| 单词 | divine right |
| 例句 | Nor do I believe that management rules by divine right or the undiluted force of superior knowledge, as the “surveys” demand you acknowledge. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1789 the French population switched almost overnight from believing in the myth of the divine right of kings to believing in the myth of the sovereignty of the people. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Have you abandoned your project to form a political party or nominate a candidate for president by divine right? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I don't claim a divine right to free tickets. Brian Logan on comedians who spurn reviewers 2010-04-14T21:00:00Z Having babies isn’t a divine right; it’s a responsibility that should be weighed up, where possible, with a degree of clarity that I appreciate isn’t assisted by the ticking of your biological clock. I’m pregnant and want this second baby – but not the man 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z But as that power has grown, so has her absolute belief in her divine right to rule. Game of Thrones recap: season eight, episode one – the end is now 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Parkinson is a marvelously mercurial Henry, a cautionary example of what happens when we attribute divine rights to mortals with all-too-human impulses and superstitions. London Theater Journal: Shadowlands 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s an anachronistic assertion of divine right retooled to recognize that even hereditary rulers have to argue their relevance. Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z So convinced is he of his divine right to rule, he is playing the whole business by ear. TV review: The Hollow Crown: Richard II; Derek Jacobi on Richard II; Mad Mad World 2012-07-01T20:00:01Z It’s not necessarily the most compelling thing for a liberal like myself, to be making an impassioned plea for the divine rights of kings, and for observing the hierarchy of order, of class and authority. Corey Stoll on Shakespeare Boot Camp and Killing Tiny Vampires 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The streamlined cycle explores divine right and human wrongs in an approach apparently both cerebral and visceral. Druid Theater Company Makes Shakespeare’s Histories Its Own 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z However this does not mean he has a divine right to do what he pleases. Al Fayed defends Jackson statue? 2011-04-03T17:28:36Z Twice denied the chance to carry her children to term, Isabel has no doubt that the surprise child that shows up is her divine right after all she’s suffered. The motherhood cure-all: “The Light Between Oceans” illuminates a reckless romance with adoption fallacies 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z This Bible was a form of propaganda for crusaders — including Louis IX — who sought, by divine right, to claim the Holy Land for Christendom. Exhibitions of Medieval Biblical Masterworks 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z He is willing to take what and who he wants, consuming anyone who crosses him and justifying his sociopathy with the divine right apportioned to him by the desperate. "The Last of Us" makes an unholy meal of starving childhood innocence, served bloody 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z And, to be fair, Richard II is one play – it questions the divine right of monarchs, and has a big deposition scene – that an Elizabethan earl might not have wished to put his name to. TV review: The Hollow Crown: Richard II; Derek Jacobi on Richard II; Mad Mad World 2012-07-01T20:00:01Z It is a vicious, beautiful, profane and wickedly funny reimagining of the rise and fall of King Arthur without the chivalry, divine right or holy quests. Review | ‘By Force Alone’ is an exciting and wickedly funny reimagining of the King Arthur legend 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z So they find Yankee-style rights expansions absolutely intolerable, to the point where they’re willing to fight and die to preserve their divine right to rule. Southern values revived 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z Otherwise we are celebrating wealth and power through violence and divine right. Car park skeleton is Richard III 2013-02-04T15:15:54Z As the late Ursula K. Le Guin once said, “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” What We’re Reading This Summer 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z “It is our divine right to enjoy our pleasure,” Ms. Bidlingmaier said. Hey, ‘Budtender’: Los Angeles’s Power Brokers of Pot Crank Up the Kook 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Ford described himself as a "sentimental Tory" who liked "pomp, banners, divine rights, unreasonable ceremonies and ceremoniousness". Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z It began with a full-throated refutation of the hereditary, divine right of kings, and a scathing dismissal of Scriptural justifications for such power, such as claims by kings to be descended from Adam. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z In the way of all invading forces claiming divine right as a reason for taking over lands, the Mithraics quickly come into conflict with Campion, Mother and Father. Ridley Scott's new series "Raised by Wolves" imagines a bleak future for humanity – and android moms 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z James saw where this could lead: a challenge to the authority of the throne itself, the divine right to rule. Anne Boleyn and the theatre of reformation 2011-07-08T21:55:13Z Having claimed a divine right to the lightly populated Beaver Island, Strang’s subjects began counterfeiting money and practicing a form of religious piracy, “consecrating” gentile property to themselves with guns, swords and a fast schooner. Meet the Man Who Spun the Media, Scammed Followers and Named Himself King 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z A swarm of French refugees, often trained in Protestant seminaries to reject divine right and employ private conscience, embraced Locke’s model of consciousness with its justification of inner difference. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The English royal we, or pluralis majestatis, dates to the late twelfth century, around the time of Henry II and his successor Richard I, and meant “God and I,” invoking the divine right of kings. Lessons on the Royal We, from “Mary Queen of Scots” and “The Favourite” 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z “Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. … Resistance and change often begin in art, and very and often in our art — the art of words.” Ursula K. Le Guin on speaking truth to power at National Book Awards 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings. “We Will Need Writers Who Can Remember Freedom”: Ursula Le Guin and Last Night’s N.B.A.s 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z His character, the 14th Earl of Gurney, takes the notion of divine right to its furthest logical extreme. ‘King Charles III’ and ‘The Ruling Class’ in London 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Bronzino's Medici portraits express their divine right to be dynastic rulers. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z Although individual phrases caused waves of excitement in the theater — the Ballet Theater audience loves to applaud feats — Ms. Cojocaru stamps no single step on the mind as being hers by divine right. Dance Review: Two Top Giselles, Back to Back 2011-05-29T22:49:01Z The divine right once thought to be accorded those born to the purple is being examined as more of an affliction than a blessing in two corners of the West End this week. ‘King Charles III’ and ‘The Ruling Class’ in London 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Starting from the very beginning of European settlement, colonists used the Bible to claim Christian explorers had a divine right to seize lands that were not inhabited by Christians. How far-right Christianity quietly fueled the Jacksonville shooting 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z “Charles I very much believed in the divine right of kings, and when Parliament disagreed, he shut them down,” Hammond says. 'Now & Then' ventures to London to explore a daguerreotype from 1839 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z "They claim they have a divine right to rule," said a twenty-something professional in Taiz, who preferred not to be named. Yemen: The children of a forgotten war 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Medieval people had the "divine right of kings." Tax billionaires for their own good 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z “The divine right of kings did not extend to overturning the laws of nature and common sense,” the professor said. The Chatbots Can’t Outsmart You. Yet. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z If you're Donald Trump, you might imagine that it's the 16th century and that you are Henry VIII. He certainly yearns for the divine rights of kings and has declared as much. Joe Biden asks questions worthy of Thomas Paine: Who the hell are we, and what century is this? 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Madison, is something that is handed down through a system of divine right. Opinion | Anyone who calls the Supreme Court too imposing is a heretic who should perish 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z His belief in the divine right of himself generated a civil war. Can King Charles put Queen Elizabeth's legacy behind him and craft his own? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Elizabeth’s character, stamina and skill persuaded her subjects to suspend any possible disbelief in the divine right of a mostly German family to reign over the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. Opinion | Britain’s Queen Elizabeth was the last of her kind 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Once a system is deemed legitimate, power is granted to certain individuals based either on inheritance or a belief that they are given rule through divine right. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Locke rejected the divine right of kings and instead advocated for the central role of Parliament with a limited monarchy. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z When the national mythology inculcates into a population that it has the divine right to kill others to purge the earth of evil, how can this mythology not be ingested by naïve and alienated individuals? There will be no gun control: For many white Americans, the idea of the gun is all they have left 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z The decline has led to United’s falling away from contention for the Premier League championship, a title that once had seemed a divine right to fans of one of the world’s most celebrated sporting franchises. Manchester United Appoints Erik ten Hag in Effort to Halt Slide 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The Champions League does not carry more weight than any other tournament by divine right. You Decide Which Games Matter 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z They believe in their divine right to impose their "values" on others by force. Pimps of war: Neocons who fueled 20 years of carnage in the Middle East are back for more 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z “Our wives, our children, our husbands, has been sold over and over again to purchase the lands we now locates upon; for that reason, we have a divine right to the land.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Of course, the dollar’s reserve-currency status is not a divine right, and the Fed should step up its determination to fight inflation. Opinion | Ignore the naysayers. Dollar dominance is here to stay. 