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nal of Wednesday, September 16, 1829, thus relates his de- 

 cease : " On Monday last died, at Foxley, in this county, 

 Sir Uvedaie Price, Bart, in the eighty-third year of his age. 

 The obituary of 1829 will not record a name more gifted or 

 more dear ! In a county where he was one of the oldest, as 

 well as one of the most constant of its inhabitants, it were 

 superfluous to enumerate his many claims to distinction and 

 regret. His learning, his sagacity, his exquisite taste, his 

 indefatigable ardour, would have raised to eminence a man 

 much less conspicuous by his station in life, by his corres- 

 pondence with the principal literati of Europe, and by the 

 attraction and polish of his conversation and manners. Pos- 

 sessing his admirable faculties to so venerable an age, we 



calmed ; and though he modestly refused being a constant intruder, yet he 

 took up his residence in a cottage near them, and delighted to pass his lei- 

 sure hours in their happy domestic circle, " blending his studious pursuits, 

 with rural occupations," and particularly with gardening. No doubt, to 

 this protecting kindness, may, on this spot, have been imbibed his great 

 veneration for Theophrastus ; and here he must have laid the foundation of 

 those attainments, which, during the future periods of his life, obtained 

 for him the high approbation of the justly celebrated Mrs. Montagu, who, 

 in her letters, speaks of "this invaluable friend," in the highest possible 

 terms of praise. In this peaceful and consoling retreat, was written his 

 original and masterly tribute to the talents of Xenophon ; and here was 

 first kindled his deep enthusiastic zeal for the classic authors of antiquity ; 

 and the materials for his then intended edition of Milton (who he says 

 equalled all the ancients whom he imitated ; the sublimity of Homer, the 

 majesty of Sophocles, the softness of Theocritus, and the gaiety of Ana- 

 creon,) enriched with parallel passages from holy writ, the classics, and the 

 early Italian poets ; and here he composed his matchless treatise on the 

 power and principles of Tartini's music (for it seems Mr. Price himself 

 " was a master of the art.") Here too, most probably, he sketched, or first 

 gathered, his early memoranda towards his future general history of hus- 

 bandry, from the earliest ages of the world to his own time; and fostered a 

 devoted zeal for Linnaeus, which produced that spirited eulogium on him, 

 which pervades the preface to his translation of " Miscellaneous Tracts on 

 Natural History." 



