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100 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
sold for. The postage of the second number came to
eighteen shillings ; and that of the third amounted to
one pound two shillings ; and yet these two numbers are
to be sold for no more than nine-pence each ; so that
from hence it is easy to imagine how cheap the whole
will be, especially when printed in such a grand and
pompous manner at so low a price. But it is the
generous author’s absolute command that it should be so,
who, it is plain, wants neither purse nor spirit to carry
on his laudable undertaking.
"As the copy comes from a foreign country, and as
one number may contain nearly double the quantity of
another, it is utterly impossible to fix a certain regular
time for the publication of each. But this the public
may be assured of, that when a fresh number is published,
it shall be advertised in the newspapers. Those who are
pleased to give their orders to the news-carriers, will have
every number as certainly as though they were apprised
of the certain time of its coming out. And the price will
be printed on the title of each English number, (and
every Latin number will be of the same price with the
English,) so that the readers may be sure that they will
not be imposed upon for sometimes the bulk of the
book will plainly appear to be worth five times as much
as will be required for it.
"Those who are so happy as to be well acquainted
with the Latin tongue, will be highly delighted with the
author’s elegant and sublime language.’
First Reception of the Writings of Swedenborg.*
The first volume of the Arcana Calestia, containing
the explanation of the first fifteen chapters of Genesis,
was published in London, in the Latin language, in the
year 1749, and was the earliest of Swedenborg’s theo
logical works. Our readers will not be displeased to see
the following letter,† from, probably, the first person who
* See Intellectual Repository for 1826, p. 179.
+ Mentioned above p. 98.
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