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z They examined such principles as the divine right of monarchs, the union of church and state, and the existence of unequal social classes. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The theory of divine right of kings was widely accepted in much of the Western world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z We are Brighton and Hove Albion, we have no divine right to win in the Premier League. Champions League final moved to Paris, European last-16 draws – live! 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z But Cliven, driven by messianic Mormonism and a fringe interpretation of the Constitution that he has a divine right to the land and Washington almost no rights to the land, called for a "range war." From the Bundys to the Rotunda: How allowing far-right terrorism to fester led to the Capitol riot 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z One hopes they will question this highhanded assumption of theirs that random white people have some divine right to police random Black people and Black people some moral obligation to quiescently accept it. Justice should be an expectation, not a relief 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Absolute monarchs believed in divine right, the idea that God created the monarchy and that the monarch acted as God’s representative on earth. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It held that God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth a “divine right” to rule. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Idolizing a monarch with a statue makes sense if you believe in the divine right of kings. Vote to remove Thomas Jefferson statue from New York City Council Chamber long overdue 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z “We the people” delivered humanity from the divine rights of monarchs, laying the basis for America’s evolving democratic journey, but the “people” tended at the time to be white male property owners. As France Sends U.S. a Second Statue of Liberty, Her Symbolism is Debated 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z As opposed to monarchies, democracies in general are less Christian-based, as rulers are not justified on the "divine right of kings." America was not founded as 'a Christian country' based on 'Judeo-Christian' values 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Mesopotamian kingship was conceived as being descended from heaven, an ancient precursor to what would become, a few thousand years on, a corrosive doctrine of the divine right of kings. Review: Getty Villa reopens with ancient treasures from the Louvre 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z The people were bound to obey their ruler as they would God; opposition to “the divine right of kings” was both treason and a mortal sin. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “The mentality at the highest reaches of the S.N.P. is rather like the divine right of kings: They think that no one can touch them,” Mr. Sillars said. The Poisonous Feud Threatening Scotland’s Independence Drive 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z But, as Dr O'Hagan says, the pineapple's "exotic appearance" gave it a mythical quality, which was "enhanced by its golden crown, viewed as the symbolic manifestation of the divine right of king". The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z The prerogative is derived from the historic belief in a monarch's divine right to rule. Why Congress can’t curb Trump’s power to commute Roger Stone’s sentence and pardon others 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z In other words, China is a danger because it "concentrates its firepower" in the ocean nearest to it, while the U.S. divine right to empire requires that its military saturate the globe. Do we really want a new Cold War with China? Far too many media voices seem to think so 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Much of the thought upon which present-day democracies rest began as a challenge to the theory of divine right of kings. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Power Worshippers” shows us how deeply our current political trajectory is driven by another Christian theo-political notion: the divine right of kings. Review | Why Christian nationalists think Trump is heaven-sent 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead impeachment manager, has urged senators to remember the Constitution’s framers sought to prevent a chief executive from wielding power as if it “was conferred upon him by divine right.” Trump’s idea of executive power is also impeachment defense 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z The American republic was founded on the repudiation of the divine right of kings to rule. Opinion | Donald Trump, Meet Your Precursor 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z That, Weld said, is “nothing other than the divine right of kings.” “I’ve Never Seen Evidence So Clear”: Inside the House Effort to Draft Articles of Impeachment 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The notion of divine right of kings was not unique to European history. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The divine right of kings was torn down in the United States by the framers, the Revolutionary War, and the Constitution. Trump's latest ludicrous con: Can the Impeachment Defense force save their hero? 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z What Markovits means is that merit is a self-justification in the same way that the divine right of kings was a self-justification. Is Meritocracy Making Everyone Miserable? 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The framers of the United States Constitution rejected the divine right of kings and queens and the idea of a hereditary nobility in America. Patriotism, truth and fascism: Donald Trump is creating a subjective reality 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z This was a revolutionary inversion of the divine right of kings. Opinion | We shouldn’t turn our backs on American patriotism 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The Japanese emperor, the mikado, governed by divine right of kings until 1945. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z More than 250 years later, Trump and his allies want to reinstate divine right -- for him and other Republican presidents to follow. Trump's latest ludicrous con: Can the Impeachment Defense force save their hero? 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Even though the divine right of kings was gone by that time, he certainly believed himself to be instilled in that position by God. Demolishing the right's "Founding Myth": America was never a "Christian nation" 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z When the “king of kings”, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, unwillingly became the last shah of Iran and fled in 1979, the country was taken over by turbanned clerics with their own ideas about divine rights. From beheadings to abdications: a brief history of royal redundancies 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z And not least, between retirees, who maintain the divine right of pensions, and younger people excluded from social welfare programs. Inequality Fuels Rage of ‘Yellow Vests’ in Equality-Obsessed France 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z One type of traditional legitimacy is known as the divine right of kings. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Bentham rejected the idea of natural or divine rights preceding governments – rights are created by law, so government comes first. How Australia's compulsory voting saved it from Trumpism 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z But Richard Nixon, enthralled with the divine right of presidents, withheld during his presidency more than $50bn slated for social welfare programs that he judged wasteful. Declaring a national emergency over the wall? This won't end well for Trump | Walter Shapiro 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z The Houthis believe they are the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad and, as such, have a divine right to rule Yemen. Ex-captives describe torture by Yemen's Houthi rebels 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Indeed, "presidential harassment" is Trump's updated version of the divine right of kings. Sex, lies and videotape: Is the Trump drama nearing its climax? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z In theory, monarchs who ruled by divine right did not have to answer to parliaments or to the people, only to God. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s almost as if they believe they have a divine right to win. So if they lose in Georgia or they lose in Alabama it must have been stolen,” he said. Stacey Abrams, Democrats cry illegality after loss in elections 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z In both cases, though, faith ultimately amounts to mastering the rules of the leaders, whose infallibility — whether by divine right or endowed chair — excuses all else. Perspective | Academia is a cult 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Republican Rep. Blake Miguez says his bill preserves a divine right to protect oneself. House to debate bill aimed at bringing more guns to schools 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “That was normal at the time, but because the king was invested with divine right.” Struggling to prevent terrorist attacks, France wants to ‘reform’ Islam 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The divine right of kings drew its claim to legitimacy from Europe’s deep-rooted Christian values. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Founders stunned all aristocracy, electrified all the world, and altered the course of human events in nullifying divine right and in declaring, codefying, enforcing, and extending the inborn natural human rights of all people. How Much Is Anyone ‘Entitled’ To, in the End? 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z This threat reflected the Southern aristocracy’s fervent belief that it had a divine right to enslaved African labor. Opinion | America’s Last Slave Ship, and Slavery’s Stain 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z “We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings,” she said during a speech at the 2014 National Book Awards. Legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin dies at 88 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z But the tapestry suggests, too, that William won by divine right. France’s epic Bayeux Tapestry is headed to Britain, in a loan for the ages 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The Petition challenged the idea of the divine right of kings, declaring that even a monarch must obey the law of the land. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The ruling Kim family claims a divine right to rule North Korea by saying they descended from this mountain. North Korea says it will send a 140-member orchestra to perform in South Korea 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Their amount of concentrated authority resembles the divine right of kings, and it is sparking a backlash that is still gathering force. Tech giants, once seen as saviors, now under fire for creating problems 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Their amount of concentrated authority resembles the divine right of kings, and is sparking a backlash that is still gathering force. Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z We find ourselves cheering the resumption of autocracy, the destruction of industry and even, in the case of Narnia, the triumph of divine right over secular power. George Monbiot: how do we get out of this mess? 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z The Declaration was also revolutionary because it was founded on the concept of “the consent of the governed,” rather than divine right or tradition as the basis for the exercise of power. