 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...  The popular educator - Page 266by Popular educator - 1852Full view - About this book
 | 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
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...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
...form the full sentences and complete the subject This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...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
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...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
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...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
...the full 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...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
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...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
...the full 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
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...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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