| James Boswell - 1923 - 372 lehte
...him to me when he was at the bar; and after his Lordship was advanced to the seals, he said of him, "I would prepare myself for no man in England but Lord Thurlow. When I am to meet with him, I should wish to know a day before." How he would have prepared himself I cannot conjecture.... | |
| 196 lehte
..."ever was so wise as Thurlow looked." His conversational powers are attested by Johnson who declared, "I would prepare myself for no man in England but...to meet him, I should wish to know a day before." The story goes that Thurlow promised to help his fellow-apprentice when he gained the woolsack, but... | |
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