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# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Hentz, Caroline Lee

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HENTZ, CAROLINE LEE,
Was born in Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts. Her father was General John Whiting, of the army. Her two brothers were also officers in the army, and one of them. General Henry Whiting, was aide-de-camp to General Taylor, in the Mexican war. Miss Whiting began to write when very young; and before she had completed her twelfth year, she had composed a poem, a novel, and a tragedy in five acts, full of impassioned scenes and romantic situations. ​Upon her marriage, she removed to Chapel Hill, North Carolina; in its University, her husband, Mr. N. M. Hentz, was Professor of Modern Languages. After some years spent in this place, they took charge of a flourishing female academy near Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1834, they went to reside near Florence, Alabama, at a place they called Locust Dell, where they taught for several years. Stronger inducements led them to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the seat of the University, where they spent two years. In 1845, Mr. Hentz, removed to Tuskegee with his family, and at present they are residing in Columbus, Georgia, a beautiful city on the banks of the Chattahooche.
The first work which Mrs. Hentz published, was her drama "De Lara, or the Moorish Bride," for which she obtained the prize of five hundred dollars and a gold medal, offered in Philadelphia for the best original tragedy. Several of our most eminent writers were competitors for the prize, awarded to Mrs. Hentz by a committee of distinguished literary gentlemen. She has also written two other tragedies, "Lamorah, or the Western Wild," which was acted at Cincinnati, and "Constance of Werdenberg;" both of these are still unpublished. Many of her minor poems show great sweetness and facility, as well as warmth and earnestness. Indeed poetry seems to be the natural language of her heart, when stirred by emotions or affections.
Mrs. Hentz is most widely known by her popular prose tales and novellettes, which have appeared in different American periodicals. "Aunt Patty's Scrap Bag" and "The Mob Cap," which obtained a prize of two hundred dollars, have been almost universally read. Some of her other stories are, "Aunt Mercy," "The Blind Girl," "The Pedlar," "The Village Anthem," and a novel, in one volume, called "Lovell's Folly."
As an instructress, she has been eminently successful, especially in that most important qualification, the power of gaining the affections and confidence of those under her care, and of obtaining a personal influence over them, which remains and acts upon them for good, long after they are withdrawn from her presence. Many a young man, as well as woman, who has been thrown into her society, will look back upon his intercourse with her as a time when his mind received an impulse towards the noble and elevated. Which affected his whole future life.
In social intercourse, Mrs. Hentz is easy and dignified. Her appearance is exceedingly prepossessing, and her conversational powers are fine.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Herbert, Mary, Countess of Pembroke

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HERBERT, MARY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE,
Married Henry, Earl of Pembroke, in 1576, and lived in the reigns of Elizabeth and James the First. She was the sister of Sir Philip Sydney, whose "Arcadia," from being dedicated to her, was always called by the author himself, "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia." A great encourager of letters, and a careful cultivator of them herself, she translated a tragedy from the French, called "Annius," in 1595; and is also supposed to have made an exact translation of the Psalms of David into English metre; and also wrote "A Pastoral Dialogue in Praise of Astræa." She died at her house in Aldersgate Street, London, September 25th., 1601. Osborn, in his "Memoirs of the Reign of King James," says, "She was that sister of Sir Philip Sydney to whom he addressed his ​Arcadia," and of whom he had no other advantage than what he received from the partial benevolence of fortune in making him a man, (which yet she did, in some judgments, recompense in beauty,) her pen being nothing short of his. But, lest I should seem to trespass upon truth, I shall leave the world her epitaph, in which the author doth manifest himself a poet in all things but untruth:—
"Underneath this sable hearse, Lies the subject of all verse; Sydney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death! ere thou hast killed another. Fair, and good, and wise as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee."
These lines were written by Ben Jonson.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Heritier, Marie Jeanne l', de Villandon

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# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Hervey, Eleanora Louisa

