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It was rather, the greatest and grandest family estate in all Christendom. That surely was enough to be going on with. After all, it' s one thing to stand around counting off one' s possessions. It was quite another thing to know what almost supposed to do about being king. Especially king of a country so promising but so peculiar as England, with all its AngloSaxon names and institutions like shire, courts, writs and sheriffs. After all, what did Henry Plantagenet know of Huntingdonshire, or after that what did Huntingdonshire know of Henry Plantagenet? Henry of course spoke virtually no English at all. What he would have grasped, if only from his coronation oaths, was that kings of England were supposed to be both judge and warlord. In fact, the coronation oath, preserved intact from Edward the Confessor, who was increasingly being held up as some sort of ideal monarch, pretty much spelled out the job description of the king of England. One was protect the Church. Two was preserve intact the lands of your ancestors. Three do justice. And Four most sweeping of all, suppress evil laws and customs. |
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zhèi xiē bù guò shì jī dū jiào guó jiā zhōng, zuì xióng hòu wú pǐ de jiā zú cái chǎn bà le. dāng rán yě jiù zú yǐ yìng fù yī shí, zuò zài jiā lǐ shù qián shì yī huí shì, xué xí rú hé zuò guó wáng zé wán quán shì lìng yī huí shì. yóu qí shì zài yīng gé lán zhè gè chōng mǎn xī wàng què yòu qíng kuàng dú tè de dì fāng zuò guó wáng, hěn duō guó jiā tǐ xì de míng zì dōu lái zì àng gé lǔ sā kè xùn yǔ. bǐ rú jùn, fǎ yuàn, lìng zhuàng hé jùn zhǎng, bì jìng hēng lì èr shì duì hēng tíng dùn jùn liǎo jiě duō shǎo, ér hēng tíng dùn jùn yòu duì hēng lì èr shì liǎo jiě duō shǎo. hēng lì jī hū bù huì shuō yīng yǔ, tā suǒ huì de zhǐ yǒu jiā miǎn shí de xuān shì, jí yīng gé lán de guó wáng, yīng tóng shí lǐng dǎo fǎ lǜ hé jūn duì. shì shí shàng, jiā miǎn xuān yán, wán quán shì chàn huǐ zhě ài dé huá shí qī de kǎo bèi. hòu zhě yuè lái yuè shòu dào tuī chóng, shèn zhì jǔ wèi jūn zhǔ diǎn fàn. gāi xuān yán kě yǐ shuō xiáng xì xù shù le yīng gé lán guó wáng de suǒ yǒu zhí zé, dì yī bǎo hù jiào huì, dì èr bǎo wèi zǔ bèi lǐng tǔ de wán zhěng, dì sān sī fǎ shěn pàn, dì sì chè dǐ dì sǎo chú hé jìn zhǐ yǒu hài de lǜ fǎ yǔ fēng sú. |