HHabeas Corpus. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.
Habit, n. A shackle for the free.
Hades, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where the dead live.
Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in a very comfortable kind of way. Indeed, the Elysian Fields themselves were a part of Hades, though they have since been removed to Paris. When the Jacobean version of the New Testament was in process of evolution the pious and learned men engaged in the work insisted by a majority vote on translating the Greek word “Αιδης” as “Hell”; but a conscientious minority member secretly possessed himself of the record and struck out the objec
