How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
My grandfather was the king of a region in western Nigeria, where I had the privilege to live for seven years while growing up. But what we think of as royalty in the U.K. is very different to royalty in Nigeria: if you were to throw a stone there, you would hit about 30 princes.
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.
In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
I don't go hunting with kings and princes.
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.