"Preceptor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Potestatvm / Ad Exegefum / Resolvtione. / Ex Opere reftitut Mathematic Analyfeos, / feu, Algebr nou / Francisci Viet. / Parisiis, / Excudebat David le Clerc. / 1600.' / folio. On the last page of this book is an interesting letter from Marino Ghetaldi to his preceptor Michele Coignetto, dated at Paris the I5th of ...
— Thomas Hariot • Henry Stevens
... can turn his hand to anything; and being useful in all cases, he would, at any rate, make himself influential with those who were living around him. To instruct him is the surest way of gaining a black man's heart, which, once obtained, can easily be turned in any way the preceptor pleases, as is the case with all Asiatics: they soon learn to bow to the superior intellect of the European, and are as easily ruled as a child ...
— What Led To The Discovery of the Source Of The Nile • John Hanning Speke
... letters? Winthrop wondered he could see them at all; but probably he did, for he did not look up to see anything else. He had taken the opening and shutting of the door to be by some wonted hand. Winthrop stood still a minute. There was nothing remarkable about his future preceptor, except his position. He was a little, oldish man — ...
— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner
... accompaniment of miracles and many of the nobility and learned professions followed his example. But after a while a deputation waited on his Majesty begging him to return to the business of his kingdom.[203] An edifying contest ensued. The monks besought him to stay as their preceptor and guide: the laity pointed out that government was at an end and claimed his attention. The matter was referred to the Sangharaja who decided that the king ought to return to his secular duties. He appears to have found little difficulty in resuming lay habits for he proceeded ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Charles Eliot
... "His preceptor, confessor and friend stepped into the apartment. Hubert was an aged man, learned and pious, and well skilled, it was believed, in cabalistic science. He had buried three Gottmars, and received their last confessions. From these he had drawn conjectures ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 • Various
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