 | Samuel Lloyd (of Sparkbrook, Birmingham.) - 1880 - 88 ページ
...Manuelito may remind us of another lad whose schoolmaster said that he was " a boy of so active a mind that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury...he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and fortune," a prediction verified, for the boy in question, Sir William Jones, became noted afterwards... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1883 - 558 ページ
...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 - 1890 - 680 ページ
...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 - 1906 - 452 ページ
...mother for information upon any subject, her constant answer to him was : " Bead and you will know." Such was his activity at school that one of his masters...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 - 1884 - 892 ページ
...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... | |
 | Henry Morris - 1908 - 266 ページ
...master 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 - 1910 - 502 ページ
...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 - 1915 - 322 ページ
...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 and friendless on Salisbury...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 - 1805 - 910 ページ
...idle. But the opinion which he gave of Jones in private was, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if, he were left 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... | |
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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. 
