THE LIFE OF THE YOUNGER LINNvEUS. 
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He was encouraged in culling flowers, examining plants, &c. See. And 
these occupations proved both grateful and pleasant to the juvenile 
student. 
In order to regulate his occupations, to form his mind, and his 
natural capacities, he was early put under the care of private tutors. 
His father chose for this purpose, the most hopeful young men who 
then studied at Upsal. These were Loefling, Falk, and Ro- 
eander, whom Linnjeus afterwards recommended to go out on 
o”ages of :' : scoverv, and some of whom made a most fatal exit. 
They • re chiefly ! reG«d to impart to their pupil the knowledge of 
the language of the learned world, and of the technical terms of the 
science * ch he studied. From the habitual practice of conversing in 
Latin, he soon learned to talk that language with much fluency, and 
all his discourses be ..g constantly directed to objeCts of natural history, 
he c ourse, could not but acquire a great knowledge of natural 
productions*. Already in the tenth year of his age he knew most of 
the plants in the botanical garden at Upsal, and assigned to them their 
right names. 
His early distinction, and the authority and influence of his father, 
procured him likewise early honours and dignities. He already as- 
cended the first step of literary greatness in his eighteenth year, being 
appointed demonstrator in the botanical garden at Upsal. Before him, 
no such academical cha. 0 e existed in that University. At twenty-one 
he appeared as an author, by publishing the beginning of bis descrip- 
* In his epistolary style, and on other occasions, when he expressed himself with quickness, 
his Latin was as incorrect as his father’s. The hand which he wrote was somewhat larger, 
but resembled much in other respedts that which his father wrote. His coat of arms did not 
bear the motto : Famam Extenders Fail is. 
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