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From that time Linnzeus devoted all his leisure to his 
favorite study. In early life he had to struggle with 
y difficulties; being so poor, as frequently to depend 
aa chance for a meal; and without the means of 
ch upon his shoes, which he someti 
endeavored to repair himself, by the aia of folded paper. 
But merit and industry will always find their reward, 
and rise proudly superior to all impediments. The 
lustre of his abilities soon drew the attention of some 
own co 
His studies were not wholly 
confined to botany, but extended to other branches of 
natural history, as may be seen aa the publication of 
his many scientific and varied w 
In the spring of 1732, he received from the Academ 
the ae aa 
y, he re as by Tornea, &c. to Upsal, by the 
108 a rte, a — a journey of near 
4000 English m 
When in aie he ae ~ at Lyksele, May 29th, 
1732, an elegant and singular little plant, formerly 
kn wn to botanists Campanula lifoli 
EUs, by his study of vegetables on the only certain 
soon found this to constitute a new genus; but he 
reserved the idea in his till such time as his 
discoveries and vablitattdhe had entitled him to 
cal commemoration: and his friend Gronovius, in due 
time, undertook to make this genus known to the world 
under the name of Linnwa—it having been chosen by 
himself for this pu 
In the course of his tour, having learned the art of 
assaying metals, he in the following year gave a private 
course of lectures on this subject, which had never 
before been taught at Upsal. 
The arts of his rival Rosen having disappointed him 
of his anticipated medical advancement in the college 
at Lund, and, by his intrigues put a stop to all private 
medical lectures in the University of Upsal, thus de- 
Lin nus of his only i 
neralogy, he visited the mines of Sweden, and, at the 
close of the year 1733, he gave a course 0 of 
Here he first became 
Fahlun, on the art of assaying. 
acquainted with Browallius (chaplain to the governor 
of the province of Dalecarlia, afterwards bishop of Abo) 
who advised him to take his doctor’s degrees, in order 
ti 
spent five years in bear ods oe sparen countries of 
Europe; his merit raised hi and friends 
wherever he was known; facta nocane difficulties, it 
is true, did he have to work his way, but still he went 
onward, supported by the native energy of his character, 
gaining information at every step, and extending his 
wn He tells us himself, he would perhaps never 
a ona to his own country, ‘‘ had he not been i 
’ but hearing that he had a powerful rival in ine 
cus of her to whom he had plighted his faith, he 
suddenly returned to Sweden, and, after a time, have 
acquired such a degree of prosperity as to induce the 
father of his betrothed to consent to their union, he 
was married June 26, 1739. 
How distant oft the thing we dote on most. 
at for which we dote, felicity! 
The consummation of his ardent aspirations for the 
last five years of his life, 
—: of es or rt y- 
heart is altogether unworthy; and of a 
kindred chaik with: th unnatural mo ther of the unfor- 
tunate poet Savage, displaying the same hatred of her 
only son, and persecuting him by every means within 
_her se or the life of her husband, who was 
made mis by her misconduct and petty tyranny, 
and, img uit ate still pouring out the dregs of her 
wrath upon the admirable and sensitive being who 
naturally looked to her for support and comfort : 
But let us turn from so disgusting and painful a 
theme, to bestow a double portion of aaite upon 
that being, who, amidst all these chilling blights to his 
rea a still labored with untiring zeal in the cause 
of lite’ 
bra the year 1751, the queen of Sweden, Louisa 
Ulrica, sister to great erick of ia, having 
a taste for natural history, which her royal consort, 
king Ad ] showed much 
to Linneus, and employed ‘im in arrangin 
satiodileis of insects and shells, at her country palace of 
Drotningholm, or Ulri was frequently 
honored the company and conversation of their 
at | majesties, during his attendance there. The queen also 
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