text:  "Sir " said he to his anxious father when at the end of his second term he took the opportunity of a professional visit to Oxford to call to know how the hope of the Browns was progressing--"Sir I consider your son a most respectable person: I may say a most respectable person;" and as the principal had taken wine with him once at dinner and bowed to him at collections and read "Mr John Brown" twice upon a card at the end and beginning of term and thus had every opportunity of forming an opinion and expressed that opinion oracularly in a Johnsonian fashion Governor Brown was satisfied