 | Henry Morris - Biography - 1908 - 266 pages
...for some time during his career at Harrow, and who was very chary in praising his pupils, said of him that, if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would still find the road to affluence and fame. Dr. Sumner, who succeeded Dr. Thackeray on his retirement,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1910 - 502 pages
...surpassed all his schoolfellows in learning. Dr. Thackeray, the headmaster, said of him : " If Jones were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would nevertheless find the road to fame and fortune." Every reader knows of Sir William Jones's achievements. Sir James Mackintosh, from whom so... | |
 | Anna von der Heide - Comparative literature - 1915 - 322 pages
...words his teacher Dr. Thackeray said concerning him when he was about fourteen years of age : " He is a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked...would nevertheless find the road to fame and riches". He has been the first eminent Sanskrit Scholar and was the first to see the important place that Sanskrit... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1805 - 910 pages
...attained his fifteenth year. It was a singular trait in the character of this good man and respectable tutor, that he never applauded the best compositions...naked and friendless on Salisbury plain, he would, never, theless, find the road to fame and riches. Dr. Thackeray was succeeded by Dr. Sumner ; and for... | |
 | David Laing Purves - Law - 2006 - 162 pages
...of 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." day he was surprised by a gentleman of Lincoln's Inn, who took the liberty of entering his room without... | |
 | William Jones - Asianists - 2006 - 198 pages
...headmaster, Thomas Thackeray (great-grandfather of the novelist WMThackeray) remarked of William Jones that 'he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he...would nevertheless find the road to fame and riches'. Thackeray's successor, Robert Sumner, another distinguished scholar-headmaster, also stimulated and... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1866 - 786 pages
...became affected ; and Dr. Thackeray, the master of Harrow, said, ' so active was the mind of Jones, that if he were left, naked and friendless, on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road lo fame and riches." In 1764, he was entered at University College, Oxford, in opposition to the wishes... | |
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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. 
