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both to their comfort and emolument. His ex- 

 tcnfive view of natural hiftory, as conneded with 

 almoft all the arts of life, did not allow him to 

 confine thefe motives and incitements to thofe only 

 who were defigned for the pradice of phyfic. He 

 alfo laboured to infpire the great and opulent with 

 a tafte for this ftudy ^ and wilhed particularly 

 that fuch as were devoted to an ecclefiaftic life 

 fliould lhare a portion of natural fcience, not 

 only as a means of fweetening their rural fitu- 

 ation, confined, as many are, perpetually to a 

 country refidence, but as what would almoft in- 

 evitably lead, in a variety of inftances, to difco- 

 veries which only fuch fituations could give rife 

 to, and which the learned in great cities could 

 have no opportunities to make. Not to add, that 

 the mutual communication and enlargement of 

 this kind of knowledge among people of equal 

 rank in a country fituation, muft prove one of the 

 ftrongeft bonds of union and friendftiip, and con- 

 tribute, in a much higher degree than the ufual 

 perifhing amufements of the age, to the pleafures 

 and advantages of fociety. 



LiNN^us lived to enjoy the fruit of his own 

 labour in an uncommon degree* Natural hif- 

 tory raifed itfelf in Sweden^ under his culture, 

 to a ftate of perfedion unknown elfewhere, 

 and was from thence difieminated through 

 all Europe. His pupils difperfed themfelves all 

 over the globe, and with their mafter's fame, ex- 

 tended both fcience and their own. More than 

 this,( he lived to fee the fovereigns of Europe 



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