THROUGH SWEDEN. 
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enter at all deeply, at this univerlity, into the queftion concerning 
the foundation of moral obligation. They certainly do not keep 
pace with the viciffitudes and progrefs of the various opinions on 
that fubjed. All that is good for any thing in moral philofophy 
is contained, as they fuppofe, in Cicero de Officiis and PufFendorf. 
I am inclined to fufpedt that moral philofophy at Lund is regarded 
with an evil eye, as being in fome refpedts inimical to the tenets 
of Luther. I have not been able to difeover that this fubjedl is 
very much attended to in many Catholic or Lutheran, or in other 
•words in many Epifcopal univerfities. 
The profeffors in philofophy are, 
Mr. Lidbeck, already noticed among the members of the aca¬ 
demy of fciences. 
Sommelius, heretofore librarian: he has publifhed a Greek 
grammar in Swedifh, and a great number of academical diflerta- 
tion-s. 
Matthias Nofberg, profeflor of Greek and oriental languages, a 
member of the philofbphical fociety of Gothenburg, and a corre- 
fpondent member of the mufeum at Paris. He travelled with the 
celebrated Biornflahl, in Greece, Turky, Italy, &c. He has in¬ 
troduced a new mode of pronouncing Hebrew, and a new method 
of acquiring that language with facility. His mode of pronounc¬ 
ing Greek, though generally deemed new, was formerly adopted 
by Reuchlin, who maintained a difpute on that fubjedl with Eraf- 
mus, whofe pronunciation is flill retained at Upfala. It would, in 
my opinion, be difficult to fpecify any objed: of literary inveftiga- 
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