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The Kuwaitis, along with the region's other royal states--Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the UAE--may be the best bet to pursue a liberal approach, given the already tolerant nature of their
kings
and emirs.
If Paris was worth a mass to the French
kings
of old, Bucharest is worth a yarmulke to Tudor.
When the sea rose as usual and soaked Canute, he told his courtiers: “Now let all men know how empty is the power of kings.”
Perhaps a time bomb has been planted under the thrones of Arab potentates - kings, emirs and presidents.
In the Republic, Plato writes that, “There can be no good government until philosophers are
kings
and the kings, philosophers.”
But there is a strain of Catholicism, rooted in Europe, that never reconciled with the French Revolution, which broke the temporal power of the Church and overthrew the divine right of
kings
on which absolute monarchy rested.
We do not expect our politicians to be like
kings
who once led their troops into battle, but merely skilled and suitably thick-skinned.
ECB Governing Council members are not Plato’s philosopher
kings.
And each of them not only did not infringe that belief but was necessary for the fulfilment of the chief miracle ever recurring on earth: the possibility of every one, millions of most diverse people, sages and idiots, children and old men, peasants, Lvov, Kitty, beggars and kings, indubitably understanding one and the same thing, and forming that life of the spirit which alone is worth living for and which alone we prize.
They were prodigal as kings, full of ideal, ambitious, fantastic frenzy.
They are like kings, no one receives so much attention as the minister who, on going home, finds the letter announcing his dismissal.'
Years later, to the crash of battle-music, Saxon
kings
and Saxon revelry were buried side by side, and Kingston's greatness passed away for a time, to rise once more when Hampton Court became the palace of the Tudors and the Stuarts, and the royal barges strained at their moorings on the river's bank, and bright-cloaked gallants swaggered down the water-steps to cry: "What Ferry, ho!Gadzooks, gramercy."
Warwick, the king-maker, rests there, careless now about such trivial things as earthly
kings
and earthly kingdoms; and Salisbury, who did good service at Poitiers.
I have served two
kings
of England, as I now serve my native land; but never did I approach a foe, unless under the light of the sun, and with honest notice that an enemy was nigh."
"Oh,
kings
have slathers of them."
"Well, I don' know no kings, Tom.""I reckon you don't.
Who did he rob?""Only sheriffs and bishops and rich people and kings, and such like.
"Know, friend Sancho," answered Don Quixote, "that the life of knights-errant is subject to a thousand dangers and reverses, and neither more nor less is it within immediate possibility for knights-errant to become
kings
and emperors, as experience has shown in the case of many different knights with whose histories I am thoroughly acquainted; and I could tell thee now, if the pain would let me, of some who simply by might of arm have risen to the high stations I have mentioned; and those same, both before and after, experienced divers misfortunes and miseries; for the valiant Amadis of Gaul found himself in the power of his mortal enemy Arcalaus the magician, who, it is positively asserted, holding him captive, gave him more than two hundred lashes with the reins of his horse while tied to one of the pillars of a court; and moreover there is a certain recondite author of no small authority who says that the Knight of Phoebus, being caught in a certain pitfall, which opened under his feet in a certain castle, on falling found himself bound hand and foot in a deep pit underground, where they administered to him one of those things they call clysters, of sand and snow-water, that well-nigh finished him; and if he had not been succoured in that sore extremity by a sage, a great friend of his, it would have gone very hard with the poor knight; so I may well suffer in company with such worthy folk, for greater were the indignities which they had to suffer than those which we suffer.
"Thou needst not doubt it, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "for in the same manner, and by the same steps as I have described here, knights-errant rise and have risen to be
kings
and emperors; all we want now is to find out what king, Christian or pagan, is at war and has a beautiful daughter; but there will be time enough to think of that, for, as I have told thee, fame must be won in other quarters before repairing to the court.
True it is I am a gentleman of known house, of estate and property, and entitled to the five hundred sueldos mulct; and it may be that the sage who shall write my history will so clear up my ancestry and pedigree that I may find myself fifth or sixth in descent from a king; for I would have thee know, Sancho, that there are two kinds of lineages in the world; some there be tracing and deriving their descent from
kings
and princes, whom time has reduced little by little until they end in a point like a pyramid upside down; and others who spring from the common herd and go on rising step by step until they come to be great lords; so that the difference is that the one were what they no longer are, and the others are what they formerly were not.
Let your worship at any rate marry this queen, now that we have got her here as if showered down from heaven, and afterwards you may go back to my lady Dulcinea; for there must have been
kings
in the world who kept mistresses.
For the truth of the matter is they were knights chosen by the
kings
of France, and called 'Peers' because they were all equal in worth, rank and prowess (at least if they were not they ought to have been), and it was a kind of religious order like those of Santiago and Calatrava in the present day, in which it is assumed that those who take it are valiant knights of distinction and good birth; and just as we say now a Knight of St. John, or of Alcantara, they used to say then a Knight of the Twelve Peers, because twelve equals were chosen for that military order.
To which Don Quixote replied, "What answer God will give to your complaints, housekeeper, I know not, nor what his Majesty will answer either; I only know that if I were king I should decline to answer the numberless silly petitions they present every day; for one of the greatest among the many troubles
kings
have is being obliged to listen to all and answer all, and therefore I should be sorry that any affairs of mine should worry him."
As he halted Sancho came up, and seeing him disposed to attack this well-ordered squadron, said to him, "It would be the height of madness to attempt such an enterprise; remember, senor, that against sops from the brook, and plenty of them, there is no defensive armour in the world, except to stow oneself away under a brass bell; and besides, one should remember that it is rashness, and not valour, for a single man to attack an army that has Death in it, and where emperors fight in person, with angels, good and bad, to help them; and if this reflection will not make you keep quiet, perhaps it will to know for certain that among all these, though they look like kings, princes, and emperors, there is not a single knight-errant."
Come, tell me, hast thou not seen a play acted in which kings, emperors, pontiffs, knights, ladies, and divers other personages were introduced?
I would like him to be an honour to his family, as we live in days when our
kings
liberally reward learning that is virtuous and worthy; for learning without virtue is a pearl on a dunghill.
And when
kings
and princes observe this marvellous science of poetry in wise, virtuous, and thoughtful subjects, they honour, value, exalt them, and even crown them with the leaves of that tree which the thunderbolt strikes not, as if to show that they whose brows are honoured and adorned with such a crown are not to be assailed by anyone."
"In good faith, senor," replied Sancho, "there's no trusting that fleshless one, I mean Death, who devours the lamb as soon as the sheep, and, as I have heard our curate say, treads with equal foot upon the lofty towers of
kings
and the lowly huts of the poor.
In fine, they remained three days with the newly married couple, by whom they were entertained and treated like
kings.
The seven daughters belong to the
kings
of Spain and the two nieces to the knights of a very holy order called the Order of St. John.
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