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Ille mihi flipendium ab ordinibus regni expctiit; 

 Jlle mihi fpartam medici claflis procuravit; 

 Ille mihi munus quo fungor conciliavit ; 



Ille mihi tituVum quo diftinguor paravit; 



Ille mc ad fercniffimos reges introduxit ; 



Ille me cufo numifmate pofteritati commcndavitv 



*' Ille meas errare loves, ut cernis, et ipfum 



•* Ludere quae vellem calamo permifit agrefti ; 



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 f Cana priys gelido defint abfinthia ponto, 

 f* Quam noftro illius labatur pedore vultus. 



At Stockholm he remained three year?, following his 

 profeflion with much dignity and honour, and ripening 

 thofe (lores of knowledge, which had already bloomed 

 and fpread their fragrance through the greater part of 

 Europe. Oppofition began filently and gradually \q 

 "withdraw its fangs, and the rays of never-fading fame 

 to glitter round his name. During this period he appears 

 to have merely written fome treatifes in the Swedift 

 Tranfadiojis and the Amsenitates Academicae^ 



On the twentieth of January, 1741? hts only fon^ 

 the younger Linnaeus was born; and about that time, undef 

 the directions of the dates, he was appointed to travel 

 into the illands of OeJand and Gothland, with a view to 

 fearch into the various natural produ6lions applicable tp 

 the manufadures of the kingdoni. In this tour he was 

 accompanied by fix of his pupils. The chief objed of 

 Jiis journey was tq look after an earth fit for the fabric. 

 cation of porcellane ware, and to note fuch plants as 

 inight be ulefui in medicine or any of the domeftic arts* 



