"Lector" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mr. Darwin's manner to put his reader on his guard; we might as well expect Mr. Gladstone to put us on our guard about the Irish land bills. Caveat lector seems to have been his motto. Mr. Spencer, in the articles already referred to, is at pains to show that Mr. Darwin's opinions in later life underwent a change in the direction of laying greater stress on functionally produced modifications, and points out that in the sixth ...
— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler
... Monsignor Stephen Assemani,[1] from a Chaldaic MS, which he proves to have been written in the year 474, fifteen years only after the death of St. Simeon. Also from the ancient lives of SS. Euthyinius, Theodosius, Auxentius, and Daniel Stylites. Evagrius, Theodorus Lector, and other most faithful writers of that and the following age, mention the most wonderful actions of this saint. The severest critics do not object to this history, in which so many contemporary writers, several of them eye-witnesses, agree; persons ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler
... real church history was written by Eusebius of Caesarea in the early part of the 4th century. His work was continued in the 5th century by Philostorgius, Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret, and in later centuries by Theodorus Lector, Evagrius, Theophanes and others. In the 14th century Nicephorus Callisti undertook a complete church history which covers in its extant form the first six centuries. In the West Eusebius' History was translated into Latin by Rufinus, and continued ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 - "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" • Various
... by dispensation thrice on Sunday; but on the moors the sheep look up and are not fed; and such patient sheep! I heard but last week of a church where the folk resort, priest or no, each Sunday to the number of two hundred, and are led by a lector in devotion, ending with an act of spiritual communion made all together. These damnable heresies of which the apostle wrote have not poisoned the springs of sound doctrine; some of us here know naught yet of Elizabeth and her supremacy, or ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson
... of the first chapter which covers the year 1671 deal with the life of the father lector, Fray Miguel de Santo Thomas. Nothing is known of his early life, not even his birthplace or his family name, nor the date or convent of his profession. By some he is called Miguel de San Agustin. ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 • Various
... enamoured of these good faculties; may it please him, but by a note of his hand to specify the place or ordinary where he uses to eat and lie; and most sweet attendance, with tobacco and pipes of the best sort, shall be ministered. 'Stet, quaeso, candide Lector.'" ...
— Every Man Out Of His Humour • Ben Jonson |
