Quotes About Measurer

ALNAGAR  (A'LNAGAR)    A'LNAGER, or A'LNEGER.n.s.[from alnage.] A measurer by the ell; a sworn officer, whose business formerly was to inspect the assize of woollen cloth, and to fix the seals appointed upon it for that purpose; but there are now three officers belonging to the regulation of cloth-manufactures, the searcher, measurer, and alneger.Dict.   ALNAGE  (A'LNAGE)   n.s.[from aulnage, or aunage, Fr.] Ell-measure

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

The god believed by the Ancient Egyptians to have taught the principles of astronomy to their ancestors was Thoth: He who reckons in heaven, the counter of the stars, the enumerator of the earth and of what is therein, and the measurer of the earth.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.