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Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon : Histoire Naturelle
Letter xiv- "On Buffon's natural history" is a critique of the work
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Aikin Print: Book
Dr. Withering : Botanical description of British Plants
'By some one of these publications, but most probably from the last-mentioned [i.e. Withering], Mr.Aikin was inspired with a taste for this delightful study...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Aikin Print: Book
Knox : [on education]
Writing to his sister, Aikin comments on Knox: 'His great fault, I think, is setting out with too confined a view of the ends of education, which must be as various as situations and characters in life are. Does he not breed them all for clergymen and schoolmasters?'
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