's language, 46,47; and protest against ne- ologisms, 47; Alexander Pope, 48; Johnson, and his criticism of Shakespeare, 48, 49; Dryden's version of "Troilus and Cressida," 49, 50; influ- ence of the events in the latter half of the eigh- teenth century on the literature of the nineteenth, 50,-exuberance of original poetic genius, ib.; contrast between the close of the sixteenth and that of the eighteenth century, 50, 51; expansion of social and political interests, and its intellectu- al effect, 51; the work of reflective expansion in our native vocabulary, 52.
European Morals,-History of, by W. E. H. Lecky, 202; object of the work, ib.; apparent inconsis- tencies in it, 202, 203; moral condition of the Roman Empire, 204; mortifying result of the teachings of Pagan philosophy, ib.; contentions between the Stoics and the Epicureans, 205; in- fluence of the conquests of Alexander, ib.; the dogma of universal brotherhood, 206; Christian- ity in the Empire, ib.; position of women under its influence, ib.; success and ultimate triumph of Christianity, how accounted for, 207; two of the most important human causes-(1.) Doctrine of future life, 207, 208; (2.) Formation of a strong character, 208, 209; Constantine the Great, 209; the progress of moral ideas and practice in the first ages of Christianity, 210; excesses and per- versions of its real force, ib.; misapprehension in- volved in the charge brought against Christianity as to its discouragement of patriotism, 210, 211; the toleration of the Roman government, 212, as exemplified while conquering and triumphant, 212, and under reverses, 213; persecution of the Chris- tians, ib.; the full effect of Christian principle on domestic life under the Empire, unrecorded, 214; the history of European morals leaves no impeach- ment on the claim of Christianity to be divine, 215.
EARLY History of Man: His antiquity-Ancient Egypt, 272, 274; China, 274; the "mother- tribe" of the Indo-Europeans, ib.; archæology, 276, 277; Primitive state, 277; definition of ci- vilisation, 278; the grouping of men in societies, 278, 281; Sir George Grey's hypothesis, 281; progress in arts and sciences, 282; language- its origin, 282, 283; systems of religion, 283, 284; method of studing early history, 286; inequali- ties of development, 286, 288; symbols of law and ceremony, 288, 289; summary, 290. English language, revolutions in its history, 34; the great creative period of English literature that of the Reformation, 35; contrast between it and the productive epoch of our literature, ib.; spirit of nationality expressed, 36; reign of Henry VIII., ib.; influence of the Reformation on our language, 37;-through translations of works by Continental Reformers, ib.; and by the controver- sies it provoked--Sir Thomas More and William
GEOLOGICAL Time, 215; trade-unionism in science, 216; Hooker on Lyell, ib.; use of mathematics, 217; the anonymous writer in the Pall Mall Ga- zette, ib.; the grand question in geology, 218; the Uniformitarian school, ib.; Dr. Hooker's Ad- dress, 219; place assigned to mathematics in this controversy, ib.; resistance to planets' motions, 220; resistance offered by the tides to the earth's rotation, ib.; tidal reaction on the moon, 221; how
this bears on the speculations of geologists, ib.; argument from earth's figure, 222; the Uniformi- tarian hypothesis disproved, 222, 223; examina- tion of Professor Huxley's Address, 223 seq.; British popular geology, 225; Sir W. Thomson's Reply, 226; periods required by Uniformitarians, 227; general survey of the subject, 228 seq.; Thomson's three arguments, 228, 231; answer to Huxley's charge of inconsistency, 231, 232; the reasoning in Thomson's arguments strictly cu- mulative, 232; triumph of scientific truth, 232, 233. Germany, Reconstruction of, 133; the battle of Sadowa, and its results, ib.; exceptional position of Germany amongst her neighbours from the first dawn of her history, 133, 134; the French Revolution, 134; history of the Confederation of the Rhine, 185; its contract with France, ib.; the battle of Jena, ib.; the history of Prussia between 1807 