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DOCUMENT 6.
PERNETY’S34 ACCOUNT OF SWEDENBORG .
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This account was printed by Pernety in the Preface to his
translation of Swedenborg’s Heaven and Hell which was
published by him in two volumes with the following title:
Swedenborg, “ Les Merveilles du Ciel et de l’Enfer.” Berlin 1782.
On p. 36 he says, “ Not being able to procure the life of
Swedenborg written in the Swedish language by Mr. Robsahm ,
I have supplied the same by an abridgment of the eulogium
of our author, which was composed and read before the
Academy of Sciences and Belles Lettres [?] of Stockholm by
M. de Sandel,13 and by anecdotes and notices of his life which
persons worthy of faith and of well-known probity have com
municated to me, both from that town and from London, in
which city Swedenborg made a comparatively long stay."
The persons "worthy of faith and of well - known probity "
who sent Pernety almost the whole of the following ac
count, were the brothers, Charles Frederic,20 and Augustus
Nordensköld,35 as appears from the following extract from a
letter addressed by Pernety to the former of these, dated
Oct. 30, 1781, — “ Please assure your brother of those sent
iments which his reverence for Swedenborg awakens in my
breast, and try to persuade him , to send me a French bio
graphy of this phonix among authors, as well as interesting
notices and anecdotes about him , in order that I may embody
them in the preface to my translation.” In a postscript he
adds, “ I am at present engaged in seeing through the press
Swedenborg’s work on Heaven and Hell.” It seems as if
C. F. Nordensköld collected the materials for the above ac
count, and as if Augustus Nordensköld, who was the elder
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