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Hastings, Warren, 54, 55

Haussonville, M. d', 134, 138

Hawkesbury, Lord, 161

Hawtrey, Provost, 265

Heber, Bishop, 255

High Church movement, 90, 92, 249-251, 270

Hippisley, Sir John, 163, 169

Historians, qualities requisite, 2, 4-6, 10-12; motto for, 10; scientific school, 2-4; literary, 3; methods, 7, 8, 22, 23; applied to religion, 97-99; eighteenth century, 22, 23; fatalist school, 29, 30; individualist school, 29, 31

History: biographical element, 7, 9; individual influences, 12, 13; fiction and, 20; accident as affecting, 31, 100; of institutions, 27, 28; of revolutions, 29, 30, 34-38; speculations, 32, 33; advantages of studying, 38-40; moral lessons, 40, 42

Hobbes, 94, 98, 99

Home Rule, see under Ireland

Homer, 16, 22

Ideals, varying popular, 14-19

Imperial Institute, 43

Imperialism, 46-51, 63, 64, 296

India, 44, 46-48, 54, 55, 57, 58, 61, 62, 277

Ireland (see also Ulster): invasions, 69; rebellions, 71, 82, 83, 85, 157; influence of the Reformation, 70; under the Stuarts, 71; trade, 71, 72, 75, 78; effects of English Revolution, 71, 72; of American Revolution, 77, 78; of French Revolution, 82; Young's views on, 76, 77; Catholics and Protestants, 70-79, 81-87; Volunteer movement, 78, 87; political agitation, 77, 78, 82, 87, 88; union with Great Britain, 74, 75, 81, 83-85, 157; Catholic Emancipation, 81-86, 157-174, 189, 194-198; corruption, 175-179, 181, 183; discontent, 165, 183, 184, 189, 194; tithe commutation, 185-187; Church disestablishment, 214, 215, 250, 283; land tenure, 70, 75-77, 86, 87; landlords, 75-77, 79, 86, 87; Home Rule, 25, 87-89, 234, 246, 286, 296; Queen Victoria's visit, 290, 291; present condition, 86, 87; representation in Parliament, 86

Irish Acts of Parliament, of settlement, 71; octennial, 77; of 1793, 85, 158, 159; of union, 74, 75, 81, 83-85

Irish Parliament, 71, 72, 74, 75, 77-83, 85

Irishmen, United, 81, 84, 85

Isabella of Spain, Queen, 295

Italian art, 103

Italy, 97, 98, 145, 146

Jefferson, quoted, 37, 38

Jeffrey, 107

Jewish type, stability of, 120, 121; trade, 118, 119, 121; writings, modern investigation of, 8, 9, 257-259, 261, 262, 271, 272

Jews, calumnies against, 117, 118; characteristics, 118-130; code, 121; compared with other tribes, 119; continuity of race, 119, 120; distinguished, 126-129; persecution of, 116-121, 123-126; return of, to Palestine, 129, 130; Milman's 'History of the', 257, 258, 262, 272

Kant, Immanuel, 92, 147, 247

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