THE 
LIFE 
O F 
SIR CHARLES LIN NSEUS, KNIGHT. 
SECTION I. 
BIRTH, DESCENT AND NAME OF LINNAEUS. — 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,— COMPLAINTS 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 FART OF THE MOTHER OF LINN-ffiUS, WEIO FEEL- VERSE TO HIS 
DESIGN.— ANECDOTE OF THE BROTHER OF LINNAEUS.— LINNALUS IS RECEIVED 
INTO ROTHMANN’S HOUSE.— GETS ACQUAINTED WITH THE WRITINGS OF 
TOURNEFORT.— LAYS THE FOUNDATION OF HIS SUBSEQUENT GREATNESS. 
T HE 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 former. 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 
b the 
