Excerpt from Memoirs 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, Vol. 2 of 3: Containing Sketches of the Progress of Literature and General Improvement in Scotland During the Greater Part of the Eighteenth Century A large share of business before I left the country, and the necessary duty of at tending Parliament, since I have been in town, have together prevented my acknow ledging a favour which I ought long since to have done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.