First, "Thou shalt be so;" the reforming of the magistracy is a good step towards the reforming of the city and the country too. ❋ Unknown (1721)
There are other things from God that are the greatest calamities; but magistracy is from God as an ordinance, that is, it is a great law, and it is a great blessing: so that the children of Belial, that will not endure the yoke of government, will be found breaking a law and despising a blessing. ❋ Unknown (1721)
The DPP is expected to enjoy a sure-win in the legislative by-election in the Chiayi County, southern Taiwan, because the party has fielded a heavyweight candidate Chen Ming-wen, who just completed his second-term magistracy, into the poll. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It cannot be required as essential thereunto; for then it would be the same thing with magistracy, which is grossly absurd, and big with absurdities. ❋ The Reformed Presbytery (N/A)
Those whose ancestors or themselves had borne any curule magistracy, that is, had been Consul, Prætor, Censor or Curule Edile, were called nobiles, and had the right of making images of themselves, which were kept with great care by their posterity, and carried before them at funerals. ❋ Charles K. Dillaway (N/A)
Thus the election to the magistracy was a triple process; first, the election of the nominators, then the election of the candidates, and finally the election to the office. ❋ Various (N/A)
Formerly the magistracy was a recognised and autonomous branch of the public service, and as a result, save as it was affected by revolution and in normal times by the fear of revolution, enjoyed an absolute independence. ❋ ��mile Faguet (1881)
_ A term applied to such as could not boast of any ancestor that had held any curule magistracy, that is, had been consul, praetor, censor, or chief aedile. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (1844)
Secondly, Their doctrine tendeth to the altering of the surest and best known tenure of magistracy, which is from God; for they hold that God hath put all government, and all authority civil, and all, into the hands of Christ as Mediator; if the tenure from Christ fail, then, by their doctrine, the tenure from God shall fail too. ❋ George Gillespie (1630)
But the point in hand is, that the covenant doth undeniably suppose, and clearly hold forth a government in the church distinct from magistracy, which is proved by these arguments (which, as they are not yet answered, so I will briefly apply them to the proof of that point which now Mr Coleman sticks at): 1. ❋ George Gillespie (1630)
One of the root causes of corruption in the magistracy is a lack of adequate payment for court judges. ❋ Unknown (2009)
_Honor_ is often used with the restricted sense of 'magistracy'. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)
So that of civil honour the fountain is in the person of the commonwealth, and dependeth on the will of the sovereign; and is therefore temporary, and called civil honour, such as magistracy, offices, titles, and, in some places, coats and scutcheons painted; and men honour such as have them, as having so many signs of favour in the commonwealth: which favour is power. ❋ Unknown (1909)
It invests each citizen with a kind of magistracy, it makes them all feel the duties which they are bound to discharge towards society, and the part which they take in the Government. ❋ Unknown (1838)
It invests each citizen with a kind of magistracy; it makes them all feel the duties which they are bound to discharge toward society; and the part which they take in the government. ❋ Alexis De Tocqueville (1832)
All the officers of the crown and of the household were named by him, and the whole authority, as well as arms of the state, was lodged in his hands: he instituted in the counties a new kind of magistracy, endowed with new and arbitrary powers, that of conservators of the peace; [*] his avarice appeared bare-faced, and might induce us to question the greatness of his ambition, at least the largeness of his mind, if we had not reason to think that he intended to employ his acquisitions as the instruments for attaining further power and grandeur. ❋ David Hume (1743)
He was removed from the magistracy after having, in 1800, jumped into the tumbrel taking Sarah Lloyd, a servant girl, to the scaffold, and harangued the crowd about the injustice of the sentence. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Corruption may wear the robe of magistracy, suh, but Judge Lynch can always be relied upon to give justice without court fees. ❋ Unknown (2010)
