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18 have adorned the Swedish language; by becoming a member of this society, certainly confers upon it more honour than he receives.

interest of the academy could not have been better consulted, than by intrusting it to his care, who is the sacred depository of my future hope, and that of the nation; whose agreeable manner of communicating knowledge, whose extensive learning, and acquaintance with elegant literature, have gained him the esteem of foreigners, and have introduced him to that high confidential station which he now occupies.

To write history with truth and perspicuity, requires courage as well as learning; to render it elegant and useful, requires intelligence, philosophy, and taste. How extensive then are the claims of that member,A Sketch of the History of the Swedish Nation; and of another On the Swedish Language, considered with regard to Conversation and Writing. and what assistance may we not expect from his superior talents, who has already so far promoted the object for which the academy is instituted?

On this occasion, it is impossible to forget those two poets; of whom, the one has, with so much elegance, introduced the heroes of and on the Swedish stage, and who has expressed, with such exquisite