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z "Johnny gets picked like everyone else; he has no divine right to get picked. Will he get picked? That is a decision that has to be made," said coach Richie Murphy on Tuesday. Six Nations 2017: Sexton 'set to start for Ireland' against France 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Just clubs that believe in their divine right to be title contenders. How Leicester City Made Every Premier Power Better 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The Oil sheikdoms of the Gulf rule by divine right! Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z She is called a force of nature, or considered superhuman, or accorded the divine right of queens. Serena Williams, Andy Murray, and a Political Wimbledon 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z If our founders believed that, we'd be rules by the divine right of kings. Ted Cruz’s Conservatism: The Pendulum Swings Consistently Right 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z “Yes, it is good to be king, but they forget they are there not by divine right but on the basis of democratic elections.” Bolivian President Evo Morales discovers limits to his popularity 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z In Kim’s case, this is mixed up with an apparently regal belief in his divine right to rule, based on hereditary entitlement. Kim Jong-un goes for nuclear option in familiar brinkmanship 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Hobbes’ genius was to remove religion from governance: no more “divine right of kings.” The new social contract: This is what’s roiling the electorate & fueling the success of anti-establishment candidates Trump, Cruz and Sanders 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z The divine right of kings, as a concept, was overthrown. We have always been good haters: Our Donald Trump problem goes all the way back to the Founding Fathers 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Its hit-men said they had the "divine right" to kill and dismember their enemies, which included members of rival gangs. La Familia Mexican drug cartel founder killed - BBC News 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z He would die for the emperor—who ruled by divine right—confident that he would be enshrined with his ancestors for his efforts in defense of a mythic civilization. Watching the Atomic Bomb Blast as a POW Near Nagasaki 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Locke and his fellow liberals recognized the need for government to overthrow the divine right of kings, but they also feared government, worrying it could give with one hand and take away with the other. The Tough Love of ‘Austerity’ 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z “You have no divine right to be in the final. We certainly didn’t think that. We knew from the get-go this was going to be an extremely difficult tournament. It was.” Gold Cup semifinals: Jamaica stuns the U.S. men’s national team 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z “The royal archives contain matters of state. The role of the monarch is not a purely personal matter. We no longer have the divine right of kings.” Queen's Nazi salute video: pressure mounts on royals to open up archives 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z But his government—like all governments—did not exercise power by divine right, only insofar as it respected established principles and traditions of liberty. How the Declaration of Independence Can Still Change the World 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Endorsements are not a divine right for any of these players. Morgan, Solo- Best Chance at Stardom 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z "No party has a divine right to rule this country," he said. South Africa: What does Maimane's win mean for the DA? - BBC News 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Certainly, it reserves a divine right to meddle in its South Asian backyard. A bit-more player 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Is it plausible that kings and queens govern by divine right? More On Why Managers Hate Agile 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z “Any human power can be changed by human beings,” she said, noting that capitalism may prove no more invincible than “the divine right of kings.” Phil Klay wins National Book Award for fiction 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Stop making excuses for your mediocrity and accept you're no good and don't have a divine right to be, us Scotland fans have. Can FA plans revive England team? 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z If ever there were a symbol to express the end of the divine right of kings and the limits of a constitutional monarchy, that document is it. The Queen shows us who isn't boss 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z “Generally, I don’t believe in the divine right of incumbents,” he said. Cantor’s tea party challenger a no-show at D.C. events Locke’s Second Thesis — still widely read today — followed his First Thesis, an extended refutation of a theocratic justification, broadly sympathetic with the “divine right of kings.” Cliven Bundy’s next sick libertarian paradise: Georgia wants you to die from gun violence 2014-04-24T12:30:00Z They did not want educated men and women who knew that they had a divine right to freedom in all things. What 12 Years A Slave Teaches Us About Black Education Today 2014-03-28T21:52:00Z Rulers, backed by the concept of divine right, cared less about their subjects suffering than pursuing their own ambitions through wars and the taxes that financed them. Here comes the flood 2014-03-21T17:03:18Z Or perhaps it happened with the introduction of the go-cup, the name for a drink bought and consumed out in the street, a privilege just short of divine right here. Fighting Noise, New Orleans Focuses on Bourbon Street 2014-03-12T17:31:14Z No player has a divine right to be automatically in the team. Did Joe Hart deserve to be dropped? 2013-11-03T16:24:15Z There's no divine right to get big scores. England unhappy with display - Trott 2013-08-09T21:16:57Z We have no divine right to come back. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend's action 2013-05-20T03:53:25Z It is also a reflection of the use or misuse of scripture to claim divine right to land by any group. Israel slams 'hurtful' church report 2013-05-09T11:24:46Z In many companies, this divine right of kings endured. Retaliation: A Guide for Vindictive Bosses 2012-12-10T12:37:52Z They find vociferous support in attacking "outsiders" for taking jobs that belong, possibly by divine right, to sons of the soil. We’re All Immigrants 2012-08-20T22:55:00Z "Nobody has a divine right to play in the side, I think some of the headlines are very dramatic," he said. Ferdinand 'one of England's best' 2012-06-05T14:12:19Z "Nobody has a divine right to play in the side," he said. Ferdinand upset at 'suspect' snub 2012-06-04T21:01:01Z No one has a divine right to play in the side, I think some of the headlines are very dramatic But Pleat has branded Moralee "out of order" for his comments. 'Rio has no right to be in team' 2012-06-04T15:48:50Z “The divine right of monarchs is something greater than mere geography,” the Prince answered, scornfully. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Frieda felt suddenly the European peasant in the presence of the superior by divine right. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z It seemed his divine right to shield her—his vocation, his purpose in life to come between her and any danger, real or fancied. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Without divine right I am but an infirm old man, long an exile from my country, and reduced to beg an asylum. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Nobody has a divine right to play in the side, I think some of the headlines are very dramatic. 'Rio has no right to be in team' 2012-06-04T15:48:50Z No divine right shielded them when public opinion condemned them; ill-doing governments were twice guilty and contemptible, because of the great force of their examples. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z The first Napoleon never claimed for himself the divine right of intermeddling with and arranging everything more complacently than does the mild and fragile philosopher of Denmark Hill. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Still he was Lord Audley, something of divine right survived in him, and Stubbs knew that he had been himself in the wrong. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Louis Philippe was another good-natured Louis XVIII., minus divine right, plus a large family. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Whom the one will save, the other will destroy; what to the one is moral wrong, to the other is divine right; what love would require in the one, justice would foreclose in the other. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The Lord¶s Anointed, Christ or the Messiah; also, a Jewish or other king by ½divine right.¸ Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z All this comes, as I have said, out of a lingering superstition—the faith in the divine right of Peers. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z The one is the common right of humanity; the other is the divine right of kings. The Lincoln Year Book Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator 2012-03-21T02:00:32.850Z The divine rights of humanity, no longer of kingly cabbages. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z He was hers by the divine right of service. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z He don't believe in the divine right of kings, though he holds that some men are born to command. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Permission to beg has become a right to exact tithes, devour nations, fatten on the substance of the wretched, and enjoy, by divine right, the privilege of pillaging society, and disturbing it with impunity. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z He was King of Great Britian by divine right, and by divine right was the lawful King of the American Colonies. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z The divine rights of cabbages and of kings are also shared by mere newspaper men. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z No wonder they penetrated "higher spheres" ruled by "divine right," and that "golden words" dropped from their mouths. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z I want to see him a man, feeling that he is a king by the divine right of living in the Republic. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z There was a time when those who disputed the divine right of kings were denounced as blasphemous; but the time came when liberty demanded that a personal god should be retired from politics. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z Among the literary men of the world he stood first—a monarch by the divine right of genius. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Spoke of the divine right, not of kings or people, but of righteousness. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z A jealous public guarded their divine right from impious hands. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z As even a few years since an old sailor at Minehead was known as the "King of Madagascar," we suppose divine right and212 hereditary succession still continue in that Eden of gaol-birds. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.207Z He wanted, in his own words, “one body politic” and no rival to the king’s authority; and he set the divine right of kings against the divine right of the papacy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z The people were already conscious of the tie of nationality, desirous to be governed with some regard to their own welfare, and destitute of faith in the divine right of kings. