| 单词 | divine right of kings |
| 例句 | 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The notion of divine right of kings was not unique to European history. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 The Japanese emperor, the mikado, governed by divine right of kings until 1945. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 One type of traditional legitimacy is known as the divine right of kings. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 “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 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 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 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 In many companies, this divine right of kings endured. Retaliation: A Guide for Vindictive Bosses 2012-12-10T12:37:52Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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) 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 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 Louis XIV, the divine right of kings, 400. History of Human Society 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 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) 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) It is so in the effort to sustain the belief in the "divine right of kings." Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures 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 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 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 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) 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 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 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 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 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 He even seeks to cloak his weaknesses and his mistakes in that threadbare old fabrication about the divine right of kings. The Prairie Child The advocates of legitimacy—of the divine right of kings—regarded him as an usurper. Louis Philippe Makers of History Series 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Here the divine right of kings has never been recognized. America First Patriotic Readings A Jacobite, sir, believes in the divine right of kings. Dr. Johnson and His Circle Napoleon Bonaparte had shattered the divine right of kings nearly forty years earlier. A Little Girl of Long Ago 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 The theory of feudalism is the "divine right of kings." Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles 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 He that believes in the divine right of kings believes in a Divinity. Dr. Johnson and His Circle 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 In statesmanship they no longer believe in the divine right of kings nor do they accept infallible dicta handed down from above. Christianity and Progress There is no “divine right of kings” in business. Fundamentals of Prosperity What They Are and Whence They Come Reason is written on her brow; she appeals to the universal gift, and denies the authoritative dictations of fallible genius, as much as a moral equality disallows the divine right of kings. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy While Europe was engaged in the hopeless task of establishing and maintaining the divine rights of kings, Catherine began a war with Persia. The Story of Russia The doctrine of the divine rights of kings of course had its origin in that of divine descent. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History The theory of the 'divine right of kings' was rigidly adhered to in Babylonia and Assyria. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria The class consciousness of the worker was strong in the days when the Guilds had political power, and it was a wholesome check upon the claim of divine right of kings and nobles to rule. The Family and it's Members He was a republican so far as he disbelieved in the divine right of kings, and hated enthusiasm and loyalty generally. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The year 1848 will long be remembered for the blows bestowed upon the divine right of kings, and the privileges which the sovereigns were compelled to concede to the people. The Story of Russia The ministers of a creed essentially aristocratic, essentially the pillars of the divine right of kings, have they ever been in earnest about the matter? Canada and the Canadians Volume I The one is the common right of humanity and the other is the divine right of kings. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform We refuse to recognize the divine right of kings. Winning a Cause World War Stories "The divine right of kings," said Carlyle, "is the right to be kingly men"; and I would add that the divine right of women is the right to be9 queenly women. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles What were the divine right of kings, the infallibility of the Church, the belief in rewards beyond the grave, but illusions whose sacrifice reason deferred too long? The Buried Temple The divine right of kings was a foregone conclusion, antagonism to which was heresy. A Hero and Some Other Folks The old Liberal doctrines of laissez faire, unrestricted competition, and the personal liberty of the subject are as dead as the Stuart doctrine of the divine right of kings. The Rise of the Democracy He ascended the throne at the age of twenty-five, and began at once to assert his belief in the divine right of kings. Van Dyck A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation Louis was a faithful believer in the Roman theology, as well as in the divine right of kings, and he struggled hard to withhold his signature from the civil constitution of the clergy. The French Revolution A Short History It is rather singular that most of the Scottish songs which refer to our history, are essentially aristocratic, and favourable to the divine right of kings. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century For nearly a hundred years this conflict was destined to continue till, at the Revolution Settlement, the divine right of kings was banished the realm. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation The divine right of kings is a purely modern development. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View This is sometimes spoken of as the result of a new political theory, an iniquitous, albeit unconscious, conspiracy of Luther and Machiavelli, to exalt the divine right of kings. The Age of the Reformation I've always wondered whether the theory of the divine right of kings was invented by the kings, to establish their authority over the people, or by the priests, to establish their authority over the kings. Temple Trouble And they adopted from Luther his new and admired dogma of the divine right of kings. Lectures on Modern history The monarch had been taught in his youth the doctrine of the divine right of kings, and he was now determined to assert it. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation To a thoroughbred American, with two and more centuries of the traditions of independence behind him, this question of the divine right of kings is a commonplace. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View It was developed by people who believed not in the "divine right of kings," but in the divine right of human liberty. