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library, or some fresh winged thing discovered in the air, 

 they seasoned their spare dinner with proverbs either 

 national or of their own coining, bracing up their soul 

 with maxims, persuading themselves that the wants, 

 anxieties, privations of life were nought when set 

 against the endless rapture of perpetual effort to realise 

 a grand conception. 



Had we means answering to our mind. 1 



c Nothing like poverty for strengthening the 

 character,' would Artedi say, capped by Carl with 

 ' Many things are more precious than a full stomach,' 

 and his friend's rejoinder by-and-by, that ' royal roads 

 do not make a great people.' Yet the burden of their 

 inmost feelings was i Oh for Celsius ! Oh, if Dean 

 Celsius would but come!' If he came their talents 

 must be recognised. ' Alas, good and quickly seldom 

 meet,' said Artedi, with the ready proverb's l deep 

 though broken wisdom.' The aged medical professors, 

 Eudbeck and Roberg, were limited and dull, and little 

 inclined for improvement, which meant movement ; and 

 old men are disinclined to stir. These men were pamphle- 

 tary rather than practical ; but Celsius was still in the 

 prime of life and zealous for his favourite science. 



Linnaeus felt his woes deeply aggravated by Celsius's 

 prolonged absence, as his coat became more and more 

 frayed at the seams and edges, and threadbare. For all 

 their tall talk about the royalty of science, it was hard 

 when Rosen stalked by neatly dressed, or was seen 

 1 Paracelsus, BROWNING. 



