Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Sidor ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
DOCUMENT 196.
MEMORIAL TO THE HOUSES OF THE DIET, IN
FAVOUR OF RE -INSTATING SENATORS BARON
VON HÖPKEN ,28 BARON PALMSTJERNA,135 AND
BARON SCHEFFER.136 *
[This memorial bears the title :]
FRANK VIEWS COUNTRY ANI THE
CONCERNING THE MAINTENANCE OF TH
PRESERVATION OF ITS FREEDOM .
There are two fundamental points to which it behoves the
Honourable Houses of the Diet to devote particular attention,
and to watch over as anxiously as each member would guard
his own life and welfare. The first is the preservation of
our noble form of government, and thereby of our invaluable
freedom ; the other is the maintenance of our alliances with
foreign powers, and especially with France.
With regard to the first point, which concerns the preserva
tion of our noble form of government, and thus of our invalu
* The Swedish original of this memorial fills leaves 8 to 13 of Sweden
borg’s " Riksdagsskrifter," in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in
Stockholm . It was printed in the original language in the “ Nya Kyr
kan," & c., part. II, pp. 49 to 52. A French translation was published as
early as 1787 by Benedict Chastanier in his “ Journal Novi-Jérusalemite, "
No. 4, pp. 84–90 ; and from this French translation have been prepared
Dr. Tafel’s German version in his “ Sammlung von Urkunden ," & c., and
also the English version contained in the English and American editions
of Dr. Tafel’s "Swedenborg Documents.” The above is the first English
translation prepared immediately from the Swedish original.
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
