 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...into verse : and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into...but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order, befiire I began to form the full sentences and complete the...thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, 1 discovered many faults and corrected them j but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...natural order, as a means of acquiring method in the arrangement of his thoughts. " Thus," says he, " by comparing my work with the original, I discovered...but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1830 - 440 pages
...into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into...but I 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Intellectuals - 1830 - 452 pages
...into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into...but I 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...verse; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I alto sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion;...reduce them into the best order, before I began to form th« full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1834 - 450 pages
...into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into...thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, 1 discovered many faults, and corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also, sometimesjumbled my collection of hints into confusion, and, after...endeavoured to reduce them into the best order, before 1 began to form the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into...but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that, in certain particulars of small consequence, 1 had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion ; and, after some weeks, endeavored to reduce them into the best order, before I began...but I 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... | |
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Spectator, and turned them into verse : and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my... 
