Note 68 — BOOK III. (continued 2)
T. (Tobias) Smollett translation
This seems to have been intended as a stroke of satire against those princes who sell nobility to the highest bidder, without any regard to the merit of the purchaser.
T. (Tobias) Smollett translation
This seems to have been intended as a stroke of satire against those princes who sell nobility to the highest bidder, without any regard to the merit of the purchaser.