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He affitt Bromfebo at the negociatio th 
in ee and on his return queeen riflina conferred on hi 
the title of count. At the fame time he e was c ofen c an- 
een, an me 
monitions fruitlefs, he ies indifpolition t to peer the mor- 
tification of being prefent at the debates on a meafure which 
he conceived to . fraught with fo much evil. He died in the 
month of Auguft 1654, leaving behind him a great reputa- 
tion for talents and difinterefted virtues, ‘* His character,’’ 
{ays one of his biographers, “¢ may be a in competition with 
that of the moft celebrated men who have aéted a diftin- 
guifhed part on the grand theatre of the world; and his 
name will, at all times, be claffed among thofe who have done 
immortal honour to mankind. e natural powers of his 
mind were ftrengthened by an excellent sper and b 
the ftudy of the moft ufeful {ciences. No perfon was better 
acquainted with the art of prying into the receffes of the 
human heart; and the knowledge which he thus obtained he 
endeavoured to employ to the beft advantage. His political 
fagacity excited no lefs refpe& than admiration; and he 
lived at a period which gave him an opportunity of difplaying, 1 
to its full extent, the ftrength and folidity of his judgment. 
His eloquence was concife but nervous. He poffetfed the 
happy talent of forefeeing the various refults with which any 
meafure might be attended, and of thence deducing the beit 
rules for dire&ting him in his public condu&. His integrity 
not only procured him friends, but enabled him to outitrip 
all his competitors, and to overawe thofe who were hottile 
to his defigns. The ftorms and vexations to which he was 
often lean he withftood with firmnefs, prudence, and 
The independence of his country was the 
econd part of the ‘ Hiltoria 
Belli Sueco-Germatic,” ufwally afcribed to P. B. Chem- 
nitius, was compofed by Oxenftierna. Gen. Biog. 
OxeENs STIERNA, Tonys on of the precedin » was born at 
Stockholm in 1611. was educated ina manner fuitable 
to the rank of his fam 
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of great eloquence and extenfive knowledge. Whatever he 
undertook he exerted his utmoft ability to accomplifh ; and 
being Jaan in all his aGtions by a ftrong fenfe of rectitude, 
_ onduét, on ied occafion, acquired for him efteem and 
re{pe& 
OxeNsTIERNA, — brother of the preceding, chan- 
cellor of Sweden, member of the fenate, &c., was born at 
_ Fiholm, the feat of his family, in 1624. He ftudied at Up- 
fal, and in 1643 out on atour to Germany, with a view 
into with the ele&tor of Brandenburgh, whi ught 
to ahappy termination. As a reward for this fervice, he 
was raifed by the king to be governor-general ruffia, 
XEY, in Rural ‘Coaom a provincia word, fignifying 
like the ox, or of mature age, not fteerifh. 
EET, aterm applied to he feet of horfes, when the 
horn oF the hind feet cleaves juft in the middle of the fore- 
part of the hoof, from the coronet to the fhoe: they a 
not common, but very troublefome, and often a Fas a 
horfe halt. 
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foe at this i and unite their accumulated waters on 
the foutlt fide of the city. Both the pce as well as th 
moft noble theatre, and emporium of all 
feas. 
hiftoric annals of the aonedies ; but ak feveral alune 
have been appropriated to the fubje et, there is ample fcope 
for a new work, to include all the effential information of 
former writers, ane judicious criticifm, antiquarian elucida- 
tion, and accurate illuftration 
The appearance of Oxford from the high grounds to the 
eaft and fouth-weft is fingularly pi€turefque and caaiiea $ 
