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1*22 ' LI tZ OF LINN*L». 
Ellen, “Alas! that any shade should 
be cast over so fair a picture!” But 
since we kuow that He whose word is 
truth, has declared that the heart of 
man is deceitful above all things, and 
desperately wicked ; and that there is 
none wholly righteous, no, not one, we 
ought not to expect that any human 
being should pass in review before us, 
without our discovering some of his 
errors ; while many of them will re¬ 
main known only to Him who seeth 
all things. The besetting sin of Lin- 
nseus is said to have been the love ot 
money. He was, however, kind, and 
even liberal, to many of his pupils. 
His health and spirits were continued 
to him till his sixty-eighth year; when 
his intellectual and bodily vigour both 
began to give way. A gradual decay 
broke down his constitution ; and he 
died in his seventy-first year. AH 
Sweden mourns his loss : it was felt by 
the university of Upsal in particular* 
