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Doc. 44.] SWEDENBORG TO ERICUS BENZELIUS. 223
present, I am doing nothing in them ; and, if I am encouraged,
I intend to make more discoveries in them than any one
else in the present age ; but without encouragement this would
be sheer trouble, and it would be like non profecturis litora
bubus arare- ploughing the ground with stubborn steers.
I have been at Woodward’s, who was so polite as to intro
duce me to some of the learned and to members of the Royal
Society, and also to some one by whom, he said, you were
taken to a certain Doctor Postelwort (I think that is his
name); this gentleman talked a good deal about you, and
your intention to enter the Church, and both of them desire
very much to be remembered to you.
Magister Alstryn will inform you what Hudson at Oxford
has in hand ; he is a little dissatisfied that he so seldom gets
a letter from you ; he is very anxious to have from you both
a letter and several copies of Chrysostom.
I send you a part of the books which I was most particular
ly requested to purchase, viz:
£ 8. d.
Miscellanea Curiosa, in three volumes 0 13 0
Notton, Reflection upon Ancient and Modern
Learning 0 4 0
Reflection upon the Conduct of human Life 0 1 6
Reflection upon Learning 0 3 6
Hauksbee, Physico-Mechanical Experiments 0 6 0
Leslie, Truth of Christianity 0 2 0
Letter to Sir Joseph Banks 0 0 3
Glasses for a Telescope of 24 feet 2 0 0
£ 3 10 3
In the same box I send a large quantity of my books-mostly
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mathematical- which I have been using here, and also some of
my instruments; a part of my books and instruments I am keep
ing back. I trust that you will take good care of them ; but if
Prof. Elfvius4 desires to see them, you may show them
to him. I am still several pounds in debt here, which I
intend to clear off by means of some other books. The
microscope I did not purchase, because it cost too much, viz.
four guineas; and the others are scarcely worthy to be in a
library. With regard to the air-pump, I send you the author’s
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