King · Atlas · Falsafa

spoken of as

2 expressions

The Crown“the King”1 mention

Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England (English)

What, again, are we to say about the powers ascribed by English constitutionalists to the King?

The king1 mention

for the king is magnified by the screen (ḥijāb) and kept from the direct exchange of address, and this requires that he have his own decorous envoy and a vizier held in honour, who is obeyed in the commands and prohibitions he conveys from him and feared in the requests and petitions he carries to him, so that he may be for the king a speaking tongue and a hearing ear.

ch. 8 ¶ · printed page 57

in the texts

Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England20th Century · English

The constitutional office of the British monarch, discussed as an example of legal/political fiction regarding the extent of ascribed powers.

What, again, are we to say about the powers ascribed by English constitutionalists to the King?

ch. 50 ¶

Adab al-wazīrMedieval · Arabic

Kingship as an institution, magnified by seclusion behind the screen and therefore dependent on a mediating vizier.

for the king is magnified by the screen (ḥijāb) and kept from the direct exchange of address, and this requires that he have his own decorous envoy and a vizier held in honour, who is obeyed in the commands and prohibitions he conveys from him and feared in the requests and petitions he carries to him, so that he may be for the king a speaking tongue and a hearing ear.

ch. 8 ¶ · printed page 57

SlokantaraAncient · Kawi

A classification of undesirable kingly dispositions defined by speech and temperament flaws

*Bahuvākya* means a king of too many words.

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