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LETTER VII. 
My dear Henry, 
“There is a tide in the af¬ 
fairs of men, which taken at its turn 
leads on to fortune.” 
Linnteus now experienced this very 
thing. Being, as you observe, “ fortu¬ 
nately coughed into notice,” he soon 
found himself in the high road to prefer¬ 
ment ; and Morseus now consented to 
give him the hand of his daughter. 
They were married on the 26th of 
June, 1739. 
Writing to baron Haller, he gives him 
the following lively sketch of his vary¬ 
ing and improving circumstances. 
