| World history - 1760 - 586 pages
...Expedit. to to much perplexity, till one of the lords laid his hand upon his fword, and, addreffing himfelf to Wamba, told him, that, in their choice...crown, which the public intereft, and the legal call of thofc prefent, required him to wear, he would facrificc . him upon the fpot. The menaces of this nobleman,... | |
| World history - 1782 - 486 pages
...motives, but aimed folely at the public good; that his behaviour was of a very different nature, fince it ftiewed that he preferred his own quiet, and the...he, who would not contribute, as far as in him lay, totheprefervation of the ftate, was as guilty as he who contrived its ruin; and therefore, if he continued... | |
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