SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LINNAUS. 
T may not be deemed out of place to give a brief 
sketch of the life of the illustrious author of systema- 
botany, which has been so nearly ecinad by his 
indefatigable labors. 
Cartes Linn.xvs (afterwards Von Linné) was b 
at Rashult, in Sweden, in 1707. His ge Nicholas 
Linneus, was minister of the — 
to which the hamlet of Rashul 
native age < the megnboriae ce Young Lin- 
early imbibed 
the same taste, with such warmth, oe he was never 
able to bend his mind, with any great success, to other 
ursuits. He relates of himself, that, when yet aed 
nm which ay 
se that this first botanical lecture was 
n his scientific life. 
no 
relish for the profession, or its preparatory 
studies, being a very inapt scholar in the study of a? 
either ancient or modern. In his diary, wri 
Sanita: called £8 
were seated, ai 
guages, 
in later years, he confesses a peculiar inaptitude, a 
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rather a blameable indifference, for the learning of lan- 
years. anes 2 he found his way every where 
well and happily. 
At the age of nineteen, his tutors, like the a 
instructors of Newton at Cambridge, gave him up a 
rags dunce; advising that he ‘tare be apgraiitesa 
to some techanibal trade. Fortunately for him, and 
for the world, one of the lecturers on Natural Philoso- 
mended to his disappointed parent to turn his oe 
to the study of medicine; which advice was adopte 
h botany ought to hae studied— 
founded on the parts of fructification, and put the Bys- 
m of Tou 
tinguished % the fruit. 
useful, in a him to attempt something more 
complete thereafter 
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