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CHAPTER V. 8
Character of Gufiavus Ill. King of Sweden—Reflections on true
Glory, and the Virtues of a Patriot King—Arts and Sciences
under Guftavus—Character of the Duke of Sudermania, and his
Conduct during the Regency—-Animal Magnetifm encouraged at
Stockholn—Character of the prefent King of Sweden—State of
Religion; the Liberty of the Prefs; and State of the Arts and
Sciences in this Reign.
HE great object of the late king of Sweden in all his actions
was to make a noife inthe world. From the difplay of his
magnificence, the fhew of his abilities and talents, which he exhi-
bited in many different ways, and from his {pirit of enterprize, one
would be tempted to imagine that there was fcarcely any thing
worth notice in Sweden that did not originate with him. He was
ambitious that his reign fhould be fignalized as the zra of arts and
{ciences in Sweden ; as the age of Lewis XIV. was in France. Great
and elevated minds are fometimes feduced from the paths of true
glory, which confifts in the exertion of power and wifdom for the
moft benignant purpofes, to the purfuits of mere perfonal ambition.
The glory of Charles XII. of Sweden was ruin to his country: fo is
that of moft heroic monarchs. It may be confidered as particular
and
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