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The Floral King. 25,
even afford to get his shoes mended, but had to.
put paper in them in lieu of getting them soled,
and his whole dress bore evident traces of extreme
poverty. But still he refrained from addressing
himself to his friend Stobzeus, now professor in
Lund, for he had left that University, for Upsala,.
without first taking counsel of him, and he very
naturally felt that he would rather endure all
kinds of privations than apply, in his emergency,
to that gentleman for succour. And during a
whole year poor Linnzus endured great physical
wants for the love of his favourite science. A
crust of dry bread with water was, during this.
time, generally his breakfast, but he was up
betimes, at early cockcrow, arranging his notes,
and making preliminary outlines for a new great
reform in Natural. History; and with clear and
steady aim he gradually revealed, link by link,
the great chain of things created, which to most
men’s eyes lies entangled in a bewildering maze,
for Linnzeus’s genius particularly adapted itself
to discerning the order and harmony of creation.
In these sacred hours of deep study, when by
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