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HERVEY, ELEANORA LOUISA.
Under her maiden name of E. L. Montague, this lady became first known to the reading public as a contributor to periodicals and annuals of poems remarkable for a vigorous tone of thought and grace, as well as power of expressionf. She was born in 1811, at Liverpool, and was the daughter of George Conway Montague, Esq., of Lackham House, Wilts; the town of her birth was also the native place of her mother. In 1839, Miss Montague produced a dramatic poem, entitled, "The Landgrave," which although deficient as to plot, gave evidence of her fitness to take and maintain a place in the higher walks of poetry. In 1843, she married the well-known poet and critic, who for some years edited "The Athenæum," Mr. T. K. Hervey. Her first prose work, "Margaret Russell, an autobiography," was published anonymously, but its great merit was at once recognised and acknowledged. "The Double Claim," a pathetic story of domestic affection, followed this; then came "The Juvenile Calendar; or Zodiac of Flowers," a delightful Christmas book; and lastly, "The Pathway of the Fawn," a beautiful tale, with an excellent moral.
The name of E. L. Hervey is now familiar to hundreds of thousands of readers, both at home and abroad, as her verses frequently appear in the columns of "The Illustrated News;" they are always vigorous, oftentimes extremely pathetic, characterized by purity of feeling and much grace of expression.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Heywood, Eliza

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HEYWOOD, ELIZA,
A most voluminous female writer, was the daughter of a tradesman in London, in 1693. Nothing is known of her early education, but only of her works. She wrote "The Court of Armenia," "The New Utopia," and other similar romances. The looseness of these works was the ostensible reason of Pope for putting her into his Dunciad; but it is more probable that some private provocation was the real motive. She seemed to perceive her error; and, in the numerous volumes she published afterwards, she preserved more purity and delicacy of sentiment. Her later writings are, "The Female Spectator," in four volumes, "Epistles for the Ladies," "Fortunate Founding," "Adventures of Nature," "History of Betsey Thoughtless," "Jenny and Jemmy Jessamy," "Invisible Spy," "Husband and Wife," and a pamphlet, entitled, "A Present for a Servant Maid." She also wrote dramatic pieces, but none that succeeded. She died in 1756, aged sixty-three.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Winchelsea, (Anne, Countess of)

One of the most celebrated poems of the countess of Winchelsea, was that upon the Spleen, printed in a new miscellany of original poems on several occasions, published by Mr. Charles Gildon, 1701.
That poem occasioned another, by Mr. Nicholas Rowe, entitled An Epistle to Flavia, on the Sight of two Pindaric Odes, on the Spleen and Vanity, written by a lady to her friend. A collection of her poems was printed at London, 1713, together with a tragedy never acted, entitled Aristomenes. A great number of her poems still remain unpublished.
One or two are in the Elegant Extracts. She died 1720.
Female Worthies.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Wolters, (Henrietta)

WOLTERS (HENRIETTA), an excellent Miniature Painter, at Amsterdam; died 1741.
From her love of liberty, she refused invitations to the courts of Prussia and Russia.
F. C.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Zoe

ZOE, fourth Wife of the Emperor Leo VI. and Mother of Constantine Porphyrogenitus,
In whose minority she governed the empire with great firmness and discretion, quelling the revolt of Constantine Ducas, obliging the Bulgarians to return to their own country, and making a peace with the Saracens. Her ungrateful son, on coming of age, sent his mother into exile, where she died. She is not to be confounded with Zoë, the second wife of the same emperor, who was afterwards crowned empress, and died in 895.
Watkins's Biog. Dict.
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# A Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists

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A
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
OF
BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS
COMPILED BY
JAMES BRITTEN, F.L.S.
SENIOR ASSISTANT, DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM
AND
G. S. BOULGER, F.L.S., F.G.S.
PROFESSOR OF BOTANY, CITY OF LONDON COLLEGE
LONDON
WEST, NEWMAN & CO
54 HATTON GARDEN
1893
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# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Weston, (Elizabeth Jane)