and 1813 the turning point in the history of Germany, 135,136; the war of liberation, ib.; Prussia and Aus- tria, 136,137; Prussia at the Vienna Congress, 137; King Frederick-William 11., 138; neither freedom nor union for Germany gained at Vienna, ib.; Baron von Stein, ib.; Act of the Germanic Confederation, 139,-its distinctive character, ib.; the Frankfort Diet, 139,140; policies of Austria and Prussia subsequent to the Final Act of 1820, 140; Germany's political professors, 140,141; the "Staatenbund," 141, and the "Bundesstaat," ib. ; the discussions of 1848-49 in the Frankfort Par- liament, 142; the crown of Germany offered to the King of Prussia, but declined, 143,144; the new Confederacy proposed by Prussia, 144; Aus- tria summons the Diet to meet at Frankfort, ib.; the subsequent conflict, 145, 146; the Italian war gives the signal for the resuscitation of the Ger- man question, 146; the campaign of 1859, 147; the attitude of the several governments interested in the solution of the German question, 147,148; incidents of the political campaign between the Great Germans and the Little Germans, 148, 149; the programme of reform issued by the Wurz- burg Coalition, 149; replies of Austria and Prus- sia, 150; formation of the Bismarck ministry at Berlin, 150,151, and the legacies bequeathed to him by his predecessors, 151,152; the two lines of policy taken up by him, 152; aspect of the con- flict with the Würzburg Coalition at this time, 153; eventful conversation between Bismarck and the Austrian Minister at Berlin, 153,154; in- terview between the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia, 154; a Congress of Sovereigns 'proposed shortly afterwards by Austria, ib., de- clined by Prussia, ib.; the Austrian programme, 155,156; reply of the Prussian cabinet, 157; in- dependent action of the two great Powers, 158; the controversy interrupted by the death of the King of Denmark, ib.; subsequent events till the battle of Sadowa, ib.; reconstructed Germany, 158,160; examination of the North German Con- stitution, 162,166.
for the Moral Philosophy Chair in Edinburgh, 259; election to that of Civil History, ib.; his marriage, and its influence on his character and subsequent career, 259,260; researches in Phre- nology, 260; Mr. Carlyle's reminiscences of him, 260,261; his first appearance as a critic, in 1829, in Edinburgh Review, 261,262; subsequent con- tributions to that Journal, 262; contest for the Chair of Logic in 1836, 263,264; opening of the class, 264; description of the class-room, 265; sketch by Professor Baynes, 265,266; remini- scences by Dr. Cairns, 266; work of the class, 266,267; courtesy to his students, and the gener- al effect and value of his teaching, 267; influence of his writings in America-passage from a pa- per by Professor Porter, 268; his edition of Reid's Works, ib.; honours conferred on him from abroad, ib.; small recognition of his claims in his own country, 269; struck by paralysis in 1844, ib.; the pension, 270; Sir William in his latter days, 270,271; his edition of Dugald Stew- art's Works, 271; unfinished literary labours, 271,272; last years, illness, and death, 272. Holberg, Ludvig,--the father of modern Danish literature, 233; no national literature before him, 233,234; parentage, 234; visit to Holland, ib.; visits England, and studies at Oxford, 234,235; returns to Copenhagen and lectures on his trav- els, 235; publishes his first work, ib.; his visit to Rome, and return to Copenhagen, where he is appointed Professor of Latin and Rhetoric, 236; period of literary activity, 236,237; his illness and death, 237,238; his simple mode of life, 238; distinctive features of his genius, ib. ; his desire to found a national literature, 239; his strength as a moralist, and his weakness, 239,240; his influence on the language, 240,241; his three principal works-"Peder Paars," 241; "Niels Klim," 242, and the Comedies, 243; comparison between Holberg and Molière, 244; translations, from one of his comedies, "Erasmus Montanus," 244,249; charges brought against his comedies, 249,250; the "Epistles," 250; influence