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" Specimens of Ancient Sculpture selected from different collec- 

 tions in Great Britain/' the subjects for which were chosen by Mr. 

 P. Knight, and he wrote the preface and the description of the 

 plates. He was also the author of several poems : " The Land- 

 scape," " Progress of Civil Society," " Monody of the Death of 

 Mr. Fox," and " Alfred, a Romance in Rhyme," and of some 

 articles in the Edinburgh Review. In 1820, he published an 

 edition of the Iliad and Odyssey. His object in this edition 

 was to restore the text of Homer to its original state. His 

 " Inquiry into the Principles of Taste " was reviewed in the 

 "Edinburgh Review" for January 1806. Mr. P. Knight was 

 elected to serve in parliament for the borough of Leominster 

 in 1780 ; and in 1784 he was chosen one of the representatives 

 of Ludlow, for which place he continued to sit until 1 806, when 

 he retired from parliament. 



Mr. Andrew Knight received his early education at Ludlow, 

 from whence he was removed to a school of considerable reputa- 

 tion at Chiswick, then kept by Dr. Crawford. He was afterwards 

 entered of Baliol College, Oxford, where the late eminent 

 physician Dr. Baillie was his contemporary : who used to say of 

 him, " that he managed to acquire as much Latin and Greek 

 as most of his fellow-students, though he spent less time about 

 it, and much less than he devoted to field sports." He was at 

 this period and continued for many years afterwards to be an 

 eager sportsman, and an excellent shot ; but with him, even in 

 his boyhood, killing the game was only a secondary consideration 

 to the opportunities which his long rambles with his gun afforded 

 him for studying nature ; and from the facts and incidents 

 collected at this early period he laid in a fund of information 

 which formed the basis of many of his subsequent investi- 

 gations. 



He was at this time painfully shy, and it was difficult to draw 

 him out ; but he was remarkable for the steadiness with which 

 he resisted all attempts, whether by persuasion or raillery, 

 to join in the intemperate habits then so common in the 

 Universities. 



