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He travelled for the benefit of his health, much impaired 

 by hypochondria, through the southern provinces of 

 Sweden, crossed the Sound, and, not having leave to go 

 farther, remained two days at Copenhagen. He owned 

 afterwards to a friend that he then felt a strong tempta- 

 tion to range all over the world, had not the love which 

 he bore to his father induced him to go back. 1 



After a period of over thirty years Linne entreated 

 the king graciously to accept his resignation. The 

 king declared that Upsala must not lose its chief splen- 

 dour by his retreat. He gave him double salary and 

 two farms that he might bequeath to his heirs, upon 

 the single condition that he would still remain nominal 

 Professor of Botany, with no work, but only holding the 

 dignity of the office. 



The monumental pomp of age 

 Was in that goodly personage, 



says that mine of mottoes Wordsworth. That he was 

 Upsala's chief splendour there is no doubt. Kings, 

 queens, and the greatest people vied with each other 

 in paying him honour. ' The Empress of Russia and 

 the King of Denmark made him presents.' 2 Maria 

 Theresa and the kings of Europe complimented the 

 Swedish ambassadors upon him. He was elected a 

 member of twenty academies three in his own country. 

 The Due de la Rochefoucault, the representative of an 

 order fast dying out the stately French noblesse 



1 Smith. 2 Diary. 