of his works on the minds of his contemporaries, 250,251. Hudson's Bay Company, The origin, history, and present condition of the Red River Settlement, 83, 84; Sebastian Cabot-Henry Hudson-Prince Ru- pert, 84; nature of the Company's title, 84, 85; Parliament petitioned in 1690, by the traders, 85; the Company's failure, 86; the first legislative in- quiry into its affairs, ib.; the North-West Fur Com- pany, 87; rivalry and warfare between the Com- panies, and their subsequent amalgamation, ib.; the Charter of the Company denounced as illegal ---opinion of counsel as to its validity, ib.; Lord Brougham's opinion, 88; Right Hon. Edward Ellice, ib.; misgovernment of Red River Settle- ment, and grievances of the settlers, 88, 89; the Hudson's Bay dispute, 90; the Company's preten- sions, ib.; the portion of territory styled the Fertile Belt, ib.; the character of the country misrepresented by the Company's officials, ib. seq.; Sir George Simpson's paradox, 91; expeditions to explore the country, 91, 92; route to the Rocky Mountains, 92; testimony of the independent ex- plorers, Lord Milton and Dr. Cheadle, ib.; change of opinion indicated in the Company's last pros- pectus, 98; the Company and the Stock-Ex- change, ib.; agitation in the Dominion of Canada as to the acquisition of the Company's territory, 94; Canadian forests, ib.; definition of the foot- ing on which the Company was to stand in rela- tion to the Dominion, 95; Mr. Gladstone's propo- sitions, 95, 96; the "Rupert's Land Act, 1868," 96; Colonial administration, 96, 97; desirability of extinguishing the claims of the Company by
HAMILTON, Sir William,-Memoir of, 251; birth and parentage, 252; early studies, 253; at Glasgow and Oxford Universities, 253,254; intimate friends, 254; Mr. Christie's Oxford reminiscences, 254,255; additional particulars by Mr. Traill, 255, 256; final examination for his degree at Oxford, 256; studies for the Scottish Bar, and passes as advocate, ib.; adjudged heir-male to Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston, ib.; the patrimonial estate, ib.; notice of his ancestors, ib.; career at the Bar, 257; his merits unrecognised, 257,258; life in Edinburgh, 1813 to 1820-anecdote of this period given by Professor Baynes, 258,259; candidature
an immediate payment in cash, 97; our imperial policy, 98; Canada as a field for emigration, ib. ; route to the East through the Dominion of Cana- da, 99; importance of having this controversy with the Hudson's Bay Company finally settled, ib.; probable issue of its settlement, ib.
lums in England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, ib.; nature and causes of the increase, ib.; the numbers admitted into asylums during the last ten years, 65, 66; discharges and admissions une- qual 66, 67; private and pauper lunatics, ib.; dif- ferent classes of the discharged, 67, 68; the cura- ble and incurable, 68; the question as to the possibility of providing for some of the insane poor otherwise than in asylums, with probable ben- efit, 69, 70; the Report of the Scotch Commis- sioners on this question, 70; desirability of pro- viding for this class less pretentious buildings, 71; the additions in constant demand in County and District Asylums, 71, 72; remedies proposed: (1.) transference to buildings intermediate in character between work-houses and asylums, 73, 74; (2.) transference to the workhouse, 74; condition of the insane in workhouses, ib.-in England, 74, 75-in Scotland, ib.-and in Ireland, 76; (3.) transference to private dwellings, ib.; state of pauper lunatics so disposed of at present, in Eng- land, 77-in Scotland, 78; seq.--and in Ireland, 79; results of the examination of the three propo- sed outlets for the chronic insane in asylums, 79, 80; recent provisions of the law to keep down un- due accumulation in establishments, 80, 81; oth- er considerations affecting this question, 81; mad- houses and asylums, ib.; reform in treatment of the insane, 82; importance of early treatment of the disease, ib.; the relations between mental and bodily health, 83; importance of the whole subject, ib.