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z Pure and genuine love, love having for its sole end the object beloved, should be reserved for God alone, and to bestow it elsewhere is a violation of a divine right.”* Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears 2011-12-22T03:00:27.660Z We shall surely find "divine right" somewhere, now that business has lost it. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Let the author of this illuminating book again show the sacrilege of claiming a Christian God as a Teutonic ally and riddle once more the divine right of kings. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Of a gay humour and ardent temperament, she never hid from any one her inclination for the lucky lord to whom she accorded the divine right of way of love over her goodly pleasaunce. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z If all mankind had continued satisfied to "trust the instinct to the end though it can render no reason," we should still believe in the divine right of kings, and the supremacy of evil spirits. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z Swinburne expresses his Hellenic longings by his hymeneal strains, Matthew Arnold by sweetness and light, Gilbert Murray by sweetness and pathos—and all through the divine right of Victorian expansion. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Room had to be found in them somewhere for divine right. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z In his view Rome, as the see of the Prince of the Apostles, was by divine right “the head of all the churches.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z If their divine right of citizenship has been forfeited, it is by their own civic sin of omission. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z For instance, the first shot at goal, which Ginger took himself by divine right, and quite an easy one, by design, for a real goalkeeper to parry, the Sailor missed altogether. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z The party is loyal to the monarchy and backs its "divine right to rule," a status that allows the king to enjoy sweeping powers in the military, security and religious affairs. Analysis: Moroccan Islamists face tough ride at government helm 2011-11-29T22:24:22Z When modern democracy got its start, kings by their folly had shaken faith in their divine right. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z In Mohammed’s case, however, if conviction counts for anything, his right was a divine right. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z He believes in his divine right to manage industry, and he believes also in the gospel of "all that the traffic will bear." The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z And it was seen clearly enough that from the divinely imposed obligation must again be inferred the equally divine rights and institution of the episcopate. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z It is to him that are owing the prerogatives, privileges, divine rights and pretences of the clergy. Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul 2011-11-24T03:00:45.230Z When Mr. Baer said that he operated the Reading Railroad by divine right he said only what a worshipping people had taught him to think. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Even the earlier practice of keeping mistresses, so much indulged in by the sovereign holders of so-called “divine rights,” had much in common with this custom. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z I want to see him a man feeling that he is a king by the divine right of living in the Republic. Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs 2011-11-24T03:00:41.267Z The Pope by divine right can give whole nations into slavery on account of some measure of their sovereign. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z Some pedantic enthusiast once said of them that, "The Gilders were empowered by divine right to put the cachet of recognition upon distinction." Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z How easy to believe that you rule railroads by "divine right," or walk in "higher spheres," when the whole unexpressed consciousness of a hundred million people assigns you just such hieratic appurtenances and privileges. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Of all that has been written about the divine right of kings, a great deal must be set down to the mere flatteries of courtiers and ecclesiastics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z That part of Him that is energy manifests in us in one way, and that part of Him that is divine right and justice manifests in us in another way. Sunshine Jane 2011-11-12T03:00:30.717Z Daillé, divine, influence in England of his work on the Fathers, 86; accepts the divine right of kings, 93. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z He was a sort of pig by divine right. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Some of the virtue of the great, some shadow of divine right, descended upon them. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z A king, in the so-called "good old times of yore," if he were a man of any force of character, generally possessed, along with the divine right theoretical, any quantity of the human power practical. The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University 2011-10-20T02:00:26.947Z The divine right of kings was thus an article of faith among the ancient Egyptians. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z "Yes, by divine right," responded the older man. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z Reigning families may become exhausted; dynasties have come and gone; but by divine right the line of the Popes will last till the end of the world. Leo XIII., the Great Leader 2011-10-12T02:00:51.183Z The world at the time when modern democracies had their birth accepted government only because it rested upon divine right. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z They consider the Pope, as the spiritual head of the church, has, a fortiori, a divine right to be the head and sovereign of the world. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z He claims to be invested by divine right with supreme sovereignty over earth, heaven and hell. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z He had found a mother heart, and had taken his place there by the divine right of love. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z It endowed him with a sort of divine right to leadership; it crowned him with the glory of perennial, unconscious beneficence. Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College 2011-10-08T02:00:24.723Z When we ceased to be a nation of farmers did we abandon the basis of our government in divine right? Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Never yield or give up the divine right, which the head of the church has, by virtue of the Keys, to the government of North America, as well as every other country. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z Never yield or give up the divine right which the head of the church has, by virtue of the keys, to the command of North America, as well as every other country. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z Caricature flourishes best in an atmosphere of democracy; there is an eternal incompatibility between its audacious irreverence and the doctrine of the divine right of kings. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z At any rate, Fate had done one great thing for her: she was the Queen, ruling as every Tudor had ruled, by divine right, absolutely, unquestionably. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z This new ruler by divine right is not going to be so easy to dethrone as his predecessors. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z But let Pope Gregory's declaration of Papal divine rights speak for itself. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z Louis XIV. had a too profound faith in the doctrine of the divine right of kings to refuse for himself any of the prerogatives devolving upon him. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z Henceforward he ruled by divine right as well as by the right of the sword. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z Dr. Richard Montagu, who had been chaplain to James I, was the highest of high-churchmen, and a believer in the doctrine of the divine right of kings in its extreme form. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour 2011-09-12T02:00:24.913Z Mr. Walter Lippmann would set up in its place the expert by divine right, but the expert is a palpable pretender. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z He received homage from the Pope, and so far from being subject to him, he acknowledged no divine right in him; but on the contrary, he held the Pope in strict subjection to himself. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z Up till the French Revolution, the idea of right that prevailed was the heathen one, which might be called the divine right of the stronger. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z Frontenac's sympathies, as may be supposed, were all with the Stuarts and the divine right of kings. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z When the ideal of national organization was the divine right of kings to rule their subjects by absolute authority, the system of national organization required passive obedience on the part of the subject. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z We have the divine right of Public Opinion. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Spain, Italy, Portugal, and even Austria and Prussia, might have ceased to have kings, by divine right; but a far better order of things could not fail soon to have arisen. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z If Christ has a divine right to His seat and to His crown, then to repeat a sacrifice is simply a blasphemy against His cross, His name, His glory. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z If granted my divine right to vote, I might look into it more closely and get another point of view. Why I am opposed to socialism 2011-08-30T02:00:37.547Z The doctrine of divine right was believed in when the Catechism was written, and then the voice of the king was a divine one, and to resist him was to resist God. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z Like the ministers of crowned fools, they gull the present embodiment of divine right and cringe before it. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z You can, no one questions that, do mischief; much mischief; but your divine right and your privileges are done for. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z Now all of a sudden we have got the divine right to come and turn Swansea over. Sunderland want Peter Crouch after goalless draw with Swansea City 2011-08-28T22:00:08Z Swift scorned Jacobitism, and had a righteous contempt for “divine right and absolute prerogative.” Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z If we take not our measures from the judicial laws of God, we shall have no laws for punishment of any malefactors by death, of divine right, in the New Testament. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z For Elizabeth had maintained her father's tradition that the sovereign reigned by divine right, and by her genius made the tradition credible. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z As to me, I hate the monarchy of divine right by reason of the ills with which it has scourged my country. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z The people, believing in the divine right of kings, were unwilling to accept any person to rule who was not born in the royal line. The Key to Success 2011-08-13T02:00:28.033Z We weren't interested in what was serviceable as such to the people as a whole—we believed in the divine right of private enterprise of the economically capable. The Express Companies of the United States A Study of a Public Utility 2011-08-11T02:00:14.563Z As to the basis of sovereignty, two systems face each other: the divine right and the sovereignty of the people. