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To the pifture of the Father, we shall also add here, as a side piecCj 

 the portrait of his Son, Professor Charles Li n n.^ us, who was the heir 

 of his academical office, of his knowledge and his celebrity; — but 

 who was too prematurely snatched away from his career, to have been 

 able to attain that greatness, which was his aim, the expeQation of his 

 citizens, and the hope of the literary world. 



Charles Linn^us, as we have already mentioned in the seventh 

 seflion of this work, was born January 20, 1741, in the house of his 

 grandfather, at Fahlun, the capital of Dakcarlia. His future desti- 

 nation was soon decided, and left no room to hesitate. The natural in- 

 clination and the science of the parent, were also to devolve to the 

 share of his son. There was no study in which the latter could find a 

 better opportunity of becoming eminent, than that which had already 

 gained immortality to his sire. From his earliest infancy his education 

 had been planned to make him a naturalist ; and what had once been 

 Jbund reprehensible in his father, was now deemed praise-worthy in him. 



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