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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: preciation of paper money to an extent of 30 per cent. The king, in his eyes, was a Lyrani and a robber; and he vowedj revenge. With him were joined others?Ribbing, Horn, Lilie- horn?all nobles?who had suffered arrest in 1789, or had real or fancied wrongs to avenge; and the king's secretary, Bjelke, who enjoyed much of his master's confidence, persuaded him to go to the ball, and gave timely notice to the conspirators. Oscar, in the opera, may win our affection by beauty of person and sprightliness of music.; but if we are to identify him with Bjelke, his role was more utterly villainous than that even of Horn who attracted the king's attention, or of Ankarstrdm who pulled the trigger. That these men assassinated their king is certain; but whether influenced solely by a sense of private or political wrong, by some ambitious hopes, or by the mony of the Jacobins, never has been, probably never will be, known. But though the Jacobins hesitated at no crime which seemed likely to be useful, there is no necessity for supposing them guilty of this. The king had trodden down the constitution, crushedj the nobles in their political rights, annihilated their preroga-j tives, insulted their pride. Hate and suppressed fury were in' every mind; and we have had, even within the last few months, an appalling proof that a sense of civil wrong knows no scruples, has no conscience. Nor was the violent termination of a king's reign an unusual thing in Sweden. Many of Gustavus's predecessors had been dethroned or murdered; and his son who? though a mere child?succeeded him in 1792, was himself driven out by a revolution in 1809, and ended his days in exile and obscurity, a private citizen of Basle. Art. IV.?Arcliteologia; or, Miscellaneous Tracts relatiny to Antiquity. Published by the Soci...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217346696 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217346693 |
| Weight | 1.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.08 In |
| List Price | $33.59 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 486 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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