 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there '.' In estimating the progress of his mind during these two years, as well as in future periods of... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there1.' In estimating the progress of his mind during these two years, as well as in future periods... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, master of Pembroke College, told me, I was -the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there." No- man had a more ardent love of literature, ora higher respect for it. His apartment in Pembroke... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...their tutors ; so that when 1 came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me, 1 was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there." 1728. down with avidity, and read a great part of the book. In estimating the progress of his mind... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 544 pages
...writers, and stored his mind with so much various information, that when he went to Oxford> Dr. Adams said he " was the best qualified for the university that he had ever known come there." By what means his father was enabled to defray the expence of an university education has not been... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 548 pages
...writers, and stored his mind with so much various information, that when he went to Oxford, Dr. Adams said he " was the best qualified for the university that he had ever known come there." By what means his father was enabled to defray the expence of an university education has not been... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...what are put .into their hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr Adams told me J was the best qualified for the university that he had ever known come there * " He had already given several proofs of his poetical genius, both in his school exercises and in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me, I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there." la estimating the progress of his mind during these two years, as well as in future periods of his... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 382 pages
...their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke college, told me, I was the best qualified for the university that he had ever known come there." His apartment in Pembroke college was that upon the second floor over the gateway. One day, while he... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me, I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there." In estimating the progress of his mind during these two years, as well as in future periods of his... | |
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I had looked into a great many books, which were not commonly known at the Universities, where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told... 
