Rulers of the World at Home: How They Look and How They Live (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Mind refuses to tolerate distressing differences between the conditions of life of sovereigns and people, due to the greed and tyranny of despots, and reminding one of those days when palaces, castles and cathedrals rose amid the squalor of impoverished peoples sheltering in huts built of wattles and mud. But those dark days are done; and as they have passed away, giving place to happier lives for the people, so the tyranny of selfish pomp, wrung from poverty by excessive taxation, as in Turkey to-day, will sooner or later give way to the potent, all conquering claims of popular rights. Patient h0pe and unremitting endeavor to advance the true and the just are lessons taught and enforced by history past and present, as plainly written on its pages as the recognition of Him who setteth up one and putteth down another, and who abhors wrong and oppression as certainly now as in the old days when, by the prophet Samuel, He reminded His chosen people of the price they would pay for the distinction of having a king like the nations about them.

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