 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...opportunity of knowing how to answer it. For instance, he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick, which the boy could not expect to be...there would be no need of a master to teach him.' It is, however, but justice to the memory of Mr. Hunter to mention, that though he might err in being... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...opportunity of knowing how to answer it. For instance, he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick, which the boy could not expect to be...there would be no need of a master to teach him.' It is, however, but justice to the memory of Mr. Hunter to mention, that though he might err in being... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...opportunity of knowing how to answer it. For instance, he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick, which the boy could not expect to be...there would be no need of a master to teach him." of Westminster, who was educated under him, told me, that " he was an excellent master, and that his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...opportunity of knowing how to answer it; for instance, he would call upon a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick, which the boy could not expect to be...there would be no need of a master to teach .him." Johnson, however, was very sensible how much he owed to Mr. Hunter. Mr. Langton one day. asked him... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...opporr.unity of knowing how to answer it. For instance, he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick, which the boy could not expect to be...there would be no need of a master to teach him." It is, however, but justice to the memory of Mr. Hunter to mention, that though he might err in being... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...opportunity of knowing how to auswer it. For iastance, he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick, which the boy could not expect to be asked. Now, Sir, if a boy could auswer every question, there would be no need of a master to teach him." It is, however, but justice... | |
 | John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...opportunity of knowing how to answer it; for instance, he would call upon a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick, which the boy could not expect to be...there would be no need of a master to teach him." Johnson, however, was very sensible how much he owed to Mr. Hunter. Mr. Langton one day asked him how... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 384 pages
...opportunity of knowing how to answer it. For instance, he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick, which the boy could not expect to be...there would be no need of a master to teach him." It is, however, but justice to the memory of Mr. Hunter, to mention, that though he might err in being... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...opportunity of knowing how to answer it. For instance, he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick, which the boy could not expect to be...there would be no need of a master to teach him." It is, however, but justice to the memory of Mr. Hunter to mention, that though he might err in being... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...opportunity of knowing how to answer it. For instance, he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick, which the boy could not expect to be asked. Now, sir, if a boy could answer every qnestion, there would be no need of a master to teach It is, however, but justice to the memory of... | |
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... would beat a boy equally for not knowing a thing, as for neglecting to know it. He would ask a boy a question, and if he did not answer it, he would beat him, without considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it. For instance,... 
