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Eighteenth-Century E-Texts — H

This page, edited by Jack Lynch, is part of the larger collection of Eighteenth-Century E-Texts on the Net.

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Hale, Sir Matthew (1609-1676)

• A Discourse Touching Provision for the Poor (1683) (McMaster)

Hamilton, Alexander (1757-1804)

• The Works of Alexander Hamilton (Federal Edition), 12 vols. (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Hammon, Jupiter (1711-c. 1800)

• An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York (1787) (Virginia)
• An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries

Hanson, Elizabeth (1684-1737)

• An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson (1760) (canadiana.org) — Page images.

Harris, John (c. 1667-1719)

• Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca, or, A Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels (1705) (canadiana.org) — Page images.

Harvey, Jane

• The Castle of Tynemouth: A Tale (1830) (Chawton House Library)

Hastings, Susanna Willard Johnson (1730-1810)

• A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson: Containing an Account of Her Sufferings, During Four Years, with the Indians and French (Canadiana.org)

Hawkins, Susannah (1787-1868)

• The Poetical Works of Susannah Hawkins (1829) (BWRP)

Haywood, Eliza

• Fantomina (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• The Female Spectator (Spectator Text Project) — DjVu page images.

Hazeland, William

• A View of the Manner in Which Trade and Civil Liberty Support Each Other (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Hazlitt, William

• Characters of Shakespear's Plays:
  • Characters of Shakespear's Plays (Toronto) (1817)
  • Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (Gutenberg)
• Liber Amoris, or The New Pygmalion (Gutenberg)
• Table-Talk: Essays on Men and Manners (Gutenberg)

Hearne, Samuel (1745-1792)

• A Journey From Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean: Undertaken By Order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, etc. in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 (Canadiana.org)

Hegel, G. W. F.

• Phenomenology of Mind (1807) (tr. J. B. Baillie)

Helvétius, Claude-Adrien (1715-1771)

• De l'esprit (1758) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation. 1 (1773) (BNF) — Requires frames.
• Letters of Helvetius, Addressed to President Montesquieu and M. Saurin, on Perusing the Manuscript of The Spirit of Laws (1811) (Liberty Fund — PDF)

Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Poems (1808) (UC Davis)
• Dirge (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• The Domestic Affections and Other Poems (1812) (BWRP)
• England and Spain: or, Valour and Patriotism (1808) (BWRP)
• The Forest Sanctuary and Other Poems (1825) (BWRP)
• Hymns on the Works of Nature, for the Use of Children (1827) (Celebration of Women Writers, Penn)
• Poems from Records of Woman (1828) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
• On the Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy (1816) (Celebration of Women Writers, Penn)
• The Sceptic:
  • The Sceptic; a Poem (BWRP)
  • The Sceptic; A Poem: A Hemans-Byron Dialogue (1820) (hypertext edition, ed. Nanora Sweet and Barbara Taylor, Romantic Circles)
• Wallace's Invocation to Bruce (BWRP)

Henry, Alexander (1739-1824)

• Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories Between the Years 1760 and 1776 (Canadiana.org)

Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)

• Commentary on the Whole Bible

Henry, Patrick (1736-1799)

• Instructions to George Rogers Clark (FreedomShrine)
• The War Inevitable (Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death) (1775) (Virginia)

Heriot, George (1766-1844)

• Travels through the Canadas (1805) (Early Canadiana Online)

Hitchener, Elizabeth

• Enigmas, Historical and Geographical (BWRP)

Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)

• De Cive:
  • Liberty (1651) (McMaster)
  • Dominion (1651) (McMaster)
  • Religion (1651) (McMaster)
• The Elements of Law Natural and Politic (1640) (McMaster)
• Leviathan (1651):
  • Leviathan (ORST)
  • Leviathan (Renascence Editions)
  • Leviathan (Infidels.org)
  • Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan (Bartleby)
• A Brief Life by John Aubrey (McMaster)

Hodgskin, Thomas

• Labour Defended (1825) (McMaster)

Hogg, James

• A Boy's Song (Oxford Book of English Verse)
• Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
  • Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Gutenberg)
  • The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner (Munseys)
• Kilmeny (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Holbach, Paul Henri Dietrich

• La contagion sacrée ou Histoire naturelle de la superstition (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Essai sur les préjugés ou De l'influence des opinions sur les murs et sur le bonheur des hommes (1770) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Ethocratie, ou Le gouvernement fondé sur la morale (1776) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Morale universelle:
  • La morale universelle ou Les devoirs de l'homme fondés sur sa nature. Volume 1 (1776) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
  • La morale universelle ou Les devoirs de l'homme fondés sur sa nature. 2 (1776) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
  • La morale universelle ou Les devoirs de l'homme fondés sur sa nature. Volume 3 (1776) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
  • La morale universelle ou Les devoirs de l'homme fondés sur sa nature. 1 (1776) (BNF) — Requires frames.
  • Éléments de la morale universelle, ou Catéchisme de la nature (1790) (BNF) — Requires frames. Adobe Acrobat format.
• Système de la nature:
  • The System of Nature (McMaster)
  • Système de la nature ou des loix du monde physique et du monde moral (1771) (BNF) — Requires frames.

Holberg, Ludvig, Baron (1684-1754)

• Comedies by Holberg: Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus (Gutenberg)

Holcroft, Thomas

• Anna St. Ives: A Novel (Munseys)

Hone, William

• The Political House that Jack Built, with engravings by Cruikshank (1819) (UMD)

Hull, Thomas

• Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors (Hull's adaptation)

Hume, David (1711-1776)

• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779)
• Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals (1777) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding:
  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Bartleby)
  • An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding (1748) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals:
  • An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1777 edition) (Gutenberg)
  • An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Essays:
  • Essays Moral, Political, Literary (1777) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
  • Essays on Suicide and Immortality (1755, 1783)
  • My Own Life (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
  • My Own Life (1777) (McMaster)
  • Of Essay Writing (1742)
  • Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion (1741)
  • Of the Liberty of the Press (1741) (Constitution.org)
  • Of the Standard of Taste (1757) (CSULB)
  • Of Tragedy (1757) (Penn)
  • Of Tragedy (1757)
  • On Interest (McMaster)
  • On Miracles (Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham)
  • On Money (1752) (McMaster)
  • On Public Credit (McMaster)
  • On Superstition and Enthusiasm (1741) (Michael Gamer, Penn)
  • On Taxes (McMaster)
  • On the Balance of Trade (McMaster)
  • On the Jealousy of Trade (McMaster)
• The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688 (1778) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• The Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth (1777) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Letters of David Hume to William Strahan (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Miscellaneous Essays (1777) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• The Natural History of Religion:
  • The Natural History of Religion (1757) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
  • The Natural History of Religion (1757) (Hume Archive)
• A Treatise of Human Nature:
  • A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
  • Treatise of Human Nature (McMaster)

Hunt, James Henry Leigh (1784-1859)

• Collected and Selected Works:
  • Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
• Jenny Kiss'd Me:
  • Jenny Kiss'd Me (Oxford Book of English Verse)
  • Jenny Kiss'd Me (Poetry Archives)

Hunter, Anne (1742-1821)

• Poems (1802) (BWRP)

Hunter, John Dunne

• Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America (1824)

Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746)

• An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense (1742) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1726) (Liberty Fund — PDF)
• Remarks upon the Fable of the Bees (1750) (McMaster)

Hutton, James

• Theory of the Earth (1788) (Ian Johnston, Malaspina)