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moment; and, among manv vvho might well have been 

 proud to t-hare the honour, he stood alone. But ' the 

 progress of morals,' ;,avs lord Kaims, ' is slow 5 the pro- 

 gress of taste still slower.' 



" 1 he efifccts produced bv hours of despondence on a 

 mind so sUonely gifted, who can measure? His intellectual 

 Strength, however, prevailed; the force of his endowments 

 gradually, though slowly, raised him once more to admira- 

 tion and to fame ; the conscious sense of acknowledged 

 merit re-animated his efforts; he exerted himself with per- 

 severance, and rose to renown : he appeared to feel that he 

 had just reached again the level of his self-opinion, when 

 death extinguished his talents and his ambition. 



" P. HOAKE." 



Mr. Opie expired on Thursday the 9th of April, IS07, 

 and on Monday the 20lh of the same month his remains 

 were interred in St. Paul's Cathedral, near to those of 

 sir Joshua Reynolds. The above sketch of Mr. Opie's life 

 by Mr. Hoare is followed bv a short but masterly account 

 of his merits as a painter, which is generallv understood to 

 be the production of Mr. West; a short sketch of his 

 character by Mr. Northcote ; lines to his memory, and 

 indeed worthy of his memory, by Mr. Shee — with other 

 tributes from the pens of Mrs. luchbald and Mr. Boaden. 



A new edition of the Chemical Catechism is in the press, 

 and will be published in the beginning of August next ;j 

 much enlarged, and improved by the addition of a great 

 number of new note>, and an account of all the new che- 

 mical discoveries. The vocabulary of chemical terms will 

 also be found to be much improved, and the appendix will 

 be enriched with a considerable number of new and interest- 

 ing experiments. 



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