 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 826 pages
...pupil, and used to say of him that "Jones 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 fortune." After Dr Thackeray's retirement from Harrow, young Jones continued his studies under the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 pages
...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. 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
...master, Dr. Thackeray, said 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 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
...Thackeray, his master at 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 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
...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 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, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1871 - 530 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 268 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 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
...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 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... | |
 | J. J. Higginbotham - British - 1874 - 558 pages
...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, he would nevertheless find the road to fame and riches." Dr. Sumner succeeded Thackeray, and had an equally high opinion of Jones ; he declared "that Jones... | |
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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. 
