The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Vol 16

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ISBN 13 : 9780243587995
Total Pages : 594 pages
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Download or read book The Monthly Review, Or Literary Journal, Vol. 16 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-05 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Monthly Review, or Literary Journal, Vol. 16: From January to April, Inclusive, 1795 Tnpp'r Tram 0f Stoever'i Li)? 9' linear. G year. Leyden was the next place which he vifited where 's great objea was to obtain an introduaion to Boerhaave. This wane eal'y matter, nathat celebrated man fet too high a va lue on his time to be liberal of it in conferences with lirangert: the profpeelus of his Sjflma Nature, which Linne printed for the 'firfl time at Leyden, and prefented to Boen heave, obtained (or him the honour which he folicited. The Wt man appointed an interview at his vilia; which fuceceded (0 well for Linne, that the old profefi'or advifed him to give tip all thoughts of returning home, and to feel: his fortune in Holland. Linne pleaded his difahility, on account of indigence, and mentioned his dehga of leaving Leyden the very next day. We are not told that Boer'haave (one of the richefl men in his country, ) made any efi'ort to detain him. He gave him, how an, a letter to Barmann, botanical profefl'or at Amflerdam, which fecurcd him a good reception there; and Barmann con 0.2i (0 high an Opinion of the Swede, that he took him into his for the purpofeof obtaining his helpin his defcription of the plants of Ceylon. Boerhaave farther ferved Linne very ca'en eially by recommending him to George Clifort, the rich hur go-afier and great colleeior, of Amfierdarn, as his houl'e phy fician and botaniii. Cliffort, accordin ly, made an exchange with Bormann of a copy of Sloane's Hi ry of Jamaica 2 ainpt the naturalift; and he tool: Linne home with him to am. Camp, his villa, and at once raifed him to a Rate of afluenee {namely conceivable by a poor Swede, for he had an appoint ment of aducat a day, exclulively of board. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.