 | John Clark Ridpath - Anthologies - 1899 - 526 pages
...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,...which I was extremely ambitious. The time I allotted to writing exercises and for reading was at night, or before work began in the morning, or on Sundays,... | |
 | 1899 - 1010 pages
...extreamly ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work or before it began in the morning, or on Sundays, when I contrived to be in the printing-house alone. / . * _/ ¿7¿ ¿£,¿4 <я- /*»-* /»Д-АЧ- L,s3/yèe.-£+r> ^7 ' -^- r тъ REDUCED FACSIMILE... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 554 pages
...lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to- think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work or before... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pages
...lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work or before... | |
 | George I. Aldrich, Alexander Forbes - Readers - 1900 - 444 pages
...sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thought. 6. The time I allotted for writing exercises and for...was at night, or before work began in the morning. Now it was, that being on some occasion made ashamed of my ignorance in figures, which I had twice... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1900 - 598 pages
...arrangement of thoughts. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work or before it began in the morning, or on Sundays, when I contrived to be in the printing-house alone, evading as much as I could the common attendance on public worship which my father used to exact... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Montgomery - Pennsylvania. University - 1900 - 584 pages
...enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think, that I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer ; of which I was extremely ambitious. Franklin became more than a tolerable English writer, and he remained to his latest years a master... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - Readers - 1901 - 526 pages
...lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work, or before it began in the morning,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work or before it began in the morning,... | |
 | Biography - 1901 - 502 pages
...lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. FRANKLIN'S FIRST ARRIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA. Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek,... | |
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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... 
