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EULOGIUM
ON
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG,
Pronounced inthe Great Hall of the House ofNobles, in the name
ofthe Royal Academy ofSciences ofStockholm, October 7, 1772,
by M. Samuel Sandel, Counsellor ofthe Royal Board ofMines,
Knight ofthe Polar Star, and Member of the said Academy.
TRANSLATED FROM THE SWEDISH.
GENTLEMEN,
Permit me to entertain you this day upon a subject,
which is not of an abstracted or remote nature, but is
intended to revive the agreeable remembrance of a man
celebrated for his virtues and his knowledge, one of the
oldest members of this Academy, and one whom we all
knew and loved.
The sentiments of esteem and friendship with which
we all regarded the late M. Emanuel Swedenborg, assure
me of the pleasure with which you will listen to me
while he is the subject of my discourse : happy should
I be, could I answer your expectations, and draw his
eulogium in the manner it deserves ! But if there are
some countenances, of which, as the painters assure us,
it is extremely difficult to give an exact likeness, how
difficult then must it be to delineate that of a vast and
sublime genius, who never knew either repose or fatigue ;
who, occupied with the sciences the most profound, was
long engaged with researches into the secrets of nature,
and who, in his latter years, applied all his efforts to
unveil the greatest mysteries ; who, to arrive at certain
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