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z For instance, one morning my uncle was sounding my convictions—he was ever sounding other people's convictions—"touching the divine right of kings." Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade Some even of the most earnest champions of the divine right of kings were at last compelled to imagine circumstances under which the tenet would cease to be tenable. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century This citation deserves to be specially pondered in view of the Catholic charge that Luther was a defender of absolutism, the divine right of kings. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation Such is "legitimacy—the divine right of kings." The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power The monocle was a British institution, and he would as soon have denied the divine right of kings as question an Englishman's right to wear what he pleased in his eye. The Voice in the Fog He felt like some simple believer in the divine right of kings, when the mob have broken into the palace, and stand in no awe of the stucco and red velvet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 You see, sir, that if you zealous loyalists could shift off James, we, with less belief in the divine right of kings, can shift off George. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Love in '76 An Incident of the Revolution To each religious party, there was a political character, ranging from High Church and the divine right of kings, to absolute levellers in Church and State. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction It’s just like people used to believe in the divine right of kings.” The Jervaise Comedy I work, not for the interests of a man whose name has been mentioned by neither of us, but for the true interests of Spain and the divine right of kings. The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi "Ah, yes," I echoed, "I have heard that she was mad about the divine right of kings." The Inheritors She shared her royal Husband's conviction as to the divine right of kings, and what he did she considered could not be wrong. The Story of Versailles When James II. had been driven out in 1688, the English conscience compromised on the score of the divine right of kings, by taking his daughter Mary and her husband as joint monarchs. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction The Catholics, probably, were only prevented from adopting similar opinions by their inherent belief in the divine right of kings. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 The divine right of kings is too stupid to be worth the trouble of refutation; all that makes a king important is the authority he exerts. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham The theory of the divine right of kings was but another 'Luck of Edenhall.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Loyalty lost half its inspiration when it lost the tenet of the divine right of kings; and nobody could now hold that tenet with any consistency except the defeated and despairing Jacobites. Montcalm and Wolfe The convenient fiction of the divine right of kings was invented, and religion was used to bolster up the institution and to provide a sanction for submission to absolutism. Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government Not caring a straw for the privilege of wearing a crown himself, his belief in the divine right of kings, and the obligation to defend it, amounted to monomania. The Liberation of Italy Japan still believes in the divine right of kings; America believes in the divine right of commerce. The Problem of China The Archduke talked much of democracy and the New World, and used to joke about the divine right of kings. The Port of Missing Men It is not a denial of the divine right of kings; it supplements that claim with the assertion of the divine right of all men. Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages And thus was taught the "divine right of kings," the duty of submission, the necessity of belief and the sinfulness of doubt. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors It was devised for an audience of aristocrats in the reign of James I, and the dramatic struggle is founded upon the doctrine of the divine right of kings. The Theory of the Theatre King Charles believed in the divine right of kings, and the Presbyterians believed in the eternal right of Christ to rule kings. Sketches of the Covenanters My father was the last great defender of the divine right of kings; but I believe in the divine right of men. The Port of Missing Men And, as I have stated, some of them, educated in the belief of the divine right of kings, choose a form of rule nearer approaching the monarchial than the republican. Strange Visitors Who had taught the doctrine of the divine right of kings and the divine right of the clergy? The Harp of God Resolute by the communion board he stood, And after solemn prayer solemnly cancelled And abolished the divine right of kings And declared the holy rights of man. The Song of the Stone Wall He believed implicitly in the divine right of kings to do just as they chose, and in all things, secular and ecclesiastical, to impose their will upon their subjects. Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War This was not difficult to do in politics, for he believed in the divine right of white men and gentlemen, as his ancestors had believed in and died for the divine right of kings. The Marrow of Tradition He stood for the "divine right of kings," and did not believe in allowing the common people any liberty whatsoever. The World War and What was Behind It Or, the Story of the Map of Europe The people had been taught to believe in the divine right of kings to rule and the divine right of the clergy to dominate the conscience of the people. The Harp of God Napoleon, "The mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream," had abolished feudalism and absolutism, made monarchs and dynasties obsolete, and substituted for the divine right of kings the sovereignty of the people. Democracy in America — Volume 1 Thus arose the spiritual power of monarchs, or the "divine right of kings." The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion The divine right of the masses is about to replace the divine right of kings. The Crowd; study of the popular mind He was a Prussian nobleman, a believer in the divine right of kings, the man who more than anybody else is responsible for the establishing of the present empire of Germany. The World War and What was Behind It Or, the Story of the Map of Europe We refuse to recognise the divine right of kings. Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty On the right hand was the jury-box, containing twelve carefully picked men—Tories of the old school—firm upholders of the doctrines of non-resistance and the divine right of kings. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Oxford, in times not long past, had inclined to faith in divine right of kings. The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays He had high notions of the divine right of kings. Outline of Universal History These were the three nations which gave their people very few rights, and which stood for the "divine right of kings" and for the crushing of all republics. The World War and What was Behind It Or, the Story of the Map of Europe This was the original dual theory and foundation of the United States, as distinguish'd from the feudal and ecclesiastical single idea of monarchies and papacies, and the divine right of kings. