Account of 
Sir James Hun- 
ter Blair, 
36 HISTORY of the SOCIETY. 
for to an unwearied application, he united great knowledge of 
the world, fagacity in bufinefs, and a found underitanding. 
His virtues and labours were not unrewarded. His lite was 
fhort indeed, but it was profperous and happy; he enjoyed a 
very great {hare of the public efteem; in {pite of the interefts 
and prejudices which he combated, he had no perfonal enemies ; 
of the numbers whom he obliged, few were ungrateful ; he was 
beloved by his friends; and no man perhaps was ever blefled 
with a greater portion of domeftic felicity. 
If. Ae- 
