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THROUGH SWEDEN. “319%
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more profound than on the fubject of ethics to take a general view
of the fentiments, paffions, and principles of mankind, as unfolded
and difplayed in hiftory, the great theatre of diffection in moral
anatomy.
The profefforfhips of Upfala are in the gift of the king. The
falaries annexed to them are from feventy to one hundred pounds
per annum. During each term the profeflors give four public
lectures in the week gratis, and the fame number of private lec-
tures; for the latter they are paid by the ftudents, though the
money that is given is very trifling. A profeffor who has conti-
nued in office for thirty years is allowed to rétire with the title
emeritus, and enjoys his falary during life. In former times the
-univerfities often were crouded with thoufands of ftudents: even
fo late as the year 1730, that of Upfala contained above two thou-
fand. Itisa ftriking proof of fome great revolution in the fenti-
ments, Views and purfuits of the Swedes, that the annual number
of {tudents at Upfala does not now on an average exceed five hun-
dred. They do not inhabit any diftin@ colleges, there being no
buildings for their accommodation, but lodge, as at Edinburgh and
Glafgow and fome other proteftant univerfitiés, in the town.
They attend the lectures which are given by the feveral profeffors
either at their own houfes, or the public halls appropriated to fuch
purpofes. Befides the royal ftipendiaries or penfioners, or, as they
are called, burfars, there are other poor ftudents, who are affifted
in their expences by funds eftablifhed by private perfons, but ge-
nerally allotted to family names, or the natives of particular pro-
Vou. J. x ea vances!
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