 | Dover, Folkestone, and Deal guide - 1875 - 188 pages
...previous master having said that " he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left destitute and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would nevertheless find the road to fame and riches." Even then, merely to divert his leisure, he commenced the stndy of the law, and it is related that... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - 314 pages
...encouragement. His master, Dr. Thackeray, was wont to say of him, that so active and energetic was his mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he A DIVISION OF TIME. 33 would, nevertheless, find out a road to fame and fortune. Before he was twenty... | |
 | Samuel Lloyd (of Sparkbrook, Birmingham.) - 1880 - 88 pages
...flourish for evermore." This bright little Manuelito may remind us of another lad whose schoolmaster said that he was " a boy of so active a mind that if he...he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and fortune," a prediction verified, for the boy in question, Sir William Jones, became noted afterwards... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1880 - 416 pages
...and bells teach infants on the breast to be delighted with sound and glitter."— H. Brooke. cR.TS a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked...would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches. At this time he was frequently in the habit of devoting whole nights to study, when he would generally... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - Scholars - 1880 - 296 pages
...his master with the title of the Great Scholar, and drew from Dr Thackeray an opinion, that " Jones was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left...he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and fortune." In 1764 he entered at University College, Oxford, to which he carried with him not only a... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pages
...estimate of the talents and character of the young student. " So active was the mind of Jones," he said, "that if he were left, naked and friendless, on Salisbury...would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches." In 1764, he was entered of University College, Oxford. That was not a time when the University did... | |
 | English periodicals - 1883 - 558 pages
...of mind, and then there can be said of him what was said of Sir William Jones by his master : — " If he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury...would nevertheless find the road to fame and riches." To Sir James Mackintosh it chanced, in his childhood, as he tells us, that he was boarded in the same... | |
 | Robert Steel - Biography - 1890 - 680 pages
...contemporaries in almost everything, and exhibited such intellectual force that the headmaster said, " If Jones were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain,...would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches." Another headmaster declared that Jones knew more Greek and was a greater proficient in that language... | |
 | Robert Spears - Unitarian churches - 1906 - 452 pages
...you will know." Such was his activity at school that one of his masters was wont to say of him : " that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury...would nevertheless find the road to fame and riches." While at Oxford he became desirous of studying the Oriental languages, and he supported a native of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1884 - 892 pages
...mind, 'and then GENIUS. there can be said of him what was said of Sir William Jones by his master : " If he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury...would nevertheless find. the road to fame and riches." To Sir James Mackintosh it chanced, in his childhood, as he tells us, that he was boarded in the same... | |
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Thackeray, one of his masters, was wont to say of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches. 
