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Doc. 47.] SWEDENBORG TO ERICUS BENZELIUS. 233
Meanwhile, I should like very much to know what the
Upsal Minerva thinks of the general of the Muscovites, who is
only twenty Swedish miles distant; whether she has seized her
arms and ægis, and is preparing to go and meet him , to
gether with her muses, or whether she has an olive branch
which she prefers to offer ? Although afar off, I see how she
is instructing her muses in the use of arms, and teaching the
exercises of Mars rather than her own. I should have wished
to bear the eagles before her, or to perform any other small
service under her.
A thousand remembrances to my sister Anna. I hope she
is not alarmed at the approach of the Russians. I have a
great longing to see little brother Eric5e again; perhaps he will
be able to make a triangle, or to draw one for me, when I
give him a little ruler.
Farewell, and again farewell! This is the wish of
Your devoted friend,
EMAN. SWEDBERG.
Rostock, 8 September, 1714.
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DOCUMENT 47.
SWEDENBORG TO ERICUS BENZELIUS. *
Most honoured friend and brother,
By the last mail I sent enclosed in my father’s
letter a drawing of an air-pump to be worked by water; I
should also have added a letter, had not my time been too
short.
In my last letter to my father I promised to send you by
every opportunity, and in each of his letters, some machine
or other of my invention. If I can thereby amuse you and
Benzelius’ Collection, Vol. XL, No. 117. Compare the English trans
lation of this letter in Mr. White’s “New Churchman,” June, 1856, p. 66
“ New Documents concerning Swedenborg," Letter 7.
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