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Henry Home, Lord Kames, a Scottish philosopher, lawyer, and agriculturalist, is best known for his three-volume work, Elements of Criticism (1762). This significant contribution to the history of aesthetics attempted to equate beauty with what is pleasing to the senses of sight and hearing. Kames's other notable works include Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (1751) and Sketches of the History of Man (1774).1

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  1. Henry Home, Lord Kames
  2. literary criticism - The influence of science
  3. literature - Literary criticism
  4. textual criticism - Examination
  5. literary criticism - Criticism and knowledge
  6. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
  7. novel - Evaluation and study
  8. aesthetics - The aesthetic object

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