 | David Campbell - Political Science - 1992 - 280 pages
...that 'What God hath conjoined then, let no man separate. I am the husband, and all the whole island is my lawful wife; I am the head, and it is my body; I am the shepherd, and it is my flock.'21 Equally, Machiavelli figured the body politic as 'female.'22... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - History - 1994 - 228 pages
...soon after gaining the crown of England. "I am the husband," he told Parliament, "and the whole Isle is my lawful wife; I am the head and it is my body." 106 The use of a metaphor does not necessarily imply any technical or scientific knowledge. When we... | |
 | Richard Helgerson - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 390 pages
...in his first speech to parliament, King James proclaimed, "I am the husband, and all the whole isle is my lawful wife; I am the head, and it is my body," he removed all such ambiguity.6 He erected an impermeable barrier and put himself firmly on one side,... | |
 | David Nicholls - Art - 1994 - 342 pages
...marriage to his realm.18 King James I told Parliament in 1603, 'I am the husband, and all the whole island is my lawful wife; I am the head, and it is my body; I am the shepherd and it is my flock.'19 With respect to the title 'father', Erasmus wrote; The good... | |
 | Philip Mirowski - Business & Economics - 1994 - 640 pages
...soon after gaining the crown of England. "I am the husband," he told Parliament, "and the whole Isle is my lawful wife; I am the head and it is my body" (Cohen, 1993, 30, 86). Such use of metaphor is part of rhetoric, a means of enhancing discourse that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 302 pages
...monarchy: upon his accession in 1603, he declared to Parliament that 'I am the husband and the whole island is my lawful wife; I am the head, and it is my body." The imagery derives from St Paul on marriage. and the two statements are presented as synonymous. Mothers... | |
 | Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz - History - 1997 - 622 pages
...said: ' "What God hath conjoined then, let no man separate." I am the husband, and all the whole island is my lawful wife; I am the head, and it is my body; I am the shepherd, and it is my flock.88 With the corpus mysticum tenet, however, England was indeed... | |
 | Simon Palfrey - Drama - 1997 - 316 pages
...controlling unities, here centred in the person of the shepherdking: I am the Hushand, and all the whole Isle is my lawful Wife; I am the Head, and it is my Body: I am the Shepherd, and it is my Flocke: I hope therefore no man will be so unreasonable as to thinke... | |
 | P. Theerman, Karen Hunger Parshall - History - 1997 - 336 pages
...soon after gaining the crown of England. "I am the husband," he told Parliament, "and the whole isle is my lawful wife; I am the head and it is my body."85 In considering metaphors in our present context, a helpful distinction can be made between... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 260 pages
...never felt entirely free of it. ' Mcllwain, p. 24. Prospero: 'I am the husband, and the whole island is my lawful wife; I am the head, and it is my body.'1 Here the incorporation of the wife has become literal and explicit. James conceives himself... | |
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