 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...  Franklins̓ Autobiography - Seite 29von Benjamin Franklin - 1910 - 205 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 648 Seiten
...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.' Even at this early age nothing could exceed the perseverance and self-denial which he displayed in... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - 442 Seiten
...paper. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of thoughts. 8. By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended...possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer. Grub Street (2), formerly a street in London, once noted for literary hacks and inferior literary productions... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1884 - 598 Seiten
...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 them ; but I sometimes had the pleasurc of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, 1 had been lucky enough to improve... | |
 | Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 266 Seiten
...arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them. I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in...lucky enough to improve the method or the language. This encouraged me to think I might possibly, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, of which... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 Seiten
...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...of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import,7 I had been lucky enough to improve the method .or the 1 with this view . . . to hand. What... | |
 | 1887 - 524 Seiten
...well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collections of hiuts into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious." — Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. BOOK REVIEWS. Books sent to THE STUDENT for review, will be... | |
 | William Swinton - 1887 - 686 Seiten
...paper. This was to i95 teach me method- in the arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended...enough to improve the method or the language; and this »0 encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 Seiten
...what little ability I have in that way About this time I met with an odd volume of the " Spectator." It was the third. I had never before seen any of them....improve the method or the language, and this encouraged mo to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely... | |
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