WESTON (ELIZABETH JANE), born about the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign.
She seems to have left England when very young, and settled at Prague, in Bohemia, where it is probable she continued during the remainder of her life; and therefore is better known abroad than at home. She had fine natural parts, which were greatly improved by a polite education. She understood many languages, and was particularly skilled in the Latin; in which she wrote several things, both in prose and verse, with great applause; which made her highly esteemed by some of the most learned foreigners at that time, who corresponded with her, and gave her great encomiums on that account. Scaliger was one of her encomiasts.
Mr. Evelyn has given her a place among his learned women. Mr. Phillips has introduced her among his female poets. And Mr. Farnaby ranks her with Sir Thomas Moore, Alabaster, and other the best Latin poets in the sixteenth century.
She translated several of Æsop's fables into Latin verse. She wrote also a Latin poem, in praise of Typography; which, with many other Latin poems and epistles to and from her, were collected and published under the following title; Parthenicon Elizabethæ Joannæ Westoniæ, Virginis Nobiliissimæ, Pöetriæ Florentissimæ, Linguarumque Peritissimæ, Lib. III. Opera ac Studio, G. Mart a Baldhoven, sic collectus; et nunc denuo Amicis Desiderantibus communicatus, page 1606.
She was married to John Leon; a gentleman belonging to the emperor's court; and was living in the year 1605, as appears from an epistle of hers, dated Prague, Nonis Martii, that year.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Wassa, (Anna)

WASSA (ANNA), born at Zurich,
Was attached to literature, wrote good poetry, painted agreeably in oil, but excelled in water colours. She died 1713, aged 34.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Wharton, (Anne)

WHARTON (ANNE), Daughter and Coheiress of Sir Henry Lee, of Ditchley, in Oxfordshire,
Who, having no son, left his estate to be divided between this lady and her sister the countess of Abingdon, whose memory Mr. Dryden celebrates in a funeral panegyric, entitled Eleonora.
She was the first wife of Thomas Wharton, Esq. afterwards marquis of Wharton, by whom she had no children. In 1681, she was in France on account of her health, as appears from several letters to her husband. The next year she held a correspondence by letters with Dr. Gilbert Burnet, many of which are made public. He wrote several poems, and sent them to her. This lady, among other poems, wrote A Paraphrase on the Lamentations of Jeremiah, which, as appears by a note prefixed to the original manuscript, was begun at Paris, March 21, 1680–1, and ended April 21 following. Also, A Paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer; Verses to Mr. Waller; and An Elegy on the Death of the Earl of Rochester. Upon which last piece Mr. Waller wrote a copy of verses to her, as likewise another upon her Paraphrase upon the Lord's Prayer. And his two cantos of divine poesy were occasioned by a sight of her Paraphrase on the 52d Chapter of Isaiah. The mother of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, was aunt to this lady's father; for which reason Mr. Waller says they were allied in genius and in blood. Besides the above-mentioned, which have gone through several editions, she translated into English, the Epistle of Penelope to Ulysses, from Ovid. Also Verses on the Snuff of a Candle, made in sickness. She died at Adderbury, 1715, and was buried at Winchenden.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Zenobia, (Septima)

Z.
ZENOBIA (SEPTIMA), Queen of Palmyra, traced her descent from the Ptolemies and Cleopatras.
She was taught the sciences by the celebrated Longinus, and made so great a progress in literature, that she spoke the Greek and Egyptian languages, and understood the Latin. She possessed a liberal and enlightened mind; and, at her desire, from some motives (a philosophical curiosity perhaps merely,) was instructed, by Paul, of Samosata, a famous heretic of those times, in the doctrines of the Christian religion. She abridged also the Egyptian and Oriental history. Having married Odenatus, a Saracen prince; when he was taken prisoner, by Sapores, king of Persia, she raised a great army, set him at liberty, and afterwards conquered the East. She contributed to the great victories he obtained over the Persians, which preserved the Eastern empire to the Romans. In reward for which service Gallienus gave her the title of Augusta, and created her husband emperor, 264. Zenobia, when left a widow, reigned with great glory, in the name of her two sons, who were under age. Having conquered Egypt, and added it to her dominions, her wisdom and ability made her an object ​of jealousy to the Romans, whose generals she conquered, till Aurelian himself headed the army against her. He defeated her in two battles, and besieged her in Palmyra. She made a vigorous defence; but, finding she should be obliged to surrender, she quitted it privately; but was overtaken in her flight, and carried prisoner to Rome by Aurelian, who gave her a country house near that city, where she spent the remainder of her life in privacy, with her children; consoled by literature for the loss of empire. Aurelian caused her to be led in triumph; and when he was reproached by some, for triumphing over a woman, he replied, that her courage and power had been superior to any man. All historians give the greatest eulogiums to this princess. She was the protectress of the learned, learned herself; a wise politician, and an active warrior. She was a beautiful dark woman.
Porcacchi. L'Advocat, &c.
# A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists

