MEMOIR OF LINNjEUS. 
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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 liis 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 
continually interspersed with expressions of admira- 
tion, of gratitude, and love. 
