KAMES, HENRY HOME, LORD

hyoom, 1696–1782, Scottish judge and philosopher. A man of broad interests and a wide-ranging intellect, his works included dissertations on Scottish law, agriculture, and problems of moral and aesthetic philosophy. Among his writings were Introduction to the Art of Thinking (1761) and Elements of Criticism (1762).

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A Scottish Man of Feeling: Some Account of Henry Mackenzie, Esq., of Edinburgh, and of the Golden Age of Burns and Scott
Book by Harold William Thompson; Oxford University Press, 1931
Subjects: English Literature--Scottish Authors--History And Criticism, Fiction, Mackenzie, Henry--1745-1831, Romanticism--Scotland, Scottish Literature--History And Criticism
...as an influential theorist, but Henry Home, Lord Kames 1696-1782 , was regarded in Edinburgh...popularity of Shakespeare. That Kames never got over a literary adherence...will be found a sound appraisal of Kames which shows that the clever judge...
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The Victorian Morality of Art: An Analysis of Ruskin's Esthetic, by Henry Ladd
Book by Henry Ladd; R. Long & R.R. Smith, Inc., 1932
Subjects: Aesthetics, Art And Morals, Ruskin, John--1819-1900
...The Elements of Criticism , by Henry Home, Lord Kames 1761 , though it shows empirical...over Burke. Both Burke and Lord Kames limit their investigation largely...with, classical tradition. Lord Kames is clearly conversant with more...
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The Essays of Henry Timrod
Book by Henry Timrod, Edd Winfield Parks; The University of Georgia, 1942
Subjects: Poetics
...three volumes. 5 Probably a typographical error. Henry Home, Lord Kames 1696- 1782 published his three-volume Elements of...hand, an author may travel a thousand miles away from home, yet, nevertheless, preserve his nationality. Shakspeare...
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Lord Byron's Wife
Book by Malcolm Elwin; Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963
Subjects: Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron--Baroness--1792-1860, Byron, George Gordon Byron--Baron--1788-1824
...Caesar, 104 , 262 Juvenal, 411 Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 43 Katherine and Petruchio in...474 , 490 , 515 , 527 Knight, Henry Gaily, at Cambridge and Athens...John, 49 - 50 Lambton, William Henry, 49 - 50 , 57 , 61 Landor, Walter...
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Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac, Monboddo
Book by Catherine L. Hobbs; Southern Illinois University Press, 2002
Subjects: Condillac, Etienne Bonnot De--1714-1780, Monboddo, James Burnett--Lord--1714-1799, Rhetoric--History--18th Century, Vico, Giambattista--1668-1744
...manuscript, were what everyone in his circle particularly Henry Home, Lord Kames and Hugh Blair concerned themselves with. However...Sessions and taking the title of his estate became Lord Monboddo. His younger friend James Boswell who might...
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Originating Difference in Rhetorical Theory: Lord Monboddo's Obsession with Language Origins Theory
Journal article by Phillip P. Marzluf; Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 38, 2008
Subjects: Animal communication, Ethics, Human subjects, Interviews, Language, Linguistics, Native languages, Rhetoric
...Originating Difference in Rhetorical Theory: Lord Monboddos Obsession with Language Origins...philosopher of language, James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, interviewed Marie-Angelique...Monboddo, Blair, Reid, Henry Home (Lord Karnes), and James Beattie publicly discussed...
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Utopian Music and the Problem of Luxury (1)
Journal article by Michael Griffin; Utopian Studies, Vol. 16, 2005
Subjects: Luxuries--Analysis, Utopianism--Analysis
...Webbs distinction is echoed by Henry Home, Lord Kames: "It must be premised that no...1: 137). To this exclusion, Kames enters a footnote that horrifying...1: 138n). Music proper, in Kames very limited scheme, involves...
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Sealed Eyes and Phantom Lovers: The First Line of "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"
Journal article by M.D. Walhout; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 39, 2008
Subjects: Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Wordsworth, William--Criticism and interpretation, Wordsworth, William--Works
...edition of his Elements of Criticism, Lord Kames offered the following verses by a...published fifteen years later, for Lord Kames, it was noteworthy only because...and disgust" (350). Wordsworth shared Lord Kamess distaste for "redundancy of epithets...
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Novelty in Novels: A Look at What's New in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Journal article by Emily Hodgson Anderson; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 39, 2007
Subjects: Behn, Aphra--Works, Novels--Etymology, Oroonoko (Short fiction)--Criticism and interpretation, Women novelists--Works
...Routledge, 1992. Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones. 1729. New York...Criticism 52.1 (2002): 1-22. Kames, Henry Home, Lord. The Elements of Criticism. 1762...Thoemmes Reprints. Collected Works of Henry Home, Lord Kames. Vol. 1. 2...
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Joanna Baillie: Speculations on Legal Cruelty
Journal article by Victoria Myers; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 35, 2004
Subjects: Administration of justice--Evaluation, Administration of justice--United States, Baillie, Joanna--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Justice, Administration of--Evaluation, Justice, Administration of--United States
...aesthetics by her fellow Scots Adam Smith and Lord Kames, in which they outlined the psychological...Thomas. The Speeches of the Rt. Hon. Lord Erskine.... Ed. and collected by James...the Novel. 2002; Kames, Henry Home, Lord. Sketches of the History of Man. 2nd...
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The Challenge of Sustainable Development and the Culture of Substantive Equality
Magazine article by Istvan Meszaros; Monthly Review, Vol. 53, December 2001
Subjects: Sustainable development--Management
...would be remembered in the future as a bad dream. Henry Home, a great figure of the Scottish historical school...Wider," New York Times, September 5, 1999. (3.) Henry Home (Lord Kames), Loose Hints upon Education, chiefly concerning...


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SCOTS WHO MADE AMERICA; They Are the Men Who Left Our Nation and Built Another in the New World. Unsung Heroes in Their Homeland, but legendsontheothersideoftheAtlantic.Theyarethe
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 12, 2009
Subjects: Witherspoon, John--Appreciation, Witherspoon, John--Political activity
...country he found a spiritual home with huge potential for...a Scottish aristocrat, Henry Home, Lord Kames. American historians suggest that in Kames, Jefferson found a guide...Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox and Edmund Randolph...
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Luxury Diminished; How Industry Realities Took Their Toll
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 12, 2007
Subjects: Clothing industry, House of Chanel, Louis Vuitton S.A.
...rich. Characters had posh accents, lived in grand homes, employed staff, dressed extravagantly, and made...who have no right to be are snobs underneath. Like Henry Home, Lord Kames, who is quoted saying, "If there were no luxury...


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Kames, Henry Home, Lord
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KAMES, HENRY HOME, LORD hyoom, 1696 1782, Scottish judge and philosopher. A man of broad interests and a wide-ranging intellect, his works included...


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