 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...I should have acquired before that time, if I had gone on making verses; since the continual search for words of the same import, but of different length...fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales, in the Spectator, and turned them into verse: And after a time... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them, which I thought I should have acquired before that time,...if I had gone on making verses; since the continual search for words of the same import, but of different lengths, to suit the measure, or of different... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Intellectuals - 1830 - 452 pages
...I should have acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses ; since the continual search for words of the same import, but of different length,...fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore, I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and after a... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...I should have acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses; since the continual search for words of the same import, but of different length,...fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore, I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse; and after a time,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1830 - 440 pages
...corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them, which I thought I should have acquired before that time...I had gone on making verses ; since the continual search for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Education - 1830 - 452 pages
...corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them, which I thought I should have acquired before that time...I had gone on making verses ; since the continual search for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them, which I thought I should have acquired before that time,...I had gone -on making verses ; since the continual search for words of the saine import, but of different lengths, to suit the measure, or of different... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...should have acquired before that time, if I had gone on making verses; since the continual search fur words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound, fur the rhyme, would have laid me tinder constant necessity of searching fur variety, and also have... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 666 pages
...corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them, which I thought I should have acquired before that time,...I had gone on making verses ; since the continual search for words of the same import, but of different length to suit the measure, or of different sound... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them, which I thought I should have acquired before that time...I had gone on making verses ; since the continual search for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different... | |
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I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also... 
