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" 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. "
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge - Page 191
1896
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Boswell's Johnson: The Life of Samuel Johnson

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....
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Selections in Prose and Verse

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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