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The Floral King. 71
and now he was to be expelled the University for
bad conduct. Strangely turn the destinies of men.
We must sincerely and humbly thank God that
such a thing as ambition exists to lift strong souls
‘on gigantic wings above the common herd, that
they may soar away to loftier goals beyond the
ken of envy and malice.
But Dean Celcius, who saved Linnezus from
breaking his career for poverty’s sake, stepped in
once more, and warded off the threatening blow.
The air of Upsala, (that ever the sacred groves of
Odin, and Freya, and Balder should be polluted
by envy, and rancour, and cowardly intrigue,) was
no longer genial to Carl Linnzus, he therefore
eagerly embraced an opportunity of continuing a
scientific research amongst the mines and melting
furnaces of the neighbouring province of Dalarna
or Dalcarlia, from the Governor of which, Baron
Reuterholm, a letter arrived requesting Linnzeus
to continue the peregrination which he had begun
in that district the previous summer. Our young
sage took with him seven young and eager students
to benefit by their common toil. Linnzus writes
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