...Method in the Arrangement of Thoughts. By comparing my Work afterwards with the original, I discover'd seems as if parents of the Christian profession were...sometimes instruct them in morals and talk to them o encourag'd me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English Writer, of which I was...

...of small Import, I had been lucky enough to improve the Method or the Language and this encourag'd he artifice they practice to gratify their inordinate lust. They are very fertile women, a extreamly ambitious. My Time for these Exercises & for Reading, was at Night after Work, or before...

...Method in the Arrangement of Thoughts. By comparing my Work afterwards with the original, I discover'd many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had...enough to improve the Method or the Language and this encourag'd me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English Writer, of which I was...

...verse or composed long lists of synonyms in order to cultivate fluidity. "Sometimes," he tells us, "I had the Pleasure of Fancying that in certain Particulars...lucky enough to improve the Method or the Language" of The Spectator essays (Autobiography, p. 62). Given the grace of Franklin's later writings, it can...

...paper. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious." In some respects this is the most interesting passage in all of Franklin's writings. It was this severe...

...where he had diverged from the original. When he found his own version wanting, he would correct it. "But I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that...method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious."36...

...found his own version wanting, he would correct it. "But I sometimes had the pleasure," he recalled, "of fancying that in certain particulars of small...method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious."...

...I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious." 36 More than making himself merely "tolerable" as a writer, he became the most popular writer in colonial...

...I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious." More than making himself merely "tolerable," he became the most popular writer in colonial America....

...I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious."'6 More than making himself merely "tolerable" as a writer, he became the most popular writer...