1 Kings 4:21
And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms
from the river unto the land of the Philistines,
and unto the border of Egypt:
they brought presents,
and served Solomon all the days of his life.
Anecdote
A united Italy
Charles Albert, we are told, went to help the Milanese.
The Austrians, vastly outnumbering, drove him back toward Turin, defeated him at Novara, swayed renewed sceptre over the revolted provinces.
The king abdicated in favour of his son, Victor Emanuel.
When the young king accepted the crown he pointed his sword toward the Austrian camp and said, “By the grace of God there shall be a united Italy.”
It seemed then but an empty boast. Yet his prophecy turned to fact.
Marshal Radetjsky proposed to him the abolishment of the constitutional charter granted to the people by his father, and advised him to follow the Austrian policy of unbridled oppression.
But the young king declared that, sooner than subscribe to such conditions, he was ready to renounce, not one crown, but a thousand.
“The house of Savoy,” he said, “knows the path of exile, but not the path of dishonour.”
Right noble answer! Better anything than disloyalty to a high ancestry, than falseness to the laws of the kingdom of which he had been made the leader.
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