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| | The life of Erasmus Darwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23) |
 | | It is, therefore, probable that Erasmus, as well as many other members of the family, inherited from this William, or some of his predecessors, their strong tendency to gout; and it was an early attack of gout which made Erasmus a vehement advocate for temperance throughout his whole life. |
 | | Erasmus Darwin, is entirely without foundation; and that the doctor, on that melancholy event, gave amongst his own family, proofs of strong sensibility at the time, and of succeeding regard to the memory of his son, which he seemed to have a pride in concealing from the world. |
 | | Darwin is therefore unwilling to leave him, and begs to defer her journey to Etruria till later in the season. |
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