"Editor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... possessed of a large collection of manuscripts. These were sold to a bookseller. They were so full of erasures and interlineations that no printer could decipher them. It was necessary to call in the aid of a professed critic; and Theobald, the editor of Shakespeare, and the hero of the first Dunciad, was employed to ascertain the true reading. In this way a volume of miscellanies in verse and prose was got up for the market. The collection derives all its value from the traces of Pope's ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the Editor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the finances, to the Treasurer; letters relating to woman's work, to the ...
— The American Missionary - Volume 52, No. 2, June, 1898 • Various
... conductor, director, editor, enchanter, hunter, idolater, instructor, preceptor, ...
— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg
... The Editor does not deny that by possibility such an abuse may exist: but, prima fronte, there is no reason to presume it. The House of Commons is not, by its complexion, peculiarly subject to the distempers of an independent habit. Very little ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... John G. Palfrey, Esq., editor of the North American Review, wishes me to review Mr. Gallatin's forthcoming paper on the Indian languages, which is about to appear in the second volume of the collections ...
— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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