Слово "legislator". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

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1. Efforts, it is true, were made by the Pyncheons, not only then, but at various periods for nearly a hundred years afterwards, to obtain what they stubbornly persisted in deeming their right. But, in course of time, the territory was partly re-granted to more favored individuals, and partly cleared and occupied by actual settlers. These last, if they ever heard of the Pyncheon title, would have laughed at the idea of any man's asserting a right—on the strength of moldy parchments, signed with the faded autographs of governors and legislators long dead and forgotten—to the lands which they or their fathers had wrested from the wild hand of nature, by their own sturdy toil. This impalpable claim, therefore, resulted in nothing more solid than to cherish, from generation to generation, an absurd delusion of family importance, which all along characterised the Pyncheons. It caused the poorest member of the race to feel as if he inherited a kind of nobility, and might yet come into the possession of princely wealth to support it. In the better specimens of the breed, this peculiarity threw an ideal grace over the hard material of human life, without stealing away any truly valuable quality. In the baser sort, its effect was to increase the liability to sluggishness and dependence, and induce the victim of a shadowy hope to remit all self-effort, while awaiting the realisation of his dreams.
   Пинчоны, однако, не только на первых порах, но и в разные эпохи следующего столетия, отстаивали свою собственность.
   Дом о семи шпилях. Натаниэль Готорн, стр. 14
2. Then, I remember, I maintain in my article that all... well, legislators and leaders of men, such as Lycurgus, Solon, Mahomet, Napoleon, and so on, were all without exception criminals, from the very fact that, making a new law, they transgressed the ancient one, handed down from their ancestors and held sacred by the people, and they did not stop short at bloodshed either, if that bloodshed--often of innocent persons fighting bravely in defence of ancient law--were of use to their cause.
   Далее, помнится мне, я развиваю в моей статье, что все... ну, например, хоть законодатели и установители человечества, начиная с древнейших, продолжая Ликургами, Солонами, Магометами, Наполеонами, и так далее, все до единого были преступники, уже тем одним, что, давая новый закон, тем самым нарушали древний, свято чтимый обществом и от отцов перешедший, и, уж конечно, не останавливались и перед кровью, если только кровь (иногда совсем невинная и доблестно пролитая за древний закон) могла им помочь.
   Преступление и наказание, Часть третья. Федор Михайлович Достоевский, стр. 66
3. and influence leaders, legislators,
   они будут оказывать влияние на лидеров, законодателей,
   Субтитры видеоролика "Большие горизонты разума. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and Steven Pinker", стр. 4