THE 



LIFE 



O F 



SIR CHARLES LINNy£US, KNIGHT, 



SECTION I. 



BIRTH, DESCENT AND NAME OF LINN^US.— HIS EARLY LOVE OF NATURE.— SIN. 

 GULAR INDUCEMENTS TO THAT EXTRAORDINARY PASSION.— HIS DOMESTIC 

 EDUCATION.— IS DESTINED FOR THE PULPIT.— GOES TO THE SCHOOL AT WEXI- 

 COE.— GATHERS FLOWERS INSTEAD OF LEARNING HIS PHRASEOLOGY.— IS RE- 

 CEIVED INTO THE COLLEGE AT WEXICOE.— COMPLAI NTS OF HIS PROFESSORS.— 

 DOCTOR ROTHMANN SAVES HIS GENIUS, AND PREVAILS ON HIS FATHER TO 

 LET HIM STUDY BOTANY.— THE DOCTOR MEETS WITH OBJECTIONS ESPECIAL- 

 LY ON THE PART OF THE MOTHER OF LINN^US, WHO FEELS AVERSE TO HIS 

 DESIGN.— ANECDOTE OF THE BROTHER OF LINNAUS.— LINN.EUS IS RECEIVED 

 INTO ROTHMANN'S HOUSE.— GETS ACQUAINTED WITH THE WRITINGS OF 

 TOURNEFORT.- LAYS THE FOUNDATION OF HIS SUBSEQUENT GREATNESS. 



T H E Northern part of Europe stands, originally, and in a great 

 measure, indebted to the Southern for the present culture of science. 

 From the latter, the Muses transmigrated into the foi-mer. All the prin- 

 cipal revolutions in the fields of knowledge took birth there, and were 

 transplanted and fostered here. No genius of the North— excepting 



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