 By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and...  Historical View of the American Revolution - Page 363by George Washington Greene - 1865 - 459 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1887 - 524 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious."... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1890 - 448 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 pages
...sentences and complete the paper. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered...method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely s ambitious. The time... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that in certain particulars of small import I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language ; and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer ,\ of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1892 - 202 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language; and this encouraged me to think I might possibly, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer — of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language ; and this encouraged me 1 See page 89 to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was... | |
 | George Prentiss Butler - 1894 - 284 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in . time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
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