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"Thank God," mused the reader and the words were wafted aloft until they reached the "Kingly palace gate; With frontispiece of diamond and of gold Embellished." The bitter, cold days of winter are nearly at an end. The forces of nature are now exhausted and the elements have settled down into quiet rest. "How time flies!" exclaimed the solicitor glancing at the calendar opposite his desk.
And though I respect a brave knight in distress, I can scarce extend my compassion to a thing that fights against all rule, martial and kingly." The Earl smiled gravely. "It is the mode in which his ancestors rushed on the spears of Caesar. Pardon him." "I pardon him, at your gracious request," quoth the knight, with a grand air, and waving his hands; "say on."
Thou who wert wont to repose upon a soft and kingly couch, and indulge in every pleasure during thy waking hours: how canst thou endure the mountain and the forest wilds, on the bare grass to make thyself a resting-place!" Thus thinking of her son her heart was full of sorrow, disconsolate she lay upon the earth.
Under the feudal law of William the Conqueror, the ancient liberties of the Anglo-Saxons were greatly curtailed; in fact, the whole English people were reduced to a state of vassalage, which for the majority closely bordered upon actual slavery. Even the proud Norman barons themselves submitted to a kingly prerogative more absolute than was usual in feudal governments.
"Tell him then, Wulf. You can tell him that great as has been my grief over our separation, I can yet feel happy in my solitude in knowing how nobly he is doing his kingly work, and that I have never wavered in my assurance that I was right when I bade him go.
'By a prophet like Isaiah the residence of Jehovah in Zion is almost wholly dematerialised.... Conceiving Jehovah as the King of Israel, he necessarily conceives His kingly activity as going forth from the capital of the nation.
There was a sense of tragedy and failure, too, toiling up the steep slope to the town level, and passing, on the half-buried walls, gigantic carved figures making thwarted gestures, in commemoration of kingly triumphs forgotten hundreds upon hundreds of years ago.
Indeed, where is the man who would not have been overcome by her sweetness, her beauty, and that stamp of royal grace which comes with kingly blood and the daily exercise of power?
When they were gone a little bit from the earth, the giant showed him the rod that was in his hand and said: "What would thy father do with this rod if he had it?" The king's son said: "My father has a braver rod than that." And the giant asked him, "Where is thy father when he has that brave rod?" And the king's son said: "He will be sitting in his kingly chair."
The leniency of modern governments has of late usually resorted to the process by indictment; and the crown, waiving all the privileges which appertain to the kingly office, appears before the constituted tribunals of the land, as the redresser of the public wrongs, invested with no powers, and clothed with no authority beyond the simple rights possessed by the meanest of its subjects.
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