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z Love constituted ownership, and she belonged to Felix through this mighty right of love; did he belong to her through the same divine right? Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z But, besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right, to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z Every child, the gifted by divine right, is sent to cherish and redeem the race; whom to neglect or divert from its aim were base oversight and abuse of the race itself. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z Not because he had a divine right to be in Rome but because they individually and collectively flourished under his rule. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z It ratifies the divine right of kings: sanctions the principle that might makes right. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z Not that the divine right gentlemen have done, or intend to do, any good. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z The divine right of monarchs was a doctrine very firmly implanted in his mind by his upbringing and the time in which he lived. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z “The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern,” said Ms. MacKinnon, whose book, ”Consent of the Networked,” will be published by Basic Books in January 2012. Bits: A Call to Take Back the Internet From Corporations 2011-07-13T00:41:15Z Now he seems to want to bash his way, as if by divine right, through gaps that do not exist. Is Hamilton starting to lose his grip? 2011-07-08T19:26:38Z The German Kaiser claims to hold all authority of life and death over his people, including the right of declaring defensive war, by "divine right," by God's choice of him and his family to rule. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z He luxuriates in images of his royal majesty, of the angels who guard his divine right, and of his own pathetic and almost sacred sufferings. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Governmental abuses.—Berkeley was a firm believer in the divine right of kings, and looked with disfavor upon any interference from the people. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z Government by science is becoming as impossible as that of divine right,- 8 - wealth, or brute force. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z All her interests centred in her family and in the unbending conviction of a German princess that the divine right of kings is a dogma. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z Political officials are representatives of the populace, governing by their permission, not divine right. Weinergate: Private Records in a Public Age 2011-06-13T11:45:05.410Z All the streams and rivers are owned; all the common land has been appropriated; all the minerals a hundred fathoms below the surface are somebody's by divine right. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z James I.—When James Stuart came to the throne, he had an exalted idea of the kingship, believing that he ruled by divine right. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z A banquet had been respectfully tendered these rare manifestations of the principle of divine right. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z In a word, in Germany, they stood for the one thing that the Prussian monarchs detested—dissent on the part of any subject to their growing assertion of the divine right of kings. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z But reason and truth, written in the soul of man by the finger of Deity, will assert its divine right to correct the blunders of ignorance and superstition. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z This is not an error, but it is the divine right of the Spirit who gave the prophecies in olden times to apply them correctly in the New Testament. Studies in Zechariah 2011-05-26T02:00:17.670Z Bossuet preached sincerely—as every body knows Louis sincerely practiced—the doctrine of the divine right of kings to rule absolutely. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Have not prescription and precedent—patriarchal dominion—divine right of kings and masters, been alternately called in to sanction the slavery of nations? The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z We’ve seen this logical construction before: it worked for something known as the "divine right of kings." Is Obama "American" enough for the far right now? 2011-05-04T14:45:00Z Where human slavery was practiced and approved, where the divine right of kings, the degradation of the masses, wars, dueling, ox teams and slow coaches predominated. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z He rules not by force of arms, not by divine right, but because the people have selected him to administer affairs of State for them. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z Kings had divine rights; the people had none. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z A cultured man graded down to the level of the hind; a gentleman set to the task of slaughter; a democrat driven to fight in defense of the divine right of kings! The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z He hated him diplomatically, as one whose doctrines were dangerous to the “divine right” of kings. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z True, we have got rid of the greater tyrannies: divine right of kings, personal rule, borough-mongering—all are dead. Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day 2011-04-19T02:00:17.257Z Burke's pun on 'the divine right of kings and toastmasters,'—the jure de-vino—perhaps stands at the head of its class. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z He ridiculed the divine right of kings and exposed court scandal and immorality. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Jesus has not given the pope either the march of Ancona or the duchy of Spoleto; and, notwithstanding, the pope possesses them by divine right. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z The sarcasm expressed upon his features was caused by the contempt which a noble soul must naturally feel, for those things in human shape who believe, or pretend it, in the “divine right” of kings. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Where does he find in our canons sanction for his proceedings, his undutiful expressions towards one who is his sovereign by divine right, and who can do no wrong? The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z Instead I pointed out that nobody has a divine right to be the greatest. Wales join the queue to give England's divine right a real kicking 2011-03-22T00:06:27Z Monarchs are rightfully regarded as parties to the crimes of their ancestors, the same as they pretend to be masters of the people by virtue of divine right and the conquests of those ancestors. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z To betray or resist these divine rights, or to confound them, was accordingly a sin of the first magnitude. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Since the reign of Ferdinand VII. no one has maintained this unqualified version of the great doctrine of divine right. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z If one may contest the divine right of kings one may also contest the divine right of husbands. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z He was a prince always—noble or wicked—a prince by divine right of his splendour and beauty! The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z With the growth of monarchies arises the belief in the divine right of kings, the development of territorial sovereignty, and wars of ambition like those waged by Louis XIV. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z "The divine right of kings, then, you utterly overlook?" The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z As a weak Emperor wore the Imperial crown, the time was favorable for claiming a religious empire existing by divine right, and superior to the will of kings and emperors. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z The divine right of kings was part and parcel of the cosmic order; a fact as pregnant and inviolable as the presence of the sun and the planets in the firmament. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z Like the so-called "divine right of kings," such language was nothing but a wilful and deliberate falsehood, for the entire race of man have rights to be respected—the one as much as the other. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z The conception of the divine right of every nationality to readjust political frontiers to suit its own ideals was as foreign to him as to Metternich. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z I know you 'll reply to me with your old argument about legitimacy and divine right, and all that kind of thing. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z The radiance and the holiday air, which are Mrs. Fielden's by divine right, were not dimmed to-night so much as transformed. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z This is but natural, and is parallel to instances which happen daily, and may be so considered without prejudice to the divine right whether of the Episcopate or of the Papacy. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z The French Rights of Man held out, after all, for the sacred rights of property—and the day before that, it was considered pretty advanced to believe in the divine right of kings. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z And his besetting one is to think that because he’s made a success of so many things, that that gives him a sort of divine right to run everybody else’s affairs for them, too. The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z But, my dear Tom, for the matter of that, have n't I a divine right to my ancestral estate of Tullylicknaslatterley; and look what they 're going to do with it, to-morrow or next day! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Why then does the pope deceive and destroy the poor souls of men by granting dispensations in matters of divine right, in which no dispensations can be granted? Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z One also hears the argument now, as in slavery times, of the divine right of the white man to rule the Negro. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z Many people seriously and intelligently doubted the divine right of kings, and believed in the rights of the people to govern themselves long before the American colonists adopted the Declaration of Independence. The Short Constitution 2011-01-05T03:01:00.017Z On April twenty-third was promulgated the Additional Act, whereby the franchise was extended, the state church abolished, liberty of worship guaranteed, and every wretched remnant of privilege or divine right expunged. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z With you there, I feel a divine right kingship, and all the black princes of the body are afar off, herding with the beasts. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Now they themselves claim that vows are "of divine right." Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z It was the old, old conviction, common to kings and oligarchies, that they were possessed of a divine right, a special and perpetual franchise from God. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z Each of these organizations exists by divine right, and therefore, within its own sphere, is sovereign. Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College 2011-01-01T03:00:22.597Z The times were not far removed from those of the beneficent despots, except that this one ruled, not by hereditary divine right, but by military force. