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EULOGIUM OF SANDEL. 5
proof ofthem could be given, than the favour of a great’
prince, who, possessing a penetrating judgment, knew
how to discover merit and talents, to encourage them by
his bounty, and to employ them to the best advantage ?
Without any solicitation on his part, he was appointed
by Charles XII., at the age of twenty-eight years [ in
1716 ] , and when he was yet but a student at the Univer
sity, Assessor Extraordinary of his Board of Mines ; and
with leave to make his election between this office, and a
Professorship in the Royal University of Upsal. It is
not upon an effeminate young man, destitute of talents,
that an enlightened Monarch confers such employments.
Swedberg was already known, both within the kingdom
and abroad, for his learning and his great qualities.
Amongthe number of his successful, though not always
acknowledged youthful essays, is to be reckoned an
Academical Dissertation, which he published at Upsal,’
in 1709.*
A collection of Latin verses, which he had composed
in 1710, and the following years, and which he published
at Skara, under the title of " Ludus Heliconius, sive
Carmina Miscellanea, quæ variis in locis cecinit Em.
Swedberg," displayed an uncommon liveliness of talent,
and evinced how well he had employed the studies of his
youth. How proud would many be, had they been able
to give, at such an age, such proofs of genius !
But poetry did not constitute his chief employment.
The Essays and Remarks on questions in Mathematics
and Physics, which he printed at Stockholm, in six parts,
in the Swedish language (the fifth part being also pub
* The subject of this dissertation was, Annai Senecæ et Publii
Syri Mimi, forsan et aliorum, Selectæ Sententiæ, cum Annotationi
bus Erasmi et Græca Versione Scaligeri, Notis Illustrate. Sweden
borg prefixed to this edition a Dedication to his father, a brief
introduction, and accompanied it with notes. Immediately follow
ing the Dedication are some Greek verses addressedto Swedenborg
himself, with the following inscription :-Ad præcellentis ingenii
Juvenem Emanuelem Swedbergium generis claritudine ac eru
ditionis gloria maxime conspicuum, Cum in Mimos Publii
Syri publica dissertatione commentaretur; with the inscription,
Ρυζηλιάδης.
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