See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

LORD See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

HENRY See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

HOME See also:

• LORD HENRY HOME KAMES (1696-1782)

KAMES (1696-1782)  , Scottish lawyer and philosopher, son of See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

Home of See also:

• KAMES, HENRY HOME, LORD (1696-1782)

Kames, in See also:

• BERWICKSHIRE

Berwickshire, where he was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1696 . After receiving a somewhat imperfect See also:

• EDUCATION

education from a private See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor, he was in 1712 indentured to a writer to the signet in See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh, but an accidental introduction to See also:

• SIR

Sir Hew Dalrymple, then See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of session, determined him to aspire to the position of See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate . He accordingly set himself to studying various branches of literature, specially See also:

• METAPHYSICS
• METAPHYSICS, or METAPHYSIC (from Gr. /sera, after, d v med, things of nature, lots, i.e. the natural universe)

metaphysics and moral See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy . He was called to the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar in See also:

• JANUARY

January 1724, and, as he lacked those brilliant qualities which sometimes command immediate success, he employed his leisure in the compilation of Remarkable Decisions in the Court of Session from 1716 to 1728 (1728) . This See also:

• WORK

work having attracted See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention, his See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of ingenious reasoning and mastery of See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law gradually gained him a leading position at the bar . In 1752 he was appointed a See also:

• JUDGE (Lat. judex, Fr. juge)

judge in thecourt of session under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord Kames, and in 1763 he was made one of the lords of See also:

• JUSTICIARY, HIGH COURT OF

justiciary . In 1741 he married See also:

• AGATHA, SAINT

Agatha See also:

• DRUMMOND, HENRY (1786-r86o)
• DRUMMOND, HENRY (1851-1897)
• DRUMMOND, THOMAS (r797-1840)
• DRUMMOND, WILLIAM (1585-1649)

Drummond, through whom in 1761 he succeeded to the See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate of See also:

• BLAIR, FRANCIS PRESTON (1791–1876)
• BLAIR, HUGH (1718-1800)
• BLAIR, JAMES (1656`1743)
• BLAIR, ROBERT (1699—1746)

Blair Drummond, See also:

• PERTHSHIRE

Perthshire . He continued to See also:

• DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge his judicial duties till within a few days of his See also:

• DEATH

death at Edinburgh on the 27th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1782 . Lord Kames took a See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• INTEREST

interest in agricultural and commercial affairs . In 1755 he was appointed a member of the See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board of trustees for encouragement of the See also:

• FISHERIES

fisheries, arts and manufactures of See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland, and about the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he was named one of the commissioners for the management of the forfeited estates annexed to the See also:

• CROWN

Crown . On the subject of See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture he wrote The See also:

• GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its original and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

Gentleman See also:

• FARMER, RICHARD (1735–1787)

Farmer (1776) . In 1765 he published a small pamphlet On the See also:

• FLAX

Flax Husbandry of Scotland; and, besides availing himself of his extensive acquaintance with the proprietors of Scotland to recommend the introduction of manufactures, he took a prominent See also:

• PART

part in furthering the project of the Forth and See also:

• CLYDE (Welsh, Clwyd, " far heard," " strong," the Glotta of Tacitus)
• CLYDE, COLIN CAMPBELL, BARON (1792-1863)

Clyde See also:

• CANAL
• CANAL (from Lat. canalis, " channel " and " kennel " being doublets of the word)

Canal .

He was also one of the founders of the See also:

• PHYSICAL

Physical and See also:

• LITERARY

Literary Society, afterwards the Royal Society of Edinburgh . It is, however, as a writer on philosophy that Lord Kames is best known . In 1751 he published his Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

Religion (Ger. trans., See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1772), in which he endeavoured to maintain the See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine of innate ideas, but conceded to See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man an apparent but only apparent freedom of the will . His statement of the latter doctrine so aroused the alarm of certain clergymen of the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church of Scotland that he found it necessary to withdraw what was regarded as a serious See also:

• ERROR (Lat. error, from errare, to wander, to err)

error, and to attribute man's delusive sense of freedom, not to an innate conviction implanted by See also:

• GOD

God, but to the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of the passions . His other philosophical See also:

• WORKS

works are An Introduction to the See also:

• ART

Art of Thinking (1761), Elements of See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

Criticism (1762), Sketches of the See also:

• HISTORY

History of Man (1774) . See See also:

• LIFE

Life of Lord Kames, by A . F . See also:

• TYTLER, WILLIAM (1711-1792)

Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (2 vols., 1807) .