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DOCUMENT 313.
SWEDENBORG’S
PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS IN
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.
1709. (1.) L. Annæi Senecæ et Pub. Syri Mimi, forsan et
aliorum Selectæ Sententiæ cum annotationibus Erasmi et
Græca versione Jos. Scaligeri, quas cum consensu Ampl.
Fac. Philos. notis illustratas publico examini modeste
submittit Emanuel Swedberg (Select Sentences ofL. Annæus
Seneca and Pub. Syrus Mimus, perhaps also of others,
with the annotations of Erasmus and the Greek version
of Jos. Scaliger, which, with the consent of the philo
sophical faculty, and furnished with notes, are submitted
with diffidence to public examination by Emanuel Swedberg) .
Upsal, Werner; 62 pages, 8vo.
This thesis was publicly read by Swedenborg on June 1, 1709,
in the large university hall of Upsal, Magister Fabian Torner, the
Royal professor of philosophy, occupying the chair. The published
thesis is dedicated to his father, Bishop Swedberg. In this dedi
cation he gives expression to the feelings of gratitude and admiration
with which his father had inspired him, and points to the "Sentences”
he has "selected," as principles that have been followed by his
father through life. Dr. Im. Tafel gives the following opinion of these
first-fruits of Swedenborg’s labours. "The preface, which he addressed
to the reader, gives evidence of a well-spent youth, and of in
dependent judgment. But the commentary itself displays a wealth
of solid knowledge, and bears witness to his thorough acquaintance
with history, and the Roman and Greek classics, from which, as
well as from the Sacred Scripture, he quotes a great number of
apposite parallel passages. The principal feature and merit of this
little work consists in the skilful selection and harmonious working
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