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his firft phyfician 5 and in 1708, he married Margaret An¬ 
gelica Dodart, daughter of M. Dodart, an eminent phy¬ 
fician. Some years after he was attacked by a dyfenteiy, 
of which he died in 1717, at the age of fixty-three. Be- 
fides being thoroughly verfed in natural philofophy and 
chemifty, Homberg was well acquainted with hiftory and 
with languages. Every thing he wrote dil'plays the cha¬ 
racter of his mind, which was capable of art attention that 
enabled him to make obfervations which might have 
efcaped others. His method of explaining fads was fim- 
ple, but accurate and precife. He never publilhed any 
large work, but he furnifhed a great many curious and 
interefting papers’ to the Academy of Sciences, which are 
published in their Memoirs. 
HOM'BURG, a town of Germany, on the Upper Rhine, 
and in the duchy of Deux Ponts, founded in 1682 It 
had formerly a caltle and fome fortifications, which are 
now deftroyed: five miles north-north-weft of Deux Ponts, 
and thirty-fix weft-north-weft of Landau. Lat. 49. 21. N. 
loir. 24. 56- E. Ferro. 
HOM'BURG, or Hoch'eneurg, a town of Germany, 
in Franconia, and bifhopric of Wurzburg, lituated on the 
Maine: fifteen miles weft-fouth-weft of Wurzburg. 
HOM'BY, a town of the American States, in Virginia: 
twenty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Leeds. 
HOME, f [ham, Sax.] His own houfe; the private 
dwelling.—Something like home that is not home is to be 
defined ; it is found in the houfe of a friend. Temple. 
Home is the facred refuge of our life, 
Secur’d from all approaches but a wife. Dryden. 
His own country.—Their determination is to return to 
their homes, and trouble you no more. Skakefpeare. 
At home the hateful names of parties ceafe, 
And factious fouls are weary’d into peace. Dryden. 
The place.of conftant refidence : 
Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, 
Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles reftor’d. Prior. 
Home united to a fubltantive, fignifies domeltic, or of the 
fame country.—Let the exportation of home commodities 
be more in value than the importation of foreign. Bacon. 
HOME, adv. To one’s own habitation.—One of Adam’s 
children lights on a glittering fubftance; home he carries 
it to Adam. Locke. —To one’s own country.—When Mr. 
Gray left Venice, which he did the middle of July fol¬ 
lowing, he returned home. Mafon's Life of Gray. —Clofe to 
one’s own breaft or affairs.—He that encourages treafon, 
lays the foundation of a doCtrine that will come home to 
himfelf. L'Ef range. —This is a confideration that comes 
home to our intereft. Addifon.— To the point defigned ; to 
the utmoft; clofely; fully.—Accufe him home and home. 
Skakefpeare. —Men of age object too much, adventure too 
little, and feldom drive bufinefs home to the full period ; 
but content themfelves with a mediocrity of luccefs. Bacon. 
Break through the thick array 
Of his throng’d legionb, and charge home upon him. 
Addifon. 
United to a fubftantive, it implies force and efficacy: 
Poifon may be falfe; 
The home thruft of a friendly fword is fure. Dryden. 
HOME (David), a diffenting minifter in France, de¬ 
fended from a relpeCtable family in Scotland. He re¬ 
ceived his education in France, where he was admitted to 
the miniftry, and fettled for fome time with the Calvinift 
church at Duras, in Lower Guienne, and afterwards with 
that of Gergeau, in the Orleanois. He was employed by 
James I. king of England, to attempt a reconciliation be¬ 
tween the minifters Tilenus and Du Moulin, who had en¬ 
gaged in a warm contelt on the fubjeCt of juftification ; 
and alfo to attempt the impracticable talk of uniting all 
the proteftant divines in Europe in one fyftem of religious 
belief. The time of his death is unknown The raoft 
confiderable of his productions is Apologia Bafilica, feu 
H O M 1 
Machiavclli Ingenium Examination, 1626, 4to. There are alfo 
attributed to him two latires againft the Jefuits. Several 
of his poetical compolitions are printed in the Delicia 
Poctarum Scotorum. 
