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delightful, none more worthy a freeman, than agriculture.** 
To his Cato he attributes the language and the pursuits of 
the farm. Cincinnatus was called from the plough to the com¬ 
mand of the state, and released from that toil, to the plough 
he again returned. Virgil has endeared himself to posteri¬ 
ty by his invaluable legacy of the Georgicks; and Horace, 
notwithstanding his favor with the great, cannot forget the 
more refined pleasures of his Sabine farm. And to balance 
all antiquity with a single modern, Washington, by whom 
*every greatness was exhibited and every virtue felt, enjoyed 
no pleasures equal to those he derived from the tillage of 
the earth. 
To the farmer of Mount Vernon, we may now add the 
farmer of Clermont. Chancellor Livingston always felt the 
highest pleasure in the pursuits of agriculture. In the 
most active part of his political life, he still seized some mo- 
ments for the farm and for the promotion of the arts. As 
his public cares were gradually laid aside, his active mind 
was more constantly exercised in these pursuits; till in the 
evening of his days, they claimed him entirely as their own. 
-It is impossible in the remaining moments I shall assign 
io this address, to do full justice to Chancellor Livingston’s 
exertions in these useful pursuits. That he might commu¬ 
nicate the results of his observations and experiments and 
elicit from others their knowledge on these important sub¬ 
jects, he was chiefly instrumental in the establishment of 
this institution, which now mourns his loss, and at whose 
command I have the honor to speak his eulogy. This so« 
ciety has now existed for above twenty years, during all 
which time, he was its president, and its greatest supporter 
and benefactor. Whether present or absent it was upper¬ 
most in his thoughts and received his highest services.—. 
While in Europe, he constantly communicated whatever he 
thought worthy the attention of the society ; when in this 
country, we were entertained and instructed by his exten- \ 
sive foreign correspondence on every subject relating to the 
&rts or agriculture. They who tvouid know more parties 
