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The doctor indeed tried to make us think, and he used to say that the textbook was a matter of entire indifference, and that he would as soon have a book of riddles as Kames's "Elements of Criticism," so long as he could make us think out our conclusions.
I looked into Lord Kames's Sketches of the History of Man; and mentioned to Dr.
Kames's Sketches of the History of Man abounds still more copiously in references to Emilius, sometimes to controvert its author, more often to cite him as an authority worthy of respect, and Rousseau's crude notions about women are cited with special acceptance.
Kames's Sketches, i. 363. Mr. Croker says: 'Here I think the censure is quite unjust. Lord Kames gives in the clearest terms the same explanation. Kames made many corrections in the later editions. On turning to the first, I found, as I expected, that Johnson's censure was quite just.
Without being very particular about the year, which really I do not know with further precision than that it was within the first five years of Lord Kames's senator-ship, I request the reader to fancy himself in a small domicile in Toddrick's Wynd, in the old city of Edinburgh; and I request this the more readily that, as we all know, Nature does not exclude very humble places from the regions of romance, neither does she deny to very humble personages the characters of heroes and heroines.
They have not been able to form what all other nations have formed. BOSWELL. 'There is more learning in their language than in any other, from the immense number of their characters. JOHNSON. 'It is only more difficult from its rudeness; as there is more labour in hewing down a tree with a stone than with an axe. He said, 'I have been reading Lord Kames's Sketches of the History of Man.
Hunt out second volume of Kames's "History of Man," passage containing Reid's Logic, don't know where the book is! How does the line beginning Lumina conjurent, inter something, end? Is it in Grey? See. Fracastorius writes: Quantum hoe infecit vitium, quot adiverit urbes. Query, ought it not, in strict grammar, to be injecerit, instead of infecit? If you don't know, write to father.
These works may be divided into four classes. Under the first, Philosophical Criticism, may be classed Burke's treatise "On the Sublime and Beautiful," Sir Joshua Reynolds's "Discourse on Painting," Campbell's "Philosophy of Rhetoric," Kames's "Elements of Criticism," Blair's "Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres," and Horne Tooke's "Philosophy of Language."
The rarest of literary qualities is originality. Most writers are mere echoes, and the greater part of literature is the pouring out of one bottle into another. If you can get hold of the few really best books, you can well afford to be ignorant of all the rest. The reader who has mastered Kames's "Elements of Criticism," need not spend his time over the multitudinous treatises upon rhetoric.
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