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THROUGH SWEDEN. 97
CHAPTER VI.
Remarks on Academies or learned Societies—Thofé efablifhed by
Lewis XIV. in France—Effect of Opinions and theoretical Prin-
ciples upon the Fate of Nations—How far the public Opinion
may be directed or influenced by learned Societies—More of the
Charaéteriftics of thefe Societies difplayed-—Academy of Belles-
Lettres at Stockholn—Members of this Academy—The Swedith
Academy, or the Eighteen ; its Proceedings, Prizes, c.—Mem-
bers of the Swedifh Academy—Account of fome Swedifh Poets,
among whom is mentioned Mr. Torild, an Admirer and Imitator
of Offian.
HE fafhion of patronizing literature and {cience, in the be-
ginning of the fixteenth century, when a matrimonial al-
liance exifted between the houfe of Medici and that of Bourbon,
was imported into France from Italy. Academies for the cultiva-
tion of the arts and fciences were inftituted early in the reign of
Lewis XIV. and nobly endowed with pecuniary Boral, ae well as
privileges and honours. The vanity of the king, the fole motive
of his liberality, was abundantly gratified; for nothing could ex-
ceed the obfequious adulation of the academicians. They once
Vor. I. O had
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