"Preceptress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... handle of the magic-lanthorn: who is this graceful figure, with all the elegance of court manners, and all the simplicity of domestic virtue? She is Madame de Pastoret. She was chosen preceptress to the Princess in the ancien regime in opposition to the wife of Condorcet, and M. de Pastoret had I forget how many votes more than Condorcet when it was put to the vote who should be preceptor to the Dauphin at the beginning of ...
— The Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... choose, when Nature doth not choose? Our mistress, our preceptress? She brings forth Her brood with equal care, loves all alike, And to the meanest as the greatest yields Her sunny splendors and her fruitful rains. Love all flowers, then. Be sure that wisdom lies In every leaf and bloom; o'er hills and dales; And thymy mountains; ...
— International Weekly Miscellany Vol. I. No. 3, July 15, 1850 • Various |
