| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or...morning, or on Sundays, when I contrived to be in the printing house, avoiding as much as I could the constant attendance at public worship, which my father... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...them; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or...before work began in the morning, or on Sundays, when 1 contrived to be iu the printing bouse, avoiding as much as I could the constant attendance at public... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 pages
...corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or...writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I alloted for writing exercises and for reading, was at night, or before work began in the morning, or... | |
| 1818 - 594 pages
...them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or...time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which 1 was extremely ambitious." Here again his father's good sense was of advantage to him. Some judicious... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...corrected them j but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or...encouraged me to think, that I might in time come to he a tolerabfe English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I alloted for writing exercises... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 464 pages
...them; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious." Even at this early age nothing could exceed the perseverance and self-denial which he displayed, in... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 484 pages
...them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious." Even at this early age nothing could exceed the perseverance and self-denial which he displayed, in... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pages
...corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I he rider was lost ; being overtaken and slain by the...may be known, and the true causes of that discontent Sunday, when I contrived to be in the printing house, avoiding as much as I could the constant attendance... | |
| 1834 - 602 pages
...comparing my work with the original, 1 discovered many faults, and corrected them ; but sometimes liad the pleasure to fancy that, in certain particulars...might, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, uf which I was extremely ambitious." franklin added to his habits of industry a self-denial and control... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 pages
...them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or...reading, was at night, or before work began in the morn* ing, or on Sundays, when I contrived to be in the printing-house, avoiding as much as I could... | |
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