 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
 | 1897 - 880 pages
...the paper. This was to tench 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 faucyingthat, in certain particulars of small import. I had been lucky enough to improve the method... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1897 - 682 pages
...thoughts. By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amende^them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that,...enough to improve the method or the language ; and this 200 encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 394 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. EXERCISE... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 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... | |
 | Charles Noble - 1898 - 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...come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious. A good exercise for any one who has Franklin's ambition in this respect, would... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 556 pages
...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 time I allotted to writing exercises and for reading was at night, or before work began in the... | |
 | Edward Robins - 1898 - 444 pages
...original. That these comparisons were not always odious may be inferred from Franklin's admission that he " sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that in certain particulars of small import," he " had been lucky enough to improve the method of the language.". Even the Spectator was not above... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 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... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 pages
...By comparing my work afterwards with the original, 1 discovered many faults and amended them ; but 1 sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain...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... | |
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