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[[unclear]] Climberless instances of Kings & nations who have acted [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] [[addition]] wrongly [[/addition]] , because they ^ [[addition]] have been [[/addition]] byassed [[deletion]] by [[/deletion]] either by anger or by pity: but I had rather enumerate the instances where our ancestors acted mightly & regularty against the passions of their own minds. In the Macedonian War which we carried on against King [[deletion]] Perxes, the City of [[/deletion]] Rhodes, which had grown great & magnificent by the help of the Roman People, proved unfaithfull I am Enemy to us: but after the war was finish'd when it was consulted what was to be [[addition]] done [[/addition]] to them, our ancestors dismissed them unpunish'd, [[deletion]] because [[/deletion]] [[addition]] for fear it might be objected, that [[/addition]] they had begun the war [[deletion]] not [[/deletion]] for the sake of acquiring
