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BIOGRAPHICAL PARTICULARS, &c. 
To the piflure of the Father, we shall al o add here, as J e piece, 
the portrait of his Son, Professor Charles Linn * us, who was the heir 
of his academical office, of his knowledge and hit celebrity. — bu' 
who was too prematurely snatched away from, his caieer, v * -•> 
able to attain that greatness, which was his aim, the expectation of his 
citizens, and the hope of the literary world. 
Charles Linnaeus, as we have already mentioned in the seventh 
seCtion of this work, was born January 20, 1741, in the house of his 
grandfather, at Falilun , the capilal of Dalecarlia. His future desti- 
nation was soon decided, and left no room to hesitate. The natural in- 
clination and the science of the parer 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 j and what had once been 
found reprehensible in his father, was now deemed praise-worthy in him. 
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