INDIA,-Public Works in: want of roads, 119; ap- plication of the term "Public Works," 120; the means available for work,-forced labour, ib.; the idea of "Government" to a Hindu, ib.; com- pulsory labour under the Mogul Shahs, 120, 121; peculiar position of the British Government in India, 121; its results-much writing, little work- ing, ib.; difficulties and drawbacks to the opera- tions of the Public Works department, 121, 122; responsibilities of the officers, 122; their work, 122, 123; financial arrangements, 124; the American blockade and the supply of cotton, 125; need of assistance for works in India, ib. ; inducements to lay out money in improving India, 125, 126, staff of the Department, 126; engi- neering Colleges, ib.; labour and labourers in India, 127; Major Chesney's "Indian Polity," 127, 128; State versus private enterprise, 128; operations connected with irrigation, ib.; road-making hin- dered by the want of suitable materials, 129; railways, tramways, and bridges, 130; the con- tract system, ib.; what is necessary to make the Public Works department really useful, 130, 131; administration of the department, 181; conse- quences of the minute system of supervision at present exercised, 132; the question of Russian invasion, ib.; importance and necessity of enlist- ing on our side the interests and sympathies of the people of India, 133.
Irish Church Measure, 300; Lord Salisbury on the functions of the House of Lords, ib.; his advice with regard to its present action, 301, 302; it is more than a Senate, 302; the attainment of equality between the confessions the present problem, 303; policy of Gladstone and Bright, ib. ; the Irish Church Bill and its object, 303, 304; its character as passed by the House of Commons, 304, 305; examination of Mr. Disraeli's speech on the second reading, 305, 306; the question of endowments, 307, 308; position of the Church as contemplated by the Bill, 309; arrangements for the employment of the surplus, 310; Maynooth and the Regium Donum, ib.; tithes, ib.; general justice of the measure, 310, 311; present state of Ireland, 311; effect of the large majorities in the House on the great body of the people, 311, 312; the new Irish Lord Chancellor, 312; to what are the recent outrages in Ireland to be attributed? 313, 314; liberation of the Fenian prisoners, 315; the banquet at Cork, 316; demonstrations against the Bill in the North, ib.; amendments to be in- troduced in the House of Lords, 317; generosity and justice, 318.
MAN, Early History of; see Early. Man's Chief End,-What is it? 100; Mr. Arnold on "Culture and Anarchy," ib.; the ideal of culture and its realization, 101; thesis to be proved,- that culture prosecuted with a view to the entire perfection of our manhood and the reflex glory of God, is the one absolute and untransferable end of human existence, ib. ; what are the essentials of human nature? 101, 102; "man's chief end" as defined by the Westminster divines, 102, 103; the educational schemes of so-called "practical men vitiated by a fundamental flaw, 103, 104; this doctrine of culture not separative and exclusive, but intensely social, 104; a well-educated mind sympathizes with other departments of study than those it is specially acquainted with, 105; ideal of an educated life, 105, 106; the religious facul- ty, 106, 107; the relation in which religious cul- ture stands to human perfection, 107; operation of the law of intellectual and moral habit, 108; three results of recognising the ideal, as here de- fined, 108, 109; can this ideal be realized? 109; obstacles and objections, 110, 111; summary of the laws of culture, 111, 112; Mr. Arnold's teach- ing on this subject, 112; Hellenism and Hebraism, 113; contrast between the two tendencies so de- signated, 113, 114; Mr. Arnold's doctrine lays too much stress on thought, and indefinitely postpones action, 114; his anticipations of the future some- what sad, 115; and why, ib.; his range of culture unduly narrowed, 115, 116; his antagonism to "machinery," 116; the austerity of his attitude towards his own generation, 117; his classifica- tion of British society, 118; "whence do we come ?" "whither do we tend ?" 118, 119. Milman's (Dean) "Annals of St. Paul's," 52; his early life, and literary labours, 52, 53; careless editing of the "Annals," 54; notices of early Deans, ib.; and Bishops of London, 55; the hu mour and urbanity of his writings, ib.; his style compared with that of Gibbon, 56, 57; charac- teristics of it, 57, 59; controversies in which he was engaged, 59; his "History of the Jews," 59,
LANDOR, Walter Savage,-Forster's biography of, 290; birth and parentage, 291, 292; his way- wardness as a boy, 292; at Rugby school, 293; his year at Oxford, 294; Dorothea Lyttleton, ib.; becomes an author, 295; writes political articles -visit to Paris, 295, 296; residence at Bath-- "Ianthe," 296; raid into Spain-purchase of Llanthony, 296, 297; marriage with Julia Thuil- lier, 297; settles at Florence till 1835, when he returned to Bath, 297, 298; acquaintanceships formed there-Forster, Dickens, Eliza Lynn, 298; death at Florence, ib.; description of his person, ib.; his love of children, 299; remarks on his genius, ib.
