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Sketches of the History of Man

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A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1778 - Human beings
  

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Page 4 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the Field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Page 245 - And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
Page 239 - Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place : ye are witnesses this day.
Page 231 - And she said unto them : Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty : why call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
Page 236 - Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto...
Page 229 - The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.
Page 211 - Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped ; And they have kept it since, by being dead. But, were they now to write, when critics weigh Each line, and...
Page 237 - And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.
Page 39 - If dying mortals' doom they sing aright, No ghosts descend to dwell in dreadful night ; No parting souls to grisly Pluto go. Nor seek the dreary silent shades below ; But forth they fly immortal in their kind, And other bodies in new worlds they find...
Page 229 - Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband.

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18th-Century Reading Room: Item of the Day: Sketches of the ...
Full Title: Sketches of the History of Man by Lord Kames Home. Edinburgh: W. Creech: London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1774. ...
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Sketches of the history of man (Volume 1) (1779). Sketches of the history of man (1779). Author: Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782 Digitizing Sponsor: MSN ...
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JSTOR: Henry Home, Lord Kames
He adds something on Sketches of the History of Man largely because of Kames's contribution to discussion of the poems of 'Ossian'. ...
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XIV. Philosophers: Bibliography. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The ...
Sketches of the History of Man. 1774. Tytler, af, Lord Woodhouslee. Life of Lord Kames. 1807. Nathaniel Lardner (1684–1768) ...
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See Sketches of the History of Man [1774, by Henry Home, Lord Kames vol.i.] page 4'74 & seq. [This author at the place quoted gives six 'general rules' as ...
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Sketches of the History of Man av Henry Home Kames » Bokkilden
Divided into three books, Kames' 'Sketches of the History of Man' draws together the concerns of many of his earlier works. The first book considers man in ...
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In 1774 the Scottish judge Lord Kames (1696-1782) took up his pen and produced a massive work titled Sketches of the History of Man, which ran into at least ...
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Sketches of the history of man. Edinburgh: W. Creech, W. Strahan, & T. Cadell, 1774. 4to (27.5 cm, 10.9"). 2 vols. I: xii, 519, [1 (blank)] pp. ...
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... his Sketches of the History of Man (1774) (to which Alexander's History of Women appears to have been particularly indebted) offered one such version. ...
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