 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 - 1888 - 604 pages
...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...fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, 1 had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1889 - 510 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1890 - 448 pages
...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...come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work or before... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 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 I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely s ambitious. The time I allotted... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 pages
...pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. 11. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored...English writer — of which I was extremely ambitious. gained it credit and made it more in demand, and these gentlemen often visited us. 13. Hearing their... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...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...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... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1892 - 888 pages
...delightful way how he sometimes hail the pleasure of fancying that in certain parts of small import he had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged him to think he might |>ossihly, in time, come to be a "tolerable Bnglish writer," of which he was... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1893 - 540 pages
...delightful way how he sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that in certain parts of small import he had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged him to think he might possibly, in time, come to be a '•tolerable English writer," of which he was... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 452 pages
...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...come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious."1 " All through my boyhood and youth," writes Mr. Stevenson, " I was known and... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 460 pages
...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...fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, 1 had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might... | |
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