Othello and Coriolanus are great soldiers, but Othello is a bad husband and Coriolanus an incompetent ruler of men.
Lucius E. Chittenden, who had worked for Lincoln in the government, claimed that what Stanton actually said was "There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen!," although he was not at Lincoln's bedside.
Each of these arrogant, fearful rulers of men and nations is always present in the mind's eye of the other.
The series is set in the Second Age, before the trilogy that began with "The Fellowship of the Ring," when evil Sauron persuaded the elves to make 16 rings to split between the rulers of men and dwarfs while Sauron created that ring that caused so much trouble later on.
A private English gentleman, and the servant of a joint-stock company, during the brief period of his government he is the deputed sovereign of the greatest empire in the world; the ruler of a hundred million men; while dependant kings and princes bow down to him with a deferential awe and submission.
Few remember that injustice now, however, and Safin is there in the record books along with Ivan Lendl, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer and all the other former rulers of the men's game.
His dispute with the rulers of the men's game, the Association of Tennis Professionals - he was outraged when fined for refusing to do a pre-match television interview - will be no distraction.
The Emperor would be chosen by seven electors — various lesser rulers of Mitteleuropa, men like King Louis of Bohemia, Joachim of Brandenburg, and Saxony's Frederick the Wise, who, two years later, would be hiding Martin Luther in a castle, under the pseudonym Junker Jörg.
The Emperor would be chosen by seven electors various lesser rulers of Mitteleuropa, men like King Louis of Bohemia, Joachim of Brandenburg, and Saxony's Frederick the Wise, who, two years later, would be hiding Martin Luther in a castle, under the pseudonym Junker Jörg.
Muhammad Omar, the commander of the Taliban and the fallen ruler of Afghanistan, is a man possessed by visions.
