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iished a work, entitled “ Daedalus Hyperboreus,” containing 
an account of experiments made by himself and others in 
mechanics and natural philosophy; and also a proposal for 
determining, in a new manner, the longitude of places by 
the moon. He also printed a treatise on algebra; and he is 
said to have been the first person who, in Sweden, wrote on 
the subject of the integral and differential calculus. His 
name was most deservedly enrolled among those of the 
members of the academies of Upsal, Stockholm, and Peters¬ 
burg ; and several distinguished foreigners wished to have 
the honour and advantage of corresponding with him. In 
1743, his views were directed to subjects which he conceived 
to be of much higher importance than those of science. 
“ Whatever of worldly honour and advantage,” says he, 
“ may be in these things, I hold them as matters of low 
estimation, compared with the honour of that holy office 
to which I have been called by the Lord himself, who was 
graciously pleased to manifest himself to me, his unworthy 
servant, in a personal appearance, in the year 1743; to 
open to me a sight of the spiritual world, and to enable me 
to converse with spirits and angels; and this privilege has 
continued with me to this day.” He taught that after death a 
man is so little changed, that he does not know but he is 
still living in the present world; he eats and drinks, and 
enjoys conjugal delight as in this world; and so great is the 
resemblance between the two worlds, that in tire spiritual world 
there are cities with palaces and houses, and also books and 
writings, employments and merchandize, gold, silver, and 
precious stones. He died in London, in the month of March, 
1772; and his remains, after lying in state, were deposited 
in a vault at the Swedish church, in Princes square. 
SWEDESBOROUGH, a post township of the United 
States, in Gloucester county, New Jersey, on Racoon creek; 
20 miles south-south-west of Philadelphia. It contains an 
Episcopal church, a woollen manufactory, and 50 or 60 
houses. Racoon creek is navigable for boats to this place. 
SWE'DISH, adj. Respecting the Swedes.—The Icelan¬ 
dic is the mother of the modern Swedish and Danish tongues. 
Percy. 
To SWEEP, v. a. pret. and part. pass, swept, [ppapan, 
ppeopan, Sax.] To drive away with a besom. To clean 
with a besom.—What woman, having ten pieces of silver, 
if she lose one, doth not sweep the house, and seek dili¬ 
gently till she find it? St. Luke. —To carry with pomp. 
Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while, 
And, like a peacock, sweep along his tail. Shakspcare. 
To drive or carry off with celerity and violence. 
Though I could. 
With barefac’d power, sweep him from my sight. 
And bid my will avouch it; yet I must not. Shakspcare. 
To pass over with celerity and force.—Then sweep they 
the blue waves. May. —To rub over. 
Their long descending train 
With rubies edg’d, and sapphires swept the plain. Dryden. 
To strike with a long stroke. 
Descend, ye nine; descend and sing; 
The breathing instruments inspire ; 
Wake into voice each silent string, 
And sweep the sounding lyre. Pope. 
To SWEEP, v. n. To pass with violence, tumult, or 
swiftness. Perhaps in the first quotation we should read 
swoop. 
Haste me to know it, that I with wings as swift 
As meditation or the thoughts of love, 
May sweep to my revenge. Shakspcare. 
To pass with pomp; to pass with an equal motion. 
She sweeps it through the court with troops of ladies. 
More like an empress than duke Humphrey’s wife. 
Shakspeare. 
To move with a long reach. 
Nor always errs; for oft the gauntlet draws 
A sweeping stroke along the crackling jaws. Dryden. 
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SWEEP, The act of sweeping. The compass of any 
violent or continued motion. 
A torrent swell’d 
With wintry tempests, that disdains all mounds, 
Breaking away impetuous, and involves 
Within its sweep, trees, houses, men. Philips. 
Violent and general destruction.—In countries subject to 
great epidemical sweeps, men may live very long; but 
where the proportion of the chronical distemper is great, it 
is not likely to be so. Graunt. —Direction of any motion 
not rectilinear.—Having made one incision a little circularly, 
begin a second, bringing it with an opposite sweep to meet 
the other. Sharp. 
SWEE'PER, s. One that sweeps. Barret. 
SWEETINGS, s. That which is swept away.—Should 
this one broomstick enter the scene, covered with dust, 
though the sweepings of the finest lady’s chamber, we 
should despise its vanity. Swift. 
SWEETNET, s. A net that takes in a great compass.— 
She was a sweepnet for the Spanish ships, which happily 
fell into her net. Camden. 
SWEETSTAKE, s. Originally perhaps a game at cards: 
it is now applied to the winner of the whole that is staked 
or wagered, and is a common phrase at horse-races, usually 
called sweepstakes. 
Is’t writ in your revenge. 
That sweepstake you will draw both friend and foe. 
Winner and loser ? Shakspeare. 
SWEEPSTAKE’S FORELAND, a cape in the straits 
of Magellan. Lat. 52. 40. S. long. 71.24. W. 
SWEETY, adj. Passing with great speed and violence 
over a great compass at once. 
They rush along, the rattling woods give way, 
The branches bend before their sweepy sway. Dryden- 
Wavy. 
Behind 
The sweepy crest hung floating in the wind. Pope. 
Strutting; drawn out. 
Behold their swelling dugs; the sweepy weight 
Of ewes, that sink beneath their milky freight. Dryden. 
SWEERS ISLAND, an island on the north coast of New 
Holland, about 8 miles in length, at the bottom of the gulf 
of Carpentaria. Long, of a hill on the island, called In¬ 
spection Hill by Captain Flinders, 139. 44. 52. E. lat. 11. 
8. 15. S. 
SWEET, adj. [ppeCe, Sax.; soet, Dutch. Our old 
word was sute, sote, or soote. “ My prechyng was not in 
sutely styrynge wordis of mannys wisdom.” Wicliffe, 1 
Cor. ii. “ On the sote grasse I sate me down.” Chaucer, 
FI. and Leaf. “ They dauncen deffly, and singen soote." 
Spenser, Shep. Cal.] Pleasing to any sense.— Sweet ex¬ 
presses the pleasant perceptions of almost every sense: sugar 
is sweet, but it hath not the same sweetness as music; nor 
hath music the sweetness of a rose; and a sweet prospect 
differs from them all: nor yet have any of these the same 
sweetness as discourse, counsel, or meditation hath; yet the 
royal Psalmist saith of a man, we took sweet counsel to¬ 
gether; and of God, my meditation of him shall be sweet. 
Watts. —Luscious to the taste.—This honey tasted still is 
ever sweet. Davies. —Fragrant to the smell. 
Balm his foul head with warm distilled waters, 
And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet. 
Shakspeare. 
Melodious to the ear.—The dulcimer, all organs of sweat 
stop. Milton. —Beautiful to the eye. 
Heav’n bless thee! 
Thou hast the sweetest face I ever look’d on. Shakspeare. 
Not salt. 
The sails drop with rain. 
Sweet waters mingle with the briny main. Dryden. 
Not 