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z She knew it as a law—that every time her own divine right to the rule of her faculties was thus usurped by an evil force, her resistance was weakened. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z It gives them no divine right because they've been taken over that they can win games and get through the league. Rob Bagchi: Football League: Your thoughts 2010-12-04T19:30:00Z And in keeping with its tradition of improbably talking up the team's chances on the field every four years, the British press created the impression that hosting the 2018 World Cup was England's divine right. What Soccer's World Cup Choices Tell Us About the World 2010-12-03T05:10:00Z Of course I wanted to win but there's no divine right. Mick Channon's Classic wait continues as Bethrah wins Irish Guineas 2010-05-23T22:14:00Z The marvel of the absolute monarchy was the divine right of kings: when men ceased to hold the doctrine, the days of absolutism were numbered. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z Following the end of a violent civil war in 2006 and a historic election in 2008, the Himalayan kingdom, ruled for decades by the almost divine right of its monarchs, became a secular republic. After Maoist Protests, Nepal Faces a Murky Future 2010-05-12T05:50:00Z "But it doesn't matter how lucky you are or how good other people think you are, you've got no divine right to win the Grand National." Driving fine brings National winner back down to earth 2010-04-12T09:46:00Z Some 400 Jewish settlers, claiming a divine right to Hebron, now live in heavily guarded enclaves in the city, among some 150,000 Palestinians. Israeli heritage plan draws Palestinian protests 2010-02-22T17:24:00Z He restored the empire, and in restoring set it forth once again in its character of the supreme earthly right consecrated to the defence of the divine right and Christian faith. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII It cannot be questioned, it has its divine right of sovereignty. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man He wanted to paint it, not in the conventional evening-gown in which she seemed a young queen among women, but in the environment that he liked to think was her own by divine right. The Key to Yesterday She had the divine right to an assured place in society, and I had failed. The Tempering One could not argue with her, for she was so sublimely sure of herself that she made one doubt the divine right of good taste, and wonder if flat-footed stupidity were not right after all. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece He died at Rome on the 20th of January 1819, probably without having once suspected that he had done anything unbecoming a king by divine right and a gentleman. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Belief in high-plumed hats of a feudal cut; in heraldic scutcheons; in the divine right of Kings, in the divine right of Game-Destroyers. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII This outspoken adherence to the principle of divine right did credit to his honesty, but it cost him the crown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" He broke off, then went on in a changed voice, "But the gravity in eyes that laugh by divine right calls for explanation." The Tempering Fleming, to show his divine right to the place of vice-regent, led the way to a joint on Washington Street. H. R. But his coronation at Reims, with all the gorgeous 922 ceremonial of the old r�gime, proclaimed his intention of ruling, as the Most Christian King, by divine right. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" They must not simply abolish kings, but learn to recognize the true king, the man who has the really divine right of superior strength and wisdom, not the sham divine right of obsolete tradition. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII The little failings I forgive in her are those of her sex—frivolity and the divine right of changing her mind. Her Royal Highness Woman And this is the way Princes can take leave of their inheritance; and so it is, the "divine right" can be understood by certain "Rulers of the people." Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) Indeed all Capefigue’s works receive their colour from his legitimist politics; he preaches divine right and non-resistance, and finds polite words even for the profligacy of Louis XV. and the worthlessness of his mistresses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" For he had a profound belief in his divine right and the sanctity of his person. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Louis the Pious is King by divine right, sovereign master of Gaul. The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century The order of their seats was theirs by divine right, they thought, and woe betide some comparatively new-comer who would venture to take one-eyed Frau S——'s or fat Frau W——'s chair. Confessions of an Opera Singer The bishops derived their support from the king, and the church in return supported the king’s claim to absolutism and divine right. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" In some quarters doubts have been entertained as to the divine right of Presbytery. The Religious Life of London In reality it asserts the divine right of civil authority, but not of any particular kind of civil authority. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition The pyramid is based on the broad earth, in the divine right of the people; and a beginning is therefore made with the base, proceeding upward to the apex. The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis Prices and kingdoms may rise or fall; we are not indifferent; but the immortal architectures of man's spirit are priceless, and here the sceptres are indeed held by divine right. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 Mr. Gladstone was accused of ministering aliments to popular turbulence and vanity, of preaching the divine right of multitudes, and of encouraging, minister of the crown though he was, a sweeping and levelling democracy. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) Banishment of them would be injustice and cruelty, violating perhaps no less than restoring divine rights. Three Prize Essays on American Slavery What is barely asserted is the divine right of the existing civil authority, democratic or regal. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition As the king derives his authority by divine right, the people live peaceably under the government of their chief as under the authority and protection of the gods. Greek Women Ours is the only despotism that ever smote two-handed,—crushing a monarchy here, and a people there,—proclaiming divine right, or asserting the human inheritance of freedom! The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life To the proud champion of divine right, or the fearless promulgator of equality, to all he was accessible. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life It was an alliance of the kings of Europe against Napoleon, because he sat upon the throne, not by hereditary descent, the only recognized divine right, but by the popular vote. Josephine Makers of History First, it was the stronghold of the maintainers of 'the divine right of kings' and of 'passive obedience.' St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition While 819 men’s minds were in the theological state, political events, for example, were explained by the will of the gods, and political authority based on divine right. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" King Frederick William IV. of Prussia, who had been so deeply convinced and arduous an upholder of the divine right of kings, had died a helpless lunatic. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 Could they have united to sustain the divine right of kings? The Unconstitutionality of Slavery Then the eagle feels how vain is the doctrine of the divine right of kings. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) But if it had been established by divine right, in these words of Christ, it would not have perished. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) It still shows a charter of “divine right” for the sovereignty at which it aims. The Religion of Politics A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842. To assimilate Germany to ancient Rome the Kaiser on occasion reminds himself of Cæsar and affects to reign, not by the will of the people, but by divine right. The Evidence in the Case A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia No. They all denied the divine right of kings, and the feudal rights of nobles; and they were of all creeds in religion. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery One passion was, therefore, constituted sovereign of the soul in each glorious tragedy—sovereign sometimes by divine right—sometimes an usurper—generally a tyrant. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Forasmuch then as all bishops are equal by divine right and sit in the Apostles' places, I may gladly concede that by human right one is above the other in the external Church. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) Forsooth, beggars as well as kings were of divine right. The Kempton-Wace Letters Fifth, Government derives all its divine right from its conformity with these ideas, all its human sanction from the consent of the governed. The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence Theology followed up divine right with passive obedience. The History of Freedom The thoughts and feelings—to whom by divine right did they belong? Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Thus what the people have as a civil right, you claim as a divine right.... The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli By them, too, men, as such, were deprived of their divine right to rule and placed on a political level with women. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Her philosophy had two bases, one being the postulate of the divine right of kings, the other being her interpretation of the victory of the Normans over the Anglo-Saxons. Memoirs of Life and Literature He made the Lutheran Church the bulwark of political stability, and bequeathed to his disciples the doctrine of divine right and passive obedience. The History of Freedom But in so exercising the divine right of resistance, we were not called upon to harm those whom we knew to be our adversaries. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters Selden wrote against the divine right of tithes, but allowed the legal right, which gave at first great offence to the clergy, who afterwards perceived the propriety of his argument, as Wotton has fully acknowledged. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors In theory the divine right of peoples was arrayed against the divine right of kings. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe In his divine right was he even here, presuming to send a dying subject to the Sovereign in Heaven with a “character,” with a recommendation for service faithfully done. The Missourian The Huguenots, having lost their leaders in 1572, reconstituted themselves on a democratic footing, and learned to think that a king who murders his subjects forfeits his divine right to be obeyed. The History of Freedom I believe, besides, that he proves the divine right of Slavery a priori. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 Louis XIV, the divine right of kings, 400. History of Human Society Law believed in the divine right of kings, and on the death of Queen Anne, declared his principles as a non-juror. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Their dominion rested on divine right, while the new Israelitish kingdom rested upon the sandy foundation of human caprice. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 The single dogma worth attacking or defending is the divine right of kings. