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Henry Home of Karnes,’1 after his elevation to the bench of the Court of Session, the supreme civil court of Scotland, generally known as Lord Kames, was born on the modest country estate of Kames, in the parish of Eccles in Berwickshire in southeastern Scotland, in 1696.2 He died in Edinburgh on December 27, 1782.
The child is father to the man. (Shakespeare)
Having been educated in the country where I had no competition, I thought myself superior. (Kames to Boswell)
My father’s circumstances were so low, he could not afford to send me to college; only to the college [i.e., course of lectures] of law. (The same)
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Lehmann, W.C. (1971). Family Background and Early Years. In: Henry Home, Lord Kames, and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Study in National Character and in the History of Ideas. Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7582-9_1
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