Selections from American Authors: A Reading Book for School and Home. Franklin, Adams, Cooper, LongfellowSamuel Eliot Taintor Brothers, Merrill & Company, 1879 - 410 pages |
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... more eloquent , having a greater plenty of words , and sometimes , as I thought , I was van- quished more by his fluency than by the strength of his reasons . As we parted without settling the point 24 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
... more eloquent , having a greater plenty of words , and sometimes , as I thought , I was van- quished more by his fluency than by the strength of his reasons . As we parted without settling the point 24 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
Page 25
... thought the writing excellent , and wished if possible to imitate it . With that view , I took some of the papers , and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence , laid them by a few days , and then , without looking at the ...
... thought the writing excellent , and wished if possible to imitate it . With that view , I took some of the papers , and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence , laid them by a few days , and then , without looking at the ...
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... thought I should have acquired before that time , if I had gone on making verses ; since the continual search for ... thoughts . By comparing my work with the orig- inal , I discovered my faults , and corrected them ; but I sometimes had ...
... thought I should have acquired before that time , if I had gone on making verses ; since the continual search for ... thoughts . By comparing my work with the orig- inal , I discovered my faults , and corrected them ; but I sometimes had ...
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... thought it tended to make me too vain . This might be one occasion of the differences we began to have about this time . Though a brother , he considered himself as my master , and me as his apprentice , and accordingly expected the ...
... thought it tended to make me too vain . This might be one occasion of the differences we began to have about this time . Though a brother , he considered himself as my master , and me as his apprentice , and accordingly expected the ...
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... thought he degraded me too much in some he required of me , who from a brother expected more indulgence . Our disputes were often brought before our father , and I fancy I was either generally in the right , or else a better pleader ...
... thought he degraded me too much in some he required of me , who from a brother expected more indulgence . Our disputes were often brought before our father , and I fancy I was either generally in the right , or else a better pleader ...
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