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fame place, Honora left him an infant 

 girl and boy, when Ihe died in the year 

 1780, The former inherited her mother's 

 name, her beauty, and her malady, and 

 died of confumption at fixteen. The ami- 

 able fon yet lives, with fine talents, but 

 infirm health. By his third wife, Eliza* 

 beth, he has fcveral children ; and by the 

 prefent, two or three. From Mr. Edge- 

 worth's large family elaborate fyftems of in- 

 fantile education have proceeded : of them 

 the author of thefe memoirs cannot fpeak, 

 as flie has never feen them. Other com- 

 pofitions, which are faid to be humorous 

 brilliant, a. re from the fame fource, , 



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