 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
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 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...encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to l>ea tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. My time for these exercises and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 354 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 - 1905 - 238 pages
...This was to teach me method in the arrangement of thoughts. By com^ paring my' work afterwards wilh 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1905 - 422 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 382 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...which I was extremely ambitious. My time for these exercisesTand for reading, was at night, after work, or before it began, in the morning, or on Sundays,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1906 - 304 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...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious." His method — on the whole one of the best of disciplines, better, I think, than the system of themes... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 124 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...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. FRANKLIN'S FIRST ARRIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek,... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 128 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...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. FRANKLIN'S FIRST ARRIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1906 - 326 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...me to think I might possibly in time come to be a Jtqlerable English writer, of which I was extremely_ ambitious." His method — on the whole one of... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman - 1906 - 268 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...I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in some particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method of the language. This... | |
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