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llai( sequent rejection of the hart a^ lood, per\adcd many nations of antiquity, Avho derived their origin, or their doctrines, from a Shemitic source; and that, among others, it existed among the British Celtfe, probably even before they had any intercourse with Phoenician merchants. Thus the Turks and Armenians abstain from its Hesh (Taveniier, Travels,\i\, 154), also the Ara- bians (Russell's Alejipo, ii, 20), and even the Greeks and
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Romans avoided it (lleTmann, ad Lucicai. co»sc7-ih. hist. p. 135 ; I'. Castellan. iJe canm esu, iii, 5, ill Groiiov. Thesaur, ix) on sanitan' grounds (Aristotle, Hist. Aniin. iv, 5; Pliny, //. iV. xxviii, 79) ; but the Bedawln, who have a peculiar mode of dressing it, are fond of its Hesh,
There are two distinct species of hare in Syria : one, Lepits Sp-i(iciis, or SjTian hare, nearly equal in size to the common European, having the fur ochrj- buif ; and Lepus Sinailictts, or hare of the desert, smaUcr and brownish. They reside in the localities indicated by their trivial names, and are distinguished from the com- mon li'are by a greater length of ears, and a black tail with wliite fringe. There is found in Egypt, and high- er up the Nile, a third species, represented in the out- line paintings on ancient monuments, but not colored with that delicacy of tint required for distinguishing it from the others, excepting that it appears to be marked with the black speckles which characterize the existing species. — Kitto. The ancient Egyptians coursed it with greyhounds as we do, and sometimes captured it alive and kept it in cages. "Hares are so plentiful in the
Ancieut Egyptian carrying Hares. From the Mouumeuts. environs of Aleppo," says Dr. Russell (ii, 158), '-that it was no imcommon thing to see the gentlemen who went out a sporting twice a week return with four or live brace hung in triumph at the girths of the servants' horses." Hares arc hunted in Syria with greyhound and falcon.
HarC: Augustus William (brother of Julius Charles, sec below), was bom in 1794, graduated at Ox- ford, became fellow of New College, and in 1829 rector of Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. In conjunction with his brother, he wrote Guesses at Truth (3d ed. Lond. 1847, 2 vols. 18mo). He also published iSe)-7nons to a Country Congregation (London, 4th ed. 1839, 7th ed. 1851 ; New York, 1839, 8vo), which are models of clear and practi- cal discourse from the pulpit. He died in 1834 at Rome.
Hare, Ed-ward, an English JMethodist minister, •\\'as born at Hull Sept. 19, 1774, and received his early education under Jlilner, author of the Church History. Having a turn for the sea, he became a sailor, and in 1793, while a ship-boy, was converted, and began to hold rehgious services among the sailors. During the French war he was twice taken prisoner ; and after his second liberation, in 1796, he abandoned the sea. He was admitted into the itinerant ministrj' of the Wesleyan Church in 1798, and for twenty years was an acceptable and faithful minister of the Gospel. His last station was Leeds. He died of consumption at Exeter in the spring of 1818. Hare was a clear and forcible writer, and produced several valuable apologetical and contro- versial works on JMethodist doctrine. Perhaps the most important of these are A Treatise on the ScripturalDoc- trine of Justification (2d ed., with Preface by T. .Jack- eon, Loudon, 1839, 12mo ; also reprinted in iiew York, 12mo). See also Sermons published from, hi.i Mami- tcripts, tcith a Memoir of Hare by Josejih Benson (Lon- don, 1821).— Wesleyan Minutes, 1818; Life of Dr. Jabez ch. viv.
Hare, Francis, bishop of Chichester, was born at London about 1()G5. He studied at Eton and at King's College, Cambriilge ; and, having been employed as tu- tor to lord Blandibrd, son of the duke of Marlborough, the latter caused him to be appointed general chaplain of the army. In consequence of services rendered to the AVhig party, he was successively made dean of Worcester in 1708, of St. Paul's in 172C, bishop of St. Asaph in 1731, and transferred in the same year to the see of Chichester. He died in 1740. He wrote a work on The Difficulties and Discouragements attending the Study of the Scriptures in the Way of private Judgment, which was condemned for its tendency to scepticism. He is chiefly famous hr his Book of Psalms, in the He- breic, put into the original poetical Metre (Psalmorura Liber in Versiculos metricc Divisus, Lond. 173G,8vo), an attempt, now deemed hopeless, to reduce Hebrew poetry to metre, in which he was defended by Dr. Edwards, and assailed by Dr. Lowth. His Worts were jjublished in 4 vols. 8vo (Lond. 174G), containing, besides the writ- ings above named, a number of Sermons. See Chal- mers, General Biog. Diet. ; Allibone, Dictionary of A u- thors, i, 785.
Hare, Julius Charles, one of the brightest orna- ments of the Church of England in the present century, was born Sept. 13, 1795, at Hm-stmonceux, Sussex, his father being lord of the manor. After a brilliant prep- aration at the Charter House, he went to Cambridge in 1812, where he gTaduated B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819, and be- came fellow of Trinity. He was instituted to the rec- tory of Hm-stmonceux (the advowson of which was in his own family) in 1832 ; was collated to a prebend at Chichester in 1851 ; was appointed archdeacon of Lewes by bishop Otter in 1840 ; and nominated one of her maj- estj^'s chaplains in 1853. He died at the rectorv, Jau. 23, 1855.