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) “By the divine right of law, most assuredly,” he retorted. Carmen Ariza The Stuarts again came into power, and, believing in the divine right of kings—a principle which seems to have been imbibed from the imperialism of France—sought to bring everything into subordination to royalty. History of Human Society There are immortal kings or emperors who reign and rule in America by true divine right, and against whom no Washington or Bolivar shall prevail—no Franklin succeed in plucking from them their scepter. Pepita Ximenez His kingship is rarely disputed, having been achieved by the sort of conquest most familiar in the pelican club; and his divine right is as much respected as his tremendous left. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly He chose to regard Napoleon as the antithesis to the divine right of kings. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) It is so in the effort to sustain the belief in the "divine right of kings." Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures The severe blow given to absolutism and exclusive privilege in church and state settled forever the theory of the divine right of kings and prelates to govern. History of Human Society By what divine right does the United States assume the rôle of preserving the world's peace at the cannon's mouth? Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association The divine right of kings, and the theory that power sprang from the ruler, gradually yielded to the democratic principle of political equality and the origination of power in the people. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 They did not hold that there was any divine right in man to think what he pleased, and to say what he thought. Bunyan There is no such thing as divine right, here or elsewhere,––no divine prerogatives for tyranny, for punishment, for cruelty.” The Crimson Tide A Novel Reason back far enough on the privilege line of argument and you soon come to that fetish of tradition, the divine right of kings. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V You have truly the divine right of autocracy. Dreamers of the Ghetto But this is the same principle which, during thousands of years, maintained the divine right of kings. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The blasphemous doctrine of the divine rights of kings was discarded by England in the revolution of 1688. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Throughout the parliamentary government, the restoration under Louis XVIII, and the reign of King Charles X, the marquis had ever a devout faith in the divine right of monarchs. The Strollers Wild words, foolish dreams, perhaps—and yet most dangerous to the idea of the divine right of Kings! The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue “She is beautiful—a queen by divine right,” cried he, and then with a mingling of impetuosity and importunity, entreated his hostess to present him. The Fifth String It is a recognition of the divine right of man to legislate for himself and woman too. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV "Does Cæsar possess a divine right?" the spies asked him again; "and is he the best of mortals?" The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery We see, then, the situation fully prepared: an inflexible people, a weak governor, a party of believers in divine right, and a contemptuous soldiery. The Siege of Boston You represent an hereditary monarch, the only one in western Europe who still speaks of the divine right of Kings—a man who would be an absolute autocrat, if he dared. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue While men's minds were in the theological state, political events, for example, were explained by the will of the gods, and political authority based on divine right. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 10: Auguste Comte Through Cromwell the thought of personal rights became a weapon powerful enough utterly to destroy that citadel of iniquity named the divine right of kings. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character At first they might have considered custom as a tyrant; but when they have obeyed her for a certain time, they do her voluntary homage ever after, as to a sovereign by divine right. Practical Education, Volume II Here the ecclesiastical tithes are declared to be of divine right, and all laymen possessing any of them are excommunicated. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 12, December, 1880 Primrose, I think, lops off a bit of self-conceit and belief in the divine right of kings, at every interview. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia The princess was perhaps what was most underscored in her character, the being who by some indefinable divine right is entitled to her own way. The Dust Flower It is not remarkable that as the benign principles of Christianity have been promulgated, free government has steadily progressed and the divine rights of woman have been recognized. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The spiritual and the temporal powers he considered to be distinct kinds of authority, of which the one was as much of divine right as the other. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) He even seeks to cloak his weaknesses and his mistakes in that threadbare old fabrication about the divine right of kings. The Prairie Child Be that as it may, the divine right of conscience will, among Americans, receive rare challenge. Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles Sir, some may think you have had a design in abstaining so long from asserting the divine right of church government, now to come in with it truly. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies July 4, 1776, our revolutionary fathers—in convention assembled—declared their independence of the mother country; solemnly asserted the divine right of self-government and its relation to constituted authority. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III He started from the view that religious and political authority were united in the hand of the anointed King in virtue of his divine right. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) No one recognises any kind of divine right to leadership. A Padre in France The advocates of legitimacy—of the divine right of kings—regarded him as an usurper. Louis Philippe Makers of History Series The divine right of dynasties—or rather of dynasties to persist—seems to die a little harder, but it is well on the way. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit For ages it was a question where the governing power rightfully belonged; patriarch, priest, and monarch each claimed it by divine right. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III This is what was meant when the assertion that the Papacy is of divine right was denied. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) In asserting, therefore, the divine right of rulers, we are not asserting any doctrine repudiated by our forefathers, or inconsistent with civil liberty in its widest rational extent. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject The prompt reply was, "Respect the divine right of the Duke of Bordeaux—proclaim him sovereign, as Henry V.—intrust the regency, during his minority, to the Duke of Orleans." Louis Philippe Makers of History Series The divine right of priests has gone except in the minds of the few remaining ignorant and herdable ones. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit His mind seemed ever to cherish the faith that his shares were on the point of recovery; his spirit never to lose belief in his divine right to be supported. Tatterdemalion The growth of intelligence among the masses by discrediting the doctrine of divine right made it necessary to abandon the old defense of class rule. The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy The reader, we trust, will not confound this doctrine with the old doctrine of "the divine right of kings." Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Now, gentlemen, turn round and say to the women of America, "You are each and every one of you a princess by divine right, and we will give you even the half of our kingdom." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II We are now realising that the only divine right is the right of the people—and all the people. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit Hence, he takes upon himself the responsibility of directing and controlling the powers of woman, under that all-sufficient excuse of tyranny, "divine right." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I The governments of the past, basing their claims upon divine right, bear about the same relation to democracy that astrology and alchemy do to the modern sciences of astronomy and chemistry. The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy They exercise the power which belongs to them of divine right. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Take for instance the idea of the divine right of kings—which has been so thoroughly scouted by our republicanism. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The old man was one of those who still clung to a belief in the divine right of kings, and was contented with the “powers that be,” no matter how tyrannical they be. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Men have made great progress since that day; from being subjects they have become sovereigns, ruling, as she professed to rule, by divine right. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Men were in vassalage to their immediate lord, who, in turn, was obliged to acknowledge the "divine right" of the king over him. History of Education Upon this principle they believed that it would be possible to set up the free government which so many were seeking in those dark days of the divine right of kings. The American Empire The provision that the sun shall each day rise and run its accustomed rounds is a self-executing provision, until some Joshua vetoes this divine right of the sun. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II His whole nature was merged into an imperious demand for her, the cry of the man's soul for the woman who belonged to him by divine right. Master of the Vineyard They scouted the venerable old dogma of the divine right of kings and titled aristocracies to rule the submissive multitude. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I It was reserved for four other men to lay bare the facts of the Mikado's divine right and to rehabilitate the Shinto cult. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era English landlordism was based on the idea of divine right of property. The American Empire The divine right of kings is an exploded notion; it is time for the divine right of sex to follow it. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II She had not even the indefinable freshness that is the divine right of youth. Master of the Vineyard Mr. Whitney, of Boylston, believed that the same reasoning that would deny the divine right of kings to govern men without their consent, would also deny a similar right of men over women. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I The sceptre descended by divine right without any regard to its holder's competence, while the administrative posts were filled by men of the same race with a similar hereditary title. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era How they complained because they thought their divine right to cut and slash as they chose was to be invaded! McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Let the Americans talk about their natural and divine rights.... History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II They said that this was to be a starting-point for divine right, and the excuse for a new persecution. Lectures on the French Revolution No autocrat ever reigned with more absolute power than did Martin Howe; and no monarch ever maintained a more sincere faith in his divine right to rule. The Wall Between It would have to reign by divine right, like the Jesuits in Paraguay. The Cult of Incompetence The enactments of Philip V and Ferdinand—no matter by whom made—could not affect his own divine rights, as all such enactments had been given effect to after he himself was born. