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mg principle between mufic and dancing is what the ancients 
called rythmus, or what we call time and meafure. 5th. There 
are few if any countries in Europe in which eminence in litera¬ 
ture and fcience has been fo much noticed by the court as in 
Sweden. The order of knighthood and other marks of diftinc- 
tion have been bellowed on different profeffors to a degree of al- 
moff profufion. In general the literary character in Sweden is 
held in high refpedt and eftimation. It is an objedl of ambition 
with men of bufinefs in eafy and profperous circumftances, and 
even with the nobility and gentry. Here it may be mentioned 
that Guftavus III. towards the end of the year 1/78, conduced 
the prince royal, the prefent king of Sweden, to the univerfity of 
Upfala, and affifted at all the public, and the greateft part of the 
private exercifes performed by the young prince during a ftay of 
fix weeks. The ardour and fuccefs with which he applied to his 
fludies at the early age of eight or nine years, was highly gratify¬ 
ing to the king, who, in order to familiarize him with the people, 
whom he was born to govern, and to give him an early knowledge 
of the kingdom, had already accompanied him over feveral of the 
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