 | William Robinson (Baptist Minister.) - Lay ministry - 1832 - 200 pages
...compilation, and which may be strongly recommended to local preachers. a boy of so active a mind, that if lie were left naked and friendless on Salisbury plain,...would nevertheless find the road to fame and riches. Sir William Jones adopted and perseveringly exemplified the two following; maxims : — first, never... | |
 | 1832 - 858 pages
...exceeded in amount his prescribed tasks ; and Dr. Thackeray, one of his masters, was wont to say of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he...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... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...Thackeray, the master of Harrow, «aid, " so active was the mind of Jones, that if he were left, nuked and friendless, on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches." In 1764, he was entered at University College, Oxford, in opposition to the wishes of his friends,... | |
 | Biography - 1835 - 306 pages
...became most rapid ; and the head master, Dr. Thackeray, a man not given to praise, spoke of him as " a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain he would find the way to fame and riches." At the time of his quitting school, besides a much deeper acquaintance... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 286 pages
...not fail of acquiring splendid distinction. Even his churlish tutor loved to characterize him as " a boy of so active a mind that, if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would somehow find the road to fame and wealth." He left Harrow not only critically versed in the Greek and... | |
 | Biography - 1835 - 312 pages
...became most rapid ; and the head master, Dr. Thackeray, a man not given to praise, spoke of him as " a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain he would find the way to fame and riches." At the time of his quitting school, besides a much deeper acquaintance... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...Dr Thackeray, who soon discovered the worth of his young pupil, and used to say of him 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." After Dr Thackeray's retirement from Harrow, young Jones continued his studies under the... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...school, that one of his masters was wont to say of him, " that if he were left naked and friendless <"i Salisbury Plain, he 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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...Dr Thackeray, who soon discovered the worth of his young pupil, and used to say of him 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." After Dr Thackeray's retirement from Harrow, young Jones continued his studies under the... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...then, such was the rare promise of his childhood, that his master is said to hare described him as " a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would find the way to fame and riches." He found the way to both. In 1764 he was entered at University College,... | |
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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. 
