...put it himself in his A utobiography: 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...

...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...

...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 them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancy ing that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method...