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in rank among its distinguished cultivators and 

 reformers. 



Since the time of ^h\ Ihre other, writers have 

 employed their tak'uts on tlie same suhject. These 

 writers have estabiislied rules of construction, cor- 

 rected the orthography, discarded foreign phrases 

 and corrupt modes of expression, and by producing 

 works in a correct, elegant, and refined style, have 

 done much to improve their native tongue. Among 

 these, Da id in, Botin, Gyllenborg, Creutze, Klew- 

 berg, Leopold, and Lidner, are perhaps entitled 

 to the most honourable mention, and furnish ex- 

 amples of Swedish style according- to its latest 

 and best improvements. In 1786 a literary asso- 

 ciation, under the name of t\\Q Szcedhh Academy , 

 was established at Stockholm. The principal ob- 

 ject of this institution is to cultivate the language 

 of that country ; with which view it is said to be 

 preparing for publication a national Grammar and 

 Dictknary *. 



SECTION VL 



RUSSIAN LANGUAGE. 



The Russian language, during the period under 

 review, has also been much and successfully cul- 

 tivated. This language, which is a dialect of the 

 Sclavonian, was, at the beginning of the eighteenth 

 ccnturv, in a wretchedly irreo-ular and neo-lected 

 condition, very few compositions of dignified cha- 



* See A General rUn of S-j:edcn, by ;M. Catteau. 



