Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . ed the death of thosewho were never great but in their funeral orations ; the etiquette of courts havebut too long sanctioned hypocritical grief. Nations ought only to mourn fortheir benefactors; the representatives of freemen ought never to recommendany other than the heroes of humanity to their homage. * * * *Antiquity would have el
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . ed the death of thosewho were never great but in their funeral orations ; the etiquette of courts havebut too long sanctioned hypocritical grief. Nations ought only to mourn fortheir benefactors; the representatives of freemen ought never to recommendany other than the heroes of humanity to their homage. * * * *Antiquity would have elevated altars to that mortal, who, for the advantageof the human race, embracing both heaven and earth in his vast and extensivemind, knew how to subdue thunder and tyranny ! Enlightened and free Europeat least owes its remembrance and its regrets, to one of the greatest men whohas ever served the cause of philosophy and of liberty. * Franklin had two children, a son and daughter. The former was a royal governor of New Jerseybefore the Revolution, and adhorin? to die government, he went to England, where he died. Hisdaughter married Mr Bactie, of Philadelphia^ whose descendants are among the first families of thatcity at the present time. 17 25* LINNJEUS,. LINNJEUS. THE celebrated CHARLES VON LINNE, or LINNAEUS, as he is generally calledin this country, the prince of modern botanists, was born, as he himself in-forms us, at. the small village of Sashult, in the parish of Stenbrohult, in theprovince of Smaland, Sweden, May 23, 1707. His ancestors were humblepeasants; but his father, after struggling through many difficulties, had quali-fied himself to enter the church, and at the time of the birth of Charles, whowas his eldest child, held the cure of the parish of Stenbrohult. He was veryfond of botany, and had a large collection of rare and foreign plants in his gar-den, in which he spent much of his time, and where Charles, almost as soonas he had left his cradle, was his cons
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