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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. "
Biography Exemplary and Instructive - Page 231
by William Chambers - 1873 - 304 pages
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 45

1804 - 574 pages
...idle. But the opinion which he give 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...would nevertheless find the road to fame and riches. ' Of his juvenile compositions in prose and verse, the early fruits of rare talents and unbounded industry,...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures ..., Volume 18

1804 - 452 pages
...praise. Applause, he said, made boys vain or idle ; but.his private opinion of Jones's energy Was, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would find the road to fame and riches. When SUMMER succeeded, the plan of the lectures and exercises of...
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Essays on Professional Education

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1809 - 516 pages
...declared it to be his opinion, that " Jones was a boy " of so active a mind, that if he were to be left naked and ** friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would nevertheless find " the road to fortune and to fame." The good sense and candour of this judicious preceptor in pointing out the general...
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...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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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Biography - 1815 - 544 pages
...praises before the objects of his esteem, confessed in private that " he was 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." When Dr. Sumner succeeded Dr. Thackeray in 1761, he more publicly distinguished Mr. Jones, as one whose...
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The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes ...

George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1830 - 452 pages
...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 were left naked and friendless on Salisbury...study, when he would generally take coffee or tea. to keep off sleep. He had, even already, merely to divert his leisure, commenced his study of the law;...
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The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].

George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...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 were left naked and friendless on Salisbury...study, when he would generally take coffee or tea, to keep off sleep. He had, even already, merely to divert his leisure, commenced his study of the law;...
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The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].

George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 484 pages
...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 were left naked and friendless on Salisbury...whole nights to study, when he would generally take cofiee or tea, to keep off sleep. He had, even already, merely to divert his leisure, commenced his...
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The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].

George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1830 - 440 pages
...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 were left naked and friendless on Salisbury...frequently in the habit of devoting whole nights to stndy, When he would generally take coffee or tea, to keep off sleep. He had, even already, merely...
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Eminent British Lawyers

Henry Roscoe - Lawyers - 1830 - 554 pages
...of his pupil was expressed in terms equally strong. " So active," he said, " was the mind of Jones, that if he were left, naked and friendless, on Salisbury...would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches." The zeal and industry of young Jones were such during the latter part of his residence at Harrow, that...
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