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CHAPTER V. 
Character of Guftarous III. King rf Sweden—Reflections on true 
Glory, and the Virtues of a Patriot King—Arts and Sciences 
wider Gufiavus—Character of the Duke of Sudermania, and his 
Conduct during the Regency—Animal Magnetfm encouraged at 
Stockholm—Charaffer of the prefent King of Sweden—State of 
Religion ; the Liberty of the Prefs ; and State of the Arts and 
Sciences in this Reign. 
r | ^HE great objedt of the late king of Sweden in all his adlions 
was to make a noife in the world. From the difplay of his 
magnificence, the fhew of his abilities and talents, which he exhi¬ 
bited in many different ways, and from his fpirit of enterprize, one 
would be tempted to imagine that there was fcarcely any thing 
worth notice in Sweden that did not originate with him. He was 
ambitious that his reign fhould be fignalized as the aera of arts and 
fciences in Sweden ; as the age of Lewis XIV. was in France. Great 
and elevated minds are fometimes feduced from the paths of true 
glory, which confifts in the exertion of power and wifdom for the 
moft benignant purpofes, to the purfuits of mere perfonal ambition. 
The glory of Charles XII. of Sweden was ruin to his country : fo is 
that of moft heroic monarchs. It may be confidered as particular 
and 
