THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

THE HONOURABLE

HENRY HOME OF KAMES,

ONE OF THE SENATORS OF THE COLLEGE OF JUSTICE, AND ONE OF THE
LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF JUSTICIARY IN SCOTLAND:

CONTAINING

SKETCHES

OF THE

PROGRESS OF LITERATURE AND GENERAL IMPROVEMENT
IN SCOTLAND, DURING, THE GREATER Part of
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

BY THE HONOURABLE

ALEX. FRASER TYTLER OF WOODHOUSELEE,
ONE OF THE SENATORS OF THE COLLEGE OF JUSTICE, AND ONE OF THE

LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF JUSTICIARY IN SCOTLAND.

C'est pécher contre le Public que de taire la vertu des Hommes illustres :
C'est envier l'honneur que méritent les uns, et ravir aux autres le bonheur
Paneg. du Sully, par DE CHEVRY.

de les imiter.

SECOND EDITION,

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES,

IN THE STRAND, LONDON.

1814.