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accession of king James to the English throne, Heriot followed the court of London. By assiduous application to business he was now become eminent

Minims in the neighbourhood of Avignon; and after some continuance there he removed to Rome, and retired into the monastery of the Holy Trinity. The fame of our linguist's ac-and rich. George Heriot died quisitions soon reached the ears at London in 1624. His imof Paul V, then in the papal mense fortune he disposed of by chair. The pope invited him a will made in 1623, in which to quit his retirement, and gave he remembered all his relations, him the wardship and inspec- with many friends and servants, tion of all the Oriental books both in Scotland and England, and manuscripts in the Vatican and left the remainder to found Library. In this situation he and endow an hospital. The remained for three years. A magnificent Gothic fabric of Hebrew and Chaldaic Diction- Heriot's hospital, in the immediary, and an Arabic Grammar, ate vicinity of Edinburgh, began forming one vol. 4to. appeared to be built in 1628, according to at Rome in 1591. Besides a design, as is reported, of Inigo these works, he published trans-Jones. It was interrupted by lations of a number of other books, which it is needless to enumerate. Mr. Hepburn was at Venice in the year 1620, whither he had gone with an intention of translating some Hebrew, Syriac and Chaldaic writings. Here he died in that or the following year, His portrait, it is said, is still shewn in the Vatican.

the civil wars in 1639; the work was however renewed in 1642, and finished in 1650. Thirty boys were first admitted, 30th April 1659. The number now received is

Owing to the uncommonly great rise in the value of land in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, where most of the mortified lands lie, the revenues of the Hospital are gradually increasing, and will probably soon enable the Managers to extend the benefits of the Insti

HERIOT (GEORGE), was the son of a goldsmith in Edinburgh. The period of his birth is not with certainty known. Being bred to his father's busi-tution. ness, he was appointed in 1597 goldsmith to the queen of James VI. Soon after he was constituted goldsmith and jeweller to the king, with a right to all the profits and emoluments of that Jucrative office. Soon after the

HOLYBUSH (JOHN), a philosopher and mathematician, who flourished about the year 1230. He is the author of various works, which formerly procured him an uncommon reputation in the schools.

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of Thinking;" and, in 1762, his "Elements of Criticism." Nothing farther came from his

tleman Farmer" made its appearance; and the following year" Sketches of the History of Man," in two volumes 4to. The last work he published was "Loose Hints upon Education,

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HOME (HENRY), lord Kaimes, was born in the year 1696. He was instructed in the ancient and modern lan-pen till 1772, when "The Genguages by a private tutor; and afterwards studied the civil and Scots law in the university of Edinburgh. Mr. Home's success at the bar was not great, till his abilities were known by the publication of his "Remark-chiefly concerning the Culture able Decisions of the Court of of the Heart." It was publishSession, from 1716 to 1718," ed in the year 1781, when the which happened in 1728. From venerable author was in the that period he practised, with 85th year of his age. much respectability and success, Kaimes was remarkable for pubtill the year 1752, when he was lic spirit, to which he conjoined called to the bench. Eleven activity and great exertion. He years afterwards he was ap-had for a long time the principointed one of the lords of jus- pal management of all the So ticiary. In 1732 appeared "Es-cieties and Boards for promot says upon several subjects in ing the trade, fisheries, and maLaw," in one volume octavo;nufactures of Scotland. Two and in the year 1741" Deci- days before his death, lord sions of the Court of Session, Kaimes, who had uniformly refrom its first institution to the tained the firmest belief in the year 1740, abridged and digest- future existence of human souls, ed under proper heads, in the told the late celebrated Dr. Culform of a Dictionary." In 1747 len, that he earnestly wished to was published" Essays concern- be away, because he was exing British Antiquities;" and ceedingly anxious to learn the in 1751" Essays on the Prin nature and manners of another ciples of Morality and Natural world. He died December 27, Religion, in two parts." In 1782. As he had no marked 1757 Lord Kaimes published disease, but the debility neces"The Statute Law of Scotland sarily resulting from extreme Abridged, with Historical old age, a few days before his Notes;" and in 1759 gave to death he went to the court of the public his "Historical Law session, addressed all the judges Tracts." In 1760 he publish- separately, in the robing room, ed, in one volume folio," The told them he was speedily to Principles of Equity;" in 1761, depart, and took a solemn and "An Introduction to the Art an affectionate farewel

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ther was a daughter of sir Da-his small fortune, he went to a vid Falconer, president of the country retreat. His chief reCollege of Justice. His father sidence was at La Fleche, in died when Mr. Hume was an Anjou, where he composed his infant; and he, along with a "Treatise of Human Nature,' sister and an elder brother, were which, after returning to Lonleft to the care of their mother, don, he published in the year who devoted her whole atten- 1738. "Never literary attion to the rearing and educat-tempt," Mr. Hume remarks, ing of her children. Mr. Hume" was more unfortunate than passed through the ordinary my Treatise of Human Nature. courses of education with great It fell dead born from the press, success, and very early discover-without reaching such distinced an uncommon passion for tion as even to excite a murmur literature. This last circum- among the zealots." In the stance suggested to his friends year 1742, he published at Edinthe idea that the profession of burgh the first part of his "Esthe law would be a proper em- says." This work met with a ployment for him; but young more favourable reception from Hume had an insuperable aver- the public, and gave him some sion to every thing but the pur- consolation for his former dissuits of philosophy and general appointment. In 1745, he was learning; and he himself tells invited by the marquis of Anus, that when he was supposed nandale, who was then indisto be studying Voet and Vin-posed both in mind and in body, nius, Cicero and Virgil were to come and live with him in the authors which he was se-England, where Mr. Hume concretly devouring. This plan, tinued during twelve months; however, his narrow fortune and by his appointments in that was unable to support. He station, was enabled to make a therefore made an attempt to considerable addition to his enter upon a more active scene small fortune. He then reof life; and with this view, in ceived an invitation from gethe year 1734, he went to Bris-neral St. Clair to attend him as tol, with recommendations to secretary to an expedition a some of the most eminent mer-gainst Canada, but which end. chants in that city. In a few ed in an incursion on the coast, months he discovered that this of France, In 1747, Mr. Hume

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