 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 pages
...in amount with 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Ability - 1867 - 258 pages
...have perused with pleasure the narrative of his early years. His master, Dr. Thackeray, said of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he...he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and fortune. Before he was twenty years old, he had not only attained a thorough knowledge of Greek and... | |
 | David Laing Purves - Law - 1868 - 208 pages
...the Temple in 1770. Dr. Thackeray, his master at Harrow, said : " So active was the mind of Jones, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury...would nevertheless find the road to fame and riches." PUNCTILIOUS ECONOMY. 95 Ersldne first went to sea, then changed to the army ; and when with his regiment... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - Literature - 1869 - 610 pages
...prescribed task. 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." At this time he was frequently in the habit of devoting whole nights to study, when he would generally... | |
 | Lucien Brock Proctor - Judges - 1870 - 808 pages
...tardy; but he soon began to gain rapidly in his studies. It was said of Sir William Jones in his youth that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he...naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would find his way to fame. This remark might well have applied to young Hoffman. He soon became one of the... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1871 - 530 pages
...prescribed task. 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." At this time he was frequently in the habit of devoting whole nights to study, when he would generally... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 268 pages
...prescribed task. 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.' At this time he was frequently in the habit of devoting whole nights to study, when he would generally... | |
 | E S. P - 1872 - 594 pages
...one of his masters, used to say 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. At this time he was frequently in the habit of devoting whole nights to study, when he would generally... | |
 | William Chambers - Biography - 1873 - 326 pages
...prescribed task. 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.' At this time he was frequently in the habit of devoting whole nights to study, when he would generally... | |
 | J. J. Higginbotham - British - 1874 - 558 pages
...head-master at the time, Dr. Thackeray, had a high opinion of him, and «sed to say that "if Jones were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain,...nevertheless find the road to fame and riches." Dr. Sumner succeeded Thackeray, and had an equally high opinion of Jones ; he declared "that Jones knew... | |
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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. 
