 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...original, 1 discovered many faults and corrected them j but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate...encouraged me to think, that I might in time come to he a tolerabfe English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I alloted for writing exercises... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered...but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...sentences and complete the subject This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered...but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered...that, in certain particulars of small consequence, 1 had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1844 - 524 pages
...sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered...the method or the language ; and this encouraged me 1 3 think that I might, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious."... | |
 | People - 1845 - 348 pages
...sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original I discovered...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered...the language, and this encouraged me to think, that T might in time come to be a tolerable English writer; of which I was extremely ambitious. The time... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...thus with great modesty related by himself. "By comparing my work with the original, I discovered my faults and corrected them; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the merit or the language,... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 pages
...sentences and complete the subject. This was to teuch me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. " By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults and corrected them ; but 1 sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered...faults, and corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasureto fancy that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the... | |
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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... 
