kingship

Living outside the country for decades, returning only to receive the mantle of kingship from a desperate, rudderless party, he is seen by many as lacking in the visceral day-to-day sense of being a Canadian, working and living in this land.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

And his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

And his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed.

RCIA Presentation: The Old Testament 2007

Bahrwan, that Allah hath bestowed upon me the Kingdom of Kabul, and hath given me dominion over the Banu Shahlan and vouchsafed me a mighty empire; and if I marry thy daughter, we will be, I and thou, as one thing in kingship; and I will send thee every year as much treasure as will suffice thee.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

This classification is doubled by introducing a qualitative criterion: goodness—a government being good when it concerns itself with the common good and bad when it aims at private advantages.3 The good government of a single man is called kingship, the bad one tyranny; the good government of the few, aristocracy, the bad, oligarchy; the good government of the many is timocracy or politia,4 the bad, democracy in the special Aristotelian sense.5

The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997

If this small minority dwindles down to unity, the regime that comes into existence is called kingship, provided that the ruler is a virtuous man.

The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997

So, if Gondor is a much greater realm, then the analogy should still apply and the kingship should be assumable after the passage of 10000 years.

Lord of the Rings as Property Law : Law is Cool 2008

There are two forms of monarchy: kingship, which is limited by prescribed conditions, and ‘tyranny’, which is not limited by anything.

Rhetoric Aristotle 2002

Israel had its petty kings, the Judges; it had its later monarchy with Saul and David and Solomon and the epigones who came after them (Gaer [1951], pp. 207-50); and the idea of kingship continues in the Messiah whose conception, literal and figurative, gave to Christianity its crucified

MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968

For the purpose of making their own positions sure, they were in the habit of impressing it upon their people that the kingship was a divine institution.

The World War and What was Behind It Or, the Story of the Map of Europe Louis Paul B��n��zet 1919