Excerpt from The Language of Botany: Being a Dictionary of the Terms Made Use of in That Science, Principally by Linneus; With Familiar Explanations, and an Attempt to Establish Significant English Terms; The Whole Interspersed With Critical Remarks
So long as Botany continued to be lindied Only among thofe who had received a learned Education; the original terms of Linneus, derived from the Greek or Latin, ferved all the purp'ofes of general intercourfe. But when it became univerfally adopted, a Vernacular Language would of couri'e be gradually formed and if it were to be left to chance, or the choice of the ignorant, many abfurdities and barbarifrns would be introduced, debaling our fierling Englifh.
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Excerpt from The Language of Botany: Being a Dictionary of the Terms Made Use of in That Science, Principally by Linneus; With Familiar Explanations, and an Attempt to Establish Significant English Terms; The Whole Interspersed With Critical Remarks
So long as Botany continued to be lindied Only among thofe who had received a learned Education; the original terms of Linneus, derived from the Greek or Latin, ferved all the purp'ofes of general intercourfe. But when it became univerfally adopted, a Vernacular Language would of couri'e be gradually formed and if it were to be left to chance, or the choice of the ignorant, many abfurdities and barbarifrns would be introduced, debaling our fierling Englifh.
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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.
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