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44 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
can read the pieces sent me, with such care as to form
an opinion of them : as soon as I am able to form it,
I shall be very ready to communicate it to you.-In
the mean time, I am, Sir, your obliged humble servant,
" ALEX. GERARD."
TESTIMONY OF MR. WM. COOKWORTHY ,
RESPECTING
SWEDENBORG.
With the Englishmen whose approbation of Sweden -
borg’s sentiments was strengthened by a personal ac
quaintance with himself, must be reckoned the late Mr.
Wm. Cookworthy, a man of most superior character,
the friend of the first Lord Camelford, and of Captain
Jervis, afterwards Earl St. Vincent, and the associate of
many of the literati of his day. This gentleman testified
his satisfaction with Swedenborg and his writings, by
joining with Mr. Hartley in translating the treatise on
Heaven and Hell, and defraying the whole expense of
the printing and publication. *
TESTIMONY
OF
COUNT ANDREW JOHN VON HOPKEN,
RESPECTING
SWEDENBORG .
This nobleman was one of the institutors of the
Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, which, being a
* See a Memoir of him in The Intellectual Repository, New
Series, Vol. i. p. 439, &c.
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