HOME (Henry, lord Karnes), an eminent Scotch judge, 
born of an ancient family in the county of Berwick, in 
1696. He received his early education in his father’s 
houfe, and at a proper age purlued the ftudy of the law 
in the univerfity of Edinburgh. The acutenefs of his 
genius, and the luccefs with which he applied to profef- 
lional ftudies, were difplayed by a number of publications 
on the civil and Scotch law, which obtained great ap- 
plaufe. The firft of thele, in 1728, confifted of Remark¬ 
able Decifians of the Court of Selfions; which, in 1741, 
he augmented into a digefted view of all the decifionj of 
the fame court, in the form of a dictionary, 2 vols. folio. 
His Effays upon feveral Subjects in Law, fn 1732, exhi¬ 
bited him as a deep thinker upon thole topics. In 1757, 
he publilhed his ufeful work, The Statute Law of Scot¬ 
land abridged, with Hiitorical Notes, 8vo. But the raoft 
curious of his productions In this clafs appeared in 1759, 
under the title of Hiitorical Law Tracts, 8vo. containing 
fourteen feparate treatifes upon interefting lubjeCts con¬ 
nected with the judicial and conftitutional hiftory of the 
country. In 1760 he publilhed Principles of Equity, folio; 
in 1766 and 1780, he gave additional collections of Deci- 
fions of the Court of Seffion; and in 1777, Elucidations 
refpefiing the Common and Statute Law of Scotland. 
Thefe proofs of indefatigable induftry and knowledge, 
juftly railed him to the firft rank in his profefiion; and 
he was advanced, in 1752, to the bench of judges of the 
court of feiiion; on which promotion he took the title of 
lord Karnes. 
The inquifitive and fpeculative genius of lord Karnes, 
was not however confined to the fcience of the law. From 
his youth he had a great turn for metaphyfical dilcuffions 5 
and maintained a correfpondence on thole fubjeCts with 
biffiops Berkeley and Butler, Dr. Clarke, and other emi¬ 
nent logicians. He became an author in this branch in 
1752, when he publilhed Effays on the Principles of Mo¬ 
rality and Natural Religion. In this ingenious perform¬ 
ance, he maintained the doClrine of philofophical necef- 
fity, which had become obnoxious by being adopted by 
writers who rejected revealed religion ; and, though he 
clofely allied it with the ftricteft duties of morality and 
religion, he underwent many attacks on its account. His 
Introduction to the Art of Thinking, i2mo. 1761, is ac¬ 
counted a valuable work for young perfons. It conlifts of 
maxims and general obfervations on human nature, and the 
conduct of life, illuftrated by examples. In 1762, he gave 
to the public his Elements of Criticilm, 3 vols. 8vo. a 
truly original performance, which, dilcarding all arbitrary 
rules of literary compolition derived from authority, efta- 
blilhes a new theory upon the principles of human nature. 
The foundation is laid with much metaphyfical acute¬ 
nefs, though he lbmetimes falls into a ltrain of over-re¬ 
finement ; but it was well received by the public. He 
next publilhed Sketches of the Hiftory of Man, 2 vols. 4to. 
1773 j a work of much ingenuity and entertainment, which 
comprifes many fubjeCts of the greateft importance rela¬ 
tive to human life. 
Among the purfuits which occupied the time of this 
fingularly aCtive perfion, a favourite one was agriculture, 
which he followed in a practical way, and on a large fcale. 
The ideas which theory and experience fuggefted to him 
upon this liibjeCt, he gave to the public in a work entitled 
The Gentleman Farmer, being an Attempt to improve 
Agriculture by fubjeCting it to the Teft of rational Princi¬ 
ples, 8vo. 1777. This book contains l’o many ufeful pre¬ 
cepts, the reiult of experience, that it may be coniidered 
as a valuable addition to the general Itock of agricultural 
knowledge. Amid all his purfuits, the habit of writing 
attended him to the very clofe of life; and in 1781 he, 
publilhed Loole Hints upon Education, chiefly concern¬ 
ing the Culture of the Heart. This publication he did 
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