 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen a'ny of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...expressing each hinted sentiment at length and as fully us it had been expressed before in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...that view I took some of the papers, and making short bints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then without looking at the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 484 pages
...an odd volume of the Spectator : I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentimental length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should... | |
 | People - 1845 - 348 pages
...met with an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...without looking at the book, tried to complete the sentence again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...an odd volume of the Spectator ; I had never before seen any ot them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...I took some of the papers, and making short hints ot the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days ; and then, without looking at the book,... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them; I bought it, and read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and without looking at the book tried to complete the papers again." In this manner he devoted each leisure... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 716 pages
...criticism, " thought the writing excellent, and determined, if possible, to imitate it." With this view he took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by for a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 pages
...odd volume of the ' Spectator' ; I had never before 8een any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days. Then, without looking at the book, I tried to complete the paper again, by expressing esch sentiment... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 842 pages
...an odd volume of' the Spectator ; I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by for a few days ; and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing... | |
 | 1856 - 422 pages
...an odd volume of' the Spectator ; I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by for a few days ; and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing... | |
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It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. 
