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Hereditary Genius
to them, but are gone to their own reward.” She had great abilities.
S. Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam, d. aet. 26. “In whose clear and vivid understanding,
sweetness of disposition, and purity of life, an image of his elder brother was
before the eyes of those who had most loved him. Distinguished, like him, by
early reputation, and by the affection of many friends, he was, like him also,
cut off by a short illness in a foreign land.”
Helvetius, Claude Adrian (Schweitzer) (1715-1771). The celebrated and persecuted
author of a materialistic philosophy. He was universally accomplished;
handsome, graceful, robust, and full of genius. By aet. 23 he had obtained a
farmer-generalship in France. Became a refugee in England and elsewhere. He
married a charming lady— Mdlle. de Ligueville, whom, it is said, both Franklin
and Turgot desired to marry in her widowhood. He had two daughters.
F. John Claude Adrian, physician of great eminence in Paris; Inspector-General of
Hospitals; was liberal and benevolent. G. Jean Adrian, Dutch physician, who
died in Paris; was Inspector-General of Hospitals. It was he who first showed
the importance of ipecacuanha as a medicine.
Irving, Washington; American author, novelist, and historian; was minister to Spain;
had weak health; was educated by his elder brothers; had desultory habits; his
means were ample.
[2B.] His brothers were men of considerable literary attainments; one of them
conducted the New York Chronicle.
Lamb, Charles (“Essays of Elia”), a quaint and genial humorist; dearly beloved.
b. A sister, who, in a fit of insanity, murdered her mother, and whom Charles
Lamb watched with the utmost solicitude. She ultimately recovered her reason,
and was then described by those who knew her, as of a strong intellect and of a
heart the counterpart of her brother's in humanity. She was authoress of many
pieces that are published in her brother's works.
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim; a universal writer, who added immensely to the stores
of German literature. He was
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