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and bloomed around him, rendered the 

 Lares of his hearth not lefs aufpicious to 

 Darwin than he had found the gifts of 

 Fortune and the voice of Renown. His fon 

 Erafmus, by the former wife, had fettled 

 at Derby nearly as foon as himfelf went 

 thither, and in the profeffion of the law 

 obtained confiderable practice, with fair 

 reputation. The talents and virtues of his 

 youngeft fon, by the firft marriage, were 

 making every promife of that profperity 

 which has fmce been amply fulfilled. 



The Zoonomia, of fo much elder birth 

 than the Botanic Garden, fuffered her 

 poetic younger fifter to precede her on 

 their entrance into the world of letters, and 

 did not herfelf appear till the year 1794. 

 Of the Zoonomia fufficient has been laid 

 in the former part of this biography, con- 

 fidering the writer's limited powers to 

 fpeak of it's excellences and defects. 



About thirteen or fourteen years after 

 20 Dr, 