Lunacy, Increase of, 65; statistics of the asy-
this bears on the speculations of geologists, ib.; argument from earth's figure, 222; the Uniformi- tarian hypothesis disproved, 222, 223; examina- tion of Professor Huxley's Address, 223 seq.; British popular geology, 225; Sir W. Thomson's Reply, 226; periods required by Uniformitarians, 227; general survey of the subject, 228 seq.; Thomson's three arguments, 228, 281; answer to Huxley's charge of inconsistency, 231, 232; the reasoning in Thomson's arguments strictly cu- mulative, 232; triumph of scientific truth, 232, 233. Germany, Reconstruction of, 133; the battle of Sadowa, and its results, ib.; exceptional position of Germany amongst her neighbours from the first dawn of her history, 133, 134; the French Revolution, 134; history of the Confederation of the Rhine, 135; its contract with France, ib.; the battle of Jena, ib.; the history of Prussia between 1807 and 1813 the turning point in the history of Germany, 135,136; the war of liberation, ib.; Prussia and Aus- tria, 136,137; Prussia at the Vienna Congress, 137; King Frederick-William III., 138; neither freedom nor union for Germany gained at Vienna, ib.; Baron von Stein, ib.; Act of the Germanic Confederation, 139,-its distinctive character, ib.; the Frankfort Diet, 139,140; policies of Austria and Prussia subsequent to the Final Act of 1820, 140; Germany's political professors, 140,141; the "Staatenbund," 141, and the "Bundesstaat," ib.; the discussions of 1848-49 in the Frankfort Par- liament, 142; the crown of Germany offered to the King of Prussia, but declined, 143,144; the new Confederacy proposed by Prussia, 144; Aus- tria summons the Diet to meet at Frankfort, ib.; the subsequent conflict, 145, 146; the Italian war gives the signal for the resuscitation of the Ger- man question, 146; the campaign of 1859, 147; the attitude of the several governments interested in the solution of the German question, 147,148; incidents of the political campaign between the Great Germans and the Little Germans, 148, 149; the programme of reform issued by the Wurz- burg Coalition, 149; replies of Austria and Prus- sia, 150; formation of the Bismarck ministry at Berlin, 150,151, and the legacies bequeathed to him by his predecessors, 151,152; the two lines of policy taken up by him, 152; aspect of the con- flict with the Würzburg Coalition at this time, 153; eventful conversation between Bismarck and the Austrian Minister at Berlin, 153,154; in- terview between the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia, 154; a Congress of Sovereigns 'proposed shortly afterwards by Austria, ib., de- clined by Prussia, ib.; the Austrian programme, 155,156; reply of the Prussian cabinet, 157; in- dependent action of the two great Powers, 158; the controversy interrupted by the death of the King of Denmark, ib.; subsequent events till the battle of Sadowa, ib.; reconstructed Germany, 158,160; examination of the North German Con- stitution, 162,166.
