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Updated: June 7, 2025
The scattered semi-sovereigns of feudal society bowed down before the incontestable pre-eminence of the kingship, which gained the victory in its struggle against the papacy.
He was content to have a kingship divested of legislative power so long as hereditary succession was acknowledged to be dependent upon popular consent. The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings. We have thus an organ for the interpretation of natural law free from the shifting variety of individual judgment.
My business is a little more practical, and I have no time to refute at length the vociferations of persons who tell us that a man proves his capacity of kingship by commanding the extinction or torture of vast numbers of human creatures.
They inhabit successively seven towers perched upon seven mountains, and every year they pass from one tower to another. People come furtively and cast within their reach what is needful for their subsistence. The kingship lasts seven years, the time necessary to inhabit all the towers successively; but many die before their time is out.
Friedrich, Crown-Prince, age then thirty-one, and already married a second time, was of course left Chief Heir; who, as we see, has not declined the Kingship, when a chance for it offered. There were four Half-brothers of Friedrich, too, who got apanages, appointments.
The kings of old thought so highly of this foundation of kingship that some of them held it worthier to be King of the French than King of France. Indeed, this nation was in old time illustrious for passionate attachment to its princes; and under the earlier kings, until Philip the Fair, the treasure of hearts was the sole public treasure that was maintained in this kingdom.
It was a Protestant republic, organized on the model of the United Provinces, and disposed to act as regarded the French kingship with a large measure of independence.
The king can pardon a fraudulent bankrupt; he cannot do anything for the victims. The letter of the law is fatal to modern society." "Just get that into the electors' heads!" said Bixiou. "Some one has undertaken to do it." "Who?" "Time. As the Bishop of Leon said, 'Liberty is ancient, but kingship is eternal; any nation in its right mind returns to monarchical government in one form or another."
Ferdinand fled to Sicily again on the 23rd January of the next year, when the master-mind came to close quarters and put an end, as I have previously stated, to Ferdinand's kingship and tyrannical rule by placing his brother Joseph on the throne; two years later Joseph became King of Spain, and his brother-in-law, Joachim Murat, succeeded him as ruler of Naples.
It was only when the religious quarrels of the sixteenth century became acute that the Tudors already alarmed at the action of the Irish Parliament in recognising and crowning a pretender in Dublin Castle found themselves compelled to assert direct Kingship. From that time till the legislative Union every enemy of England could safely count on finding a foothold and active friends in Ireland.
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