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22 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
He was the sincere friend of mankind ; and in his ex
amination of the character of others, he was particularly
desirous to discover in them this virtue, which he re
garded as an infallible proofofthe presence of many more.
He was cheerful and agreeable in society. By way of
relaxation from his important labours, he sought and fre
quented the company of persons of information, by whom
he was always well received. He knew how to check
opportunely, and with great address, that species of wit
which would indulge itself at the expense of serious
things. As a public functionary, he was upright and
just while he discharged his duties with great exact
ness, he neglected nothing but his own advancement.
Having been called, without solicitation on his part, to a
distinguished post, he never sought any further promo
tion. When his private occupations began to encroach
upon the time required for the functions of his office, he
resigned it, and remained content with the title which he
had borne while exercising it for one-and-thirty years.
He was a worthy member of this Royal Academy ; and
though before his admission into it he had been engaged
with subjects different from those which it cultivates, he
was unwilling to be an unuseful associate. He enriched
our Memoirs with an article on Inlaid Work in Marble,
for Tables, and for other Ornaments.
As a member of the Equestrain Order of the House
of Nobles he took his seat in several of the Diets of the
Realm ; in which his conduct was such as to secure him
both from the reproaches of his own conscience and from
those of others.* He lived under the reigns of many of
our sovereigns, and enjoyed the particular favour and
* In a letter of Count Hopken’s, who had been for many years
Prime Minister of Sweden, published in the New Jerusalem
Magazine, printed in 1790, that nobleman states, that most
solid and best written memorials on the state ofthe finances, pre
sented at the Diet of 1761, were drawn up by Swedenborg; in
one of which he refuted a quarto volume on the subject, citing
from it the corresponding passages, in the compass of a single
sheet. This letter is adduced below. [Editors.]
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