"In 1780 [John Wesley] issued A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (price 3s., sewed, 12mo, pp. xvi, 504). The preface is dated 'October 20, 1779'. Methodism had never lacked hymn-books. Wesley says, 'It may be doubted whether any religious community in the world has a greater variety of them.' The people were, in fact, 'bewildered in the immense variety.' A strong desire was felt for a cheap and portable book, with a sufficient selection of hymns for all ordinary occasions. Wesley took great pains with his task.
"[…] After Wesley's death, the book went through a succession of alterations. In the edition of 1797, twenty-four of the hymns he selected were omitted, and sixty-five others inserted. The Conference of 1799 appointed a committee to 'reduce it to its primitive simplicity, as published in the second edition', but it was not entirely successful. Methodism had to wait till 1904, when, concurrently with the new Methodist Hymn-Book, an edition was published which is an exact reprint of the volume as it left Wesley's hands.
"In 1831 a supplement was added to Wesley's hymn-book, and in 1875 it was revised, and a new supplement prepared.
"The fact that the early publications of the Wesley's bear the name of both brothers [i.e. John Wesley and Charles Wesley] has made it difficult to distinguish between their work. Dr. Osborn said that 'his own inquiries had led him to think it likely that Mr. John Wesley contributed more largely to these joint publications than is commonly supposed; and that the habit of attributing almost everything found in them to his brother, is scarcely consistent with a due regard to accuracy' (Poetical Works, viii. xv.)."
—John Telford, The Methodist Hymn-Book Illustrated (1906)
* A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists (1830)
* A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists (1876)
# A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists (1830)/Additional Hymns

ADDITIONAL HYMNS.
(Not in the Editions published during the Life of Mr. Wesley.)

## On Divine Worship.

* Before Jehovah’s awful throne
* Lord of the worlds above!
* Lord and God of heavenly powers!
* Being of Beings, God of Love!
* The Lord of Sabbath let us praise
* O thou eternal Victim, slain

## For the Lord’s Supper.

* Come, all who truly bear
* Come, thou everlasting Spirit
* Lamb of God, whose bleeding love
* Jesu, at whose supreme command
* Come, Holy Ghost, thine influence shed
* Victim Divine, thy grace we claim
* Jesus drinks the bitter cup
* He dies! the Friend of sinners dies!
* Our Lord is risen from the dead
* Come, Desire of nations, come!

## On Miscellaneous Subjects.

* To the hills I lift mine eyes
* Ye servants of God, Your Master proclaim
* Come, Lord, from above, The mountains remove
* God moves in a mysterious way
* Lord, dismiss us with thy blessings!
# A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists (1830)/Hymn 257

Glory be to God on high, God Whose glory fills the skies; Peace on earth to man forgiv’n, Man, the well beloved of Heav’n.
Sovereign Father, heavenly King, Thee we now presume to sing; Glad, Thine attributes confess, Glorious all, and numberless.
Hail, by all Thy works adored! Hail, the everlasting Lord! Thee with thankful hearts we prove God of power, and God of love.
Christ our Lord and God we own, Christ, the Father’s only Son, Lamb of God for sinners slain, Savior of offending man.
Bow Thine ear, in mercy bow, Hear, the world’s atonement, Thou! Jesus, in Thy Name we pray, Take, O take our sins away!
Powerful Advocate with God, Justify us by Thy blood; Bow Thine ear, in mercy bow, Hear, the world’s atonement, Thou!
Hear, for Thou, O Christ, alone Art with God the Father One, One the Holy Ghost with Thee, One supreme, eternal Three.
# A Compendium of Irish Biography/Blakeley, Johnston

