Excerpt from Autobiography, Vol. 12: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published; With Brief Introductions, and Compendious Sequels Carrying on the Course of Events to the Death of Each Writer
We have only to add, by way of sequel to the Life of holberg, that he was created a baron by the king of Denmark in the year 1747; and that he died in the year 1754, having left the principal part of the property he had accumulated to the Academy of Knights at Soroe.
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