LEWIS D. YON SCHWEIN1TZ. 
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In the baneful spirit of uncharitableness he saw no¬ 
thing either lovely or respectable ; it never found a 
lodging in his heart, and he had, accordingly, no occa¬ 
sion in after life to eject so unprofitable a tenant. 
His first impulse towards the study of Botany had 
been received at Nazareth, before being placed as a pupil 
in the institution. When a mere child, being on a visit 
to that place in company with his grandfather, Bishop 
de Watteville, it chanced that a specimen of the Lichen 
digitatus , lying on a table in one of the apartments of 
the school, attracted his attention, and led to a few ob¬ 
servations on its name and physiology. From this mo¬ 
ment he dated his own partiality for the beauties of the 
vegetable kingdom. When his abode was afterwards 
fixed at the school, and he enjoyed the advantage of 
some instructions in the elements of botany from one of 
the teachers* in the seminary, he pursued his researches 
in this delightful science with the most enthusiastic ar¬ 
dour. He seems to have been, in truth, a very child of 
Flora, and with the vernal breath of that divinity to 
have inhaled all the benign influences which the beauty, 
simplicity and grandeur of Nature’s truth are every 
where fitted to inspire. 
A partial flora of Nazareth and its vicinity, formed 
at this early period, is still among his manuscript papers, 
and the occupation which its composition afforded to his 
moments of relaxation, continued through life to con¬ 
stitute the delight of his leisure hours. Such was his 
progress in manly attainments, that before the close of 
* Mr. Kramtsch. 
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