Scottish philosopher, judge and agricultural improver (1696–1782)

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Writers: twenty portraits of essayists and novelists. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species : To which are added, Strictures on Lord Kames's discourse on the original diversity of mankind / By Samuel Stanhope Smith.

An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added Strictures on Lord Kaims's [sic] discourse, on the original diversity of mankind / By the Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith.

An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added, animadversions on certain remarks made on the first edition of this Essay, by Mr. Charles White, in a series of Discourses delivered before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester in England. Also, Strictures on Lord Kaims' [sic] Discourse on the original diversity of mankind. And an appendix / By Samuel Stanhope Smith.

Elements of criticism / By Henry Home, Lord Kames.

The gentleman farmer : being an attempt to improve agriculture by subjecting it to the test of rational principles / Henry Home, Lord Kames.

Sketches of the history of man / [Anon].

Elements of criticism / Henry Home, Lord Kames ; edited and with an introduction by Peter Jones.

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Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782

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Elements of criticism / By Henry Home, Lord Kames.

The gentleman farmer : being an attempt to improve agriculture by subjecting it to the test of rational principles / Henry Home, Lord Kames.

Sketches of the history of man / [Anon].

Elements of criticism / Henry Home, Lord Kames ; edited and with an introduction by Peter Jones.

Sketches of the history of man / [Anon].