vw Tho PREEAG EE 
pafing them upon Paper, and writing 
their. LVames to them: He does well. 
When he grows a Man, he negleEts 
bis ufeful Labours; and perhaps de- 
Spyes bimfelf for the Mifemployment of 
Jo much Time: But if he has, to the 
Knowledge of their Forms, added af- 
terward the Study of their Virtues, he 
will be far from cenfuring himfelf for 
all the Pains he took to that End. | 
_ He who wifbes well to Science and — 
to Mankind, muf? wifh this Matter un~ 
derfiood: And this is the Way ta bring 
aPart of Knowledge into Credit; which, — 
as it 48. commonly prattifed, is not a : 
fot above the Studies of a Raifer of 
Lulips or a Carnation-fanfier. E 
When we confider the Study of — 
Plants, as the Search of Remedies for : 
Difeafes, we fee it in the Light of ‘one. 
of the moft honourable Sciences in the — 
World; in this View no Pains are too 
great to have been beflowed in its Mes 
quirement; and in this Lntent, the : 7 
principal Regard ought to be had to a 
thofe of our own Growth, The foreign 
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