for the Moral Philosophy Chair in Edinburgh, 259; election to that of Civil History, ib.; his marriage, and its influence on his character and subsequent career, 259,260; researches in Phre- nology, 260; Mr. Carlyle's reminiscences of him, 260,261; his first appearance as a critic, in 1829, in Edinburgh Review, 261,262; subsequent con- tributions to that Journal, 262; contest for the Chair of Logic in 1836, 263,264; opening of the class, 264; description of the class-room, 265; sketch by Professor Baynes, 265,266; remini- scences by Dr. Cairns, 266; work of the class, 266,267; courtesy to his students, and the gener al effect and value of his teaching, 267; influence of his writings in America-passage from a pa- per by Professor Porter, 268; his edition of Reid's Works, ib.; honours conferred on him from abroad, ib.; small recognition of his claims in his own country, 269; struck by paralysis in 1844, ib.; the pension, 270; Sir William in his latter days, 270,271; his edition of Dugald Stew- art's Works, 271; unfinished literary labours, 271,272; last years, illness, and death, 272. Holberg, Ludvig,--the father of modern Danish literature, 233; no national literature before him, 233,234; parentage, 234; visit to Holland, ib.; visits England, and studies at Oxford, 234,235 ; returns to Copenhagen and lectures on his trav- els, 235; publishes his first work, ib.; his visit to Rome, and return to Copenhagen, where he is appointed Professor of Latin and Rhetoric, 236; period of literary activity, 236,237; his illness and death, 237,238; his simple mode of life, 238; distinctive features of his genius, ib.; his desire to found a national literature, 239; his strength as a moralist, and his weakness, 239,240; his influence on the language, 240,241; his three principal works-"Peder Paars," 241; "Niels Klim," 242, and the Comedies, 243; comparison between Holberg and Molière, 244; translations, from one of his comedies, "Erasmus Montanus," 244,249; charges brought against his comedies, 249,250; the "Epistles," 250; influence of his works on the minds of his contemporaries, 250,251. Hudson's Bay Company, The: origin, history, and present condition of the Red River Settlement, 83, 84; Sebastian Cabot-Henry Hudson--Prince Ru- pert, 84; nature of the Company's title, 84, 85; Parliament petitioned in 1690, by the traders, 85; the Company's failure, 86; the first legislative in- quiry into its affairs, ib.; the North-West Fur Com- pany, 87; rivalry and warfare between the Com- panies, and their subsequent amalgamation, ib.; the Charter of the Company denounced as illegal -opinion of counsel as to its validity, ib.; Lord Brougham's opinion, 88; Right Hon. Edward Ellice, ib.; misgovernment of Red River Settle- ment, and grievances of the settlers, 88, 89; the Hudson's Bay dispute, 90; the Company's preten- sions, fb.; the portion of territory styled the Fertile Belt, ib.; the character of the country misrepresented by the Company's officials, ib. seq.; Sir George Simpson's paradox, 91; expeditions to explore the country, 91, 92; route to the Rocky Mountains, 92; testimony of the independent ex- plorers, Lord Milton and Dr. Cheadle, ib.; change of opinion indicated in the Company's last pros- pectus, 98; the Company and the Stock-Ex- change, ib.; agitation in the Dominion of Canada as to the acquisition of the Company's territory, 94; Canadian forests, ib.; definition of the foot- ing on which the Company was to stand in rela- tion to the Dominion, 95; Mr. Gladstone's propo- sitions, 95, 96; the "Rupert's Land Act, 1868," 96; Colonial administration, 96, 97; desirability of extinguishing the claims of the Company by
HAMILTON, Sir William,-Memoir of, 251; birth and parentage, 252; early studies, 253; at Glasgow and Oxford Universities, 253,254; intimate friends, 254; Mr. Christie's Oxford reminiscences, 254,255; additional particulars by Mr. Traill, 255, 256; final examination for his degree at Oxford, 256; studies for the Scottish Bar, and passes as advocate, ib.; adjudged heir-male to Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston, ib.; the patrimonial estate, ib.; notice of his ancestors, ib.; career at the Bar, 257; his merits unrecognised, 257,258; life in Edinburgh, 1813 to 1820--anecdote of this period given by Professor Baynes, 258,259; candidature i
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