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energies burning themselves out unused, anxiety, worn- 

 out hope, and leanness preyed upon him. He did not 

 know what it was to have a full meal. Bitterest of 

 all to him was the sense of failure. There was one 

 lower step. If our Johnson felt savage as he did when 

 some well-meaning clumsy person put new shoes out- 

 side his door, what must Linnaeus have felt when Rosen, 

 who was now going abroad for the purpose of improv- 

 ing himself and obtaining his Doctor's degree (which 

 by the Swedish rule must be taken in some foreign 

 country), left him an old but respectable suit Rosen, 

 who had despised Linnaeus in his rags ! 



' I would rather die than put it on,' cried the fierce 

 Linnaeus. In debt though he was, he could not be 

 indebted to Rosen. The excellent Rosen complacently 

 thought of coals of fire. Rosen went abroad, and by- 

 and-by became a distinguished man at Upsala ; he was 

 ultimately ennobled as Von Rosenstein. In the mean- 

 time his place as adjunct teacher was supplied by an 

 incompetent student named Preutz. Linnaeus, bound 

 by poverty and chained by debt, could not leave Upsala 

 even to become a mechanic in SmaUand, not for all the 

 flowery language in which Stoever talks of his taking 

 leave of the Muses and of the goddess Flora. But he 

 endeavoured to do so : he made a determination : he 

 would beg money of his father, of his relations, of 

 Stobaeus ; he would so far humble himself, and leave 

 Upsala and the bright future he had failed to conquer. 



Oh, for Celsius ! Oh, why had Celsius never come ? 



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