Someone has justlypuitbhat the literary works of Lord Kanto a whole epe moje permathable for superficial fertility varied learning Thar for reel originalityt laboreandring elvert ingenives rather than utth & comprehension The Arhy) thiching alone Ebenente in 1762. ABRIDGMENT OF Cart ELEMENTS OF CRITICISM, losophers BY THE HONORABLE HENRY HOME OF KAMES. EDITED BY JOHN FROST, A. M. Neary Aeone. Tror fames 17 8.2 NEW YORK: 76 BOWERY. 1848. Anthon y In preparing the present abridgment of Lord Kames's Elements of Criticism for publication, free use has been made of Jamieson's abridgment, published in London in 1823. It has been found necessary, however, to deviate from his plan in several particulars. The size of the book has been considerably reduced, by omitting portions of which the practical utility was not sufficiently apparent to justify their being retained in a work intended for general use. All quotations of which the delicacy was in the slightest degree questionable, have been omitted, as also quotations in the ancient and foreign languages. Certain of the terms used by Lord Kames in explaining the passions and emotions, have been altered with reference to the advanced state of intellectual philosophy. . 3 |