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  • The "Substitut" always preserved a rather deferential attitude before the President and M. Ducros, for they belonged to the magistrature assise, whilst he merely formed part of the magistrature debout The French word magistrat is not the equivalent of our magistrate, the French term for which is "Juge de Paix."

    The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

  • For important statements of the theory of persecution, see Théodore de Bèze [Beza], Traité de l'autorité du magistrat en la punition des hérétiques (1560), the original

    RELIGIOUS TOLERATION ELISABETH LABROUSSE 1968

  • Beseaking your Grace to bear patientlie thairwith, and interpone your authoritie to the furtherance of the same, as is the dewetie of everie Christiane Prince and good magistrat.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • JUGE, _m. _, magistrat chargé de rendre la justice.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • Malheureusement, faute de preuves, ce magistrat ne put prendre aucune décision.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • Whiche understand, the multitud was so enflammed, that neyther could the exhortatioun of the preacheare, nor the commandiment of the magistrat, stay thame from distroying of the places of idolatrie.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • We may go the world over, without finding a man who shall present a more striking realization of the beautiful conception of D'Aguesseau: “C'est en vain que l'on cherche a distinguer en lui la personne privee et la personne publique; un meme esprit les anime, un meme objet les reunit; l'homme, le pere de famille, le citoyen, tout est en lui consacre a la gloire du magistrat.”

    Select Speeches of Daniel Webster Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 1903

  • In the new Declaration of Human Rights which the French Convention, that powerful constitutional assembly, published, it is even set forth in a special article -- Article 19 -- which reads "_Toute institution, qui ne suppose le peuple bon et le magistrat corruptible, est vicieuse_."

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892

  • She is not borne to rule ouer men: and therfore she can apointe none by her gift, nor by her power (which she hathn ot) to the place of a laufull magistrat.

    The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. 1514-1572 1878

  • She is not borne to rule ouer men: and therfore she can apointe none by her gift, nor by her power (which she hathn ot) to the place of a laufull magistrat.

    The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women John Knox 1874

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