MEMOIR OF LINNAEUS. 59 



painted by Hoffman, when Linnaeus was a young 

 man, superintending the garden of Mr Clifford. It 

 represents him in a Lapland dress, and was engraved 

 by a London artist in mezzotinto. It is almost the 

 only likeness taken at an early period of his life, and 

 it is therefore selected as our copy for embellishing the 

 commencement of this volume. 



From the sketch we have now endeavoured to give 

 of the life of this naturalist, it will have been seen that 

 his mind was ardent and enthusiastic in the highest 

 degree, particularly in following out his beloved science ; 

 he never, however, in his enthusiasm, lost sight of the 

 First Great Cause, but looked truly up to Nature's 

 God, as the giver of all his benefits and acquirements. 

 Over the door of his room was incribed, " Innocue 

 vivito Numen adest." And when enumerating in 

 his diary his various successes in life, he commences, 

 " The Lord himself hath led him with his own 

 Almighty hand ; " and sums them up with " The 

 Lord hath been with him whithersoever he hath 

 walked, and hath cut off his enemies from before him, 

 and hath made him a name like the name of the great 

 men that are in the earth/' The most important of 

 his works commence and finish with some verse from 

 the Scriptures, implying the power or greatness of 

 God, or his own gratitude to Providence for the in- 

 numerable benefits conferred upon himself and the 

 inhabitants of the world ; and his descriptions are 

 ^ntinually interspersed with expressions of admira- 

 tion, of gratitude, and love. 



