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ever had. As her Charles had renounced the cassock, she hoped 
at least to have the pleasure of seeing it one day on Sammy’s shoulders. 
But this stripling began likewise to imitate his brother’s example, and 
to love flowers better than books of divinity. His mother, to suppress 
this rising inclination, forbade him most carefully the garden and the ga- 
thering of flowers. Her prohibition, however, would but little avail 
with Samuel to root out the impulse to the knowledge of Nature, 
which he afterwards made his favourite study, besides husbandry. He 
shone as one of the most eminent connoisseurs and authors in one of 
the branches of natural science. In the year 1768 he published a work 
on the breeding of bees, which met with so favourable a reception, 
that they gave the author the name of King of the Bees (Bi Rung). 
The spiritual wishes of the mother were, however, ultimately accom- 
plished in her second son. He became a preacher in the year 1741, 
and seven years after, on his father’s demise, succeeded him in the 
reftory of Stenbrohult. 
Meanwhile our Linn.eus entered with freedom the career, in which 
he could thus far advance only by secret and interrupted steps. The 
certainty and limitation of a settled plan of pursuits doubled his zeal 
and spirit, which were under a sure and direft guidance. Rothmann 
became his leader. He gave him private instruction in the elements 
of physic, a circumstance particularly advantageous, and soon at- 
tended with happy consequences. Linnaeus found in Rothmann’* 
library the fust resources, that procured to him erudition and elucida- 
tions in the science, which he had till then studied without a plan, or 
any scientific insight. Among these resources was the principal work of 
Tournefort, entitled, « Elements of Botany ( Institutions Rei Htrbc- 
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