"Lecturer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a few days, he had the signatures of more than fifty of them. At that same time his Reverence received a paper from the convent of San Carlos de Turin (which belongs to our Recollect congregation in Italia) in which father Fray Celestino de San Christoval, lecturer in theology, father Fray Bruno de San Guillermo, and father Fray Archangel de Santa Maria petitioned him very urgently to admit them in that mission, binding themselves to get the permissions of their prelates. ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXXVI, 1649-1666 • Various
... gentlemen,—The heat of the room was too much for the lecturer; but he can easily do all the feats announced in the bills. I've seen him do them ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
... the Nassauese, bringing beef, butter, and beauty,—bringing a few French muslins to replace the coarse English fabrics, and buxom Irish girls to outwork the idle negro women,—bringing new books, newspapers, and periodicals,—bringing the Yankee lecturer, all expenses paid, and his drink found him. All these good things, and more, the States have for the Nassauese, of whom we must now take leave, for all hands ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 19, May, 1859 • Various
... settler in the country is on very delicate ground and in need of all his tact. As the exhibition lecturer will point out, he must, before avowing his own political creed, ascertain that of his landlord—particularly so if he has only a yearly tenancy. The chances are that the landlord is a Conservative. If the tenant is Conservative too, all is well; if the contrary—but ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914 • Various
... preacher will not be popular with the many. They will dismiss him, at best, as they might a public singer or lecturer, with compliments and thanks, and so excuse themselves from doing what he tells them. And he must look for his sincere hearers in the hearts of those— and there are such, I verily believe, in this congregation—who have a true love and a true fear of ...
— All Saints' Day and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley
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