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​Blakeley, Johnston, Captain U.S.N., was born at Seaford, County of Down, October 1781. His parents emigrated to North Carolina; and before long he was left an orphan. Educated by a friend, he entered the U. S. Navy in 1800 as a midshipman; and by July 1813, had risen to be a Master-Commander. In the Wasp, on 28th June 18 14, he captured, after a severe engagement, H. B. M. ship, Reindeer. The latter vessel made three desperate and unsuccessful efforts to board, in the last of which her commander was slain. For this exploit, Congress voted Commander Blakeley a gold medal. On 21st September 1814, he captured and sent into Savannah the brig Atalanta. This was the last direct intelligence ever received of him. The Wasp being heavily armed and sparred, and deep-waisted, probably foundered in a gale. About the time of his death he was gazetted a captain. His only child, a daughter, was educated at the expense of North Carolina.
# A Compendium of Irish Biography/Bond, Oliver

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​Bond, Oliver, a prominent United-Irishman, was born in Ulster about 1762. He commenced business as a wholesale woollen draper in Pill-lane, Dublin, and in in 1786 removed to the house now 9 Lower Bridge-street. Five years afterwards he married the daughter of Henry Jackson, ironfounder, a leading member of the United-Irishmen. He soon rose to be one of the most opulent and respectable merchants in Dublin. He entered enthusiastically into Irish politics. On 1st March 1793, he, together with the Hon. Simon Butler, was committed to Newgate, and fined £500, for reflections on the House of Lords. On their liberation in August they were presented with congratulatory addresses. In 1797 we find him exceedingly active in administering the oath, and enrolling and arming men. The meetings of the Leinster Directory were usually held at his house. There, on 19th February 1798, the famous resolution was passed: "We will pay no attention to any measure which the Parliament of this kingdom may adopt, to divert the public mind from the grand object we have in view; as nothing short of the entire and complete regeneration of our country can satisfy us." Through the treachery of Reynolds, Bond's house was surrounded by military on the morning of the 12th March 1798, and fourteen members of the Leinster Directory were seized. Bond was tried and convicted on 24th July. He was defended by Curran and Ponsonby. It was mainly to prevent the execution of so beloved and venerated a man that Thomas Addis Emmet and other state prisoners entered into the compact with government, which will be found detailed in Emmet's life. He survived the commutation but five weeks, dying suddenly in prison of apoplexy, 6th of September 1798, aged 36. He was interred in St. Michan's graveyard, Dublin. His large property was not confiscated; and his widow and family removed to the United States. Mrs. Bond died in Baltimore, 15th September 1843.
* ↑ Dublin, History of the City: John T. Gilbert. 3 vols. Dublin, 1854–'9.
* ↑ Unite Irishmen, their Lives and Times: Robert R. Madden, M.D. 4 vols. London, 1858–'60.
# A Compendium of Irish Biography/Bonnell, James

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​Bonnell, James, Accountant-General of Ireland, son of Samuel Bonnell, an English merchant, was born at Genoa, 14th November 1653. Two years after his birth, his father was appointed Accountant-General of Ireland, with reversion of the office to his son. His father died in 1664. The youth's education, which had been commenced at Trim, was completed at Cambridge University. He displayed a spirit of wonderful sweetness and piety; and none the less did he prosecute his studies with indefatigable diligence. For some time he acted as tutor, travelling with his charge in France and Holland. In 1684 he returned to Ireland, and took his employment of Accountant-General into his own hands, which had been since his father's death managed by others for his benefit. The toils of office were peculiarly irksome to him, and nothing but a sense of duty prevented him from throwing them off, and occupying himself with devotions and religious meditations. When upon the rumours of war in December 1688, multitudes hurried away to England, he stood firm at his post, regarding the sufferings of himself and fellow Protestants as a just chastisement for their many shortcomings in the past. His joy after the victory of the Boyne was abated by news from England of the death of his mother to whom he was tenderly attached. In 1693 he married a daughter of Sir Albert Cunningham. His desire to enter the Church was frustrated by ill health. He died in Dublin, 28th April 1699, aged 45, of a malignant fever, and his remains were interred in St. John's Church. See Notes and Queries, 2nd Series, for a rare poem by Swift upon Bonnell's life.
* ↑ Bonnell, James, Life: Rev. William Hamilton. London, 1807.
* ↑ Notes and Queries. London, 1850–'78.