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James Burnett, Lord
Monboddo (baptised 25
October 1714 – 26 May 1799) was a
Scottish judge,
scholar of
linguistic evolution,
philosopher and deist. He...
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Monboddo House (56°53′N 2°25′W / 56.89°N 02.42°W / 56.89; -02.42) is a
historically famous mansion in The Mearns, Scotland. The
structure was generally...
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social order for
trying to fit
history into
natural models of progress.
Monboddo and
Samuel Clarke resisted elements of Newton's work, but
eventually rationalised...
- Cullen, Adam Ferguson,
David Hume,
Francis Hutcheson,
James Hutton, Lord
Monboddo, John Playfair,
Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, and
Dugald Stewart. The Scottish...
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regular correspondent and
friend of
James Burnett, Lord
Monboddo, the
Scottish philosopher.
Monboddo was an
important thinker in pre-evolutionary theory,...
- malvae" ("As for me, olives, endives, and
mallows provide sustenance"). Lord
Monboddo describes his
translation of an
ancient epigram that
demonstrates Malva...
- Berlin. By 1795, 22 to 24
factories of this type were in Brunswick. Lord
Monboddo describes the
plant in 1779 as the "chicoree",
which the
French cultivated...
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younger daughter of the
Scottish judge and
philosopher James Burnett, Lord
Monboddo, and a
famous Edinburgh beauty of the late 18th century. She is remembered...
- not to him and his heirs."
Boswell was a
frequent guest of Lord
Monboddo at
Monboddo House, a
setting where he
gathered significant observations for his...
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grammatical tradition,
informing the
works of de Brosses, Dow, Sinner, Voltaire,
Monboddo, Halhed, Beauzée, and Hervás, and was
plagiarized by John
Cleland (1778)...