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon In the meantime, he intermixeth a politic consideration into this debate of divine right. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) There were points on which these men anticipated the doctrines of a more unrestrained democracy, for they established their government not on conventions, but on divine right, and they claimed to be infallible. Lectures on the French Revolution Equally natural and noble, but no less superstitious, is our own belief in the divine right of democracy. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory The son becomes king by a divine right. Charles I Makers of History In time she would perhaps recover her self-esteem, but she would never know in its fullness that divine right of American maidenhood to rule its environment and make demands of it. The Fighting Edge Establish as few things by divine right as can well be. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) Supreme power, legislative as well as executive, was to be vested in a single ruler, governing not by divine right, but as the representative of the community, and in its interest. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History "The constraint of ecclesiastical laws is by divine right exclusively moral constraint." The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church She knew that he was a king among men by divine right of inherent power. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan When a European power asks for a thing, it is merely asserting its divine right. Peking Dust The reverend Commissioners from Scotland were for the divine right of the presbyterial, the Independents for the congregational government. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) Which indeed have they not the most 'divine right' to found;—being themselves very truly Αριστοι, Bravest, Best; and conquering generally a confused rabble of Worst, or at lowest, clearly enough, of Worse? Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. The morning when the blossoms are laden with the fragrance of the night, high noon when the bees are busy, the gloaming when the birds drop into the boughs, these are his by divine right. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 That the king "could do no wrong," is a doctrine almost coeval with modern history, flowing from the "divine right" of kings, and, as such, was quietly accepted. James Watt A newspaper writer recently said of him that "while his contemporaries were fighting stubbornly, with varying luck, Toombs took his honors without a struggle, as if by divine right." Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage The theory of the 'divine right' of kings in France. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe In the family she was supreme by divine right of suffering. The Creators A Comedy The divine right of kings, which nourished as a sentiment long after it was disowned by the laws, has at last gone spark out. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 The imperialism of Bismarck, the foe of popular government and champion of divine right, rules the hour. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 James, on the contrary, had a large conception of the "divine right" of kings, not to be restricted by any law whatever, and a still larger opinion of his own personal ability and unfailing wisdom. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 By this peaceful revolution of 1688 the English rid themselves of the Stuarts and their claims to rule by divine right, and once more declared themselves against the domination of the Church of Rome. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe Englishmen in general had no more sympathy for despots who claimed a divine right than for despots who acted in the name of democracy—especially when the despots threatened to interfere with British trade. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill The divine rights of the Church have followed suit. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 There is a smug contentment, then, in the feudal countries which is the surest bulwark of the "divine right of kings"—and courtiers! The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play Few would now proclaim with Filmer the divine right of any government to exact obedience quite irrespective of the wishes or the interests of its subjects. Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government According to the theory of "divine right," the king did not owe his power to the nation but to God, who had appointed him to be the father of his people. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe It is because monarchy was beginning to be odious in the eyes of the European democracy, when contrasted with our antagonistical system of the divine right of the people. The Right of American Slavery All three bear themselves with an air of conscious superiority, a gentle and serene dignity born of their faith in the divine right of kings. Child-life in Art The Bishop was directed to see that the appointed preachers at Paul's Cross taught that the Pope had no spiritual authority of divine right. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch No pretension is made that the State is of supernatural origin; no claim to divine right is advanced. Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government James' belief in the 'divine right' of kings. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe That tyrant of our modern days had already seized the throne, and his legitimate authority and divine right were never doubted by the most anti-monarchical of the sons of liberty. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 In palace and in cottage, in the city and in the country, childhood reigns supreme by the divine right of love. Child-life in Art The “divine right,” by grace of which they ruled, was the right of divine birth. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs He reigns by the divine right of his violin, the undisturbed monarch of his native plains. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 He would laugh at any claim of divine right. A Son of the Immortals Here the divine right of kings has never been recognized. America First Patriotic Readings The prestige of divine right has vanished from France with the old institutions. Hortense Makers of History Series As the doctrine of the divine right of kings passed away in England with the rise of the Hanoverian dynasty, so, too, in Babylonia the deified King disappeared with the Kassite conquest. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs She reigns therefore, most unquestionably, by a divine right, as every mother is, or ought to be, a queen in her own family. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual Everywhere else the Anglo-Saxon has gone he has insisted that he had the divine right to rule and has kept it. Still Jim "De Mores," said Lincoln Lang, "seemed to think that some sort of divine right reposed in him to absorb the entire Little Missouri country and everything in it." Roosevelt in the Bad Lands After Clarendon no English statesman really believed in any divine right of the sovereign he served; and Charles himself probably believed it still less than his ministers. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 Unless you are a coward, grasp the power that is yours by divine right of nature. The Root of Evil A Jacobite, sir, believes in the divine right of kings. Dr. Johnson and His Circle It exists by divine right, or it does not exist at all. The Life Radiant Napoleon Bonaparte had shattered the divine right of kings nearly forty years earlier. A Little Girl of Long Ago The implicit faith in his own divine right to rule the greatest in the land gave him a strength as great as that of the regents. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 In his manner there was nothing apologetic—he took everything as his divine right. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 He that believes in the divine right of kings believes in a Divinity. Dr. Johnson and His Circle Nathan had gravitated by divine right to the head of the concern. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen "You shall not give up the divine right," he made answer, earnestly. A Little Girl of Long Ago He had as firm a faith as the nation at large in the divine right of the sovereign, in the sacred character of the throne. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Voltaire belonged to the nobility by divine right—as much as did Disraeli. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Bossuet preached sincerely—as everybody knows Louis sincerely practised—the doctrine of the divine right of kings to rule absolutely. Classic French Course in English He was an honest man—the title of the "Honest Jew" was his by divine right. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen He affirms that the Spanish kings inherited a divine right to these Islands, their dominion being directly prophesied in Isaiah xviii. The Philippine Islands They were quite impervious to new ideas, very tenacious of old ones, and fully convinced of their own divine right. From a Terrace in Prague And that was all: anything that any man needed was his by divine right. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 His theologians had never been able to convince him that the Pope's primacy was of divine right. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 In any emergency, even up to his eightieth year, he would have at once taken charge of affairs by divine right. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen The theory of feudalism is the "divine right of kings." Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles But if there are any who dare dispute your divine right, then, with our dear Stürmer, take at once drastic steps to crush them. The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia You see I am making use of the divine right of the individual which you are ever proclaiming and you must not mistake this for unniecelike freedom of speech. Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch Thus, in the progress of ages, by a strange commutation, robbery and plunder, when systematized, and extended, and established on a permanent basis, become legitimacy, and the divine right of kings. Rollo on the Rhine Some old dogmas, like the divine right of kings, still linger; but since the fifteenth century kings have had little chance whose claims conflict with the balance of European power. The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa That one so young had accomplished the difficult task proved to the tribe conclusively that Piang was indeed the chosen of Allah, the charm boy by divine right. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old He had disdained to receive his crown from the will of the people, and rather chose to hold it by divine right and the good offices of the Prince Regent. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I Inspired no doubt by the realization that he was playing before a mighty ruler—a ruler by the divine right of brain power,—he played with magnetic intensity. A Daughter of the Middle Border The great principles of freemen governing themselves, as there enunciated, must and will necessarily be attacked by the asserters of divine right in temporal government. Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy Governments and dynasties, again, when they have a religious sanction, when the King rules by "divine right," acquire a strong additional source of persistence and power. Human Traits and their Social Significance |
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