He was preceptor of the Greek language, and afterwards minister, to Zenobia, the famous queen of Palmyra.
He became preceptor to Nero, in which capacity he gained general approbation.
He was once sold as a slave, and his magnanimity so pleased his master, that he made him the preceptor of his children and the guardian of his estates.
Two Presbyterian chaplains and a preceptor were on board.
They, therefore, after the lapse of a few hours, moved quite unexpectedly an address requesting the King to remove the Bishop of Salisbury from the place of preceptor to the young heir apparent.
In 1689, when thirty-eight years of age, Fénelon was chosen preceptor of the grandson of Louis XIV.
He is to have a preceptor devoted entirely to him, not to instruct or control him, but to lead him to discover and experience for himself.
He did not retain this post long; six months thereafter he became a preceptor at Paris.
He had to choose a preceptor for Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne.
Burnet received him with open arms, and obtained for him the post of under-preceptor to the Duke of Gloucester.
Duc d'Orleans to go and carry this good news to the King, and to say that a courier should at once be despatched to Basville, to make his preceptor return.
Brias, Archbishop of Cambrai, had died, and the King had given that valuable preferment to the Abbe de Fenelon, preceptor of the children of France.
Well, I must let my revered preceptor know that it is time to offer the burnt oblation.
His first preceptor was the grammarian Virginius Flavus, an eloquent man endued with strength of character, whose earnest moral lectures drew down the displeasure of Caligula.
He next turned to the old orators, but here his preceptor Seneca intervened, Tacitus insinuates, with the motive of turning him from the best models to an admiration of his own more seductive style.
Mr. Philips, preceptor to my son, went to be with the Earl of Pembroke's son, my Lord Herbert.
Lampsacus, preceptor and biographer of Alexander the Great.
No tutor or preceptor can be answerable, or ought to undertake to answer for measures which he does not guide.
Segrais, who was deaf, was much in the right to decline being preceptor to the Duke de Maine.
The first differences which a preceptorobserves between his pupils, when he begins to teach them, are perhaps scarcely marked so strongly as to strike the careless spectator; but in a few years these varieties are apparent to every eye.
The concluding address, from the preceptor to his royal pupil, is written with all the enlightened energy of a man of truth and genius.
There is no imminent danger of children's becoming either coiners or fraudulent distillers; but an ingenious preceptor will not be much puzzled in applying the remarks that have been made, to the subject of education.
We hope the candid preceptor will suspend his judgment, until we can explain our sentiments upon this subject more fully, when we examine the nature of invention and memory.
While the traveller was asleep with the gang at their quarters the guru or preceptor took his disciple into a neighbouring field, followed by three or four old members of the gang.
The relation between a strangler and his guru was considered most sacred, and a Thug would often rather betray his father than the preceptor by whom he had been initiated.
He had a great number of distinguished pupils, and was highly esteemed as a preceptor suited to those who had a poetical turn, as appears from these short lines: Cato grammaticus, Latina Siren, Qui solus legit ac facit poetas.
Being, in consequence, selected by Augustus, as preceptor to his grandsons, he transferred his entire school to the Palatium, but with the understanding that he should admit no fresh scholars.
The gift to a fallen Brahmana, that to a thief, that also to a preceptor that is false, is in vain.
And no one will listen to the words of others and no one will be regarded as a preceptor by another.
And the great god Vishnu who is the Infinite Spirit, the Lord Preceptor of all the gods, is the Supreme Being without attributes, and the Soul of the Universe, and existeth pervading the whole creation.
Thereupon his disciple said, "The words that have fallen from the lips of my preceptor can never be false.
And certainly these lads would have felt themselves justified in going to far greater lengths to save their father from suspicion, or their preceptor and friend from peril.
He cherished for his preceptor an ardent and enthusiastic love, and he had his share of that chivalrous devotion and self-sacrifice which has been the brightest ornament of days that have much of darkness and cruelty to disgrace them.
The preceptor Drona also hath said much that is for thy good which however Karna, the son of Radha, doth not regard to be such.
The preceptor is absent; then stand thou in his place and do the needful.
Jishnu (Arjuna) came to know of this, and thereupon filling his narrow-mouthed vessel with water by means of the Varuna weapon he used to come unto his preceptor at the same time with his preceptor's son.
And his preceptor perceiving that he still continued to be of good condition of body said unto him, 'Upamanyu, my child, I take from thee even the whole of what thou obtainest in alms, without leaving anything for thee.
And his preceptor thereupon told him, 'It is not lawful for thee to appropriate the milk without having first obtained my consent.
And the preceptor said, 'These generous calves, I suppose, out of compassion for thee, throw out large quantities of froth.
Without offering it to my preceptor I dare not apply this cake.
I have not been enjoined by my preceptor to do aught that is improper.
Gifted with great intelligence, the son of Bharadwaja is (now) the chief preceptor of the Kurus.
And his preceptor then replied, 'This is not the way in which thou shouldst obey the preceptor.
As my preceptor Sukra, thy father, is ever deserving of my regards, so art thou, O Devayani!
Going (every day) to his preceptor he was in the habit of worshipping him.
This was the occasion of his appointment aspreceptor to the grandchildren of Louis XIV.
They soon went back to their homes, and five days afterward the preceptor was left without a pupil.
La Motte le Vayer, more of a skeptic, but less of a philosopher, was preceptor of the king Louis XIV.
It is not surprising that he should be acknowledged and esteemed even in the Venetian territories, having been the preceptor of Fumiani, and master of Pierantonio Cerva, who painted a good deal for the Paduan state.
Francesco, and preceptor of Cristoforo Savolini, who has a fine picture of the saint at S.
Both there and in Naples we have seen him celebrated as a professor and preceptor in both schools.
