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162 [Doc. 13.
SWEDENBORG’S ANCESTRY.
but an hour’s time, to compare my arguments with yours, Ι
am sure we should soon come to an agreement.
Will you please to remember me very kindly to your
mother-in-law [Brita Behm 5 ] and the other members of your
family, and also to receive my own kind remembrances ?
Emanuel* is at present here, and is seeing partvi of
his “ Dædalus ” through the press. The day after to-morrow
he will leave for Strömstad, where he says he is always most
kindly received by the King. People in our place are in distress
from want of bread, which cannot be purchased for love or
money , as all the grain has been bought up for the use of the
army; and the little that remains has to be saved for sowing.
God grant that everything may end well! The coinage also
is causing a great deal of confusion.
Remember me kindly to Vice president Hjärne,68 my good
old friend and familiar brother. I beg him to remember the
hour of death ; and to consider that, for the sake of my office,
I am bound to defend my honour. Fama et vita pari passu
ambulant. (Reputation and life go together ). May God be
gracious to him ! Herewith I close. And commending you to
the mighty protection of God, I remain joyfully, forever
Your most faithful and dutiful servant,
JESPERUS SWEDBERG .
53
Brunsbo, Oct. 3, 1718.
* The Bishop’s son Emanuel Swedenborg.
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