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Excerpt from An Historical and Critical Essay on the True Rise of Nobility, Political and Civil: From the First Ages of the World, Thro the Jewish, Grecian, Roman, Commonwealths, Etc; Down to This Present Time
Out of the two fitfl forts of Nobility, no Man. Can become Noble except he be a good Man alfo; but out of the third fort a Man, tho he be ever (0 Wicked and gracelefs, may yet excel the 1eit of Men, even in the high cpi degree of Nobility: as Caligula, N870, and futh Others did. The Matter of Nobility was in antient time accounted of two forts; fw'a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
