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    thus acquiring the title of Lord Kames. Kames held an interest in the development and production of linen in Scotland. Kames was one of the original proprietors...
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  • inspired Linnaeus' later categorisation. The Scottish lawyer Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782) was a polygenist; he believed God had created different races...
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  • Adam Ferguson, David Hume, Lord Kames, John Millar, and Lord Monboddo, writing from the later 1750s to later 1770s. Smith, Kames and Millar were content...
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  • Kames may refer to: People Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish philosopher Abdesalam Kames, Libyan footballer Bob Kames, American organist Kambūjia, otherwise...
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  • consequently one and the same intelligent being. — Thomas Reid letter to Lord Kames, 1775 Derek Parfit and others consider a hypothetical "teletransporter"...
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    invited to attend attic repasts. Henry Home, Lord Kames was conspicuously absent from such socialising; while Kames and Monboddo served on the high court at...
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    Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (category Lord-lieutenants of Aberdeenshire)
    Huntly until 1752, was a Scottish peer who was described by Henry Home, Lord Kames as the "greatest subject in Britain". He was also known as the "Cock o'...
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    developed what leading thinkers such as James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714–99) and Lord Kames called a science of man, which was expressed historically...
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    feuding families. In mid-century, writer Charles Gildon and philosopher Lord Kames argued that the play was a failure in that it did not follow the classical...
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  • 2018-07-24. "Henry Home, Lord Kames". www.hetwebsite.net. Archived from the original on 2018-07-25. Retrieved 2018-07-24. "Kames on Progress and Providence...
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    including Lord Kames, a prominent legal and social historian. Knight's principal counsel were Allan Maconochie (later himself a judge as Lord Meadowbank)...
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  • Elements of Criticism, prominent Scottish belles-lettres rhetorician Lord Kames (1696–1782) says the aim of the belles-lettres movement is to "discover...
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    Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Reid, William Robertson, Henry Home, Lord Kames, Adam Ferguson, John Playfair, Joseph Black and James Hutton. The very...
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    Blairdrummond House was enlightenment thinker Lord Kames whose wife inherited the house in 1766. Lord Kames began the transformation of the carse area of...
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  • crafts the development of more extensive forms of personal property. Lord Kames added a final stage, that of commerce produced by agricultural surplus...
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    Scottish landowners, including the judge advocate Lord Kames, George III's prime minister Lord Bute, and Lord Hopetoun. Many of his students went on to become...
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    twelve judges including Lord Kames, the important legal and social historian. Knight was represented by Henry Dundas, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, who...
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    sponsored by the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh under the patronage of Lord Kames. His lecture topics included rhetoric and belles-lettres, and later the...
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    communicating have developed. In his book Elements of Criticism, rhetorician Lord Kames (also known as Henry Home) laid the groundwork for later rhetoricians...
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    (1807). Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames. Dynastic cycle, Chinese history Playfair cycle Strauss–Howe generational...
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    Lord Monboddo at Monboddo House, a setting where he gathered significant observations for his writings by association with Samuel Johnson, Lord Kames...
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    resentment on the part of a lady, who consulted his close friend Henry Home, Lord Kames in her dilemma, and, acting on his advice to profess a return of affection...
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  • aesthetic with moral perception. In the Elements of Criticism of Henry Home (Lord Kames) another attempt is made to resolve the pleasure of beauty into its elements...
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    Black, John Playfair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, and jurists Lord Kames and Lord Monboddo. They often met for intense discussions at The Select Society...
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  • a model for the most useful form of law reports". In Tytler's Life of Lord Kames Fergusson is estimated as "undoubtedly one of the ablest lawyers of his...
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    and Erasmus Darwin at Lichfield. In Scotland, he spent five days with Lord Kames near Stirling and stayed for three weeks with David Hume in Edinburgh...
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  • 1684–1754 Norwegian Writer, essayist, historian and playwright. Henry Home, Lord Kames 1696–1782 Scottish Lawyer and philosopher. Patron of Adam Smith and David...
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    Gerard Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville John Grieve (Lord Provost) William "Spread Eagle" Grinly Francis Grose Henry Home, Lord Kames Sir Archibald Hope, 9th...
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  • Hegelianism Heimin Shimbun Henri Bergson Henry David Thoreau Henry Home, Lord Kames Herbert Spencer Hirata Atsutane Historical materialism Hosoi Heishu Hoter...
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  • collections. In his December 1737 letter to his friend and relative Henry Home, Lord Kames, Hume set out his reasons for omitting the sections on miracles in the...
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