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Rh we can therefore all love glory with the same enthusiasm, and we owe all to education ; (4) in this discourse the author treats of the ideas which are attached to such words as genius, imagination, talent, taste, good sense, &c. It is sufficient to add that, although the book was reprinted after the author s death, it ceased to have any influence even during his own life. In 1764 Helvetius visited England, and the next year, on the invitation of Frederick, he went to Berlin, where the king paid him marked attention. He then returned to his country estate and passed the remainder of his life in perfect tranquillity. He died in 1771 at the age of fifty- six, leaving behind him a widow, who died in 1800, and two daughters.

1em  HELVIDIUS PRISCUS lived in the, during the reigns of Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian. In those evil days he won the respect of all good men by his fearless love of freedom. Among the cringing and obsequious senators of Rome he dared to be sincere and outspoken. Tacitus says of him (Hist,, iv. 5) that in his early youth he devoted his great abilities to the highest pursuits, and made it his object to enter on public life with a spirit thoroughly fortified against all contingencies. It was natural that such a man should be a warm adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy. His father-in-law, Thrasea Pcetus, had been the same ; he had been driven to suicide in Nero s reign, and his last words to Helvidius were &quot; Young man, you have been born into times in which it is well to brace the spirit with examples of courage&quot; (Tacitus, Annals, xvi. 35). Although he repeatedly offended the emperor, he held several high offices. During Nero s reign he was qucestor in the province of Achaia ; he was also sent into Armenia in command of a legion, and by his good sense and moderation he succeeded in restoring peace and order in that country. By the provincials he was respected and trusted. His well-known sympathies with such men as Brutus and Cassius occasioned his banishment in, and he lived with his wife Fannia in Macedonia until Nero s death. Having been recalled to Rome by Galba in, he at once impeached Eprius Marcellus, one of the most villanous of the informers, and the very man who had been the accuser of Thrasea P&amp;lt;etus. After an angry debate he dropped the charge, as the condemnation of Marcellus would have involved a host of senators in like ruin. As praetor-elect he had once the courage to oppose Vitellius in the senate, and again as prsetor in the following year he ventured to argue against the financial policy of Vespasian. Such matters, he maintained, ought to be left to the discretion of the senate. He proposed that the Capitol, which had been destroyed in the Neronian con flagration, should be restored at the public cost. It would seem that he rather perversely went out of his way to insult Vespasian, saluting him by his private name, and not recognizing him as emperor in the edicts he had to publish as praetor. There was very possibly in all this some of the affectation which often characterized the Stoics. The end of it was that he was banished, his wife Fannia, whose constancy and virtue are highly commended by his friend the younger Pliny, going with him into exile. Shortly afterwards he was executed by Vespasian s order. His life was written at his widow s request by Herennius Senecio ; it took the form of a warm panegyric, and proved fatal to its author in the reign of Domitian.  {{ti|1em|{{larger|HELVOETSLUYS}} (in Dutch, Hellevoetsluis}, a fortified town of the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, situated in the south of. the island of Voorne-and-Putten, on the shore of the Haringvliet. It possesses a good harbour, a dry and a wet dock, extensive wharves, and a naval arsenal, and among its more important public build ings are the communal chambers, the Reformed church dating from 1661–1684, the Roman Catholic church, the synagogue, and the naval college. The population was only 1208 in 1795; by 1840 it had increased to 2523, and by 1874 it was 4135.}}

1em  HELYOT, (1660–1716), monastic historian, was born at Paris in January 16 GO, of supposed English descent. After spending his youth in study, he entered in his twenty, fourth year the convent of the third order of St Francis, founded at Picpus, near Paris, by his uncle Jerome Helyot, canon of St Sepulchre. There he took the name of Pere Hippolyte. Two journeys to Rome on monastic business afforded him the opportunity of travelling over most of Italy; and after his final return he saw much of France, while acting as secretary to various provincials of his order there. Both in Italy and France he was engaged in collecting materials for his great work, which occupied him about twenty-five years, L Histoire des Ordres Monastiques, Religieux, et Jfilitaires, et des Congregations Seculieres, de Van et de I autre Sexe, qui ont ete etaUies jusqu cfc present^ published in 8 volumes in 1714-21. Helyot died on January 5, 1716, before the fifth volume appeared, but his friend Maximilian Bullot completed the edition. This work, appearing at first anonymously, has been republished several times, and translated into German. Helyot s only other noteworthy work is Le Chretien Mourant (1695).  HEMANS, (1793–1835), was born in Duke Street, Liverpool, September 25, 1793. Her father, George Browne, of Irish extraction, was at the time of her birth a merchant in Liverpool, and her mother, whose maiden name was Wagner, was the daughter of the Austrian and Tuscan consul at Liverpool, and of united German and Italian descent. Felicia, the fifth of seven children, was scarcely seven years old when her father failed in business, and retired with his family to Gwrych, near Abergele; and there the young poetess and her brothers and sisters grew up in the wildest seclusion, in a romantic old house by the sea-shore, and in the very midst of the mountains and myths of Wales, the monotony of her young life being varied only by two visits to London, which she never revisited in after years. The little Felicia was a lovely, precocious child. Her education was desultory ; and she may indeed be said to have educated herself, the only subjects in which she ever received regular instruction having been French, English grammar, and the rudiments of Latin. Books of chronicle and romance, and every kind of poetry, she read with avidity ; and she studied Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German sufficiently to be able to read them with ease and enjoyment. She was also fond of music, and played on the harp and piano, her preference being for simple national and pathetic melodies, especially those of Wales and Spain. In 1808, when she was only fourteen, a quarto volume of her Juvenile Poems was pub lished by subscription. Among the earliest of these were &quot; Congratulatory Lines on her Mother s Birthday,&quot; &quot; A Prayer,&quot; an &quot;Address to the Deity,&quot; and some &quot;Lines to Shakespeare,&quot; stiff, little, childish productions, which show, however, a good ear for rhythm and a considerable imitative faculty. The verses having been rather harshly 