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... titles become merely titular , labels divorced from reality . Satan inverts this funda- mental feudal obligation and , in accusing Christ of eclipsing the nobles with his grand new name , fails to recognize , first , that what God ...
... titles become merely titular , labels divorced from reality . Satan inverts this funda- mental feudal obligation and , in accusing Christ of eclipsing the nobles with his grand new name , fails to recognize , first , that what God ...
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... titles they could possibly desire ( on the principle that , the less the actual value residing in a title , the more profligacy a leader may assume in disposing of it — a principle well known to the Stuart court ) , emerges the monarch ...
... titles they could possibly desire ( on the principle that , the less the actual value residing in a title , the more profligacy a leader may assume in disposing of it — a principle well known to the Stuart court ) , emerges the monarch ...
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... title father , but only if that of king was rejected . In an earthly monarchy , the conjunc- tion of these titles was felt as threatening to the seemly order of affairs under heaven . The passage is alive with disturbed feel- ings ...
... title father , but only if that of king was rejected . In an earthly monarchy , the conjunc- tion of these titles was felt as threatening to the seemly order of affairs under heaven . The passage is alive with disturbed feel- ings ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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