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Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, With Notes and Illustr. by Sir H. Ellis
Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men of the Sixteenth Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries With Notes and Illustr by Sir H Ellis Author:Henry Ellis General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1843 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: My Wife salutes you with the tender of her very humble service. The ulcers upon my leg, which I thought had been perfectly healed and dried up, continuing well all Winter, are this Spring broken out again and become very troublesome and painfull. They puzzle my Philosophy, and I am at some losse how to order them. I am, Sir, Your very affectionate friend B. N. April 23, -- 94. and humble servant, John Ray. Lxxxti. Mr. Ray to Dr. Sloane. The difficulty which a Botanist has to encounter who has not seen the Plants he has to describe, growing in their natural places. [Ibid. fol. 166. Orig.] Sir, I received your very kind letter of June Cl, and not long after the acceptable present of your Book: for which I return you many thanks. I cannot but admire your industry and patience in reading and comparing such a multitude of Relations and Accounts of Voyages, and referring to its proper place what you found therein relating to your subject, and that with so much circumspection and judgement. You have done Botanists great service in distributing and reducing the confused heap of names, and contracting the number of Species. But who is able to doo the like ? No man but who is alike qualified, and hath seen the things growing in their natural places. For my own part I doe freely acknowledge myself altogether insufficient for such a task, having not seen the plants themselves, nor of many of them so much as dried Specimens, and of the rest having had but a transient view. I shall therefore put down what I find in late writeres, viz. Plukenet's CAMD. SOC. 2 D Phytography, the remaining six volumes of H...« less