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(1888) [MARC] Author: Albert Alberg
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#% GHAPIER IV. %

y/ 1 was but natural that such great
success should evoke envy in
less gifted and less fortunate

teachers of the University, and

Linnzus was destined to ex-
perience much bitter jealousy
during his whole life—the unwelcome tribute which
mediocrity always pays to genius; and as every
country with more or less justice is famed for
certain national traits of character, such as the
English for ‘ pluck,” the Scots for ‘‘ perseverance,”
the Finnish for “stubbornness,” and so on, the

Swedes are proverbial for ‘ envy ”—a national trait

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