 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...  Speech and Scrap Book for Speakers - Page 2671924 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...had the pleasure fo fancy, that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think, that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer; of which I was extremely ambitious. The... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1856 - 1124 pages
...fortunate enough to improve the method of the language ; and this encouraged me to think that I might, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. Franklin added to his habits of industry a self-denial and control over his passions, even at this... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1856 - 584 pages
...enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might in dene come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I allotted for writing exercises and for reading was at night, or before work began in the... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1858 - 524 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language ; and this encouraged me Ii think that I might, in time, come to be a tolerable English writeri of which I was extremely ambitious."... | |
 | Popular educator - 1860 - 424 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language ; and this encouraged me tu think that I might, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious."... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1863 - 332 pages
...Sometimes I had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small importance I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious." Even... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language ; and this encouraged me to think that I might, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, of which 1 was extremely ambitious."... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1865 - 486 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language ; and this encouraged me to think that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer, — of which I was extremely ambitious."... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1865 - 484 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language ; and this encouraged me to think that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer, — of which I was extremely ambitious."... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer ; of which I was extremely ambitious. The... | |
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