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THROUGH SWEDEN. 137
eftablifhed tenets and modes of worfhip, that they fhould be an
honeft and good fort of people: this however is the cafe. The
Swedes, I mean the peafantry, (for as to the inhabitants of towns
they are corrupt in proportion to their population, their com-
-merce, and their luxury) are a frank, open, kind-hearted, gay,
hofpitable, hardy, and fpirited people. It would be difficult to
point out any nation that is more diftinguifhed by a happy union
of genius, bravery, and natural probity of difpofition. They are
reprefented by their neighbours as the ga/cons of Scandinavia.
This charge, when due allowance is made for the mutual jealoufy —
and antipathy of neighbouring nations, amounts to no more than
this, that they are actuated by that fenfibility to fame, and love
of diftinction, which generally predominate in the breafts of brave,
generous, and adventurous people.
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