| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 páginas
...age of eight or nine years, and he was always an uncommon boy. Great abilities, great particularity of thinking, fondness for writing verses and plays...of integrity and manly courage, of which I remember instances, distinguished him even at that period. I loved him and revered him ; and, though one or... | |
| 1887 - 284 páginas
...abilities, great particularity of thinking, fondness for writing verses and plays of various kinds, a degree of integrity and manly courage, of which...instances, distinguished him even at that period." In his fifteenth year Dr. Sumner became the head-master of Harrow, and with him young Jones became... | |
| Robert Spears - 1906 - 452 páginas
...uncommon boy. Great abilities, great peculiarities of thinking, fondness for writing verses and plays, and a degree of integrity and manly courage, of which...instances, distinguished him even at that period. I loved and revered him, and though one or two years older than he was, was always instructed by him from my... | |
| Thomas Powel, Sir Isambard Owen, Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore - 1884 - 542 páginas
...abilities, great particularity of thinking, fondness for writing verses and plays of various kinds, a degree of integrity and manly courage, of which...instances, distinguished him even at that period." In his fifteenth year Dr. Sumner became the head-master of Harrow, ami with him young Jones became... | |
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