On the Beauties, Harmonies, And Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional ... 1
On the Beauties, Harmonies, And Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional ... 1
Charles Bucke
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Those, selecting the church, Fenelon, Huet, Sherlock, or Tillotson ; while medical inclinations would point to Galen, Boerhaave, Hunter, Sydenham, or Harvey. The very adoption of these names might lead to an excell^ce, even superior to that, which adorned those illustrious characters themselves. After a similar manner, the names of good men md women,. might be ^ven to trees, as well as stars; to flowers, to rivers, and rivulets; to springs and fountains; and indeed every object, which is common... to all, should \)e dignified with the names of those, who have been be- nefactors to their neighbourhoods. II. But if men have derived many of their names from the smaller creations of nature, they have returned the pbligation, and ffvesa to plants, rivers, moantains, and 220 Natural Etymology. forests, the names of the greatest and wisest of their kings and statesmen. At the same time it is proper to remark, that the first S3anbols of writing were adopted from trees, plants, fishes, and shells ; as the Egyptian, Ethiopian, and Mexican hieroglyphics, and Chinese ma- nuscripts amply testify.
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