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Books were then written to prove that the divine right of kings did not exist; at least, not in the sense in which it had been understood. The Columbiad The doctrine of decrees, as taught by the Calvinist, was the spiritual side of the assertion of the divine right of kings. Unitarianism in America We have all heard of "the divine right of kings." Our Master Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord The divine right of kings is followed by the idea of the divine right of the people, and democracies finally become ungovernable save by themselves. The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity The position known in history as "the divine right of kings" may be best described as a political popedom. Moral Philosophy Compare the theory of the divine right of kings with the medieval theory of the papal supremacy. Early European History Again, the Church of England could be arraigned as a politico-ecclesiastical institution, and in the pages of the Bible, King James's theory of the divine right of kings and bishops found no support. The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Two things, at least, Napoleon accomplished: he opened the way for ability of all kinds, and he dealt the death-blow to the divine right of kings and all the abuses which clung to that superstition. Our Hundred Days in Europe Origin of "the divine right of kings" 145. Good Sense Some of the same principles were announced by Locke and Beccaria, by Hobbes, who maintained the omnipotence of the state, and by Grotius, who insisted upon the divine right of kings. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 James II was without the attractive personality which had made his brother a popular ruler; moreover, he was an avowed Roman Catholic and a staunch believer in the divine right of kings. Early European History Feudal monarchies in Europe were based on the divine rights of kings. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam There are, first, the Bourbonists—mediaeval people—believers in the divine right of kings in general, and of the Bourbons in particular. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Origin of "the divine right of kings," the most absurd, ridiculous, and odious, of usurpations 145. Good Sense The figure of Thersites seems drawn with special spite and venom, as a satire upon the first critics that rose up among the assembled people to question the divine right of kings to do wrong. Mosaics of Grecian History I. came to the throne with all his father's lofty notions about the divine right of kings. General History for Colleges and High Schools The selfish king was no lover of the nobility, and was short-sighted enough not to perceive that the author's attacks on the nobles paved the way for doubts on the divine right of kings themselves. The Bores Of the divine right of kings I shall not speak, for the adherents of the doctrine are in our day relegated to museums of antiquities. A Handbook of Ethical Theory But junkerdom in Germany alone among the nations of the earth rests on the divine right of kings that is the last resort of privilege. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me He believes in the divine right of kings, and it is appropriate enough that he should have the king for his second. The Ball and the Cross It is simply the bearing of this strange superstition upon the doctrine of the divine right of kings that concerns us now. General History for Colleges and High Schools He became interested in popular and inaccurate French and English histories, and secreted any amount of footnote anecdotes about Guy Fawkes and rush-lights and the divine right of kings. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man He was regarded as the representative of the old regime of monarchists, and in his ranks were those who hoped for the re-establishment of the now obsolete divine right of kings. Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom King James, who was full of great ideas about the divine right of kings, had never forgiven him that. This Country of Ours I dislike and I deny the divine right of kings. The Ball and the Cross If the French people should be allowed to overturn the throne of their hereditary sovereign, who would then respect the divine rights of kings? General History for Colleges and High Schools Previous to the sixteenth century, the word 'absolutism' was unknown in Christendom, as was the doctrine of the "divine right of kings" understood and preached as it has since been in England. Irish Race in the Past and the Present Besides these, there are Tories also, the descendants of the stout defenders of Church and State and the divine right of kings. Signs of Change But this argument strikes me as not a little remarkable in another particular—in its strong resemblance to the old argument for the "divine right of kings." The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 There was no question in her mind of the divine right of kings or of princesses. The Women of the French Salons But the Revolution had destroyed privilege as expressed in the effete feudal aristocracies of Europe, and impaired beyond restoration the monstrous doctrine of the divine right of kings. General History for Colleges and High Schools He was moreover a firm believer in the divine right of kings. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 Men like Bossuet, carried away by the new theories of the divine right of kings, aimed at reducing the power of Rome to a shadow. History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 So once was the divine right of kings, the infallibility of the Church, for cumbering the ground with the lifeless bodies of which mankind has paid somewhat dearly. Tea-Table Talk The divine right of kings, and the duty of passively obeying all their commands, were her favourite tenets. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 You can't have tests and qualifications, rotten boroughs and the divine right of kings, back again. The Prime Minister Their doctrine is known in history as the doctrine of "the divine right of kings, and passive obedience." The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny From the recognition of the sovereign as supreme master both in Church and State the theory of the divine rights of kings as understood in modern times followed as a necessary corollary. History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 Eighty years ago everyone believed in the divine right of property to do what it pleased its advantages, a doctrine more disastrous socially than the divine right of kings. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war It was easier to take so dangerous a weapon as the divine right of kings from weak hands than from strong ones. Study of the King James Bible The divine right of kings, or more generally of governments, is one of the forms under which this natural feeling is expressed. The Republic They have even resurrected the theory of the divine right of kings—commercial kings in their case.* The Iron Heel And between us we interpreted to the people the new theory of the divine right of kings. The Faith of Men |
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