DR. DARWIN. 



to England in the year 1773, he faw, that 

 fpring, Mifs Honora Sneyd united to his 

 friend Mr. Edgeworth, who was become 

 a widower; and, in the year 1780, he 

 learned that his fecond love of that name, 

 Mifs Elizabeth Sneyd, was alfo, after the 

 death of Honora married to Mr. Edge- 

 worth. 



I; was fmgular that Mr. Day fliould thus, 

 in the courfe of feven years, find himfelf 

 doubly rivalled by his moft intimate 

 friend ; but his own previously renounced 

 purfuit of thofe beautiful young women, 

 left him without either caufe or fenfations 

 of refentment on their account. 



From the year 1773 this hitherto love- 

 renounced philofopher refided chiefly in 

 London, and amid the fmall and felecl: 

 circle which he frequented there, often 

 met the pretty and elegant Mifs Eflher 

 Mills of Derby fhi re, who, with modern 

 acquirements, and amongft modiili luxuries, 



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