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TRAVELS 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Inf it ut ions for the Purpofes of Education in Sweden: Parijh Schools , 
Public Schools, Gymnafa, and Univerjities-—Account of the Uni¬ 
verfty of Lund—The Profejfors and Students: the Method of 
leaching , and the Things that are taught—The Univerfty of Upfala 
-—Some Intelligence of the individual Character of feveral Profejfors 
—The Univerfty of Abo—General Remarks on the Swedi/h Uni - 
verfities—Gufavus III. enters the Prince Royal at the Univerfty 
of Upfala. 
r INHERE is certainly no country in the world in which greater 
provihon has been made, and more pains taken for the ad¬ 
vancement and diffufion of knowledge among all clatfes of fociety, 
than in Sweden : a proof at once of a liberal and enlightened turn 
of mind, and of that refpeCl for the dignity and rights of human 
nature, which compenfates to rude climates the want of many 
bleffings enjoyed in more genial and productive regions. That 
this praife is not beflowed on the Swedifh nation without rea- 
fon, will appear from a general view of their inftitutions for the 
purpofes of education and inftruCtion, which are known by the 
names of fchools, gymnafia, and univerfities. 
Every parilh has its fchool, in which the common rudiments of 
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