Monarchy

Works to read

• King John by William Shakespeare, c. 1596 · Great Books
• The Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle, 1875
• Richard II by William Shakespeare, c. 1595 · Great Books
• King Lear by William Shakespeare, c. 1606
• King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, 1885
• Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare, c. 1596-97 (published 1598)
• Patriarcha by Robert Filmer, c. 1630s (published 1680)
• Henry VIII by William Shakespeare, 1613 · Great Books
• The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous (Babylonian; standard version attributed to Sin-leqi-unninni), c. 2100-1200 BC
• The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron, 1815
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, 1844
• Magna Carta by King John and the barons of England, 1215

Passages

From the texts

• Domestic government is a monarchy, for that is what prevails in every house; but a political state is the government of free men and equals.

  — Aristotle, Politics

• The History of Queen Esther is of the time of the Captivity; and therefore the Writer must have been of the same time, or after it.

  — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Verified quotations

• As virtue is necessary in a republic, and in a monarchy honour, so fear is necessary in a despotic government

  — Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

• it may be defined an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth.

  — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Selections)

• Monarchy, de jure, that is, lawfull and limited Monarchy is best; even now in a Kingdome, under the fall of sin, if other circumstances be considered.

  — Samuel Rutherford, Lex, Rex

Passages are verified quotations from the library that use one of these words: monarchy, king, kings, queen, crown. Sentences under “From the texts” are copied word for word from the full texts in this library. Read each in its context on the work's page.